Practical travel information for Germany
City maps, telephone service, emergency numbers
Note: Most of the services mentioned on this page are available in detail only in German language.
This site's categories:
| city maps online | phone number wanted | phoning cheaply | emergency numbers |
| city maps online | phone number wanted | phoning cheaply | emergency numbers |
City maps online
If you are travelling to a new town and still don't have a navigation system in the car, you can find nearly every street in Germany with few clicks in the Internet. Here are a couple of tips:
- First have a look on the home page of the town to see if there is an online map available. Often you will find the latest and most complete road map here. Example: Our home town Bamberg has its map under www.bamberg.info/stadtplan/. Additionally you will find a lot tips about the city and its infrastructure.
- For online city map services in Germany look at the following
addresses:
- Mappy.com with good detail, zoom function and PDA support
- At Maporama you can also download maps to your PDAs
- Stadtplan.net and Stadtplandienst.de.
- For cartographical products and purchase advice the service of Michael Ritz under www.landkartenindex.de is recommended.
- Just if you are planning a far journey, it is useful to use the city maps in combination with a route planner. We listed these resources on a separate page.
Phone number wanted
- The Deutsche
Telekom ´s directory enquiry service offers advice in
the telephone network (within Germany):
- for phone numbers in Germany : 11833 (alternative: 11881)
- for phone numbers in foreign countries : 11834
- in English language : 11837
- in Turkish language : 11836
- phone numbers in Germany : www.teleauskunft.de and www.dasoertliche.de
- phone numbers international : www.phonebuch.com
How can I make inexpensive phone calls in Germany?
- Phoning economical: Germany & international: www.simyo.de
- Which dialling prefixes give the cheapest calls at the moment? Find out at:
Emergency numbers
- Emergency or accident?
| Emergency service | phone number |
| Police | 110 |
| Fire brigade | 112 |
| Rescue service /
ambulance service |
1 92 22 |
| Air Ambulance (Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht) |
+ 49 711 - 70 10 70 |
| Poisoning | + 49 551 - 19 240 + 49 551 - 38 31 80 www.giz-nord.de |
| Car breakdown (-> also watch for the yellow columns on German motorways every few miles) |
ADAC: 0180 - 2 22 22 22 ACE: 0180 - 2 34 35 36 |
| Car insurance (central phone number) | + 49 180 - 25026 |
| "Reiseruf" (-> for calling somebody via radio in case of emergency or death) |
ADAC: 0180 - 5 10 11 12 |
- Has your cell phone disappeared?
| Mobile Network | phone number |
| D1 | + 49 1803 - 30 22 02 |
| D2 - Vodafone | + 49 172 - 12 12 |
| E-Plus | + 49 177 - 10 00 |
| O2 (VIAG-Interkom) | + 49 800 - 55 222 55 |
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- You´ve lost your debit, credit or charge card?
| Card type | phone number |
| Visa | + 49 69 - 79 20 13 33 900 974 445 (international) |
| Mastercard | + 49 69 - 75 76 10 00 900 971 231 (international) |
| American Express | + 49 69 - 97 97 40 00 |
| ec cards | + 49 1805 - 021 021 |
| Eurocard | + 49 69 - 79 33 19 10 001 - 31 42 75 66 90 (international) |
| Diners Club | + 49 69 - 26 03 50 0180 - 2 34 54 54 (international) |
The most important words in case of emergency in various languages can be downloaded from our April 2004 newsletter. More information to travel in Germany is to be found at car rental, hotels, airlines, trains and many tips for travelling in Germany>>> (German page).
You will find dictionaries for your trip here.
Have a nice trip :-)
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