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Museum der Brotkultur
How grain grows, what makes a good dough and other bread-related mysteries are unravelled at the Museum of Bread Culture. The collection celebrates bread as the stuff of life over millennia and across cultures, displaying curios from mills to Egyptian corn mummies.
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Museum für Sepulkralkultur
Billed as ‘a meditative space for funerary art’, this museum aims at burying the taboo of discussing death. The permanent collection includes headstones, hearses, dancing skeleton bookends and sculptures depicting death. Take trams 1 or 3 to Weigelstrasse.
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Güstrow Dom
Built between 1226 and 1335, the richly ornamented Gothic Dom contains a copy of Ernst Barlachs Hovering Angel, a memorial for the fallen soldiers of WWI; this copy was made secretly from the original mould after the Nazis destroyed the original sculpture.
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Gross St Martin
Winning top honours for Colognes most handsome exterior is Gross St Martin, whose ensemble of four slender turrets grouped around a central spire towers above Fischmarkt in the Altstadt. Dating to the 12th century, its location was once an island in the Rhine.
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Gläserne Manufaktur
The Gläserne Manufaktur is Volkswagen’s stunning transparent car factory. This ambitious, impossibly stylish glass building was a huge prestige project for the long-running automobile company, and has become an unusual and distinctive feature of the city scene.
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Friedrich
Behind the Wall segment – now an officially sanctioned practise ground for graffiti artists – loom the floodlights of the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, the stadium where Stasi chief Erich Mielke used to cheer on his beloved Dynamo Berlin football (soccer) team.
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Basilika St Emmeram
Near the Schloss is a masterpiece by the Asam brothers, the Basilika St Emmeram . There are two giant ceiling frescoes and, sheltered in its crypt, the remains of Sts Emmeram, Wolfgang and Ramwold, all Regensburg bishops in the early days of Christianity.
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Archäologisches Landesmuseum Brandenburg
The beautiful Gothic red-brick St Pauli monastery has risen from ruins and now forms an atmospheric backdrop for nine rooms brimming with Brandenburgs archaeological collection, including rare Stone Age textiles, Bronze Age gold rings, Germanic tools and medieval coins.
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Nationalparkzentrum
The National Park Centre has ho-hum exhibitions on flora, fauna and how the sandstone formations were shaped, but the evocative visuals of the 17-minute introductory movie almost justify the admission price, if youre not actually planning to explore the mountains yourself.
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Museum Giersch
Lesser-known Frankfurt-area artists from the 19th and early 20th centuries are the focus of the special exhibitions at this neoclassical riverside villa, with displays spanning painting, photography, sculpture and graphic art, along with architecture and applied art.
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Königstuhl
The upper section of the Bergbahn (funicular railway) uses rail cars dating from 1907. From the Schloss, it continues up to the Königstuhl (altitude 550m - over 400m above the Altstadt), where theres a view and a TV tower. The return fare includes a stop at the Schloss.
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Harzer Roller Kanarien
The Harzer Roller Kanarien-Museum is worthy of its claim of being the worlds only museum dedicated to canaries (used in the mines). The display takes you back to the 15th century, but the first miners friends arrived in St Andreasberg in 1730 with workers from Tyrol.
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Mönchgüter Museen
Göhren has a collection of four historic sites, which together make up the Monchgüter Museen, including the historical Heimatsmuseum , the Museumshof farm , and the unusual chimney-less Rookhus and the museum ship Luise . Visit just one or get a ticket for all four.
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Mehlsack
The all-white Mehlsack (Flour Sack) is a tower marking the Altstadt’s southern edge. A steep staircase leads up to the Veitsburg , a quaint baroque castle, which now harbours the restaurant of the same name, with outlooks over Ravensburg’s mosaic of red-tiled roofs.
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JOSKA Bodenmais
The glass highlight of the small town of Bodenmais is JOSKA Bodenmais, a crystal theme park complete with crystal shops, public artworks, a beer garden, a year-round Christmas market, a crystal gallery and a workshop where visitors can try their hand at glass-blowing.
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St Georgskirche
Dominating the heart of town, the immense late-Gothic St Georgskirche got its baroque mantle in the 18th century. To truly appreciate Nördlingen’s circular shape and the dished-out crater in which it lies, scramble up the 350 steps of the church’s 90m-tall Daniel Tower.
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Kurfürstliche Residenz
To the south is the palatial 1705 Kurfürstliche Residenz, once the immodest home of the archbishop-electors of Cologne and part of Bonn’s university since 1818. Its south side opens up to the expansive Hofgarten (Palace Garden), a popular gathering place for students.
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Luthers Geburtshaus
This house where the famous reformer was born has been a memorial site since 1693, though it has been updated since then! The original house is furnished in period style, while annexe-wing exhibits focus on Luthers family and aspects of the society in which he grew up.
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Puppenbrunnen
A modern fountain thats a crowd-pleasing work of mechanical art; look for the cock on top (a symbol of Napoleons love for Aachen). Other details (all with meaning), include a horse, professor, canon and more. The Charlemagne Guides You Through Aachen brochure explains all.
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Museum für Angewandte Kunst
The Museum für Angewandte Kunst is the second oldest applied arts museum in Germany and has one of the finest collections of art-nouveau and art-deco furniture, porcelain, glass and ceramics in the country.
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