Paderborn Car Rental Guide
The following page introduces the possibilities of car rental in Paderborn and gives a short overview of the car rental and driving restrictions valid in Germany.
Rental Traditions
In order to rent a car in Germany, you must be at least 21 years old and have held your license for 1-3 years depending on the rental car category. Drivers under the age of 25 may incur a young driver surcharge.
Cars rented in Germany are allowed into the following countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia.
Driving Restrictions
In Germany, traffic is on the right and passing on the left. The minimum driving age is 17 years and the legally allowed blood alcohol limit is 0.5‰.
All passengers have to use seatbelts at all times. Children must be at least 12 years old to sit in the front seat; otherwise, they have to be seated in a child seat in the rear.
Driving with your parking lights only is illegal. In case of poor weather conditions, low beams must be used.
When you leave your vehicle or stop for more than 3 minutes without loading or unloading cargo or passengers, you are considered parked. When parking, you must leave at least 3 metres between your car and the middle of the street or the nearest lane divider.
In order to catch traffic violators, automatic cameras are used. The tickets will be posted to the offender. Car rental companies will forward such tickets to the offending client.
Speed limits:| Area | Limit |
| Expressways | 100-unlimited KM/H |
| Outside the City | 90 KM/H |
| In the City | 50 KM/H |
Emergency Numbers
Police: 110
Fire Brigade and Ambulance: 112
Road Tolls
There are no road tolls in Germany.
Some useful expressions for tourists travelling in Germany
Car – das Auto
Car rental – Autovermietung
Road – die Autostrasse
To drive – fahren
About Paderborn
Paderborn is the capital of the Paderborn district in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an old university city that attracts millions of visitors each year as a blend of a historical and yet modern city.
The city offers great shopping facilities in the newly designed pedestrian zone as well as a possibility to enjoy the peacefulness of the Paderquellgebiet headwaters. A walk through Paderborn gets you back in time to the middle ages, with the Kaiserpfalzen and the Weserrenaissance, with the famous City Hall. Just outside the city there is the magnificent Schloss Neuhaus castle with a moat, garden and beautiful park grounds.
Population: 144,000
Country: Germany
Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1
Telephone Area Code: 5251
Monetary unit: Euro
