Places to visit in Germany
I asked in a German forum what places in Germany I should show a foreigner so that she/he would get a good impression of Germany - here are the answers:
- Remains of the Berlin wall and the Brandenburger Tor. That is German history!
- The Hamburg Habor - one of the largest in the world and very interesting to visit. You can go for a boat trip and visit older and newer parts. Besides you can eat great fish, visit the Reeperbahn (red-light district) and at Sundy morning very early you can visit the fish market.
- Burg Frankenstein
- Large cities like Frankfurt am Main - with a great skyline, lots of banks and a large airport (the largest in Germany).
- The diversity of Germany - large cities with skyscrapers like Frankfurt am Main, the Oktoberfest in Munich, the Black Forest - Schwarzwald between Karlsruhe and Freiburg - …
- The Lüneburger Heide - moorland - near Hannover (south) or Hamburg (north)
- Islands like Sylt (North Sea), Rügen (Baltic Sea) or Helgoland (North Sea)
- Cities at the Rhine like Köln - Cologne
- Cultural and historical highlights in Dresden and Berlin
- Ruhrpott - large industrial area former coal minig area around Dortmund, Essen, Bochum
- The Düsseldorfer Altstadt - Old Town
- The Münchner Biergärten - beer gardens in Munic or the Oktoberfest
- Wattenmeer - the wadden sea (North Sea)
- The Alpes - Zugspitze or Watzmann
- Europapark in Rust - a fun park
- A boat trip on the Rhein - Rhine - e.g. from St.Goar (Loreley) to Koblenz (Deutsches Eck) along lots of old castles and timbered towns like Boppard
- Classics like Heidelberg, Rüdesheim am Rhein or Rothenburg ob der Tauber
- The Elbsandsteingebirge (Sächsische Schweiz) near Dresden
- The Eifel - near Köln - Cologne - or Aachen
- The Harz - near Hannover, Braunschweig, Göttingen, Goslar
- The Externsteine, the Hermannsdenkmal, the Westfalian open-air museum - near Paderborn, Detmold
- Freiberg in Sachsen - Saxonia - with mining museum and chathedral with Silbermannorgel
- Fair-Town Leipzig
- The Thüringer Wald with great nature and cultur Weimar, Erfurt
- The Spreewald near Berlin
- The Brocken - highest mountain of the Harz, Quedlinburg and Wernigerode
- Berlin and Potsdam with its castles and parks
- The Müritz and the lakes
- Stralsund and Usedom (Baltic Sea) as well as Rügen and Hiddensee (Baltic Sea)
- Bodensee - the largest German lake - and Schwarzwald - Black Forest
- A reasonable pub in the Ruhrgebiet e.g. in Gelsenkirchen
- Perhaps a soccer game in Dortmund or "auf Schalke" (Gelsenkirchen) or in Munich - read my Germany and Soccer page
- old University towns like Heidelberg, Tübingen or Marburg
- great castles like Neuschwanstein near Munich, Burg Elz near Koblenz, the castles im Münsterland like Nordhausen, Raesfeld, Lembeck
- surely my wonderful :-) hometown Paderborn