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Outside Berlin Berlin
32 Reviews I'ts a trip to dispair. You can see the quiet within the madness that a concentration camp used to be. The place around looks so peaceful it's hard to believe the horrors that went on in there. Take a...
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Dachau and Dachau Concentration camp Munich
22 Reviews Being a history major, I had been interested in seeing things from the other side. I met up on the bus to the site with a tour guide who was in training and they were trying to gather people for a...
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Skyscrapers Frankfurt am Main
15 Reviews Here is part of the Frankfurt skyline as seen from another unusual vantage point, namely from the Camberger Bridge, which connects the Gutleut and Gallus discticts by crossing over the railroad tracks...
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Blankenese Hamburg
9 Reviews Blankenese is a small village in the outskirts of Hamburg and it is well known for lovely villas facing the river Elbe. Rich and wealthy people build their regular residence or summerhouses there. You...
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Kaiserswerth Düsseldorf
4 Reviews This old stretcher is quite different to those we know by watching 'Emergency Room' on TV. It was used in 1850 in Diakonissenanstalt Kaiserswerth on the Rhine. I wonder about the cover on top. Was it...
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Around Stuttgart Stuttgart
7 Reviews hallo, i live in Germany for a half year and i've been in most of the places in Baden Wurtemberg by now. And i take all my friends who come here just for a weekend to Esslingen. Esslingen is a small...
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Saxonian Switzerland Dresden
16 Reviews This is a wonderful side trip to see something not usually found in Germany. The rock formations are about 600 feet above the Elbe river and formed over one million years ago resulting in jagged rocks...
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Expo Memories Hannover
9 Reviews Mongolia represented itself with a Jurt village. These are big round tents. I entered one and found a photographer and a rack full of Mongolian clothes. There was nobody around save the photographer...
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Leaving the highway Koblenz
2 Reviews Burg Lahneck is in a distance of just 6 km from Koblenz and you will see it already from the highway, when driving along the river Rhine. Lahnstein was built high above the place, where the river LAHN...
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Castles Around Leipzig Leipzig
4 Reviews Just 45km east of Leipzig is the town of Torgau. Torgau is well known for its Elbe-Bridge on which Soviet and Allied troops met the first time in World War Two on April 25th, 1945. But the landmark...
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Excavation Sites Mainz
3 Reviews As you can see, the excavation site begins right next to the platform of track 4, where an InterCity Express is going through (without stopping, of course). There is only a wire fence separating the...
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Things to do Berlin
25 Reviews The Mauerpark Flea Market is located in Prenzlauer Berg. Vendors vary from artists selling paintings and prints to antique dealers to people selling random junk. This large outdoor Flea Market is...
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Schloss Neuschwanstein Munich
16 Reviews Schloss Neuschwanstein is one of the most beautiful 2nd set of seven wonders of the world. King Ludwig spent the Bavarian empire into bankruptcy to build this and other castles in the proximity area....
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Zoos and Parks Frankfurt am Main
15 Reviews Most cities, especially those associated with big business, tend to emphasize just how green and liveable they really are. I suppose that Frankfurt doesn’t feel that necessary, as I have had a rather...
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Around St. Pauli and the port Hamburg
13 Reviews In the port of Hamburg you may see and visit one of the largest non-atomic-submarines in the world : the Soviet spy-submarine U-434 ! In times of the cold war it was impossible to even see such...
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Schloss Benrath Düsseldorf
3 Reviews We did it as kids in the afternoon, adult-visitors do the same. The Ballet-school is in the big main-building of the Orangerie. The other door leads you to the public librairy if you want to warm up...
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Outside Stuttgart Stuttgart
16 Reviews We could see this big thing on top of a hill that looked like a castle or fortress. So we decided to drive up there. It's a big fortress with a beer garden inside. There are events there all the time....
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Meißen Dresden
9 Reviews This is a very nice place to come and visit, possibly during the off season to avoid all those pesky tourists gawking around and tour buses dropping off their flock. Many shops are around to buy...
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Burg Eltz Koblenz
1 Review Muenster-Maifeld is just a tiny detour on your way to Burg Eltz. It is a lovely little town of maybe 8000 inhabitants that has a lot of interesting half-timbered houses and a church that looks a bit...
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Hidden Architectural Gems Leipzig
6 Reviews From my room I had a perfect view of the area north of old town that was developed in the late 19th century. In the centre of this area is the Nordplatz, a beautiful square which is dominated by St....
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Wiesbaden Mainz
1 Review when you're in Mainz, don't forget to visit Wiesbaden, the capital of the state of Hessen, as well which lies just on the other side of the Rhine. In my opinion Wiesbaden is even much nicer than...
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River Spree, Wannsee and Havel Lakes Berlin
19 Reviews IMPORTANT: Berlin's Higher Administrative Court has ruled on April 3, 2009 that the FIRST PART of the walk (pic 1) IS PRIVATE. Residents will no longer grant the general public access to the lake! ...
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Locations in the Alps Munich
25 Reviews About a 2 hour drive south of Munich, in the heart of the Bavarian Alps, is the village of Ettal. The primary attraction is the monastery. While this monastery also brews beer and its famous...
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Main River Frankfurt am Main
4 Reviews Every Saturday from 8-14 is along the Main Riverside at "Museumsufer" Frankfurt's biggest flea market, where you can everything. It's very international flair from Turkey to Russia you find dealers...
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Outside Hamburg Hamburg
11 Reviews I have been obsessed with the sport of team handball for years. Most Americans have no idea what it is. It is NOT handball as most people know it (bouncing a ball against a wall). It is a very...
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No, it is not a must in Germany! However, Dortmund is my best know town in Germany, and I didn't dislike the several days I spent there. Shopping, the park, the surroundings, well... not much indeed, but, in Dortmund, they don't care much about tourists - working is the rule. I think!
Abensberg is a small town between Regensburg & Ingolstadt in Bavaria and its most interesting sight might be a tower that was built by the austrian painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser next to a local brewery. The only way to step up that tower is by a guided tour through the brewery that ends at the tower and will include also a glass of beer and a Brezel, that you can enjoy in the beergarden right under the tower. The rest of the town is interesting as well, when you liek to see baroque houses and some remains of the medieval townwalls.Click on my link below and read more about it in my Abensberg-page !
If you like Art Nouveau, you should make a short trip to Darmstadt and wander around on Mathildenhöhe, the town’s centre for beautiful architecture and exhibitions of this period.Landgrave Ernst-Ludwig has created a place for design early 20th century, which attracted a lot of famous Art Nouveau designers and architects. 4 exhibitions took place in these years, and luckily, most of the buildings have survived the heavy bombing of Darmstadt in WWII.A lot more Art Nouveau buildings are spread in town, a bit hidden for example the house in Moosbergstrasse (see pic), along Rhönring and in Martinsviertel.For visitors, which like to stay a bit longer, the town has nice parks, such as Rosenhöhe with a beautiful rose dome (see pic), a Russian Chapel also on Mathildenhöhe (as Alexandra of Darmstadt was married to Tsar Nicolas II).In the middle of town, there is a small rococo garden (Prinz Georg...
After reunification, Rügen can now be called the largest German island and sits in the Baltic Sea.It can be accessed via a bridge from Stralsund and ferries from Trelleborg, Sweden, and other locations. Coming from Trelleborg, the coast shows off its beautiful chalk cliffs (Jasmund National Park) north of Sassnitz, the port location. The island is off-the-beaten-path for its geographic position, certainly not in terms of tourism.Most of the territory is a protected area and worth to discover. Pasture land, woods, countless quiet inlets and several beach resorts. North of Binz, a popular destination on the eastern coast, lies the decadent and massive housing establishment of Prora. This was built to be a beach holiday resort at the time of the Third Reich but never actually used as such. Ironically, it was used by the Soviet Army as a base in 1945 to be soon abandoned again. The complex...
Cycling along the Elberadweg, the cycling path that follows the long Elbe river, is an occasion to come across the former border separating the two Germanies and trespass the "Iron Curtain" in Stresow. Located about middleway between Hitzacker and Havelberg, this is now a memento park where sections of fencing and border facilities were saved for posterity. It was a highly watched zone extending for miles and actually forming a wide no-man's-land gap. It's now a protected area and wildlife sanctuary but, considering that this area was banned to humans for years, one can assume wildlife was left in peace here even before. For those who have time, a museum in nearby Schnackenburg should further explain.Coordinates: N53 00.617 E11 34.161
Located in the northern part of Saxony, Torgau lies on the left bank of the Elbe river.It has a nice restored city center and the fine Hartenfels Castle featuring a beautiful external staircase in its courtyard. A couple of bears sadly kill their time in a portion of the moat and can be seen while walking on the access bridge to the castle's entrance. Their pain can be read in their eyes and redundant movements, I hate the concept of confining animals for mere display purposes.A better sight is a monument by the river. It is here that the US and the Soviet armies had met on the meaningful "Elbe Day", April 25th, 1945. The monument commemorates the event and its intrinsic meanings. The end of a terrible war that had swept away millions of humans, and the Yalta decisions re-drawing borders and changing the lives of millions for a long time to come.
Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste in German) is one of the four leading universities in the city of Berlin. It is located at Hardenbergstrasse in the former West Berlin near Zoologisher Garten. The university was established in 1696 and is one of the oldest arts institutions in Germany. It has four faculties specialising in fine arts, music and performing arts, architecture and fine arts. It is one of the largest universities of music and arts in the world. The university building has a wonderful architecture with a lovely sculpture on its wall as depicted on our second photograph.
Approaching this fantastic site, narrow winding valleys with steeply-sloping terraced vineyards and slate-roofed villages with onion-domed churches rise up to meet you cheerfully. This is the Moselle region that the tourists know. But a little way from Koblenz, behind the village of Moselkern, shrouded in forest above a gentle woodland stream, is one of the most awe-inspiring sites in Germany.Reached by foot from Möntenich, along an idyllic woodland trail, Burg Eltz appears from behind a hillside as though having been dropped, or risen suddenly from the ground around. A fantastical Gothic structure with towers and casements piled on top of each other precariously, and entered by a narrow sloping arched bridge, Burg Eltz strikes the visitor as immediately familiar- because any time you have tried to imagine Germany, or pictured Dracula in his menacing abode, the image would have looked...
The Prenzlauerberg neighbourhood is a super-fashionable/gentrified area, and worth exploring if you're looking for a cafe or to do some unique shopping. The Hackesche Hofe is a system of interconnected courtyards off the main drag, full of restaurants, boutiques, cafes, and even a theater. If you've fallen in love with the ampelmann (green traffic light man), you can find an entire store devoted to him here. Also check out Bonbon Macherei for some fantastic hard-candies, all made on-site.
POINT ALPHA is a small place (next to the small village of Geisa, about 40 km west of Eisenach), where the US-Forces had a watchtower and an army-camp directely at the DDR / GDR-border and next to the fortified iron-curtain of the East-Bloc. This camp was built at a place, where the US-Forces could easyly watch many activities going on in eastern Germany.Point Alpha is a museum nowadays and you will see a part of the iron-wall around the DDR there, you might see some of the cruel details, that many people have forgotten already, when some people in the former DDR are wishing back their "Good old times of easy life in communiste germany"You may see the dogs on a long leash that were fixed at those few places, where cartrafic was able to get through a stone-fence that would at all other places stop any attempt to break through by car. You may touch the iron-curtain, made of extremely...
Circus - The Hostel Berlin
7 Reviews and 706 Opinions Having previously stayed in the Central and Western Ku'Dam area I decided on my 3rd visit to stay in...
Kempinski Hotel Airport Munchen Munich
7 Reviews and 477 Opinions I stayed here one night when my flight was cancelled due to technical reasons. This hotel is a high...
Hotel Domstern Cologne
4 Reviews and 245 Opinions We stayed at the Hotel Domstern for two nights, based on online reviews. Always a bit hesitant when...
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Q: Hi fellow VTers, Will be flying into Dresden. Never been there before.Have 21 days to spend in europe. thinking of definitely...
A: Go to Sächsische Schweiz ("Saxonian Switzerland"), places like Lauscha, areas like Schwarzatal. And yes, definitely Prague! And why not continue to Marianske Lazne and...
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