Practical Particulars

How to get to Konstanz
 

• The nearest airports are Zuerich (which is across the border in non-EU Switzerland, but the most convenient option), Friedrichshafen (across the lake, is used for national flights), and Stuttgart (rather distant). From Zuerich airport get on a train towards Romanshorn (not into Zurich but in the opposite direction!) and (after about 40 mins) change at Weinfelden (unless you're lucky and get a direct train to Konstanz). From Friedrichshafen it's more difficult:  train to Friedrichshafen train station, bus to Meersburg ferry, ferry to Konstanz Staad, bus to Konstanz downtown.  From Stuttgart, take a train to Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (or, if areally experienced, Boeblingen), from there continue to Singen, where you change for Konstanz.

 
• By train, you may want to head for Zuerich when you come from the south, from where it will take you about an hour and a half to get here. Otherwise head for Stuttgart or Offenburg (the latter on the main north-south line from Frankfurt to Freiburg/Basel), and enjoy another two to three hours on slow trains across the Schwaebische Alb or the Black Forest respectively.

 
• By car, from the south Zuerich is again the place to head for, from where a motorway leads you straight to Kreuzlingen&Konstanz. From the north, the Stuttgart to Singen motorway (A81) is the best, and from Singen continue on another motorway (sort of) to Konstanz (B33).

 
• By boat, Lindau in Bavaria or Bregenz in Austria are recommended ports for embarkation, should you be thereabouts. The passage to Konstanz will take some six hours, though.

 
• Once in Konstanz, the place is too small to get lost. The railway station (note: Hauptbahnhof! Don't get off earlier!) is in the middle of the old town, where all hotels are, indeed usually within walking distance.

 
• Alas, the university is outside town:  a bus ride (Nos. 9A, 9B, 4) from outside Hauptbahnhof will take you there within about a quarter of an hour. There are fewer buses on Saturdays and especially Sundays, though. Sharing a taxi may be faster and not much more expensive (ca. DM 17 from Hauptbahnhof).

!We created a personal bus timetable for you!
 
• Within the university find the Linguistics Dept in Sector G of the building that you enter right where you get off the bus, and head for its Common Room (G 117/119, Sector G, ground floor), where you'll be taken care of.

 
• On Thursday evening we'll organise a get-together for those so inclined and indeed around.  Place and time to be announced in the next and last circular.

Accommodation

If you have not booked accommodation yet, or have not had it booked, do so quick, for this seems to be a busy weekend, touristically or academically. Here is the web address of the local Tourist Information: http://www.konstanz.de/tourismus/ OR
http://www.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/~luethke/hotels.html   OR
http://www.konstanz-tourismus.de/

How to get back home

Proceed as above, only in reverse. 

Handouts

Bring 40. Don't bring overhead projectors and/or beamers!

Any Further Questions?

contact the conference organisers

irina.nikolaeva@uni-konstanz.de
frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de

ably assisted by irene.wolke@uni-konstanz.de

Tel: +49-(0)7531-88.3579 (Irina)
Tel: +49-(0)7531-88.2656 (Frans)
Tel: +49-(0)7531-88.4166 (Irene)

last updated: 7.5.2001
Thomas Schöneborn