Eichstätt is a small town in Upper Bavaria which until the 1972 redrawing of municipal boundaries was administratively part of Middle Franconia. The seat of a bishopric and a small university, the town is fiercely Catholic, which may have played a role in separating it from the more Lutheran Middle Franconia.

Get in

By train

As the first train station sat outside the town itself (but more conveniently along the railway line) a secondary "Eichstätt Stadt" station was built later

• 1 Bahnhof Eichstätt.  
• 2 Bahnhof Eichstätt Stadt. 

See

• 1 Jura-Museum. The Jurassic museum includes an original Archaeopteryx. (updated Dec 2020)

Eat

• 1 Gasthof Krone, Domplatz 3, ☏ +49 8421-4406. 

Sleep

• 1 Gästehaus der Benedektinerinnenabtei St. Walburg, Abtei St. Walburg/Marienhaus, Walburgiberg 6, ☏ +49 8421-9887-0, gaestehaus.kloster.st.walburg@bistum-eichstaett.de. double 72 € incl. breakfast. 

Learn

• 1 Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.