Why so many students live without a washing machine
Ludwigsburg is a university town: the University of Education (Pädagogische Hochschule), the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Finance and the Evangelische Hochschule. If you have a room in a shared flat, a furnished apartment or a place in a hall of residence here for a few semesters, you rarely buy your own washing machine: it needs space and a connection, and has to go again when you move out.
That's why the laundromat Ludwigsburg is the obvious solution for students: nothing to buy, no repairs, no trouble with the landlord. You only pay when you actually wash, and you're done with washing and drying in about an hour. Stuttgarter Straße 54 is right in the town centre, next to the Friedenskirche on Karlsplatz.
What does washing cost for students?
One visit costs between €5.00 and just over €20, depending on the amount. Tap your setup. Per month: on your own with one load a week, around €38.00, with the discount card around €28.40; as a flatshare of three with one XXL machine every two weeks, only around €15.00 per person, with the discount card around €11.20.
Washing as a flatshare: how it works
- A fixed wash day: go together every two weeks, and everything washed at the same temperature goes into one 18 kg machine.
- One discount card for the flat: take it from the terminal for a €5 deposit and top it up together. At €50 you get €12.50 bonus.
- Bring your own detergent in a small bottle and save €0.70 per wash.
- By bike: a laundry bag fits on any luggage rack.
Make good use of the waiting time
Washing takes about 35 minutes, drying usually 20 to 40. The laundromat has free Wi-Fi and seats by the window, enough for a study session or an episode of your series. You don't have to stay, though: start the machine and go shopping in the meantime.
The only important thing is to be back in time: collect your laundry as soon as the machine has finished, so the next people can wash. A phone alarm helps, especially when the study group at the café runs late.
The most common student mistakes at the laundromat
- Stuffing everything into one machine: saves €5, but costs you clean laundry. Whatever doesn't fit loosely goes into a second 8 kg machine. How much fits is explained under How much laundry fits in 8 kg?
- The red T-shirt with the white bed linen: separate lights and darks first, or white quickly turns pink.
- Booking the dryer for too long: better choose 30 minutes and add 10 more if needed.
- Planning Sunday as wash day: the laundromat is closed on Sundays and public holidays. Saturday is the better day; why is explained under Laundromat Ludwigsburg open on Sunday?
Start of semester, moving in, moving out: big loads at once
At the start of the semester or when you move into a new flatshare room, there's more than the usual weekly wash: a duvet, pillows, the previous tenant's curtains, your winter things from the cellar. For that, the laundromat Ludwigsburg has 3 large XXL washing machines with 18 kg.
The laundromat helps when you move out too: everything that goes into the moving boxes comes along clean and dry. How to wash duvets properly is explained under Washing duvets at the laundromat, and for curtains and jackets under Large washing machine.
First time at a laundromat?
Don't worry, it's easier than any university registration: put the laundry in, choose a machine and pay at the payment terminal (cash, all major credit and debit cards, or contactless with Apple Pay and Google Pay), press start. Everything step by step at How it works.
Where and when
Stuttgarter Straße 54, about 9 minutes on foot from the station, 3 minutes from the Karlsplatz bus stop (lines 421 and 533). Monday to Saturday 6 am to 10 pm, so also after your last lecture. Closed on Sundays and public holidays. Directions
By bike you get here quickly from almost any part of Ludwigsburg, and if you commute from Kornwestheim or Freiberg am Neckar, the S4 takes you straight to Ludwigsburg station. By the way, the discount card works at all 7 Wash&Go laundromats, in case your studies take you to Stuttgart or Karlsruhe too.