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Institute

Opening hours

The entrance doors of the Institute at Wetterkreuz 15 are usually open as follows:
Main entrance: 7.00 – 20.30
Entrances 1 & 3 to seminar rooms: 7.30 – 20.30
Institute: 7.30 – 18.00

Secretarial pool

  • Sabine Donner (Phone number: +49 9131 85-22633, Website: http://www.geographie.fau.de/personen/sabine-donner/)
    Zentralsekretariat, Vorstand
  • Andrea Gurdan (Phone number: +49 9131 85-22645, Website: https://www.geographie.fau.de/personen/andrea-gurdan/)
    Finanzbuchhaltung
  • Petra Santer (Phone number: +49 9131 85-22726, Website: https://www.geographie.fau.de/personen/petra-santer/)
    Finanzbuchhaltung
  • Monika Wittmann (Phone number: +49 9131 85-22634, Website: http://www.geographie.fau.de/personen/monika-wittmann/)
    Studentensekretariat


Fax: +49 9131 85-22013
E-Mail: geographie@fau.de

Study matters:
Monika Wittmann (Vertretung: Mona Scheffel-Roth, Petra Santer)
Office hours:
Tuesday 9.30 -12.00 h
Thursday 11.00 -14.00 h
Frieday 9.30 -12.00 h

Office hours for student assistants in room 2.041
Andrea Gurdan
Tuesday & Thursday 11.00 -14.00 Uhr

Institute managing board

The institute is managed by a board of several members:
Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning Phone number: +49 9131 85-29372 Email: achim.braeuning@fau.de Website: http://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/personen/achim-braeuning/
Prof. Dr. Blake Walker Phone number: +49 9131 85-22467 Email: blake.walker@fau.de Website: http://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/personen/blake-walker/
Prof. Dr. Fred Krüger Phone number: +49 9131 85-22641 Email: fred.krueger@fau.de Website: https://www.geographie.nat.fau.de/person/fred-krueger/
Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze Phone number: +49 9131 85-22012 Email: georg.glasze@fau.de Website: http://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/personen/georg-glasze/
Prof. Dr. Jan Christoph Schubert Phone number: 0911530295523 Email: jan.christoph.schubert@fau.de Website: https://www.geodidaktik.phil.fau.de/
PD Dr. habil. Jussi Grießinger, Akad. ORat Phone number: +49 9131 85-22009 Email: jussi.griessinger@fau.de Website: https://www.geographie.fau.de/personen/jussi-griessinger/
PD Dr. Klaus Geiselhart, Akad. ORat Phone number: +49 9131 85-22008 Email: klaus.geiselhart@fau.de Website: https://www.geographie.fau.de/personen/klaus-geiselhart/
Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun Phone number: +49 9131 85-22015 Email: matthias.h.braun@fau.de Website: http://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/personen/matthias-braun/
Prof. Dr. Perdita Pohle Phone number: +49 9131 85-22639 Email: perdita.pohle@fau.de Website: http://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/personen/perdita-pohle/
Prof. Dr. Thomas Mölg Phone number: +49 9131 85-26325 Email: thomas.moelg@fau.de Website: http://www.thomasmoelg.info
Prof. Dr. Tobias Chilla Phone number: +49 9131 85-23308 Email: tobias.chilla@fau.de Website: http://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/person/tobias-chilla/
Dr. Wolfgang Meier Phone number: +49 9131 85-22635 Email: wolfgang.jh.meier@fau.de Website: https://www.geographie.fau.de/personen/wolfgang-meier/

Getting to the Institute of Geography

The Institute of Geography is located in the southern Erlangen suburb of Tennenlohe.

Map

Individual route to the Institute (with OpenRouteService.org)

Covered parking facilities for bicycles are available in and behind the car park next to the institute building (Am Weichselgarten). Employees and students can use the garage for their cars.

Public transport

As connection between the Campus Bismarckstraße (lecture hall C of geography, seminar rooms 01.053/055, laboratories of physical geography) to the institute in Tennenlohe serves the busline 20 via the stop Stubenlohstraße (footpath approx. 9 +5 minutes, travel time approx. 16 minutes to the stop Wetterkreuz). Alternatively, line 290 can be used via the Hindenburgstraße stop (approx. 2 + 5 minutes on foot, journey time approx. 40 minutes).

Public transport information

From Erlangen main station

Line 295 – direction Tennenlohe, get off at Am Weichselgarten (journey time approx. 21 minutes)
Line 290 – direction Nürnberg-Thon, get off at the Wetterkreuz stop (journey time approx. 29 minutes)

From Erlangen-Arcaden

Line 20 in the direction of Nuremberg-Thon, via the stops Langemarckplatz, Stubenlohstraße and Technische Fakultät to the Wetterkreuz stop (journey time approx. 19 minutes)

From Nuremberg Central Station

Line U3 direction Nürnberg Friedrich-Ebert-Pl. to stop Friedrich-Ebert-Platz, change to tram line 4 direction Nürnberg Am Wegfeld, get off at the last stop Am Wegfeld, change to bus line 20 direction Erlangen-Arcaden, get off at the stop Wetterkreuz. (journey time approx. 40 minutes)
Or you can take the ICE, Regionalexpress or S-Bahn to Erlangen main station and then the Erlangen city bus as described. (Travel time depends on the selected connection – approx. 40 to 50 minutes in total.)

From Nuremberg Airport

Bus line 33 in the direction of Rathaus Fürth to bus stop Am Wegfeld, change to bus line 20 in the direction of Erlangen-Arcaden, get off at the Wetterkreuz stop. (journey time 28 minutes)

Train

Travelling by train is possible via the stops Erlangen Hauptbahnhof or Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof (ICE). Then take the public transport as described to the bus-stop “Wetterkreuz” or “Am Weichselgarten”.

Deutsche Bahn

Long distance coaches

With the long-distance bus providers you can use the stops Erlangen or Nuremberg (ZOB). Then take the public transport as described above.

Zur Website busliniensuche.de

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Institut für Geographie

Wetterkreuz 15
91058 Erlangen
Germany
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