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Mercedes Stuttgart
26 Reviews In 2006 we visited the Mercedes Benz Musea at Stuttgard.... I must say its a really good Museum because you see how everything had changed during the time that has passed... even when you are not...
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Castle/Schloss Heidelberg
196 Reviews I decided not to take the funicular up to the castle, but to walk instead, and I think it was a good decision. The walk was not too strenuous to me and I liked the views I got during it. It was also...
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Marktplatz Karlsruhe
22 Reviews Marktplatz is the central square of the city, so it's truly unlikely that you'll miss it. It features a Pyramid that has become a symbol of the city. There is also the city's Rathaus (picture) and the...
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Events Stuttgart
34 Reviews Stuttgart is a city of wine the vineyards almost reach the central station, and every year in August the annual Weindorf is takes place for about ten days. The whole Marktplatz and Schillerplatz are...
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Old Bridge Heidelberg
41 Reviews All great romantic cities have a river: Prague has the Vltava, Paris has the Seine, Florence the Arno, and Heidelberg the Neckar river. "Die Alte Bruecke" (=the old bridge) is named after Kurfuerst...
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Weihnachtsmarkt Karlsruhe
9 Reviews After the market in Bretten, we headed to the medieval market in Durlach and this one was a real treat. They sold the usual hot drinks and snacks and they had a live band and people dressed and...
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Outside Stuttgart Stuttgart
21 Reviews Another town outside the main city of Stuttgart, SE about 10 mins. drive or 20 mins. by train. It's a very picturesque town. It's on the 8-18 th of August 2008. Please see the website. They have alot...
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Old Town/Altstadt Heidelberg
38 Reviews Hauptstraße is the touristic centre of the town - a very long pedestrian street, lined by historic houses and many, many shops. There are restaurants, souvenirshops, shops for clothing, books etc.,...
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Pyramid Karlsruhe
7 Reviews So in the main Marktplatz, a guy puts a pyramid. Not all that big. I had expected bigger after checking it out on google maps. It doesn't really fit in with anything, unless you sort of tie it out to...
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Neues Schloss (New Castle) and Schlossplatz Stuttgart
38 Reviews The Neues Schloss was built in 1807 on a project of Leopoldo Retti as residence palace of the royal family. Today the New Castle is the home of the ministries of the Baden-Wuerttemberg state...
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Philosophenweg Heidelberg
28 Reviews A stroll along the Philosopher's Walk is a great opportunity to see Heidelberg from above. It offers fantastic views across the River Neckar to the Schloss. Although I visited in winter, the path is...
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City Garden and Zoo Karlsruhe
2 Reviews The history of the Karlsruhe Zoo goes back to 1865. At September 9 a group of citizens of the local Bird Society started the firts Zoo in the South of the city. Lack of money forced the transfer into...
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Porsche Stuttgart
11 Reviews Update: The new Porsche museum has been solemnly opened on 31 January 2009 Porsche hopes to lure 200,000 visitors a year to the museum - competition for the rival Mercedes museum, located a half-hour...
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Museums Heidelberg
21 Reviews The "Kurpfalz" area around Heidelberg became a separate entity in the Middle Ages with a significance disproportional to its size, military power or economic strength as the local ruler became duke...
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The Beer Castle Karlsruhe
1 Review This impressive building was never the home of a mediaval king although it looks like it. It's the Hoepfner Brewery where Karlsruhes best beer is brewed. The building houses also a restaurant and has...
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Altes Schloss (Old castle) and Schillerplatz Stuttgart
22 Reviews The Old Chancellary was built between 1541 and 1543. It was originally the administrative building for the state, like an uber-rathaus, where the Duke kept track of all the local wealth that he wanted...
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Churches Heidelberg
17 Reviews You cannot really miss Heiliggeistkirche when you are in Heidelberg's old town because it is situated very central at the Marktplatz (market square). It was the burial place of the electors of the...
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ZKM - Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe
1 Review The ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Center for Art and Media Technology) is an public institution for the promotion of modern art in connection with new technologies. You can see for...
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Koenigstrasse Stuttgart
12 Reviews This is the main shopping street, and stretches for a full 1100 meters of heaving humanity from the main station, Arnulf-Klett-Platz, to Marienstrasse. This seething mass of shoppers has to be seen to...
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Grosses Fass Heidelberg
13 Reviews The perception of size is cleverly manipulated in the castle's wine cellar: you descend the stairs and voila! You see a large wine barrel to your right. "Surely, this must be it?" you ask. No, THIS...
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The Palace Karlsruhe
2 Reviews The square in front of the palace has been remodeled and only recently, in late summer 2011, been completed. Instead of the lower parterre a few steps down, ewverything is at the same level now, the...
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Museums Stuttgart
14 Reviews The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in this house on August 27, 1770. The house now contains a small museum about Hegel's life and work. It begins on the ground floor with...
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Heiliggeistkirche Heidelberg
18 Reviews The most important church of Heidelberg is the "Heiliggeistkirche", centerpiece of the main market square and opposite the Old Town Hall. It was built between 1398 and 1515 in the gothic style, with...
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Das Fest Karlsruhe
1 Review Visit 'Das Fest' (the festival). It's a big open air with famous (3 international head liners every year) and not-so-famous bands from Europe and all the world. Previous line-up includes George...
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TV Tower Stuttgart
17 Reviews Built in 1956, this was the first re-inforced concrete TV tower in the world, and sparked a craze that was followed by later and greater versions, such as those in Berlin and Moscow. While it has...
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Tübingen is a wonderful little university town a little south of Stuttgart. It is a hidden gem and strikes with its old city center, the colorful and lively atmosphere and some striking architecture!For some more impressions of Tübingen, do have a look at my VT Tübingen page - it is really worthwhile to visit this place!
When in Bruchsal be sure to visit the palace there - a beautiful baroque palace started in 1720. Inside the palace you can find a museum which is very worthwhile visiting.Other beautiful sights are St. Peter's church and the Belvedere palace as well as the beautiful parks.Watch out, though: Bruchsal has a high security prison as well - it looks more romantic than it actually is!
Hohenzollern looks just like a storybook castle, crowning a high hill out in the countryside where you can see it for miles around. You can take a guided tour inside to see the beautifully furnished rooms, family jewels (quite impressive!), a great mural of the Hohenzollern family tree, and stained glass crests in the windows. Officially tours are only offered in German in the off-season, but the two guides were kind enough to add a few comments in English for us here and there.
One of the best wineries neer Meersburg is the Weingut Aufricht. The address is Weinkuunderweg 8/Hohenweg 8. It involves driving under the B31 onto some roads with no names. Drive around and look for a small sign and park your car and walk to the winery and enjoy the vines and lake. The tasting room is closed from 12pm to 2pm. Germany is not known for reds but the Spatburgunder which is a Pinot Noir was amazing.
Thank you so much. You are being such a big help to meSo I am thinking that our schedule will be:tell me what do you thinkDay 1Vogtsbauernhof open air museumFreiburgDay 2Black Forest a daytrip,Day 3Schauinsland mountain Day 4a day trip to BaselDay 5Europa parkDay 6 Europa parkDay 7Trip back to Athens
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen is a small village in the north of Karlsruhe and also quite close to the river Rhine. I made a stopover there once and had a look around. Almost all of the village looks like in my 2nd photo, but there is a lovely halftimbered house as well, see it in my photos 1 and 3 !There is a big Park & Ride in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen / Leopoldstrasse - free of charge for the parking.A one-way-ticket to the centre of Karlsruhe is 2,40 Euros, the 24-hour-transportationticket is just 4,- Euros.Buy your ticket at the machine in the station, take S1 or S11 and do not forget to cancel the ticket inside the train !!The ride to Karlsruhe/centre will take about 30 minutes from Egg-Leo.
Hinterzarten - a great summer- & winterresort and in my opinion it is even more beautifulthan the much more popular Titisee. Hinterzarten is great for hiking in summertime and skiing in wintertime. When it comes to ski-jumping, Hinterzarten is without doubt the best-known place in Schwarzwald / Black Forrest and it is the home of many famous ski-jumpers like the Thoma-family, father and son Thoma had won plenty of olympic medails.The village of Hinterzarten offers plenty of great hotels - the best of them is without doubt Parkhotel Alder with 5 stars and a great park around of it, my favorite one you may find in my hotel-tips !In Hinterzarten you will also still see some of the typical old farmouses, that the Schwarzwald is famous for.
Kaiserstuhl is the name of an area not far from Freiburg and the Black Forest / Schwarzwald and it is quite famous for its wine. In my photos you will see the village called Riegel , where we spent one night in a lovely village that even has some remains of the Roman times. There are lots of half-timbered houses as well and the townhall / Rathaus of Riegel was built into a baroque castle.Take a break there, the hotels are mostly cheaper there than along the highway or in the larger cities, and in the evening I can just recommend to you : Taste the local wine !!!
Hofgut Sternen - a place of European history You will find this old, traditional hotel in Breitnau,a tiny village about halfway between Freiburg im Breisgau and Titisee, in a distance of 15km east of Freiburg.Hofgut Sternen saw celebrities like Princess Marie Antoinette and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.In 1770 Hofgut Sternen was one of the places, where Marie Antoinette (the austrian princess and youngest daughter of empress Maria Theresia) had a rest and spent the night on her way to Paris. There she was supposed to meet her future husband, the 15 years old Ludwig - the later king Ludwig XVI. Marie Antoinette herself was just 14 years old at that time.On top of the entrance to the hotel you may still see a painting commemorizing that special event and so you may get an idea, what such a royal carriage looked like.You may as well see,that the hotel did not change a lot since that time and...
Sinsheim is one of the best technical museums in Europe !because where else in the world will you be able to see the Concorde and a TU-144, thousands of vintage-cars, airplanes, trains, bikes and a lot more technical achievements of the last centuries.Of course the Concorde is the major highlight of the museum and it is shown there since april 2004.Be prepared of long waiting-lines of about 45 minutes, before you may enter the cockpit of the Concorde.While waiting in the queue, you can take a closer look at this great airplane and watch the gliders of the nearby airport start.The TUPOLEV TU-144 was the fastest passenger-airplane of all times with a record of 2443 Km/h and it was finished in Dec. 31th, 1968, a few months before the Concorde.The TU-144 flew only between Alma Ata and Moscow on a regular basis.In 1973 a TU-144 crashed during an airshow in Paris and another crash in 1977...
Renaissance Karlsruhe Hotel Karlsruhe
4 Reviews and 106 Opinions This report refers to me staying at the Renaissance Hotel Karlsruhe in Februar 2009 during a...
Crowne Plaza Heidelberg Heidelberg
4 Reviews and 215 Opinions The hotel is located right across the street from the train station, and is only about 5 minutes...
Le Meridien Stuttgart Stuttgart
2 Reviews and 428 Opinions As a platinum member of Starwood Preferred Guest, it is almost my duty to stay in a SPG hotel on...
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