How to find us?

Chair of Sociology I
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Otto Friedrich University Bamberg
Lichtenhaidestraße 11
Postfach 1549
D-96045 Bamberg
Germany

Directions from Bamberg railway station

To walk takes about 20 minutes; alternatively we recommend arriving by taxi, as a suitable bus connection is not available.

• You stand in front of the building of the railway station and you turn right onto "Ludwigstraße".
• Follow this street; when the second railway underbridge is on your right, turn left onto "Memmelsdorfer Straße".
• On your right side you see a school. You arrive at a big intersection, where you see a VW-center and behind this a tall yellow church on the other side of the street.
• Here you make a right to "Hallstadter Straße".
• After that make the first left onto "Lichtenhaidestraße".
• Our building (photo 1 + 2) is on the right behind the Europcar building (photo 3).

Arriving by car coming from A73

• Exit "Memmelsdorf/Bamberg Gartenstadt".
• Stay on "Memmelsdorfer Straße" and follow signs to "Innenstadt" (city center).
• You drive under a railway underbridge shortly after you pass an "Aral" station on your left side.
• After this at the second intersection, on your left will be VW-center and behind this a tall yellow church, St. Otto Church. At this intersection turn right to the "Hallstadter Straße".
• At the next traffic light turn left. (This is a light where you can either turn left or go straight.) This is "Lichtenhaidestraße".
• Our building (photo 1 + 2) is on the right behind the Europcar building (photo 3).

Photo 3: Driveway entrance from Lichtenhaidestraße to university building.

Arriving by car coming from A70

• Exit "Hallstadt/Bamberg Nord".
• Follow the sign to Bamberg.
• Stay on "Hallstadter Straße" and drive in direction of "Innenstadt" (city center).
• After a second big intersection you cross a couple of railway tracks. On your left you see a cemetery.
• You arrive at a traffic light where you can turn right or go straight. Here you turn right and arrive at "Lichtenhaidestraße".
• Our building (photo 1+ 2) is on the right behind the Europcar building (photo 3).

Photo 4: Entrance to university building.

Directions from university (Feldkirchenstraße)

• You leave the university building (main entrance, Feldkirchenstraße) and take a left.
• After short time you arrive at a intersection, where you make a left onto "Memmelsdorfer Straße".
• After the railway underbridge you make a right at the third street (at the second big intersection where you see a VW-center and behind this a tall yellow church on the other side of the street). This is a right turn onto "Hallstadter Straße".
• After that make the first left onto "Lichtenhaidestraße".
• Our building (photo 1+ 2) is on the right behind the Europcar building (photo 3).