Sites and attractions in germany!?

Question

My brother and his girlfriend are coming to germany, and I would like to have some places to show them and take them.....I am in Mainz.....any sugestions???

They are here for 2 weeks!!!

:-) PS- my brother is really intrested in german history!

Answer 1

There are quite a few places.

1. Take a drive (or the bahn) to Munchen. Wonderful city with more history than you could imagine! From there you are in close proximity to many beautiful attractions and locations. You can visit 3 of Konig Ludwig II castles (Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau, and Linderhof) all south of Munchen in the Bavarian Alps.

2. Garmisch is a very beautiful town with some of the best scenery in the world. Also close to the castles.

3. Nurnberg and Rothenburg. Medieval and well worth the trip. I was stationed in Nurnberg for 3 years while in the army.

4. A little longer trip, but well worth it, is to Bertchesgaden in the southeastern part of the country. You can take him up to the Eagles Nest (or Kehlstein) for fantastics views of the Koenigsee and the surrounding Alps. I went last summer and it was amazing!

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Gegenbach ..Black Forest region it is very beautiful

Answer 3

Take them to the Rheingau along river Rhine for winetasting and  for yhe really nice little towns there and further down river Rhine with it´s castles. Up to Kloster Eberbach, where they did a lot of the shots of "The Name of the Rose", to Schloss Johannisberg for another glass of wine, to Trier with it´s roman ruins and a beautiful mainstreet. Just behind Trier is Luxemburg.

Talk to the turism office, you will get suggestions for the rest of the year!

Answer 4

My favorite site was in the church with Chagall windows-they are so pretty.  I also enjoyed the Guggenheim museum-it was free to see where all the first printing presses were used.

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Answer 5

www.frommers.com and look up the cities  check out cities near you.  I used to live in Wiesbaden.  I would suggest going to Nurnberg, Heidelberg, Munich or maybe Trier.

Answer 6

I lived in Darmstadt for a couple of years. About 10 minutes south of it is Burg Frankenstein. This is the castle that Mary Shelly based her novel off of. He was a real guy, who used to steal freshly buried bodies from eberstadt and darmstadt (neighboring towns) and try to bring them back to life. When he was caught, he started using potions on himself and poisoned himself.

The castle is of course in ruins, but it's still a beautiful place to visit. If you continue to travel south from there towards Heidelberg, there are plenty of other castle ruins (Auerbach, Alsbach and a few others) along the Bergstrasse, a road which runs parallel to the autobahn.

These castles were all built in a line down a ridge, and I'm not absolutely positive, but if I remember correctly, they were used as a line of defense against invaders. From each castle, you can see the next down the line. It's really cool.

That was one of my favorite places to visit while I lived there.

Darmstadt is about a 15-20 minute drive from Mainz, so you guys could make this a little daytrip.

Koln is about a 3 hour drive, but has a huge, beautiful gothic cathedral. And if you take the scenic route along the Rhine, there are cliffs along the river with vinyards and castles perched on top of them. The scenic route could add an hour or two onto your trip, but it's worth it.

Another pretty little place is Michelstadt in the Odenwald. It's probably a couple hours from you, but it's a picturesque little town in the middle of the woods. Very pretty.

Good luck. I hope you guys have fun.

Answer 7

Hamburg: best shopping, geat sights, great nightlife, theaters, opera ...wonderful city. A must ..from Hamburg take the train to Luebeck, Stade or Lueneburg. U will love these small old towns - and there are few American tourists.

Answer 8

Some GREAT places to see that aren't too far from Mainz.   How far are you willing to travel, and are these day trips or overnight trips?  Assuming day trips and a car:

Mainz:  The Gutenberg Printing Press.  the world's first printing press.  That's a pretty significant world history event, not to mention German history, so go see that if you haven't.  Plus, the Mainz church is impressive

-Rudesheim:  Just west of Mainz.  A great little wine town, and could be combined by a trip of the Rhine (too bad it's winter, or else you could do a river cruise).  Also, you could drive up the Rhine and stop at some castles if they are open (to do this, take A60 to Boppard and jump on the B9 north).  I'd skip heading west over to the Mosel river at this time of year, as the BEST site is Burg Eltz (look it up, it's a great place to see), but is closed for the winter...just an idea for spring

WORMS: Not too much here, but you said your brother likes history, and there are some historically significant things to see in Worms.  Probably less than 1 hour from Mainz.  Has world famous Lutheran history with Martin Luther (not where he did his protestant theses (essentially, the beginning of protestant christianity), but where he was called to account for them and ordered to retract them by the catholic church at the Diet of Worms in the 1500s). (oh yeah, I was raised Lutheran, so it was interesting to me) Very awesome church to see in town, too (I think unrelated to Luther, though). I think it's from 10th century or some time close. Also a pretty decent outdoor shopping district (though not worth driving to for just that, by any means, but something to do for an hour after you see the church and find the Martin Luther statue and see the neat church). Just something to do if you have a half day... It also has the oldest Jewish Temple in Germany. Get yourself to A67 and a while after you pass Darmstadt area, take exit 9 of A67 and follow B47 into the city.

Heidelberg:  historic castle, great nightlife.  

Do you like Christmas and/or midieval cities? ROTHENBURG: I'd say 2.5 hours or so from Mainz (East). It's a medieval city, almost perfectly preserved, complete with wall and ramparts surrounding the city that you can walk. It has the world famous Kathe-Wolfgart Christmas store, so find that near the town square. There's a pretty cool torture museum with a comprehensive collection of punishment devices from the middle ages. Don't miss that if you go; and it's not gross, just factual presentation of the way things were. You'll probably only see Japanese and Americans in the whole city, so it's probably the single biggest tourist town in all of Germany, but don't let that prevent you from going, as it's still a great time, despite that. It's also considered a stop on the "romantic road," so you can do some research on that if you want to include other stops. I usually just left really early on saturday morning to see rothenburg and then headed home in the evening, but there's a lot of hotels there as well. You'll take A3 east past Wurzburg and then A7 south to Rothenburg O.D.T (full name is Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber).