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Neuschwanstein Castle - This is the 'Fairy Tale Palace' and the model for Walt Disney's Cinderella's Castle in the Magic Kingdom. It was the home of King Ludwig II (the Mad King). He was, of course, Bavaria's most important and eccentric King and the benefactor of the composer Richard Wagner. The castle nestles high in the hills at the edge of the Bavarian Alps. You can walk up to the castle, which can take around 40 minutes or so, or take a horse drawn cart ride or bus. You still have a small walk of around 5 minutes to the top of the castle. The castle has wonderful painted walls, ceilings, mosaics and carvings. The view from the windows is breathless. Leave a Comment
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Nymphenburg Palace - Birth place of King Ludwig II, he was born in the Palace on the 25th August 1845 and was christened there only one day later, the the famous Steinerner Saal (Stone Hall). It is also a Europeon cultural masterpeice, with its Baroque architecture, its extensive parklands and delightful lodges.
One the King Ludwing II's castle's, a breathtaking visit for a place being in a city. Although once it was classed as being in the country, as there were not many, if any houses or shops and roads around. Leave a Comment Directions: Nymphenburg Castle is located in Nymphenburg Entrance 1 80638 Munchen Tel: 089/17908-0 Fax: 089/17908-627Other Contact: There are many of King Ludwig II
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Pollet Gorge - The Marie Bridge.
This is a suspension bridge which hangs some 300 feet above the Pollet Gorge and on clear day it provides a magnificent view of the castle and surrounding valley in the distance below.
Make sure you take your camera, although you cannot take pictures inside the castle, you certainly can of the outside of it and the surrounding valley.
The bridge is around a 5 - 10 minute walk from the castle.
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Well I definately can't say that this is a happy, pleasant place to visit but if histroy interests you then this may be an important, and enducational place to go.
Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazis in 1933. According to the information there, this never was specifically a "death" camp and the gas chambers were never used. Sure, people still did die from hunger, cruel treatment (there were beating rooms, and a brothel temple were female prisoners served as sex slaves) but other than that, this camp was a training area for SS officers. Once the prisoners got too weak from being here, they were shipped off to Auschwitz, in Poland.
Dachau is huge. It will take you at least an hour to walk through all the grounds. There are several different sections, and a museum with photos, information and a movie, and believe it or not there is also a gift shop.
Admission here is free of charge, and you can get here by simply taking the S-Bahn from downtown Munich. Just tell someone you want to go to Dachau, they'll point you in the right direction. It's only a 20-minute drive. The camp is open from 9-5pm every day except Monday. Leave a Comment Address: Alte Römerstraße 75, DachauPhone: 49-8131-669970
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Rügen Island is a lovely island in the Baltic Sea, off the north-east German coast. The island is connected to the mainland by bridge and ferry; the starting point for all travels to Rügen is usually the historic city of Stralsund, itself wortwhile seeing.
Rügens main attraction is nature. A natural wonder are the chalk cliffs off the east coast of Rügen, best seen by a cruise. Cruises start from the harbour of Sassnitz. You can also walk atop the cliffs though the National Park Jasmund, but the view from the Baltic is better. Also very beautiful are the many alley roads in the rural areas and the neighbouring island Hiddensee to the west of Rügen.
Rügen has a number of popular historic sea resorts, the most important being Binz and Sellin. Binz has a pretty seaside boulevard, and Selling features the "Seebrückenhaus", a historic
art noveau - building built into the Baltic Sea now home to restaurants and botique shops.
As to historic sights, Rügen has the palace "Jagdschloss Granitz" with an interesting staircase construction, and the lighthouse on Kap Arkona, built by the great architect Schlüter on the northernmost point of Rügen, Kap Arkona. Address: RügenDirections: Rügen
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Bremen was once very affluent as a an independent merchant city state and member of the medieval Hanseatic League. That was long ago, though the mercantile tradition and former glory still shows.
What do to when in Bremen:
- admire the architecture:
- the Old Town Hall
- the nearby Schütting, a magnificent Patrician residence
- and the "Stadtwaage", a well-preserved merchant house
- near the Old Town Hall you find the most prominent Bremen monuments, the "Roland" (a medieval knight symbolizing the independence of many merchant cities) and the "Bremer Stadtmusikanten" (animals from a fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm).
- the pretty Old Town quarter of "Schnoor" with lots of art shops
- the "Überseemuseum" (ethnological museum)
- the St. Petri Cathedral Address: BremenDirections: Bremen
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Hagen - though not overly impressive as a city - features an excellent open air museum with ensembles of pretty half-timbered houses, where reenactors perform old crafts and now almost extinct professions like hoof smith. Address: Hagen - Northrhine WestfaliaDirections: Hagen - Northrhine Westfalia
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If there is an afterlife, then the English Garden in Munich seems a pretty good model for it to be based on.
One of the largest of urban parks (and one of the oldest in Europe) is extends either side of a main road from the very centre out to the northern rim of the city.
I'm not entirely sure why it got named the 'English' garden, but I presume it has something to do with the landscaping of the place which looks very strongly influenced by capability Brown.
The park peatures miles and miles of attractive walks and streams, but I would have to say that it's greatest attraction lies in the copious servings of beer that can be had in either of the beer gardens. I've never visted during the Octoberfest, but sitting out in such a setting with a large stein in hand and good company for conversation takes some beating. The fact that they also encourage nude sunbathing is just the icing on the cake. Leave a Comment Address: Munich
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Situated on the outskirts of Munich, Dachau was the first and longest established of the Nazi concentration camps. Whilst it is true that the concept was originally a British one (as used the Boer war) the organisation and methods of the Dachau camp became the template for the appalling horrors that followed in camps right across the Third Riech.
The site thus contains all the features that have become associated with the camps. The ironic ‘works makes you free’ sign, the accommodation blocks and the industrial crematoria. The old crematorium is very well screened, even modern day, from the rest of the compound. Such planning, I think shows that at this early stage the Nazi party still thought that if the true situation about life inside the camp was known then public disgust could endanger their position of power. As time went on such thoughts became less important, although they were careful to place the larger ‘extermination’ concentration camps deeper into the east and away from large centres of population.
Nowadays the site includes a number of chapels / places of worship to different churches/religions who were imprisoned here. Dachau had a high number of priests within it’s ranks, including Martin Niemuller, a founder of the ‘confessing church’ who wrote the following poem. It has become quite famous, and various versions of it exist.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
The exhibitions detailing the whole concentration camp movement is very detailed, moving and poignant. Leave a Comment
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A stunning historic city roughly 1 hour northeast from Stuttgart. Schwäbisch Hall ("Hall" derives from the celtic word for "salt") grew rich through salt trade in the middle ages and was able to retain its independence within the medieval German Empire as a free city. It has a lovely historic Old Town, with the historic market square as the centerpiece. This square is framed by the romanic-gothic church St. Michael, with 54 steps leading towards the church, renaissance, half-timbered and baroque houses and the Old Town Hall.
Near Schwäbisch Hall lies the impressive monastery Grosscomburg and the romanic castle Kleincomburg.
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