Leer is a town of 35,000 people (2020) in East Frisia.

Church

Understand

The name of the town is moderately funny to some Germans as it is pronounced the same as the German word for "empty".

Get in

By train

• 1 Train station. Intercity connections from Emden – Lingen (Ems) – Münster (Westf) – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Stuttgart. There is a regional train from Groningen in the Netherlands.  

By car

Exit off the A 28 Bremen – Oldenburg – Leer and the A 31 Emden – Leer – Bottrop

By plane

• 2 Flugplatz Leer-Papenburg. A small general aviation airfield which provides air taxi services to the East Frisian Islands.  

See

old house

• 1 Buenting Teemuseum, Brunnenstraße 33, ☏ +49 49 1-992 20 44, info@buenting-teemuseum.de. M-F 10:00-18:00; Apr-Oct: also on Su 14:00-17:00. Tea Museum €2.5, guided tours €10. 
• 2 Leeraner Miniaturland, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 1, ☏ +49 491 - 45415 40, info@leeraner-miniaturland.de. 10:00-18:00. Miniature World €10. 

Do

harbour

• Gallimarkt is the biggest "Volksfest" in the region

Buy

street

Eat

• 1 Schöne Aussichten, Ledastraße 4, ☏ +49 491 678 42, info@schoeneaussichten-leer.de. Burgers, pasta, and sandwiches in a cosy cafe with a view over the harbour €10. 

Sleep

• 1 Hotel-Restaurant Lange, Zum Schöpfwerk 1, ☏ +49 491 919280. 
• 2 Hotel Frisia (Best Western), Bahnhofsring 16-20, ☏ +49 491 92840. 

Go next

• Take the boat to Helgoland
• Emden
• Oldenburg
• Aurich
• Oldambt — the region just across the border in the Netherlands, including 'windmill city' Winschoten

Routes through Leer

Groningen ← Oldambt ←	W  E	→ Oldenburg → Bremen
Emden ←	N  S	→ Bad Bentheim → Essen