by car
- Coming on the motorway A 5 (Frankfurt - Heidelberg),
Take exit Darmstadt / Griesheim.
Then drive into direction Darmstadt Innenstadt (City Centre), after a 3.5 km drive turn right onto the B3 in the direction of Heidelberg (Neckarstraße),
after about 500 m turn left onto Heinrichstraße, where after about 3 km just before reaching the city limits you will find the JKI immediately after passing the petrol station to your right.
There is a sign “JKI – Julius Kühn-Institut – Institut für biologischen Pflanzenschutz”.
- Coming from the east (B26, A3, Aschaffenburg), turn left at the traffic lights in the direction of “THD Lichtwiese”. The institute is situated on the left just before the ARAL petrol station.
by train
At Darmstadt Main station (Hauptbahnhof),
- take Bus K, destination TU-Lichtwiese, get off at bus stop „Botanischer Garten“.
- Then walk left away from the inner city. You will find the access road to the JKI immediately after passing the ARAL petrol station to your right.
There is a sign “JKI – Julius Kühn-Institut – Institut für biologischen Pflanzenschutz”.
by plane
At Frankfurt Airport, you will find bus stops in front of Terminal 1, bus stop 14 (exit B) and Terminal 2 (exit D/E):
- Take the „AIRliner“ as far as Darmstadt main station (Hauptbahnhof),
- get on Bus K (destination TU-Lichtwiese) and get off up at bus stop Botanischer Garten,
- walk left away from the inner city; after 100 m, just after the ARAL petrol station, turn right into the JKI premises.
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