For the town in Switzerland, see Cham (Zug).

Cham is a city in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria, Germany. Its name is pronounced quite similar to the English word "calm" and not with a German "ch" sound.

Get in

By car

Biertor

Chaim lies along the Bundestraße 20, 22 and 85

If you are coming from farther away, you will most likely take the Autobahn A3 (Nuremberg-Regensburg-Passau) or A93 (from the West)

By train

• 1 Train station, Bahnhofstr. 11. Regular trains connect Cham with other parts of Germany as well as the Czech Republic. There are direct trains to/from Prague as well as regional connections to surrounding places. 

See

The old city center around the Marketplace ('Marktplatz')

• town wall. including gates (Biertor, Grasslturm, Rundturm, Straubinger Turm) 
• old city hall. 
• St. Jakob. 
• Maria Hilf. 
• Franziskanerkirche. 
• Spitalkirche. 

Sleep

• 1 Wellnesshotel Randsbergerhof, Randsbergerhofstraße 15, ☏ +49 9971 85770. 

Camping

• 2 Kanu Club „Graf Luckner“, Badstraße 31, ☏ +49 9971 9147. The local canoeing club runs a small camping site at the bank of the river Regen. 

Go next

• Regensburg
• Deggendorf
• Bavarian Forest National Park