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Germany
Forest, techno, and a rebuilt old town in every direction. The trains are a national grievance and still better than most, and the beer is regional enough to argue about.
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Wikipedia · 3 Sep 2026
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The Aalto Theatre is a performing arts venue in Essen, Germany, and is home to the city's opera company Aalto-Musiktheater and the ballet company Aalto Ballett. The Essener Philharmoniker serve as the venue's orchestra. The theatre opened on 25 September 1988 with Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and is mainly used for opera and ballet, but also for concerts and galas.
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Thomas Robbin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Essen Minster, since 1958 also Essen Cathedral, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese of the Ruhr", founded in 1958. The church, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Blessed Virgin Mary, stands on the Burgplatz in the centre of the city of Essen, Germany.
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The Grugapark is a central park in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was first opened in 1929 as the first Big Ruhrland Horticultural Exhibition. Adjacent to the Grugapark is the Grugahalle concert hall and the Messe Essen exhibition centre.
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Tuxyso · CC BY-SA 3.0
Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1902.
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Vincent van Gogh · Public domain
The Old Synagogue is a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Steeler Straße 29, in Essen, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The former synagogue was repurposed in 1960 as a Jewish museum.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 30 Jul 2026
Tuxyso · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Villa Hügel is a 19th-century mansion in Bredeney, now part of Essen, Germany. It was built by the industrialist Alfred Krupp in 1870–1873 as his main residence and was the home of the Krupp family until after World War II. More recently, the Villa Hügel has housed the offices of the Kulturstiftung Ruhr, an art gallery, the historical archive of the Krupp family and company, and a concert venue.
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Dr.G.Schmitz · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activities took place from 1851 until 23 December 1986.
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The Mannheim Jesuit Church is a Catholic church of historic and artistic importance in Mannheim, Germany. Church construction was begun in 1733 and completed in 1760. It was consecrated to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier.
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Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
The Luisenpark is a municipal park in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the left bank of the Neckar river and has an area of 42 hectares. The lower Luisenpark is the oldest part which is conserved as a historic garden.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 19 May 2026
Quadratestadt Mannheim Dominik Rossbach / Stadtmarketing Mannheim GmbH · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Mannheim National Theatre is a theatre and opera company in Mannheim, Germany, with a variety of performance spaces. It was founded in 1779 and is one of the oldest theatres in Germany.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 24 Aug 2025
Photo: Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0
The Mannheim Observatory was a tower observatory built between 1772 and 1774 in Mannheim, Germany, which remained in operation until 1880. The observatory was transferred to Karlsruhe and finally in 1898, was established on the Königstuhl near Heidelberg where today's successor institution the State Observatory Heidelberg-Königstuhl is located.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 30 Sep 2025
Immanuel Giel · Public domain
Mannheim Palace is a large Baroque palace in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was originally the main residence of the Prince-electors of the Electorate of the Palatinate of the House of Wittelsbach until 1777. Part of the palace is used today by the University of Mannheim.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 17 Nov 2025
Hubert Berberich (HubiB) · CC BY 3.0
The Water Tower is a well-known landmark of Mannheim, Germany. The water tower was built from 1886 to 1889 on the present Frederick Square (Friedrichsplatz) by Gustav Halmhuber. The tower, which is 60 meters high and 19 meters in diameter, was Mannheim's first urban water tower.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 22 Apr 2026
Hubert Berberich (HubiB) · CC BY 3.0
Mannheimer Rosengarten is a concert hall and congress centre in Mannheim, Germany designed by German architect Bruno Schmitz. It was built between 1900 and 1903 in an Art Nouveau style, with a main hall that can accommodate up to 2,300 guests. Artists that have performed at Mannheimer Rosengarten include Sting, Simply Red and Whitesnake.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 17 Aug 2025
Photo: Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0
The Reiss Engelhorn Museum, is a museum in Mannheim, Germany. It has an exhibition area of 11,300 square metres (122,000 sq ft), and houses around 1.2 million objects.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 24 Sep 2025
Immanuel Giel · Public domain
Abenteuermuseum (Saarbrücken) is a former museum in Saarland, Germany, which was founded by the deceased Heinz Rox-Schulz.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 26 Jun 2026
The Congresshalle is a concert hall located in Saarbrücken, Germany, which was designed by German architect Dieter Oesterlen. The main hall can seat 1,300 and can hold 1,800 for standing events. The Congresshalle opened in 1967 and was expanded and moved to new premises in 1995.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 30 Aug 2026
Stefan Oemisch · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Platz des Unsichtbaren Mahnmals – or in English, the Place of the Invisible Memorial – is a memorial to Jewish cemeteries. It is located in Saarbrücken, capital of the German state of the Saarland. To the visitor, the memorial is completely invisible – it only appears as a sign at the place, reading "Platz des Unsichtbaren Mahnmals".
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 29 Aug 2025
user:Flicka · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ludwigskirche in Old Saarbrücken, Germany, is a Lutheran Baroque-style church. It is the symbol of the city and is considered to be one of the most important Protestant churches in Germany, along with the Dresden Frauenkirche and the St. Michael's Church, Hamburg.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 16 May 2026
Wolfgang Staudt · CC BY 2.0
Saarbrücken Castle is a Baroque château in Saarbrücken, the capital of Saarland. It is located in the district of Alt-Saarbrücken on the left bank of the Saar. Earlier, a medieval castle and a Renaissance castle stood on the same site.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 19 Jul 2026
Theater Saarbrücken, officially Saarländisches Staatstheater since 1971, is the state theatre of Saarland in its capital Saarbrücken, Germany. It has several divisions and offers annually around 30 new productions in around 700 events for more than 200,000 people. Its venues are Großes Haus, Alte Feuerwache, Congresshalle and sparte4.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 31 Aug 2026
LoKiLeCh · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 5 Aug 2026
Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0
The East Side Gallery memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree. It consists of a series of murals painted directly on a 1,316 m (4,318 ft) long remnant of the Berlin Wall, located near the centre of Berlin, on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 22 Aug 2026
Lklundin · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold. It consists of a 1.9-hectare site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 14 Aug 2026
Alexander Blum · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Museum Island is a museum complex on the northern part of Spree Island in the historic heart of Berlin, Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites in Europe.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 1 Sep 2026
Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Reichstag is a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin that is the seat of the Bundestag parliament. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the president of Germany.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 14 Aug 2026
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Tiergarten is a locality within the borough of Mitte, in central Berlin (Germany). Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, Tiergarten was also the name of a borough (Bezirk), consisting of the current locality (Ortsteil) of Tiergarten plus Hansaviertel and Moabit.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 10 Aug 2026
A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Main Tower is a 56-storey, 200 m (656 ft) skyscraper in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is named after the nearby Main river. The building is 240 m (787 ft) when its antenna spire is included.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 28 Mar 2026
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Museumsufer is the name of a landscape of museums in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, lined up on both banks of the river Main or in close vicinity. The centre is the art museum Städel. The other museums were added, partly by transforming historic villas, partly by building new museums, in the 1980s by cultural politician Hilmar Hoffmann.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 6 Jun 2025
DXR · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Römer is a medieval building in the Altstadt of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and one of the city's most important landmarks. The Römer is located opposite the Old St. Nicholas Church and has been the city hall (Rathaus) of Frankfurt for over 600 years.
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Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The museum is located at the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 photographs and more than 100,000 drawings and prints.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 May 2026
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The Elbphilharmonie, popularly nicknamed Elphi, is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 30 Aug 2026
Evgenii Salganik · CC BY 4.0
Hamburg City Hall is the seat of local government of Hamburg, Germany. It is the seat of the government of Hamburg and as such, the seat of one of Germany's 16 state parliaments. The Rathaus is located in the Altstadt quarter in the city center, at the Rathausmarkt square, and near the lake Binnenalster and the central station.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 22 Mar 2026
Arnoldius · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Miniatur Wunderland is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. It is located at the historic Speicherstadt in Hamburg and is one of the most popular and most visited sights in Germany.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 9 Aug 2026
Bildersindtoll · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Reeperbahn is a street and entertainment district in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's major red-light district. In German, it is also nicknamed die sündige Meile and Kiez. The Reeperbahn Festival is among the largest club festivals.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 13 Aug 2026
Frank Nocke · CC BY 3.0
The Speicherstadt in Hamburg, Germany, is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations—oak logs, in this particular case. It is located in the port of Hamburg, in the HafenCity quarter, and was built from 1883 to 1927.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 20 Jul 2026
Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0
St. Michael's Church, colloquially called Michel, is one of Hamburg's five Lutheran main churches (Hauptkirchen) and one of the most famous churches in the city. St. Michaelis is a landmark of the city and is considered one of the most important Protestant Baroque churches in northern Germany.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 20 Aug 2026
Unknown · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 125,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology. It receives about 1.5 million visitors per year.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 9 Jul 2026
Burkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Englischer Garten is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. The creation began in 1789, supervised by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count Rumford, for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 Jul 2026
Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Hofbräuhaus am Platzl is a beer hall in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, originally built in 1589 by Bavarian Duke Maximilian I as an extension of the Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München brewery. The general public was admitted in 1828 by Ludwig I. The building was completely remodeled in 1897 by Max Littmann when the brewery moved to the suburbs.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 6 Oct 2025
Kiban · Public domain
The Nymphenburg Palace is a Baroque palace situated in Munich's western district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, in Bavaria, southern Germany. The Nymphenburg served as the main summer residence for the former rulers of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach. Combined with the adjacent Nymphenburg Palace Park it constitutes one of the premier royal palaces of Europe.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 18 Jul 2026
Original: Richard Bartz, Munich aka Makro Freak Derivative work: Crassic · CC BY-SA 2.5
The Viktualienmarkt is a food market and a square in the center of Munich, Germany. With the exception of Sundays and holidays, it has been held daily since 1807.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 3 Mar 2026
Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa) · CC BY-SA 2.0
Fernsehturm Stuttgart is a 216.61 m (710.7 ft) telecommunications tower in Stuttgart, Germany. It was the world's first telecommunications tower constructed from reinforced concrete, and is thus the original modernist architecture highrise needle tower with a "basket" atop that would be built worldwide in the following years.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 23 Aug 2026
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automobile museum in Stuttgart, Germany. It covers the history of the Mercedes-Benz brand and the brands associated with it. Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz brand and the international headquarters of the Mercedes-Benz Group.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 26 May 2026
Julian Herzog (Website) · CC BY 4.0
The Porsche Museum is an automobile museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart, Germany on the site of carmaker Porsche. It ranks second among the most visited museums in Stuttgart, behind the Mercedes-Benz Museum. In 2015, it attracted approximately 450,000 visitors.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 26 May 2026
RudolfSimon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Schlossplatz is the largest square in Stuttgart Mitte and home to the Neues Schloss which was built between 1746 and 1807. From its construction until the mid-1800s it was used as a military parade ground and not open to general public use. It stands next to two other popular squares in Stuttgart: Karlsplatz to the south and Schillerplatz to the south west.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 13 Mar 2026
BuzzWoof · Public domain
The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is an art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, it opened in 1843. In 1984, the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 26 May 2026
Selbst fotografiert von user:Enslin · CC BY 2.5
Wilhelma is a zoological-botanical garden in Stuttgart, southern Germany, located in the Bad Cannstatt district in the north of the city on the grounds of a historic castle. Wilhelma Zoo is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Baden-Württemberg, seeing more than 2 million visitors annually.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 17 Jul 2026
Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2002720818 · Public domain
The Schokoladenmuseum Köln was opened by Hans Imhoff on 31 October 1993. It is situated in the Cologne quarter of Altstadt-Süd on the Rheinauhafen peninsula. The exhibits show the entire history of chocolate, from its beginnings with the Olmecs, Maya, and Aztecs to contemporary products and production methods.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 11 Jul 2026
Johannes Fasolt · Public domain
Cologne Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 29 Aug 2026
Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Great Saint Martin Church is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Its foundations rest on remnants of a Roman chapel, built on what was then an island in the Rhine. The church was later transformed into a Benedictine monastery.
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Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Hohenzollern Bridge is a bridge crossing the river Rhine in the German city of Cologne. It crosses the Rhine at kilometre 688.5. Originally, the bridge was both a railway and road bridge.
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Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0
Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It holds many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 May 2026
Thomas Robbin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Albrecht Dürer's House is a Nuremberg Fachwerkhaus that was the home of German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer from 1509 to his death in 1528. The House lies in the extreme north-west of Nuremberg's Altstadt, near the Kaiserburg section of the Nuremberg Castle and the Tiergärtnertor of Nuremberg's city walls.
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Daderot · CC0
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, it houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day. The museum is Germany's largest museum of cultural history.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 26 May 2026
Unknown author · Public domain
The Nazi party rally grounds collectively describe a complex of megastructures and clearings which together occupy around 11 square kilometres (1,100 ha) of land to the southeast of Nuremberg, Germany. Six Nazi party rallies were held there between 1933 and 1938.
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Nuremberg Castle is a group of medieval fortified buildings on a sandstone ridge dominating the historical center of Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany.
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The original uploader was AlterVista at German Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0
St. Lorenz is a medieval church of the former free imperial city of Nuremberg in southern Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Lawrence. The church was badly damaged during the Second World War and later restored.
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