Bookstores in Erfurt
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Erfurt, Thuringia gives you 14 to judge by. That's 14 bookshops mapped around Erfurt, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Staff picks shelves are the fastest way to read a shop's personality.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Erfurt (within about 20 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Tintenherz and buchbar, plus buchbar. If a bookshop's missing from Erfurt's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Erfurt bookstore lineup
14 in Erfurt, plus 2 more around Erfurt below:
Tintenherz
Bookstore0.7 km from Erfurt
Tintenherz — Bookstore, found on 29 Krämerbrücke in Erfurt. Also worth knowing about Tintenherz: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; it has a website with more detail.
29 Krämerbrücke, Erfurt, 99084
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-16:00
buchbar
Bookstore0.7 km from Erfurt
buchbar — Bookstore, found on 2 Benediktsplatz in Erfurt. Also worth knowing about buchbar: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-13:00, Mo-Fr 13:30-18:00.
2 Benediktsplatz, Erfurt, 99084
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-13:00, Mo-Fr 13:30-18:00
buchbar
Bookstore0.7 km from Erfurt
buchbar — Bookstore.
Buch Stapp
Bookstore0.8 km from ErfurtRun by Claudia Stapp
Run by Claudia Stapp, Buch Stapp is Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Buch Stapp: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00
Phone: +49 361 51876487
Buchhandlung Krosse
Bookstore0.8 km from ErfurtRun by Winfried Krosse
Run by Winfried Krosse, Buchhandlung Krosse is Bookstore, found on 4 Fischmarkt in Erfurt. Also worth knowing about Buchhandlung Krosse: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 11:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
4 Fischmarkt, Erfurt, 99084
Hours: Mo-Sa 11:00-17:00
Am Waidspeicher
Bookstore1.0 km from Erfurt
Am Waidspeicher — Bookstore, found on 24 Domplatz in Erfurt. Also worth knowing about Am Waidspeicher: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; PH off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
24 Domplatz, Erfurt, 99084
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; PH off
Phone: +49 361 566 0665
Comic Attack
Bookstore1.0 km from ErfurtRun by Henry Kießling
Run by Henry Kießling, Comic Attack is Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Comic Attack: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 13:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Tu-Fr 13:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-18:00
Phone: +49 361 6570997
Hugendubel
Bookstore1.0 km from ErfurtRun by Habel & Hugendubel
Hugendubel is Bookstore run by Habel & Hugendubel on 62 Anger, Erfurt. Hugendubel also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-20:00; PH off; it has a website with more detail.
62 Anger, Erfurt, 99084
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-20:00; PH off
Buchhandlung Contineo
Bookstore1.1 km from Erfurt
Buchhandlung Contineo is Bookstore on 90 Magdeburger Allee, Erfurt. Buchhandlung Contineo also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-12:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
90 Magdeburger Allee, Erfurt, 99086
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-12:00
Phone: +49 361 731 4536
Buchhandlung Peterknecht
Bookstore1.1 km from ErfurtRun by Buchhandlung Peterknecht GmbH & Co KG
Buchhandlung Peterknecht is Bookstore run by Buchhandlung Peterknecht GmbH & Co KG on 51 Anger, Erfurt. Buchhandlung Peterknecht also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 10:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
51 Anger, Erfurt, 99084
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 10:00-18:00
Phone: +49 361 244060
Buchhandlung kleingedrucktes
Bookstore1.3 km from Erfurt
Buchhandlung kleingedrucktes is Bookstore on 2 Mainzerhofplatz, Erfurt. Buchhandlung kleingedrucktes also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2 Mainzerhofplatz, Erfurt, 99084
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-14:00
Phone: +49 361 55062400
Hugendubel
Bookstore2.6 km from Erfurt
Hugendubel is Bookstore. Hugendubel also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-19:00.
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-19:00
Wolf'sche Buchhandlung
Bookstore2.7 km from Erfurt
Wolf'sche Buchhandlung is Bookstore on 1 Berliner Platz, Erfurt. Wolf'sche Buchhandlung also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 10:00-17:00; Fr 10:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1 Berliner Platz, Erfurt, 99091
Hours: Mo-Th 10:00-17:00; Fr 10:00-16:00
Phone: +49 361 7921151
Hugendubel
Bookstore3.7 km from Erfurt
Hugendubel is Bookstore on 73t Nordhäuser Straße, Erfurt. Hugendubel also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
73t Nordhäuser Straße, Erfurt, 99091
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-20:00
Phone: +49 89 30757575
What the map tells us about bookstores in Erfurt
13 of the 14 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
10 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
Most of the bookstores in Erfurt list a phone number. Useful for checking whether a specific title is in stock before you visit.
The Erfurt bookstore crawl
Making a day of it in Erfurt? Work this order: Tintenherz on 29 Krämerbrücke, buchbar on 2 Benediktsplatz, buchbar, Buch Stapp, Buchhandlung Krosse on 4 Fischmarkt, Am Waidspeicher on 24 Domplatz, Comic Attack, and Hugendubel on 62 Anger. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 6 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Erfurt
A few things worth knowing before you work through Erfurt's bookstores:
- Don't overlook the classics wall at Tintenherz. Every shop has one. Cheap editions of the books everyone claims to have read — your chance to actually read them.
- Come back seasonally at buchbar. Stock turns over with the publishing seasons. The shop you browsed in spring is a different shop by autumn.
- Kids' sections are goldmines. Even without kids. The picture-book art alone is worth the browse, and the middle-grade shelves hold genuine classics.
- Look for local history. The local-interest shelf tells you what a town thinks of itself. Great for visitors, better for new residents.
Good to know
We searched about 20 km around Erfurt — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Erfurt can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 14 that's closed, or a great bookstore we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.
We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.
If you run one of the 14 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Worth the trip: more bookstores around Erfurt
2 more within about 20 km of Erfurt, nearest first:
Arnstädter Buchhandlung K. Doege & S. Häßler oHG
Bookstore17.6 km from Erfurt
Arnstädter Buchhandlung K. Doege & S. Häßler oHG — Bookstore, found on 20-22 Erfurter Straße in Arnstadt. Also worth knowing about Arnstädter Buchhandlung K. Doege & S. Häßler oHG: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-13:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
20-22 Erfurter Straße, Arnstadt, 99310
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-13:00
Phone: +493628602584
THK-Verlag UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Bookstore17.7 km from Erfurt
THK-Verlag UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is Bookstore. THK-Verlag UG (haftungsbeschränkt) also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu 10:00-17:00.
Hours: Tu 10:00-17:00
Bookstore listings for Erfurt: 14 in Erfurt and 2 more nearby mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.