Pösgraben
Very nice spot, even at late evening quite some cars were stopping here, very good for going west (cars going to Dortmund, Bielefeld, Düsseldorf were frequent), but little traffic towards south, wait time of 50 minutes towards south direction, could have gotten a ride to west before thatrating: 4/5
―estohiker, February 2025
As for this small of a place (there is only a toilet and some parking spaces) it was okay, really pretty tho. Ended up there at around 8 pm and caught a ride near Erfurt. A lot of ppl going to Leipzig or further west, very bad place for trying the south.
rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 95 km ←
―karo, August 2023
For Chemnitz and the center of Leipzig, this is a very good spot. But for Kassel/ Göttingen we waited 1,5 hours. It was the thrid car to head this destination in this period of time. The journey from Leipzig took us very long as well. Pack some food and a good load of time for this one.
―Anonymous, August 2017
Took me quite a long time to get there from Hauptbahnhof (train main station), because I took S-Bahn 15, then Bus and walked about 30 min more. Nevertheless probably the best spot to get a ride towards West, I found a driver who took me to Rastplatz Rhonetal after some 15 min already.
―Anonymous, September 2015
Waited there in the morning.
Good places for long ways, so the 50 minutes of waiting paid off.
Most drivers wanted to go to Leipzig-South, but got a ride directly to Dortmund.
―LaZubi, March 2015
Good place to start hitch-hiking, when you have someone who can get you there. We got a ride in about 10 Minutes on a very low-traffic sunday afternoon.
―Henryheineken, July 2014
nice place! the "long" way to get there was it worth for me.
―Anonymous, October 2013
Cool ride getting there on foot. Good spot for those who need to go westbound
―Anonymous, July 2012
Average rest area with just a WC. From my point of view a very good spot to get from Leipzig to any westbound destination. For near and easy things like Kassel or Gttingen or more advantageous aims like Southern Netherlands or Northern France this could be a gould start. The A 38 is from my experience a good connection to the west: very few congestions but still enough traffic to get away.
How to get there:
Take a train from Leipzig Central Station to Liebertwolkwitz Station (takes 15mins) and then just walk there (takes 20-30 mins) via "Gropsnaer Strae". Important note: This section of the Autobahn is fenced like many others. To finally acces the Rastplatz you either need to climb the fence (quite manageable) or bring tools.
As soon as I reached the area, I had a lift within 15 mins in sunday calm traffic.
―Anonymous, May 2012