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Optisches Museum
Carl Zeiss began building rudimentary microscopes in 1846 and, with Ernst Abbe’s help, developed the first scientific microscope in 1857. Together with Otto Schott, the founder of Jenaer Glasswerke (glass works), they pioneered the production of optical precision instruments, which
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Jüdische Mädchenschule
A 1920s former Jewish Girls School reopened in 2012 as a cultural and culinary centre in a sensitively restored New Objectivity structure by Alexander Beer. Two galleries – CWC and Michael Fuchs – and the Museum The Kennedys have set up shop in the former classrooms, while the grou
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Robert
Romantic era composer Robert Schumann was born and spent the first seven years of his life in this rather modest house. Exhibits trace the various life stations of the man who suffered from mental illness later in life and died in an institution at age 46. A highlight is the piano
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Pfahlbauten
Awarded Unesco World Heritage status in 2011, the Pfahlbauten represent one of 11 prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Based on the findings of local excavations, the carefully reconstructed dwellings catapult you back to the Stone and Bronze Ages, from 4000 to 850 BC. A spi
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Goethe Haus
No other individual is as closely associated with Weimar as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who lived in this town from 1775 until his death in 1832, the last 50 years in what is now the Goethe Haus . This is where he worked, studied, researched and penned Faust and other immortal work
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Wollheim Memorial
About 50m from the southwest corner of the IG-Farbenhaus building (to the left as you approach the main entrance) stands the Wollheim Memorial in a little pavilion marked ‘107984’ (Norbert Wollheim’s prisoner number). Inside you can watch 24 masterfully done video testimonials, a f
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Schloss Wilhelmsburg
Overlooking the town, the late-Renaissance Schloss Wilhelmsburg was conceived by Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen as a hunting lodge and summer residence in the 1580s. Since then, it has largely kept its original design, with lavish murals and stucco decorating most rooms, of which t
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Museum Hamelin
Many of Hamelin’s finest buildings were constructed in the Weser Renaissance style, which has strong Italian influences. Today two of the best provide the location for the town’s revamped museum, which has an excellent permanent exhibition on regional history from the earliest time
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Viktualienmarkt
Fresh fruit and vegetables, piles of artisan cheeses, tubs of exotic olives, hams and jams, chanterelles and truffles – Viktualienmarkt is a feast of flavours and one of central Europes finest gourmet markets. The market moved here in 1807 when it outgrew the Marienplatz and many o
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Rathaus Köpenick
With its frilly turrets, soaring tower and stepped gable, Rathaus Köpenick exudes a fairy-tale quality, but is actually more famous for an incident back in 1906. An unemployed cobbler, costumed as an army captain, marched upon the town hall, arrested the mayor, confiscated the city
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Landesmuseum
Behind the stone bulwarks, youll find a DJH hostel, two restaurants and the Landesmuseum , with exhibits on the regions economic history, photography and August Horch, founder of the Audi automotive company.
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Markgräfliches Opernhaus
Designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, a famous 18th-century architect from Bologna, Bayreuths opera house is one of Europes most stunningly ornate baroque theatres. Germanys largest opera house until 1871, it has a lavish interior smothered in carved, gilded and marbled wood. However
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Grevenburg
The Grevenburg castle, built in the mid-1300s, sits high in the craggy hills above Trarbach, with incredible valley views. Because of its strategic importance, it changed hands 13 times, was besieged six times and was destroyed seven times – no wonder that two walls are all that re
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Danevirke Museum
Northern Germany has its own version of the Great Wall of China: the Dannewerk, a 30km-long earth-and-stone wall that stretched across todays Schleswig-Holstein and protected the southern border of the Danish kingdom. A surviving section of the wall, which was maintained roughly fr
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Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie was the principal gateway for foreigners and diplomats between the two Berlins from 1961 to 1990. The only direct Cold War–era confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union took place right here when tanks faced off shortly after the Wall went up, nearly trig
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Ehekarussell Brunnen
At the foot of the fortified Weisser Turm (White Tower; now the gateway to the U-Bahn station of the same name) stands this large and startlingly grotesque sculptural work depicting six interpretations of marriage (from first love to quarrel to death-do-us-part), all based on a ver
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Art Nouveau Department Store
This architectural stunner is centred on a galleried atrium accented with wooden balustrades, floating staircases and palatial chandeliers and lidded by an ornately patterned glass ceiling. It is currently undergoing renovation and is due to reopen as a department store in 2016, bu
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Geburtshaus
The Geburtshaus is the simple but pretty Bavarian home where Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born in 1927 and lived for the first two years of his life before his family moved to Tittmoning. The exhibition kicks off with a film (in English) tracing the pontiff’s e
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Diplomatenviertel
The Brothers Grimm were among the 19th-century intellectuals living in the quiet villa-studded colony south of the Tiergarten, which evolved into the capitals embassy quarter in the 1920s. After WWII the obliterated area remained in a state of quiet decay while the embassies all se
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Völkerschlachtdenkmal
Half a million soldiers fought – and one in five died – in the epic 1813 battle that led to the decisive victory of Prussian, Austrian and Russian forces over Napoleon’s army. Built a century later near the killing fields, the Monument to the Battle of the Nations is a 91m colossus
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