Travel Information - How to get to Irsee
IVA 2003 is held at the Schwäbisches Tagungs- und Bildungszentrum Kloster
Irsee www.kloster-irsee.de in the south of Germany.
Kloster Irsee is 7 km from Kaufbeuren and about 90 km from Munich.
Kaufbeueren has a train station with convenient connections to Augsburg and
Munich
Travelling from Munich international airport (easiest way):
A regular train service from Munich airport brings you to the central station in Munich in
about 40 minutes. Half-hourly train connections will bring you to Kaufbeuren in about 1 hour.
From here it is easy to reach the workshop site Kloster Irsee by taxi.
Please have a look at
reiseauskunft.bahn.de
for exact trains schedules.
Travelling from Stuttgart airport
A regular train service from Stuttgart airport brings you to Stuttgart central station in about
30 minutes. From there, you can get to Kaufbeuren in about 2:30 - 3:00 hours
(change in Augsburg Hbf or Kempten). Half-hourly train connections will bring you to
Kaufbeuren in about 1 hour. From here it is easy to reach the workshop site Kloster Irsee by taxi.
Please have a look at reiseauskunft.bahn.de
for exact trains schedules.
Travelling from Frankfurt Airport (Train station: Flughafen Fernbahnhof):
There are several ways to get from Frankfurt Airport (Flughafen Fernbahnhof) to Kaufbeuren.
One option is to take the train to Augsburg Hbf (about 3 hours) and travel from there to
Kaufbeuren (about 1 hour). Half-hourly train connections will bring you to Kaufbeuren in
about 1 hour. From here it is easy to reach the workshop site Kloster Irsee by taxi.
Please have a look at reiseauskunft.bahn.de
for exact trains schedules.
Travelling from Zürich Airport (Switzerland):
There are several ways to get from Zürich Airport to Kaufbeuren. The easiest options is to take
the train to Buchloe (about 3:30 hours). From there, take the train to
Kaufbeuren (about 15 minutes). From here it is easy to reach the workshop site
Kloster Irsee by taxi. Other options are to travel via Lindau. However, in this case you will
have to change trains about 4 times.
Please have a look at reiseauskunft.bahn.de
for exact trains schedules.
Travelling from Salzburg Airport (Austria):
Recently cheap flights became availablefrom London Stansted to Salzburg, Austria.
You may get by bus to Salzburg Central Station (about 20 minutes). There are regular train
connections to Munich (about 2 hours). Half-hourly train connections
will bring you to Kaufbeuren in about 1 hour. From here it is easy to reach the workshop
site Kloster Irsee by taxi.
Please have a look at reiseauskunft.bahn.de
for exact trains schedules.
Hotels in Munich and Augsburg
For those who arrive earlier, e.g. Saturday 13, you may wish to stop on your way to Irsee for
sightseeing in Augsburg or Munich. For accomodations check out:
