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Filmmuseum Potsdam
The permanent exhibit presents an engaging romp through the history of the UFA, one of the worlds oldest film studios, its GDR-era successor DEFA and its contemporary incarnation as the Studio Babelsberg, Temporary exhibits zero in on specific themes, people and periods while the c
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Oberammergau Museum
This is one of the best places to view exquisite examples of Oberammergaus famously intricate woodcarving art. The village has a long tradition of craftspeople producing anything from an entire nativity scene in a single walnut shell to a life-size Virgin Mary. If you get the urge
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Münzhof
The former Münzhof (mint) has a pretty courtyard, remarkable for its three-storey Renaissance arcades dating from 1567. An inscription on the western side of the building reads Moneta Regis (Money Rules), particularly apt words for this well-heeled part of Europe. The building now
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Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Occupying a shimmering glass cube, this gallery presents high-calibre special exhibits alongside a permanent gallery filled with a prized collection of works by Otto Dix, Willi Baumeister and Alfred Höltzel. For a great view, head up to the Cube cafe. Out front, the primary colours
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Schloss & Park Mosigkau
About 7km southwest of central Dessau, Schloss Mosigkau is a petite rococo palace that’s been called a ‘miniature Sanssouci’. Many of the 17 rooms retain their original furnishings, although the highlight is the Galleriesaal , with paintings by Rubens and van Dyck. In summer, play
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Schillers Wohnhaus
The dramatist Friedrich von Schiller (a close friend of Goethe) lived in Weimar from 1799 until his early death in 1805. Study up on the man, his family and his life in Thuringia in a recently revamped exhibit before plunging on to his private quarters, including the study with his
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Katharinenkirche
Art lovers will enjoy the Katharinenkirche for its sculptures by Ernst Barlach and Gerhard Marcks, plus The Resurrection of Lazarus by Tintoretto. It has no tower owing to the rules of the Cistercian order that built it in the 14th century. At time of research it was closed for ong
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Viktoriapark
Take a break in this unruly, rambling park draped over the 66m-high Kreuzberg hill, Berlins highest natural elevation. Its home to a vineyard, a waterfall and – at the top – a pompous 19th-century Karl Friedrich Schinkel memorial commemorating Napoleons 1815 defeat. In summer, loca
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Oskar
The Renaissance façade of the Leibnizhaus is a reconstruction; the house was once the home of mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). In front of the Leibnizhaus is the Oskar-Winter-Brunnen. If you make a wish and turn the small brass ring embedded in t
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Old University Campus
To see some strikingly ugly 1960s buildings that have aged badly and may not be around for long (and a few solid Wilhelmian ones), head to the old campus of Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt University), which is situated south of Bockenheimer Warte, a big public square
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Alte Nikolaikirche
Topped by a single spire, this compact Protestant church – built of red sandstone, starting in the 13th century – is situated on the south side of the Römerberg and was one of the few Altstadt structures to survive the war almost intact. In the tranquil interior, under late-Gothic
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Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen
Halle’s central square has no fewer than five towers. One of these is the freestanding belltower known as Roter Turm, but the other four rise up from the bulky late-Gothic Marktkirche. Inside is its prized possession, Luther’s original death mask of wax (ask the attendant to take y
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Kloster St Michael
Above Domplatz, at the top of Michaelsberg, is the Benedictine Kloster St Michael, a former monastery and now an aged people’s home. The monastery church is essential Bamberg viewing, both for its baroque art and the meticulous depictions of nearly 600 medicinal plants and flowers
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Friedrichsplatz
Five blocks northeast of the Hauptbahnhof, Friedrichsplatz is an oasis of manicured lawns, lovely flower beds and art-nouveau fountains. Its centrepiece is the 60m-high Wasserturm (Water Tower), a bit of 19th-century civil architecture that has become one of the city’s symbols. An
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Heiligendamm
The ‘white town on the sea’ is Germany’s oldest seaside resort, founded in 1793 by Mecklenburg duke Friedrich Franz I, and was fashionable throughout the 19th century as a playground of the nobility. You wont be able to miss the five gleaming white, heritage-listed buildings of the
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Gethsemanekirche
This 1893 neo-Gothic church was a hotbed of dissent in the final days of the GDR and thus a thorn in the side of the Stasi, which, as late as October 1989, brutally quashed a peaceful gathering outside its portals. Ernst Barlachs Geistkämpfer (Ghost Fighter, 1928) sculpture stands
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DAStietz
Beautifully renovated, this former 1913 department store now houses the city library as well as the Neue Sächsische Galerie , which presents contemporary Saxon art, and the Museum für Naturkunde , whose most interesting exhibit, the Versteinerter Wald (petrified forest), can be adm
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Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt
This huge 15th-century church was built by Matthäus von Ensingen, architect of Bern Cathedral. The barrel nave is stuccoed to baroque perfection, while a cast of saints populates columns and alcoves above the pews. Gothic-era stained glass casts rainbow hues on the churchs most val
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Josef Albers Museum
In this musem the city honours its famous son, who fled the Nazis for the US in 1933. His abstract works combine bold use of colour with geometric forms. Presented in a starkly minimalist space are examples from Albers key series Homage to the Square, as well as early lithographs f
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Fürstengruft
Goethe and, to a lesser extent, Schiller (more about that soon) are interred at the Historischer Friedhof (Historical Cemetery) in this neoclassical mausoleum, along with Duke Carl August. The mausoleum dates from 1828 and houses almost 50 sarcophagi. Schiller’s, however, is empty
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