The Gathering ’25 will be held in the town of Esslingen.
If coming via train you will likely need to go via Stuttgart Central Train Station which has direct routes from many stations in Germany and beyond, including Paris.
Once in Stuttgart, it is a 20 minute tram journey on the S1 line to reach Esslingen train station. To get to the venue from Esslingen train station it is a 15 minute walk.
The closest airport to the venue is Stuttgart airport, less than an hour’s journey from Esslingen. To reach Esslingen from Stuttgart airport you can take the 122 bus, or catch the S2 tram to Rohr where you must switch to the S1 tram to Esslingen.
Other nearby airports include Frankfurt am Main, Baden-Baden, Nuremberg and Memmingen.
Coming from the UK: there are multiple direct flights from London Heathrow to Stuttgart each day, as well as occasional direct flights from Manchester & Edinburgh. For most other UK airports, it is possible to go to Stuttgart via Amsterdam.
Coming from outside of Europe: for those coming from further afield, there are limited direct flight options to Stuttgart. However, nearby Frankfurt am Main is a much larger international airport. From Frankfurt there are regular trains to Stuttgart Central Train Station which take less than 90 minutes.
The nearest car park to the venue is: Neckar Forum Esslingen, Tiefgarage, Grabbrunnenstraße 19, 73728 Esslingen
Prices are €2/hour or €14/day
Hotel am Schillerplatz Hotel am Schillerpark – Hotel Zimmer in Esslingen
ECOIN – Hotel am Campus Zimmer wählen – Hotel Ecoinn
GINN Apartments Stuttgart-Esslingen | GINN Hotels
Hotel am Schmelztor Hotel am Schelztor
Please note the Key Leaders venue is different to the Gathering Venue.
You can find details on the Gathering here.
The address for the Key Leaders Sessions is: Altes Rathaus, Rathauspl. 1, 73728 Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. Please note, this is a different venue from where the main Gathering is being held.
This is an invite-only event. If there is someone who you would like to be invited, please reach out to us at [email protected].
Yes, you will also need to book a ticket to the Gathering.
We would like to invite you to our pre gathering meeting for a small number of key leaders in the movement starting on Tuesday 28th October. This will be a time to share stories, worship and pray together as well as discussing some of the key issues in the movement at this time and ahead of us.
We are making this time invite only to a limited number of specific leaders so if you are unable to make it then you can suggest someone to stand in for you but we would need to agree before they can be invited. We also ask that you don’t bring anyone to this meeting who doesn’t have an invite from us already.
You have a period of 14 (fourteen) working days in which you may cancel your booking, starting from the day after the day you receive the email acknowledgement of event tickets. Working days means that Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays are not included in this period. Email [email protected]