Erfurt Guidebooks and Maps

This is probably the most comprehensive guide to Erfurt that you'll run across. Although the main text is in German, the book contains a detailed 9-page English summary about the city's history and landmarks.

It's hard to go wrong with the English edition of this inexpensive booklet. After a short history, the mini-guide discusses Erfurt's churches, university, markets, bridges, and historic houses.

Erfurt Tourist Information offers a free map, but if you're going to be in Erfurt for a couple of days or more, buy this larger-scale street and transit map (which folds down to pocket size and comes with a plastic sleeve).

This booklet's highly readable text is adapted from the 1943 book Luther and Erfurt. It includes color photos, engravings, and a map of places in Erfurt that are associated with the Reformer.

The Augustinerkloster is the church and monastery where Martin Luther lived as a monk in the early 1500s. You can buy this booklet about Luther and the the Augustinerkloster at the monastery's reception desk (where you also can book a guest room).

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