The commissioning of the Erfurt ICE hub decisively shortens the travel times to the cities of Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, and Dresden. For example, it now takes exactly one hour and 50 minutes for a train passenger to get from Berlin to Erfurt. Traveling at a speed of up to 300 km/h, it takes that same passenger two hours and 15 minutes to get to Thuringia from Munich. More than 33,000 travelers arrive in Erfurt every day. This creates interesting investment and development opportunities, especially for the area around Erfurt’s main railway station, the ICE-City Erfurt. Commissioned by the state of Thuringia and in close cooperation with the city of Erfurt, LEG Thüringen is an experienced project developer responsible for the new and redesigned urban quarter around the ICE junction. In the next decade, hotels, modern offices, green parks and attractive conference and residential centers are to be built on an area of initially 30 hectares. Thanks to corresponding connecting trains, the other parts of Thuringia will also benefit significantly from the new ICE junction in the fast-track center of Germany. (gro)
