Leer
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
- 🌍
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 plane
- 🌍
Flugplatz Leer-Papenburg. A small general aviation airfield which provides air taxi services to the East Frisian Islands.
See
old house
- 🌍 Buenting Teemuseum, Brunnenstraße 33, ☎ +49 49 1-992 20 44, e-mail: info@buenting-teemuseum.de. Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00, Su, Apr-Oct 14:00-17:00. Tea Museum €2,5, guided tours €10.
- 🌍 Leeraner Miniaturland, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 1, ☎ +49 491 - 45415 40, e-mail: info@leeraner-miniaturland.de. 10:00-18:00. Miniature World €10.
Do
harbour
- Gallimarkt is the biggest "Volksfest" in the region
Buy
street
Eat
- 🌍 Schöne Aussichten, Ledastraße 4, ☎ +49 491 678 42, e-mail: info@schoeneaussichten-leer.de. Burgers, Pasta, and Sandwiches in a cosy cafe with a view over the harbour €10.
Drink
Sleep
- 🌍 Hotel-Restaurant Lange, Zum Schöpfwerk 1, ☎ +49 491 919280.
- 🌍 Hotel Frisia (Best Western), Bahnhofsring 16-20, ☎ +49 491 92840.
Connect
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  |
→ Oldenburg → Bremen |
| Emden ← | N  |
→ Bad Bentheim → Essen |
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