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Schloss Harburg
Looming over the Wörnitz River, the medieval covered parapets, towers, turrets, keep and red-tiled roofs of the 12th-century Schloss Harburg are so perfectly preserved they almost seem like a film set. Tours tell the buildings long tale and evoke the ghosts that are said to use the
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Museum Füssen
Below the Hohes Schloss, and integrated into the former Abbey of St Mang, this museum highlights Füssens heyday as a 16th-century violin-making centre. You can also view the abbeys festive baroque rooms, Romanesque cloister and the St Anna Kapelle (AD 830) with its famous Dance of
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Kröpeliner Tor
Today only two of 32 gates, plus a small brick section, remain of the old city wall. The 55m-high Kröpeliner Tor stands at the western end of Kröpeliner Strasse. From here, you can follow the Wallanlagen (city walls) through the pleasant park to Wallstrasse and the other surviving
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Insel der Jugend
The ‘Island of Youth’ is a former GDR youth club housed in a mock medieval castle on an island in the Spree. There’s something for everybody, from workshops (DJing, guitar etc) to rock concerts (Stagediver, Wednesdays) to easygoing café afternoons with live music (Lazy Sunday) and
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Historischer Kunstbunker
The Historischer Kunstbunker is a climate-controlled bomb shelter that was used to protect art treasures during WWII. Works by Albrecht Dürer, sculptor Veit Stoss and Martin Behaim, the maker of a bafflingly accurate 15th-century globe, were kept safe here from the allied bombs rai
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Willy Brandt House
Besides Gunther Grass, Lübecks other big Nobel Prize winner, was chancellor of West Germany (1969–74) and was honoured for his efforts to reconcile with East Germany. Exhibits capture the tense times of the Cold War and Willy Brandts role at this pivotal time. He was born in this h
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Stadtmuseum Fembohaus
Offering an entertaining overview of the city’s history, highlights of the Stadtmuseum Fembohaus include the restored historic rooms of this 16th-century merchants house. Also here, Noricama takes you on a flashy Hollywoodesque multimedia journey (in German and English) through Nur
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Paläontologisches Museum
The curatorial concept of the Paläontologisches Museum could use a little dusting up but otherwise this archaeological trove of prehistoric skulls and bones is anything but stuffy. The most famous resident is a fossilised archaeopteryx, the creature that forms an evolutionary link
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Museum Kunstpalast
Stuffy no more, the Kunstpalast presents its well-respected collection in paradigm-shifting ways. Old masters are juxtaposed with contemporary young dogs and non-Western works to reveal unexpected connections between the ages and artistic trends. Temporary exhibitions further reinf
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Druckladen – Gutenburg Museum
Across tiny Seilergasse from the Gutenburg Museum , you can try out Gutenberg’s technology yourself, with instruction on the art of hand-setting type – backwards, of course. Nearby, master craftsmen produce elegant posters, certificates and cards using the labour-intensive technolo
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Jagdschloss Schachen
A popular hiking route is to King Ludwig II’s hunting lodge, Jagdschloss Schachen, which can be reached via the Partnachklamm in about a four-hour hike (10km). A plain wooden hut from the outside, the interior is surprisingly magnificent; the Moorish Room is something straight out
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Burg und Kloster Oybin
Burg und Kloster Oybin , a romantically ruined castle and monastery on a beehive-shaped hill north of the town, was commissioned by Holy Roman Emperor and Czech King Charles IV in the 14th century. The dramatic ensemble is an ideal setting for summer concerts, or just for poking ar
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Buddha Museum
A magnificent 1906 Jugendstil former winery designed by architect Bruno Möhring is the unlikely home of the Buddha Museum, which has a beautifully presented collection of over 2000 wood, bronze and paper statues of the Buddha from all over Asia. Upstairs the peaceful rooftop garden
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Brüder Grimm
These twinned musuems inside the building where the Grimm family lived from 1791 to 1796 house exhibits on the brothers, their work and the history of Steinau.Hourly regional trains run to Steinau from Frankfurt am Main (€13.50, one hour). The house is a 20-minute walk from the tra
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Altes Schloss Schleissheim
The Altes Schloss Schleissheim is a mere shadow of its Renaissance self, having been altered and refashioned in the intervening centuries. It houses paintings and sculpture depicting religious culture and festivals all over the world, including an impressive collection of more than
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Sea Life
Running a dragnet through your wallet, the borderline kitsch Sea Life immerses you in an underwater world. Highlights include a shipwreck where you can handle starfish and get stingray close-ups, a shark tunnel, penguins, and a creepy corner blubbing with oddities like frogfish and
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Museum Roemervilla
Ahrweiler’s Roman roots spring to life at the Museum Roemervilla on the northwest edge of town. Protected by a lofty glass and wood structure are the surprisingly extensive 1st- to 3rd-century ruins – a veritable Rhenish Pompeii – which reveal the posh standard of living enjoyed by
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Mercedes
A futuristic swirl on the cityscape, the Mercedes-Benz Museum takes a chronological spin through the Mercedes empire. Look out for legends like the 1885 Daimler Riding Car, the world’s first gasoline-powered vehicle, and the record-breaking Lightning Benz that hit 228km/h at Dayton
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Loreleyspitze
A gravel path leads from the Loreley visitors centre through the forest to the tip of the Loreley outcrop, where you suddenly come upon a breathtaking panorma. About 190 vertical metres below, teeny-tiny trains slither along both banks of the Rhine, while miniature barges negotiate
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Kurt
Haus Feininger , former home of Lyonel Feininger, now pays homage to another German icon with the Kurt-Weill-Zentrum . Theres a room devoted to Dessau-born Weill, who later became playwright Bertolt Brechts musical collaborator in Berlin, and composed The Threepenny Opera and its h
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