Parking in Erlangen

There are several paid parking options:

• The Henkestraße parking garage, with approximately 438 parking spaces,
• Sedanstraße underground parking garage with approximately 280 parking spaces
• Eisert underground parking garage on Sedanstraße with approximately 115 parking spaces (currently under construction; please follow the detour signs)
• Neuer Markt parking garage on Schuhstraße with approximately 680 parking spaces.

There are several paid parking options:

• Kaufland parking lot (Fuchsenwiese) with approximately 490 parking spaces
• Altstadt Ost parking lot (Fuchsengarten) with about 80 parking spaces
• Theaterplatz parking lot with approximately 153 parking spaces.

You’ll find the large parking lot behind the train station, between the A 73 highway and the Nuremberg-Bamberg railway line. The best way to get there is via the A 73 highway, taking the Erlangen-Zentrum exit (No. 32). If you are using a GPS device, please enter “Parkplatzstraße” as the destination address.

Since early May 2026, a new map showing public parking spaces for people with disabilities within the city limits has been available. This is the city’s response to one of the most common inquiries regarding parking. “Many people have expressed a desire to be able to find the locations of accessible parking spaces quickly and easily. With the new map view, we’re creating more transparency and helping people find their way,” explains Schila Németh-Heim, the city’s inclusion officer.

The map view: Disability Parking Spaces in Erlangen

Here: PDF file

Would you like to receive an overview of the parking spaces as a PDF file? You can request it from the city of Erlangen’s Inclusion Officer (email: inklusion@stadt.erlangen).

Here: Inclusion website

There are parking privileges for people with severe disabilities. Under certain conditions, they can apply for a parking permit. Applications can be submitted at the Citizens' Office on the ground floor of City Hall. Click here for more information.

Midi electric buses operated by Erlangen Public Utilities run free of charge through the city center on Route 299. Every seven to eight minutes, they serve destinations such as the large parking lot near the hospitals. They operate in opposite directions—traveling either one way or the other.

Since March 2024, parking fees in public parking lots in the city center have been one euro for the first half hour. Each additional hour costs 2.60 euros. The fee for the large parking lot is 1.50 euros per hour. Parking fees apply only on weekdays. Read more here.

Parking Fee Regulations

Parking Fee Regulations - Map

Site Map: Parking Fee Regulations

Regulations for Electric Vehicles

As of April 1, 2025, drivers of appropriately marked electric vehicles may use a parking disc for the first three hours of each parking session instead of a parking ticket. For parking sessions exceeding the three-hour fee exemption, the parking disc and parking ticket may be used in combination—the duration indicated on the parking ticket is added to the three-hour fee exemption. This parking fee exemption is based on a directive from the Bavarian State Government.

Read more here about paying parking fees

Since January 2, 2023, mobile parking for paid parking spaces has been available not just in certain areas, but throughout the entire city. With this expansion, cashless payment of parking fees is now possible for the first time at all paid parking spaces in the city of Erlangen. With the start of 2023, the mobile parking provider has also changed: The city of Erlangen is now partnering with “mobilet.”

Effective April 1, 2025: Drivers of appropriately marked electric vehicles may use a parking disc instead of a parking ticket for the first three hours of each parking session. For parking sessions that exceed the three-hour fee exemption, the parking disc and parking ticket may be used in combination—the duration indicated on the parking ticket is added to the three-hour fee exemption. This parking fee exemption is based on a regulation issued by the Bavarian State Government.

Get around downtown quickly and easily without having to search for parking. Since January 1, all bus routes within the free downtown zone have been “free to ride.” Anyone who wants to ride can simply hop on. No ticket is required. The free downtown zone extends from the bus station at the Großparkplatz in the west to Zollhausplatz in the east, and from Werner-von-Siemens-Straße in the south to Schwabachanlage in the north.

How to Identify the Bus Stops

It’s easy to tell which bus stops are located within the downtown area: The stop names are highlighted in yellow-orange on the signs. This color is also used on all schedule and fare information. An interactive map online also shows which parking options are available and the best way to get to the city center by bus from each location. This is especially easy with the new CityLinie. As a loop line, it connects the large parking lot, various parking garages, and central locations such as the university hospitals, the Arcaden, and the northern part of downtown. However, you can also use any of the other buses.

Anyone wishing to travel to or from stops outside the free downtown area should continue to purchase the appropriate VGN ticket as usual. Fare zone C applies to the Erlangen city area.

Here: All the important information about free public transit in the city center.

The free downtown zone can be viewed on the interactive map below.

The city of Erlangen is a member of the “Municipal Traffic Monitoring in the Greater Nuremberg Area” special-purpose association. One of the association’s responsibilities is to monitor parking violations.

Did you park in Erlangen and want to file an appeal against a parking ticket, a warning fine, or a fine notice? Please send your appeal to: Zweckverband Kommunale Verkehrsüberwachung im Großraum Nürnberg, Königstorgraben 1, 90402 Nuremberg.

Click here for more information

As of January 1, 2024, all bus routes within the free downtown zone are free to ride. Anyone who wants to ride can simply get on. You do not need to purchase a ticket. The map below shows the free downtown zone for bus travel.