Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Lab

Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment

Data Synthesis Workshop
Rauischholzhausen Castle, Giessen, Germany
March 28-29, 2003

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Travel and Accommodations

How to get to Giessen and Rauischholzhausen
Travel once in Giessen
Overnight accommodation in Giessen
General information about the Rauischholzhausen
Reimbursement Procedures

How to get to Giessen and Rauischholzhausen

Giessen is about 60 km north of Frankfurt.

1. Train

If you travel by train your destination should be GIESSEN (from the North via Kassel, from the South via Frankfurt).

2. Train connection from Frankfurt airport to Giessen

Go to Terminal 1 lower level B (arrivals = Ankunft). If you arrive at Terminal 2 please take the Sky-Line-Shuttle to Terminal 1. If you have a "Fly and Rail Ticket" you don't need an extra ticket for the train. If not, you have to get a ticket from the ticket machine (Automat-see #2) or from the DB Travel-Center (personal service). Your destination is GIESSEN. If you don't have any German money get it at this level at one of the Change Bureaus (Geldwechsel).
Take the escalator down to the next level (DB); here you will find the Automat for a ticket.
Go to GLEIS 1 (Platform 1); the trains come every 15 to 20 minutes. Then you take the underground on platform 1 (for example line 8 (S8), direction Hanau or Offenbach) to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (main station). At Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) you have to change trains. This will be the third stop.
Follow the crowd up two flights of stairs to the main train station. Follow the sign ”Fernzüge” to reach the platforms, where the trains leave to Giessen.
Look at one of the posted boards for departures (Abfahrt) for a train to Giessen (direction Kassel). Trains are relatively frequent during commuter times. A fast one (RE or IR) will only stop in Friedberg and then Giessen. The ride will be approximately one hour.

If you would like to see the train schedule in advance, you can go to http://www.bahn.de - this is the German rail network. Click on the "int. guests" tab to display the pages in English. There are trains going to Giessen from the airport as late as 11 pm.

3. Train/bus connection from Giessen to Rauischholzhausen

If you want to travel from Giessen to the castle in Rauischholzhausen you first take the train from Giessen to Marburg (direction Kassel, see above). You can take with RE or IC (see above). Between Marburg and the castle in Rauischholzhausen there will be a shuttle bus service provided by Dr. Wolters' group from the University. The shuttle will be pre-arranged according to the travel itinerary you submit to Holley Zadeh. The duration of this journey will be about 45 minutes.

For your return journey you take the train in Marburg back to Giessen (or Frankfurt, it is the same direction).

4. Car

Getting to Rauischholzhausen

Map

From Giessen: take the B3 to Marburg and leave at the exit for Ebsdorfer Grund in the direction of Kirchhain. The road leads you through Rauischholzhausen, where you will see signs directing you to the castle.

From Marburg: take the road through the Lahn hills via the villages of Schröck and Roßdorf to Rauischholzhausen.

Travel once in Giessen

VAL BEHAN-PELLETIER
MARK BRADFORD
VAL BROWN
MARK ST. JOHN
TONY TROFYMOW
DIANA WALL:
You will meet Joerg or Matthieu (from Volkmar's lab) at 21:15 on 27 March at the MEETING POINT of terminal 1, hall B, level 1(Arrivals). Follow the signs to get there.

DAVID BIGNELL:
Once you have reached the Giessen railway station on 27 March, please call Joerg on the mobile phone at (0173-7087974) or on the lab phone (0641-9935716) and he will pick you up and take you to the hotel.

MARK DANGERFIELD:
Please take the train all the way to Marburg and call Joerg‚s mobile phone
(0173-7087974) once you arrive. We will pick you up on the way to the castle.

ROB COLWELL
WINFRIED VOIGT:
Meet at the castle at 13:00 on 28 March, where we will all have lunch together before the meeting. Please take the mobile phone number with you in case you have any problems
(0173-7087974).

ALL THOSE STAYING AT THE HOTEL IN GIESSEN ON 27 MARCH:
Joerg will pick us up at 11:00 on 28 March and take us to the castle. We will pick up Mark Dangerfield on the way, and we will meet Rob Colwell and Winfried Voigt at the castle at 13:00 for lunch and introductions prior to the start of the workshop.

Overnight accommodation in Giessen

Holley will make ALL hotel reservations for the Hotel am Ludwigsplatz in Giessen. Once you have your itinerary, please forward it to her and she will reserve a spot for you and help you set up transportation from the train station to the hotel.

General Information about the Rauischholzhausen Castle

The workshop will be held at the Rauischholzhausen Castle near Frankfurt, Germany.

Rauischholzhausen Castle

Rooms:
Monday to Thursday: 24€ per overnight stay
Friday to Sunday : 26€ per overnight stay

	Monday to Thursday	Friday to Sunday
breakfast	4,25€	5,25
lunch	6,00€	7,00
coffee	3,00€	4,00
dinner	6,00€	7,00

Breakfast between 8:00 und 9:00 hours
Lunch between 12:00 und 13:30 hours
Dinner between 18:00 und 19:30 hours

Reimbursement Procedures

We are not able to purchase alcohol with University funds. Please plan accordingly.
We are not able to pay for personal phone calls from the hotel room or any extras beyond accommodations

Documents / Info required for reimbursements after the trip:

Passenger receipt stub from the back of the airline ticket, showing the airfare amount
Original receipts for everything claimed, such as hotel, shuttle, train, etc.
The currency you would like to be reimbursed with
Only pre-approved expenses will be reimbursed. If you have questions regarding this, please contact Holley Zadeh.
Reimbursements can only be obtained AFTER the dates of travel, stay, etc., as our accounting office must see proof of the use of good or service (i.e. a receipt or ticket stub) in order to issue a reimbursement check. A travel itinerary is not acceptable.

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GLIDE was a project of the International Biodiversity Observation Year 2001-2002

This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 98 06437 Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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