While facing the realities of our times, keep your wanderlust spirit alive. Travel (virtually) to the conference from the comfort of your home.
Hop on a train or plane and travel virtually to Frankfurt.
Reaching Campus Westend
To reach Campus Westend from Frankfurt Central Railway Station, take one of local commuter trains (S-Bahn) S1 (direction Offenbach‐Ost), S2, S3, S4 (direction Frankfurt Süd), S5/S6 (Stresemannallee), S8/S9 (Hanau Hauptbahnhof) and exit at the station “Hauptwache”. Proceed via one of the metro lines U1/U2/U3 or U8 to Holzhausentraße. From there, it is a 5 minutes’ walk to Campus Westend.
Then, transfer to U-Bahn line U1, U2, U3 or U8 to Holzhausenstraße.
Alternatively, bus no. 64 links Frankfurt Central Railway Station (South Exit) directly to “Bremer Straße” in front of the entrance to the campus.
From Frankfurt International Airport, proceed to the local railway station for regional and local trains at Terminal 1, Level 1 (Regionalbahnhof). Trains arrive at and depart from platforms 1 to 3. Take one of the local commuter trains (S‐Bahn) S8 or S9 (direction Hanau Hauptbahnhof), 5 stops until the station Hauptwache. Change for the metro lines U1/U2/U3 or U8 to the station Holzhausenstraße. A 5 minutes’ walk will take you to Campus Westend.
You can always check the train and bus connection at www.rmv.de/en. Here is an example of your itinerary from Frankfurt Central Railway Station to the campus at Holzhausenstraße:
Make sure to get off at Holzhausenstraße! 🙂
In just a five minute walk you will reach the campus.
Welcome to the Campus Westend!
Discover the Campus Westend
Let’s take a tour around the campus.
Discover Frankfurt
Drive Through Frankfurt
Accommodation
Participants are expected to make their own arrangements concerning their accommodation in Frankfurt. We do not have the time to apply ourselves to concerns regarding the accommodation. However, those who have booked their hotel through us in advance will find information about the location and direction here. The following hotels are informed about our conference and are most probably willing to help guests find their way around in Frankfurt:
Novum Hotel Primus Frankfurt Sachsenhausen
Address: Große Rittergasse 19-21, Sachsenhausen, 60594, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Telephone: +49 69 623 020 E-Mail: primus@novum-hotels.de
Novum Hotel is located in the Alt-Sachsenhausen District of Frankfurt, south of the River Main. The commuter (S-Bahn) lines S3, S4, S5, and S6 (station Lokalbahnhof) are just a 5-minute walk away from the hotel, providing a link to Hauptwache where you can interchange to subway lines U1, U2, U3, or U8 for the conference venue near subway station Holzhausenstraße (see map on the right). Alternatively, take the tram line 18 (direction: Gravensteiner-Platz) from the station Frankensteiner Platz, directly in front of the hotel, to Konstablerwache where you can hop on bus no. 36 (direction: Westbahnhof) to Uni Campus Westend.
The surroundings of the hotel offer a great opportunity to visit the numerous museums along River Main, skyline views and places to go out at night.
Hotel Beethoven
Address: Beethovenstraße 46, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Telephone: +49 69 743 497 0
E-Mail: mail@hotelbeethoven.de
Hotel Beethoven is located close to the city center, not far from the old university campus Bockenheim where the spring school is held, and almost next door to the Fair Hotel. The subway lines U6 and U7 (station Westend) are within walking distance, providing a link to Hauptwache where you can interchange to subway lines U1, U2, U3, or U8 for the conference venue near subway station Holzhausenstraße (see map above). Alternatively, take the bus no. 75 (direction: Bockenheimer Warte) from the bus stop Senckenbergmuseum (a 5-minute walk, but the hotel staff will tell you the way), directly to the conference venue at Uni Campus Westend (no interchange needed).
Fair Hotel
Address: Westendstraße 83, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Telephone: +49 69 907 442 0
E-Mail: westend@fairhotelgroup.de
Fair Hotel is located close to the city center, not far from the old university campus Bockenheim where the spring school is held, and almost next door to Hotel Beethoven. See above for a detailed description on how to get to the conference venue. The surroundings of Hotel Beethoven and Fair Hotel offer a great opportunity to visit the Frankfurt exhibition site, to take a stroll in the Palmengarten park or to marvel at the dinosaur statues in front of the Senckenberg Museum, which is also worth a visit on its own.
Eating out in Frankfurt
Frankfurt is rich in restaurants, and the price range for a decent lunch is from 8.00 € ($) to about 30.00 ($$$), though cheaper options are also found for kebab, special pizza offers, and Asian noodles. Typical places to grab some food are around the central station, in the vicinity around Eschenheimer Tor and Hauptwache.
SNACKS
To indulge in typically German curry sausage, you may consider ($) Best Worscht in Town (Grüneburgweg 37), which serves all kind of curry spices (from mild to extremely spicy).
Cheap pizza can be found in ($$) Koriander (Leipziger Straße 20).
The highest concentration of Turkish kebab stalls is to be found around the central station, especially along ($) Münchener Straße.
RESTAURANTS
Persian cuisine can be found in the restaurant ($$) Kish (Leipziger Straße 16a) near the old university campus. For the buffet, you pay as you like. Another option is ($$) Hafez (Baseler Straße 21) near the central station.
The Caucasian restaurant ($$) Palazzo Monte Cristo is located in Offenbach (Bieberer Straße 61), so you would need to take the commuter train (S-Bahn) to Offenbach-Ost.
Eastern African food is served in the restaurant ($$) Im Herzen Afrikas (Gutleutstraße 13) not far from the central station. People usually sit on the floor while eating.
The most authentic Chinese food is ($$) Jade (Moselstraße 25) close to the central station, and can get extremely crowded during peak time.
To taste on traditional Frankfurt cuisine, we recommend ($$) Dauth Schneider (Neuer Wall 5) in the south of the city and ($$) Café Albatros (Kiesstraße 27) near the old university campus.
Indian food is best enjoyed, surprisingly, in the restaurant for the local soccer club ($$$) Gaststätte Eintracht (Oeder Weg 37), not very far from the conference venue.
Going out in Frankfurt
CAFÉS and BARS
Cafés concentrate around Römer, accessible through subway lines U4 and U5 (Dom/Römer), and at Eschenheimer Tor via subway U1, U2, U3, and U8 (Eschenheimer Tor) where you will also find an abundance of bars in the evening. In the street Adalbertstraße, accessible via subway U4, U6, U7 or bus no. 32, 36, 50, and 70 (Bockenheimer Warte), starting at the old university campus leading to the train station Frankfurt-West, you will find many cafés and bars. The highest café concentration is probably the small alleys around Kornmarkt in the city center, accessible through the transportation hub Hauptwache.
CLUBBING
The place to be at night in Frankfurt is undoubtedly Alt-Sachsenhausen, more precisely the small alleys around Kleine Rittergasse in the south of the city, accessible through tram lines 14 or 18 (Frankensteiner Platz), bus no. 45 or 46 (Frankensteiner Platz) or bus no. 30 or 36 (Affentorplatz).
One of the most well-known places for house and electronic music is the Velvet Club (Weißfrauenstraße 12-16), near the subway station Willy-Brandt-Platz with lines U1-U5 and U8, or Tanzhaus West (Gutleutstraße 294), accessible by bus no. 37 (Johanna-Kirchner-Altenhilfezentrum).
Life rock and alternative music is found at Frankfurt’s most popular and one of the oldest clubbing venue Batschkapp (Gwinnerstraße 5), accessibly via subway lines U4 and U7 (Gwinnerstraße).
Additional information
Badge: You will receive a conference badge with your name and affiliation upon registration. If you intend to bring guests, please inform us in advance, so we can provide a badge for them, too. The color determines whether you are a presenter (yellow) or not (white). Staff has red badges.
Canteen: The university canteen is open on Friday and is located in the building Casino, in front of our conference building. There are several cafeterias around the campus, however they are most probably closed on Sunday.
Certificate: A certificate of attendance will be issued upon request. Please inform us in advance if you request a certificate, you can collect it during the event and the closing session.
Emergencies: In case of an emergency, please quickly inform the conference chairman or the coordinators (red badge), or the security guard on the ground floor. The national emergency number is 112.
Internet access: We can provide limited access through the university’s Wi-Fi network, so please request it early in advance. Alternatively, you can use your eduroam account.
Parking: We can provide limited free parking lots for those who arrive by car. Please inform us in advance via e-mail and tell us your number plate, the driver’s name, and the time of arrival. Alternatively, the 24-hour multi-storey carpark called “Tiefgarage Campus Westend” is very close to the conference venue but charges a fee, and other smaller parking lots around the campus also usually charge 2.00 € per hour.
Train Tickets: Unfortunately, we cannot provide train tickets, commuter train tickets or subway tickets during the conference. The general price for a single trip within Frankfurt is 3.80 €. If your itinerary does not exceed three stops, you can obtain a reduced ticket called “short hop ticket” from the respective station or (if you take the bus) from the bus driver. All destinations that can be reached with a short hop ticket are listed at the respective ticket machines.
If you plan to use the subway more than three times per day, it is generally cheaper to buy a day ticket or even a weekly ticket. The cheapest way to travel is by sharing a group day ticket (up to 5 persons). No ID card or photo is required for any of the day tickets nor do they bear your name, so you may easily share the tickets with your friends.
What else? If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.