The Wartburg, built in the 11th century as a medieval hilltop castle by the Landgrave of Thuringia near Eisenach, advanced to become a courtly center in the High Middle Ages. The ideal castle is inextricably linked with the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach and the reformer Martin Luther, who found shelter at the Wartburg in 1521…
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Classic Weimar (World Heritage)
As the center of German intellectual life in the 18th and early 19th centuries, according to hyperrestaurant, the small royal seat of Weimar in Thuringia set standards. In a unique concentration of leading poets, thinkers and scientists such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, Johann Gottfried Herder or Christoph Martin Wieland, Weimar gave…
Cologne Cathedral (World Heritage)
The Cologne Cathedral embodies the type of the High Gothic cathedral like hardly any other church building. The church was built from 1248 over a period of 600 years and completed in 1880. The landmark of Cologne with its two 157 m high towers has the largest church facade in the world with its west…
Bauhaus Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau (World Heritage)
Dessau and Weimar are closely connected with the so-called Bauhaus School (1919-1933), which gave architecture and design significant impulses in the 20th century. Numerous monuments such as the teaching buildings – the arts and crafts school in Weimar and the Bauhaus building in Dessau – or the so-called Masters’ Houses in Dessau document the ideas…
Messel Pit (World Heritage)
With over 40,000 finds, the fossil deposit is one of the most important of its kind. As a “window to prehistoric times”, it allows a unique look into the history of the earth around 47 million years ago. The fossils were exceptionally well preserved in the oil shale of the pit. The best preserved finds…
Völklinger Hütte (World Heritage)
The Völklinger Hütte, which was closed in 1986, is the most important completely preserved ironworks in the world. For a century, the hut determined the life of the people and the development of the city on the Saar. Today the industrial cathedral presents itself as a center for art and industrial culture. Völklinger Hütte: facts…
Quedlinburg (World Heritage)
Quedlinburg presents itself with its more than 1300 half-timbered houses and angular old town streets from eight centuries like a picture book of the Middle Ages. The town in the northern Harz foreland is dominated by the castle and the collegiate church of St. Servatius, consecrated in 1021. Quedlinburg: facts Official title: Collegiate church, castle…
Maulbronn Monastery Complex (World Heritage)
The former Cistercian Abbey of Maulbronn was built in the 12th century and is one of the few completely preserved medieval monasteries north of the Alps. The center of the complex is the Romanesque monastery church with the monastery courtyard as well as various commercial and residential buildings. The late Gothic fountain house is the…
Old Town of Bamberg (World Heritage)
The city, built on seven hills, has the largest intactly preserved old town ensemble in Germany according to payhelpcenter. A thousand years of architecture are visible in today’s cityscape of the Franconian imperial and bishop’s city. The total work of art is dominated by the four towers of the imperial cathedral with its world-famous Bamberg…
Lorsch Abbey (World Heritage)
The former Benedictine abbey was first documented in 764 and existed until the 16th century. The gate hall (Königshalle) is one of the few examples of Carolingian architecture. The remains of the Romanesque basilica and the medieval monastery are reminiscent of the time when Lorsch was an important religious and cultural center in Europe, also…