Autobahnraststätte Hermsdorfer Kreuz Ost
It is not a good spot. The gas station is just before the junction of two highways and it is kind of messy to find out how to get there and if you can then get back on the highway. Thats why i think not many people stop there. I came in winter on a friday afternoon and there was no people taking gas and just one person in the restaurant. If you wanna go further north you should change at some other spot. If you wanna go to A4 towards Erfurt or Frankfurt you can walk to the rest area on A4. It is called Teufelstal and it is just 4km walk from here. You walk through a pretty nice forest and i think it is likely to be faster to walk there than to wait here.rating: 2/5
―Anonymous, December 2024
rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min
―Anonymous, January 2024
we catch a car to Jena after approximately half an hour. The car was going to Weimar
rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 21 km ←
―benutzer, May 2023
Perfect if you want to go to Leipzig, found a direct lift in less then a minute
―Anonymous, June 2017
i confirm what tsunami said, waited for hours and a night trying dresden, we finally went to gera from outside the station,,,
―Anonymous, November 2015
I tried getting a lift to Berlin and was unlucky that everyone was returning from ski holidays--no one had space. A lift to Berlin did come though, and this place has great traffic. You can also wildcamp in the surrounding forest!
―NathanGardner, February 2015
if you want to change to A4 you gonna wait very long!!!
―Anonymous, September 2014
Was a good place to go west (A4). Lots of cars to Frankfurt, etc.
Several other hitchhikers around, when I was there.
―Fidel42, April 2014
I must confirm, that heading to Dresten, Wroclaw from there is impossible. I've waited 6 hours since i decided to go to Poznan.
―Tzunami, September 2012
as somebody wrote here it's terrible when you want to go to dresden. i waited there for almost three hours in the middle of a day a NOONE even drove there. then i decided to go to berlin and got a lift in10min
―Helmik, May 2012
if you have problem with going to Berlin directly you can ask for the next Petrol station: it's Osterfeld just between Weißenfels and Naumburg (approx. 30km)
―Anonymous, May 2012
it's a nice spot to go direction Berlin. i had waiting times from 3 to 60minutes....
if you r student in Thuringia you can go with your students ticket to hermsdorf and walk about 45min. to the station
―Anonymous, May 2012
rasthof/relais 'hermsdorfer kreuz' is maybe one of the best german places to start or intermediate your journey. there is plenty of traffic 24 hours/7 days a week. a restaurant as well as a snack bar make this place very convenient. from here nonstop hitchhikes even to denmark or poland should be possible. a footunnel (300 meters north of the petrol station) connects the eastern part of the rastanlage with the western portion. waiting times for a trip to berlin are around 15 minutes.
―Anonymous, January 2012
its ok if you want to go to berlin. very bad position for hitchhiking to dresden - scarcely anybody will stop here. maybe you have to be a darling of fortune? good luck!
―Anonymous, October 2011
Hermsdorf Service Station East
direction berlin is ok all day, direction A4 westbound may take a while - esp. after 22:00 it's often better to go on until Osterfeld (25km) and change sides there (bridge provided) - especially if your lifter would stay on the A9 anyway.
rating: 4/5
―Anonymous
Service station south of Hermsdorf on the A9 (northbound). Senseless if you want to go westward (Erfurt, A4), bad if you want to go to Berlin.
rating: 4/5
―Anonymous