Leipzig

Contact

Contact prior to arrival:

Please direct all of your questions and messages to the Goethe Institute's head office before the course starts:
jugend@goethe.de
Tel.: +49 89 15921-200

Address and telephone numbers during the course:

Goethe-Institut
c/o Sportschule “Egidius Braun”
Abtnaundorfer Str. 47
D- 04347 Leipzig
Tel.: +49 341 24446-0

Arrival

By plane:

From 7 am to 6 pm a transfer bus (you may have to wait) is available from Leipzig Airport or Berlin to the Egidius Braun Sport School in Leipzig. One of our staff members will meet the youths at the meeting point in the international arrivals hall. He/she will be carrying a Goethe-Institut sign and also have an official letter as identification. Because of organisational reasons we cannot tell you the name of this staff member. The one-off cost of transfer from Leipzig Airport is € 30 and from Berlin Airport, € 90. Please give your child this amount in an envelope. If your child should arrive in Leipzig or Berlin after 6 pm, you will be charged a single transfer fee of approx. € 28 from Leipzig Airport or approx. € 320 from Berlin Tegel Airport.

By train:

By train to Leipzig Central Station (Hauptbahnhof). From the Central Station take tram line 1 in the direction of the Mockau Line 1E, direction of Schönefeld; 8 stops, then get off at Ossietzkystraße/Gorkistraße, walk back around 50 metres to Abtnaundorfer Straße, then it will take you approx. 8 minutes by foot to get to the sport school.

By car:

By car from the A 14 AS Leipzig Nordost. Exit Leipzig Nordost/Taucha. Take Torgauer Straße on the left, direction of Leipzig-Zentrum, at the 4th set of traffic lights (after the DEKRA building) turn into Rostocker Straße. At the next set of traffic lights, turn into the Nordost industrial estate, Stöhrerstraße, at the next traffic lights turn right into Brahestraße and continue to Heiterblickstraße, cross Braunstraße and Theklaerstraße until you reach the end of the road (hotel), then turn left into Abtnaundorfer Straße – after approx. 300 metres you will see the sport school on the right hand side.

Please note

Should students be unable to arrive or depart on the specified dates, please plan to arrive the following day or to depart one day before the end of the course, respectively. Our staff cannot guarantee transfer, or supervision on days outside the course dates. Also, we cannot provide food in the boarding school outside course dates