OP here, I don't know why my question has resurfaced now, I wrote it 3 years ago back in 2021 lol
As an update in the end I decided to go, and I went with a friend so I wasn't 100% alone. The uni wasn't in a big city, rather a small village near the Black Forest, the nearest cities were Stuttgart or Freiburg (less than 2h by train). And after 2 ye......