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by dheera 1104 days ago
A long time ago there used to be a "Schones-Wochenende" ("have a good weekend") ticket that you could just buy from the machines, and would allow you unlimited use of regional and interregional (no intercity high speed) trains throughout Germany for one weekend, and upto 5 people on one ticket, for a stupidly low price of something like 30 euros, and you could also sell it to someone else for the remainder of the weekend.

I don't know if they do that anymore?

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No, that doesn't exist anymore. (it also had gotten more expensive over the years, and only was for the full weekend until 2000 or so, only one day after that)

The closest is now the "Quer-durchs-Land" (~"across the country") ticket which is available for any day of the week and currently costs 44€ for the first person and 7€ each for up to 4 more people travelling on it.

That's 44€ per day railway only, whereas the discussed ticket is 49€ per month including all local buses, trams, subways.
... yes. why do you think you have to point this obvious fact out?
Just to inform random tourists that cheap travelling is not for them. You don't just go to the vending machine and pay a cheap price.