Browse Points of Interest in Germany

First, it's just the Christmas music, climb a little later the alluring scents of sausages, mulled wine and roasted almonds on the nose. And then when you get near the imposing cathedral of Trier, one stands in the middle of one of the most beautiful… [ + ] More Details

A tour of the Franconian Open Air Museum District Middle Franconia in Bad Windsheim is like a trip through 700 Years Frankish everyday history. Over 100 original furnished houses to show how the rural population in Franken then has lived and worked.… [ + ] More Details

Every year - in the first week of december - the university town of Tübingen will become Germany’s biggest chocolate wonderland with atmospheric lighting, sophisticated art and consummate taste – a holistic “chocosophy” for everyone! The… [ + ] More Details

The European Bread Museum in Ebergötzen is a specialist museum and houses the cultural-historical collection, "From Grain to Bread" from the over 8,000-year history and development of agriculture, grain processing and bread. Beginning with the first… [ + ] More Details

The unique museum is dedicated to the 6,000-year history of bread as an indispensable basis of human culture and civilisation. It owes its creation and growth to the decades-long personal commitment of Willy Eiselen (1896-1981) and his son Hermann… [ + ] More Details

In 1889 a briquette factory named Herrmannschacht by Richard Herrmann started operating. The technical equipment was manufactured by another famous Zeitz enterprise called Zemag. All of the briquette presses, dryers and other machines… [ + ] More Details

The Underground System is one of the tourist attractions of the over 1000 year old former Bishop and Duke town of Zeitz. You can find these passages and vaults in the center of the upper part of town and also on the hillsides of the oldest part of… [ + ] More Details

Schloss Moritzburg (1657-78), a Baroque palace built on the ruins of an earlier episcopal castle, is now a museum (history of the town, mining in the Zeitz-Weissenfels area, pictures, glass, pewter, porcelain, etc.). It also contains the German Museum… [ + ] More Details

Late Gothic period hall church; construction started in 1377 and was finished in 1480 with the erection of a church tower. Elaborate ornamentation, especially in the arches of the doorways (figures of Adam and Eve by Tilman Riemenschneider – the… [ + ] More Details

The Stations of the Cross leading to this baroque masterpiece of a church (built 1748-1750 by Balthasar Neumann) are worth the trip all by itself. The stairs leading to the church are lined by plane trees and the stations are all pieces of art. The… [ + ] More Details