The meeting will be held at Hotel Ebertor, Heerstraße 172, 56154 Boppard am Rhein, phone: 06742-8070, Telefax: 06742-807100, e-mail: info[at]ebertor[dot]de.
Rooms are equipped with bath tub or shower, WC, telephone, colour-TV, hairdryer, alarm clock and free W-LAN.
The meeting venue is fully accessible for people with disabilities. However, to provide the best possible service, please contact the organisers before if you have some special needs.
There will be a welcome table of the conference organisers in the hotel lobby on the first day.
Accommodation
Accommodation is available in single and double rooms with shared facilities for seminar participants. WG members, speakers and Management Committee members will be offered single rooms, other participants can choose there type of accommodation. If you want to share a double room with another participant, please fill in her/his name on the registration form under “Preferred Roommate”.
Meals
Meals are hold at the venue. If weather permits, there will be a barbecue on the terrace overlooking the Rhine on the evening of Sunday, May 9th. In case of unfavourable weather the dinner will be in the historical cellar “Klosterkeller”. The dinner on Tuesday and the lunches will be held in “Brasserie Eberbach” or, weather permitting, on the terrace. Coffee breaks will be near the meeting room.
Meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner and 2 coffee breaks per day) are included in the conference package. This also holds for beer and soft drinks during meals. We also plan to serve one glass of wine free per course at dinners. If you want some different drinks (vintage champagne etc.), you will have to pay for them.
Vegetarian and glutene-free alternatives will be offered also on request. Please mark on the registration form if you require vegetarian or glutene-free food or if you have some other dietary requirements.
Conference Fees
Please check the registration page for details.
Boppard
The picturesque town of Boppard offers a lot of attractions. This includes boat rips on the Rhine, spectacular views (one can take up the chair lift to see the famous “Vierseenblick”) from where the Rhine looks (almost) like 4 lakes. For the adventurous there is even the possibility to go rock-climbing on a path offering stunning views over the Rhine.
Boat trips are offer by the Köln Düsseldorfer line, the Loreley Linie and the Hebel Linie.
For those more inclined towards cultural sights. In the centre near the Rhine there is the Electoral Castle, a Roman castle and several Churches.
On the culinary side, the excellent wines from the Bopparder Hamm are to be mentioned. There is also a mustard mill “Senfmühle”, where there is some good mustard produced and rapeseed oil from the nearby Hunsrück hills are sold.
Boppard has been the home of the furniture designer Michael Thonet, the nuclear physicist Fritz Strassmann and the composer Engelbert Humperdinck.
For further information please contact the Bopparrd tourist office located in the old town hall on the Market Square, phone ++49 – 6742 – 3888, fax ++49 – 6742 – 81402, e-Mail: tourist[at]boppard[dot]de.
A map of the city is available here.
