Hospital Facts

Travelling by car

From Mannheim or Saarbrücken
Leave the A6 motorway at the Homburg/Saar exit and drive towards Homburg, following the signs to the university hospital (Kliniken / Universitätskliniken).

From Trier or Koblenz
Take the A8 motorway as far as the Neunkirchen/Saar intersection (Autobahnkreuz Neunkirchen/Saar), where you take the A6 and drive towards Mannheim leaving at the Homburg/Saar exit. Further directions as above.

From Karlsruhe/Pirmasens

Take the B10 to Pirmasens, then the A8 motorway , leave the A8 at the Einöd exit and continue on B423 towards Homburg, following the signs to the university hospital (Kliniken / Universitätskliniken).

Parking is available at the main entrance of the university hospital campus (Parkhaus). A free bus service operating within the hospital campus from 7 am until 4 pm departs every fifteen minutes. For inpatients being brought to or picked up from the hospital, short-stay parking spaces are available in the immediate vicinity of a number of hospital departments. Each of the following departments has a visitor parking area: Internal Medicine II, Eye Clinic, Gynaecology, Paediatric Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nuclear Medicine, and Forensic Medicine. Cars may be parked for a maximum of one hour for a charge of one Euro.

Travelling by rail

InterCityExpress/EuroCity from Mannheim or Saarbrücken (Bahnhof) train stations to Hauptbahnhof Homburg. You can reach the university hospital from Homburg train station with a taxi (duration ~10 min.) or the municipal busses 511 or 512. You may also use the NVG-Line 315 (Uniklinikum – Beeden – Limbach – Zentralfriedhof/Furpach, this bus connects to Line 305). A free bus (Klinikbus 560) operates within the hospital campus from 7 am until 4 pm and departs from the main entrance every fifteen minutes.

Bus Services

From the Hauptbahnhof Homburg to the university hospital (~ 12 min. ride)

The busses (Stadtbus Linie) 511 and 512 (direction Birkenfeld / Kirrberg)

operate from 05:36 am - 20:15 pm four times an hour at the minutes 06, 15, 36 and 45

From 20:15 to 23:00 pm, Saturdays and Sundays (beginning at 13:00 pm) twice an hour at the minutes 06 and 45.

From the university hospital to Hauptbahnhof Homburg (~ 12 min. ride) at the main entrance near the Parkhaus

The busses 511 and 512 operate at the minutes 01, 14, 31, 44 (an extra bus 571 operates at 16:09 pm)

Free Hospital campus bus 560 (Klinikbus)
Mon–Fri: Departs from the main entrance every 15 minutes from 7 am to 4 pm (at the minutes 00, 15, 30, 00)

Further information about schedules and fares

Customer Service: Saar-Pfalz-Bus (Kunden-Service Saar-Pfalz-Bus)
0681 - 416 230 or www.saarfahrplan.de
Service for Transportation: Bus and Train (Mobilitätszentrale Saarpfalz-Kreis)
0 68 94 - 13 - 123
City Office for Busses located at the Talzentrum (Stadtbusbüro Homburg im Talzentrum)
0 68 41 - 120 - 270
Information Center at the Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes (Info-Zentrum)
0 68 41 - 16 – 0

Our Information Center in Building Nr. 10 at the main entrance of the university hospital has transportation schedules and fares for your convenience.