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Useful Information Heidelberg

17 Reviews The first evidence of human life in Europe was found in Heidelberg: In 1907 a jaw-bone was discovered in a gravel pit in Heidelberg – it is the earliest evidence found of human life in Europe. The...

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City Centre Stuttgart

5 Reviews Have a ride by the city trains (S-Bahn) that travel every five or ten minutes about the city. You can reach city's most remore places in no time by S-Bahn if you have a map with you. You can call...

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Old Town/Altstadt Heidelberg

13 Reviews Old town is quite small and an easy way to see the city is by walking. We decided to start our walk up to Heidelberg Castle, then make our way back down to old town. The Christmas Market was in full...

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Castles Stuttgart

4 Reviews visit the various castles in and around the city. The new palace for example: it reflects a lot of French influence. Today, in the central building, it houses the rooms for the representatives of the...

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Old Bridge Heidelberg

9 Reviews The Alte Brucke (the Old Bridge) was built in stone between 1786 and 1788 by prince elector Karl Theodor. The preceeding bridges were built in wood and had been destroyed by floods, fire and ice....

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Useful Information Stuttgart

4 Reviews When you are getting to Stuttgart for the first time, I highly recommend stopping into to the Stuttgart Tourist Information Office, which is located directly across the street from the Stuttgart Hbf...

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Castle/Schloss Heidelberg

23 Reviews Located on the north side of the courtyard, FRIEDRICHSBAU owes its existence to Elector Friedrich IV (1553-1610) and his master builder Johannes Schoch. Construction began in 1601 and completed in...

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Porsche and Mercedes Stuttgart

4 Reviews The Mercedes Museum is a great place to spend a couple of hours - they've got The photo shows the entrance hallway. A tourism website for the museum can be found...

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Kornmarkt/Corn Market Heidelberg

5 Reviews Just around the corner from the Markt platz is the small korn Platz. Here you get an unusual view of the castle. Also to be admired is Peter van den Branden's baroque madonna statute - built 1718. The...

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Personal Memories and Impressions Stuttgart

6 Reviews Why not visit the TV tower built in 1956 and ride up the elevator to the top where you can have a wonderful view of the city from the observation platform at 152 m high and have tea or coffee...

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Personal Memories and Impressions Heidelberg

17 Reviews Always leave something for the next visit! These are the things I didn't do in Heidelberg so far and that I want to do when going back: Go INSIDE the castle - to see the interior rooms and...

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Architecture Stuttgart

1 Review I was there with my baden-württemberg railway pass , but I bought on the automat a more expensive one to travel with EC-IC fast trains ; I made a mistake ; my pass was not valid for fast trains ; I...

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Heiliggeistkirche Heidelberg

4 Reviews This church is locates in Marktplatz. It was built between 1344 and 1441 on the site of a previous Roman basilica. Around 1700 it was rebuilt after it had been set on fire by the French during the War...

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Food and Drink Stuttgart

1 Review Drink Stuttgart beer and taste the wine from that area. The picture shows some of the widespread sorts of beer I have tasted. It was great - you feel you could drink it no end. drinking Stuttgart...

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River Neckar Heidelberg

2 Reviews The Neckar River means wild water or wild fellow. The River has been used for years for recreation as well as to transport supplies especially timber from the Black Forest. The River is quite...

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Wilhelma Stuttgart

1 Review believe it or not, in stuttgart there is the biggest botanical gardens in europe!!! it is a beautiful place, and you can find exotic plants, lotus ponds and even flamingos there! next to it is a zoo,...

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Königstuhl Heidelberg

3 Reviews The train goes up the Koenigstuhl on 30 April 2003 for the last time. Unfortunatly it has to closed due to savety reasons which I can't really understand. To learn more about the train visite:...

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Fairs Stuttgart

1 Review The Canstatt Fair is second best Stuttgart event after Oktoberfest. Feast and fair available for all ages. Pints of beer, barbeque German sausages, ice cream, amusement centres and folk dance is...

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Outside Heidelberg Heidelberg

2 Reviews Speyer, with its 50,000 inhabitants, is an old Roman town not far away from Heidelberg. It was made a free imperial city in 1294, and a number of imperial conferences met here. At the Conference of...

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Philosphenweg Heidelberg

1 Review The Philosphenweg offers great views of Heidelberg old town from across the River Neckar..... but there's no such thing as a free lunch in this world and I'm afraid you have to walk up either a pretty...

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Nightlife Heidelberg

1 Review I had dinner and some wonderful German beer at the Lowenbrau on the Alt Stadt Hauptstrasse just prior to my drinks and conversation with the Merck guys at the Weisser Boch. This was a wonderful little...

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University Heidelberg

1 Review On June 24, 1712, the university's chancellor Prof. Dr. Melchior Kirchner laid the foundation-stone for the "Old University", as the building is called today. The architect was Johann Adam Breunig of...

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In Swabia, mealtime is Spätzle time

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The Stuttgart "national dish", is the Gaisburger Marsch, a stew made of Spätzle, pieces of potatoes, pieces of beef, vegetables, meat broth and roasted onions. Another favourite is the Swabian roast, which consist of Spätzle, roasted slices of beef with many roasted onions and sauerkraut. The famous Spätzle, which in Baden-Württemberg accompany practically every dish, is a "staple" for the Swabians, the dough consists of a special flour, eggs, but no water!! And the dough is scraped with a Spätzle scraper from the Spätzle board into boiling salted water so that noodle-like forms result. Since Spätzle dough is wetter and airier than noodle dough, the result is lighter and less chewy. The main city of Swabia and the capital of Spätzle is Stuttgart, and often the most savory Spätzle are found in the city's Weinstube, or taverns, some of which have their own vineyards in the rolling hills...

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Vocabulary

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The Fastnacht has its own 'scientific' terms which derive from the regional dialect and are mostly untranslatable. I am using some of these on my pages and when visiting a Fastnacht location you will also come across them. So here is a little 'vocabulary' collection. Häs: The entire costume of the jester from head to toe. Each guild decides about the Häs all its members wear. You have to be member or guest of the guild to wear it. Larve: The mask. In some parts of the Neckar valley also called "Scheme". Besides the most common woodcarved masks, there are also masks made of textile, paper-mâché and (rare) wire gauze. Narrenzunft: Jester guild, organized like a club. Narrenrat: Guild council, usually 11 members of the guild, with the Zunftmeister as president. Rollen and Schellen: Bells, big or small, that are worn by certain types of jesters on belts round the body. Blätzle,...

Narrentreffen: Meetings

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Narrentreffen - meetings of carnival guilds - take place about every weekend between January 6 and the High Days. The different Fastnacht associations usually organize a big meeting once a year. Guilds that celebrate an anniversary (or just think it's a good idea without any particular reason) invite other guilds and hold a meeting. A big parade is an essential part of each meeting. These are worth seeing because you'll get to see many, many different guilds from the whole region that normally don't to their activities together.Some small, newly founded guilds that have too few members to do parades in their own town or village are very active in these meetings and show up everywhere...Travelogue page on the 2006 meeting in Ettenheim

Narresome: Children In The Fastnacht Guilds

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Children in the Fastnacht are known as "Narresome" (Narrensamen - jester seed). Since they are the future, the guilds want and support them. Many guilds organize separate parades and events for children. In addition to the Fastnacht season, most guilds also offer activities for children and families throughout the year.Kids of all ages also take part in the big parades, at least in those that take place in the daytime. They first stay at the hand of a parent, when they are older they go on their own. Children usually go in the same full Häs as the adults, but in most places smaller kids will not yet wear masks. Some guilds paint the faces of the children instead.If they wear masks, you can only guess from the size how old the person inside the Häs may be. Parents who are members of a guild will drag their offspring along to the parades as soon as the littlies fit in a miniature Häs...

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Guggemusik

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Guggemusik originates in the Swiss carnival but becomes more and more popular in the South West of Germany, too. There are quite a number of these funny bands in the weirdest costumes in many parades.Most bands consist of brass and drums. The rules how to play Guggemusik are easy:1. The majority of the band plays the same song.2. Start together and fisnish together. No one cares what happens in between.3. Make as much noise as you can.4. No worries. Whether you hit the right notes or not doesn't matter.5. It's the listeners' problem whether or not they recognize the piece you're playing, not yours.6. Have fun. 7. HAVE FUN!!!! A good Guggemusik will torture the ears of any 'serious' musician... but it's just wonderful!!!There are even Guggemusik festivals and competitions: The noisiest band wins! Photo: Guggemusik band "Zarte Säu" ("Tender Sows") from Tiengen. If you want to hear the...

Witches

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Witches take part in about every parade. They are essential and traditional figures in the Alemannic Fastnacht.Or are they?The figure of the witch is so popular and widespread today that hardly anyone is aware how young it actually is. In 1933 a couple of people in Offenburg invented a witch costume. Three years later, in 1936, the first witch guild (Hexenzunft) was founded in Offenburg. Not earlier!Since the 1950s dozens of witch guilds have been founded all over Baden-Württemberg, and more are born every year.Beware of the witches... There are often big guys inside the witch Häs who are up to all kinds of pranks...

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Narrenzünfte - Jester Guilds

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The jesters are organized in guilds (Narrenzünfte) which determine the Häs and the activities. Small villages often have only one guild, thus only one Fastnacht costume everyone wears. In larger villages and towns there may be more guilds - Freiburg, for example, has 35. The oldest guilds, like Villingen, date back to the 16th century.How many guilds are there in Baden-Württemberg? No one knows, because new ones are founded every year. In 2001 their total number was estimated at 1,200. Eight years later, there may be several dozens more. New guilds are founded and new Fastnacht figures are invented all the time. Certain artists make their living with the creation of new Häs figures. Other people just use their own imagination. Fastnacht is booming. The jester guilds are active all year round, not only on Fastnacht. They hold meetings, offer activities for kids and youths, organize...

Pagan Germanic Origins???

by Kathrin_E

Rumours are still alive and popular nowadays that the Alemannic Fastnacht originates in pagan Germanic festivals and has to do with driving out the winter and the evil spirits.This is PLAIN WRONG. Fastnacht, as the name suggests, is connected to the Christian calendar and the Lent (German: Fastenzeit ). Its origins are entirely Christian. Before the Lent with its food restrictions, all perishable animal products like meat, eggs, butter, Schmalz had to be consumed. This resulted in feasts, which involved dance and fun and noise and dressing up and mischief.The catholic church tolerated the carnival and provided a theological interpretation: The jester or fool is the one who abandons and ignores God, thus connected with the devil. See psalm 53,1: "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'"The powers of evil are allowed to come to life for a very limited period, those few days...

When?

by Kathrin_E

Fastnacht/Fasnet takes place on the weekend before the beginning of the Lent. If your calendar does not show the dates, look up the Easter date (which changes every year as it's the Sunday after the first full moon after the beginning of spring in the Northern hemisphere). Count back to the 7th Sunday before Easter, this is the main weekend.Activities do not run all five days long at the same level. Most places have one or two main days. You'll have to check individually when activities are on in the place you are interested in.# Schmotziger Dunschtig ("Greasy Thursday"): The first of the High Days. Activities like unearthing or awakening of the Fastnacht, jesters take the town hall keys from the mayor, and similar. Hemdglunker in the evening: people are out wearing white nightshirts and nightcaps.# Fasnetfridig (Friday) and Fasnetsamschdig (Saturday): Kids' parades in many...

Schwarzwald Hochstrasse

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This winding road leads you from Baden-Baden to Freudenstadt. Along the road are many small parking areas and you really should stop at least at one to enjoy the wonderful view. If the weather is clear you have nearly an infinite view. Depending on how much time you have you could make a longer stop for example at Mummelsee or at Ruhestein.But if you go there on the weekend and the wether is fine and no rain or snow there can be many motorcyclist! The picture is take somewhere between Baiersbronn and Ruhestein.

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Renaissance Karlsruhe Hotel Karlsruhe

5 Reviews and 88 Opinions We booked a room at the Renaissance because it was part of the Marriott family of hotels – we had...

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Crowne Plaza Heidelberg Heidelberg

4 Reviews and 213 Opinions The hotel is located right across the street from the train station, and is only about 5 minutes...

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Hotel Am Schlossgarten Stuttgart

2 Reviews and 129 Opinions I've stayed at this hotel for one night. The room wasn't so large but it was very clean and nicely...

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