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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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Friedrichstadt - a "dutch colony" in Germany

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Friedrichstadt is a small village with an interesting history in the north-west of Germany: When walking or taking a cruise through the artificial canals of Friedrichstadt you will have the feeling to be somewhere in the Netherlands. In the 17th century the Count of this district had the idea to let refugees from the Netherlands settle here and build some sort of a "Dutch Colony" including the construction of the typical, artificial canals and houses in dutch style.Take a look at my last picture : Such "leaning houses" are no mis-constructions. They rather were built that way in order to be able to transport goods to the upper levels with the help of a crane fixed on top.The things were finally taken in through the windows.

Museumshafen Kiel - for all fans of old ships

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Kiel in the north of Germany is a great place to visit for all fans of old, traditional ships, mainly during the time of the so-called "Kieler Woche", but also all year long in a small part of the port, where old ships will be docked like in a museum :You will find this place not far from the place where the giant cruiseships are docking in Kiel My favorite one was an old ship with a nice restaurant built in - see my restaurant tip !From the city of Kiel you can walk to these ships over a folding-drawbridge, that will be folded, whenever larger ships will pass through.It was interesting to see that most of these old ships are still used for sailing-tours, like the one on my main photograph, that I saw docked in that port the 1st day, and on the 2nd day I saw it, when leaving the port !

Mueggesfelde

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Mueggesfelde is another big manor-farm close to Bad Segeberg and my mother had to help there at the farm during WW II because all of the male population had to go to war and the young girls were sent to the farms as farm-helpers.Nowadays they mainly have horses and on my main picture you can see my mother paying a last visit in 2002, when we were on vacation nearby.

Kollmar

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Kollmar is one of the small villages, that you will pass through when driving along the river Elbe from Hamburg to Brunsbuettel. Kollmar looks so peacefully and the river Elbe is wide there like a giant lake,and in fact the big ships are passing by the village in a distance of 1 km or even more. A high dike is protecting the village against the floods and at the same time you can also walk ortake a ride on your bycicle on top of that dike in order to enjoy the great view and fresh air.Swimming is forbidden there because of polluted water !!!Maybe that is because of the atomic powerplant Brokdorf, maybe for other reasons !

Sankt Margarethen

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Sankt Margarethen is one of the scenic, tiny villages that you will pass through, whenever driving from Hamburg to Brunsbuettel along the river Elbe. Take a stop there and take a walk through the village when you like to see some interesting houses in a peaceful surrounding. Unfortunately the atomic powerplant of Brokdorf is in a distance of just 4 km. Interesting to see the old church with the seperate wooden belltower - see my 3rd and 4th photoraph, and some straw-thatched houses !

Brokdorf

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The small village of Brokdorf, in the north-west of Hamburg, stands mainly for an atomic power plant, that plenty of young people tried to fight against, but did not succed in the 1970s.Brokdorf is a lovely village as well with an interesting church and a few outstanding tomb-stones around of it. Take a walk through the village and you will see some really interesting farmhouses like the one on my main photograph ! Brokdorf is one of the villages, that you will pass by when driving along the river Elbe from Hamburg to Brunsbuettel.

Hochdonn, an interesting place along the Kielcanal

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Hochdonn is rather close to Fuhlsbuettel, at the beginning and west-end of Nord-Ostsee-Kanal / Kiel-Canal and it is an interesting place to go for "cruiseship-spotting" !The giant train-bridge of Hochdonn makes a perfect place to take pics of the cruiseships, see the gigantic construction of this bridge in my last photo : the landscape is totally flat there, so the trainstations are low as well, but then for the bridges the train-track has to climb stepply up in order to be able to let the highest cruiseships pass by under them. Another quite interesting sight of Hochdonn is the small windmill next to the canal, it is mainly used for weddings and other special festivities.In Hochdonn you can also cross the canal by a car-ferry, free of charge like all other ferries crossing the Kielcanal / Nord-Ostsee-Kanal.

Bosau - am großen Plöner See

by globetrott

Bosau is a tiny village with an interesting church directely at Grosser Ploener See. When you enlarge my photographs you can see the great paintings and wooden decorations of this lovely church, that you can visit freely and without restrictions during the day. Bosau also has some great thatched houses and it is a great place for a day-excursion with the whole family, I may also recommend to take a cruise at the lake !For more informations about this interesting village in the north of Hamburg, click on the web-page below !

Seedorf and a bit of my family's history

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Seedorf is a small village in Schleswig Holstein, close to Bad Segeberg. It consists mainly of the manor-house that you will see on my main picture. My mother had told us many stories about this place, when we were kids : She had to serve there during the HJ-time, and she was forced to join the BDM (Bund Deutscher Mädchen), when she was 17 years old. With her austrian passport there was no escape after the "Anschluss" of Austria to the Deutsches Reich in 1938 and beeing in BDM started peacefully with singing, marching, group-activities etc. and it ended with assistance-works, when defending the area during WW II. Seedorf as a romantic place with a lake nearby, the long alleys of trees, the manor-farm and the large woods was one of the stories my mother used to tell us, while we were children and we have been there several times on vacation : The manorhouse offers some appartments for...

Raitenhaslach - a heavenly monastery

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Raitenhaslach in Bavaria is a great monastery just a few kilometers south of Burghausen and it might be another great place to visit, when you have some time to explore the south-east of Bavaria !This lovely monastery dates back to the year 1345 and it was rebuilt in baroque style between 1690 and 1696 and a few years later in Rokkoko-style. In 1780 pope Pius VI came to Raitenhaslach and spent the night in the so-called "Praelatenzimmer" that is still one of the most beautiful rooms today.You may visit the ornate church freely and without restrictions during the day. The monastery could also be visited, but I have no idea about the time-schedules. The doors were open, while I was there and I could walk around.This monastery would need a lot of repairs and restorations still, BUT it also looks great already the way it is today.between 1396 and 1502 many members of the Wittelsbacher...

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