Youth Hostel Eichstätt

Youth Hostel Eichstätt

The environmental youth hostel with its 122 beds is located just a ten-minute walk from the train station and the city center, directly below Willibaldsburg Castle, the city's landmark visible from afar.

Organic, environment and nature in Eichstätt!  Old and new, shows itself in the environment youth hostel Eichstätt from its natural side. 

Stone-old are the findings in the quarries around Eichstätt. Get on the trail of the dinos in one of them and become an amateur archaeologist. The Jurassic period never lets go of the city on the Altmühl River and regularly brings it new finds.  And if you can't find anything, you can "forge" your own fossils at the Eichstätt Environmental Youth Hostel. These offers, like so many others, are pedagogically supervised and are aimed at school classes and groups.

The information on accessibility can be found on our homepage at the bottom right - Reisen für Alle.

Certified in the period

October 2022 - September 2025

Information about Accessibility

Barrier-free information

Short Report as PDF

Some information on accessibility are listed below. For detailed information please see the evaluation report at the end of the text.

  • There is no in-house parking space available. At "Reichenaustraße" there are about 15 public parking spaces (at the street). Guests may drive up to the entrance of the youth hostel for loading and unloading.
  • The nearest bus stop, "Elias-Holl-Straße", is approx. 120 m away. The path between the bus stop and the entrance is easy to walk or drive on and has a maximum longitudinal inclination of 7%.
  • The entrance is accessible via a staircase with eight steps and a handrail on both sides.
  • The reception counter is 110 cm high. There is an equivalent communication possibility in a sitting position.
  • Some doors are less than 70 cm wide (e.g. to room 213, doors in the sanitary area).
  • In the dining area there are wheelchair accessible tables.
  • There is no toilet designed for people with disabilities.

Room No. 002 (multi-bedroom), ground floor

  • The manoeuvring space in the bedroom is
    80 cm x 150 cm in front of essential immobile furnishings and
    at least 200 cm x 200 cm to the left of the bed, on the right the bed stands next to the wall.
  • The bed is including mattress 45 cm high.
  • A nursing bed cannot be provided.
  • The sanitary areas are only accessible via doors narrower than 70 cm and are not barrier-free (no stepless shower, no grab handles etc.).

Evaluation report: Download as PDF

Some information on accessibility are listed below. For detailed information please see the evaluation report at the end of the text.

  • There is no optically perceivable alarm in the building.
  • There is no audio induction loop.
  • In the dining room there are tables with bright and glare-free lighting, on which there are no lamps that restrict the field of vision or eye contact.
  • There are no seating areas with low background noises.
  • In the evaluated rooms, there is no free electrical outlet near the bed.
  • Knocking on room doors is not indicated by a flashing signal.
  • WIFI is available in the public area.

Evaluation report: Download as PDF

Some information on accessibility are listed below. For detailed information please see the evaluation report at the end of the text.

  • Assistance dogs are allowed.
  • The entrance is not visually contrasted to the surroundings, but can be recognized by a tactile change of floor covering.
  • Glass doors are not marked with safety markings.
  • Rooms and corridors are well illuminated, i.e. bright and glare-free almost everywhere.
  • In general, the steps of the staircase are rich in contrast, exception: the staircase in the entrance area.
  • The paths in corridors are visually contrasted with the surroundings.
  • The walls or other structural elements can be used predominantly as orientation guidelines.
  • Information is available in clearly legible font, but is not rich in contrast.
  • There is no uninterrupted guidance system (e.g. floor indicators).
  • There is no tactile information available (e.g. in Braille).

Evaluation report: Download as PDF

Some information on accessibility are listed below. For detailed information please see the evaluation report at the end of the text.

  • The name and logo of the company are clearly recognizable at the main entrance, but not at the side entrance/night entrance.
  • Business cards/brochures with the address and telephone number of the youth hostel are visibly displayed at the reception desk.
  • There is no information in easy language. Information is not provided by pictograms or pictures.
  • There is an uninterrupted guidance system.
  • There is no colored or pictorial guidance system.

Evaluation report: Download as PDF

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Youth Hostel Eichstätt
5-bed room 5-bed room (Robert Pupeter)
The dining room The dining room (DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)
Game in the hostel Game in the hostel (DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)
Youth Hostel Eichstätt Youth Hostel Eichstätt (DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)