Record stores in Erfurt

Record shops reward the patient digger. Erfurt, Thuringia has 3 mapped right now. That's 3 record shops mapped around Erfurt. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Erfurt (within about 20 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Musikfundgrube and Frau Korte, plus Woodstock Recordstore. If a record shop's missing from Erfurt's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Erfurt record lineup

3 in Erfurt:

What the map tells us about record stores in Erfurt

2 of the 3 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

3 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

Most of the record stores in Erfurt list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Erfurt record crawl

Making a day of it in Erfurt? Work this order: Musikfundgrube, Frau Korte on 179 Magdeburger Allee, and Woodstock Recordstore on 179 Magdeburger Allee. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Erfurt

How the regulars work Erfurt's bins:

• Genre-hop at Musikfundgrube. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Check the turntable section at Frau Korte. Many record shops sell used decks and cartridges. A serviced vintage turntable beats a cheap new one.
• The dollar bin is honest work. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• Don't skip the 45s. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.

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 record store in Erfurt can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 3, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 3 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.