Which city I must visit if I go to Germany and what places I must see?

Question

Which city I must visit if I go to Germany and what places I must see?

Answer 1

Munich.

The Black Forest.

The Danube.

Berlin.

Answer 2

Don't forget Aachen (in the West, close to the belgian and dutch borders) and its DOM (their "Cathedral)

Answer 3

Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Dresden.......

Answer 4

Munich, Franckfort, Berlin, Koln, Hamburg, Baden/Baden,

Heidelberg, etc etc...

Answer 5

Wetheim......Very Bavarian town

Oberemagau......Where the Passion Play is performed every ten years.

Answer 6

I was recently in Germany. I have seen the many reponses to this question. One place that I didn't see.  I took a trip to visit my host-sister in Frankfurt am Oder. There are two Frankfurts in Germany. The Oder river is the border between Germany and Poland. The Marienkirche is one of very few churches in the world that has the story of the devil and how he fell from heaven. Also, the landscape in Eastern Germany is very beautiful. There are possibilities to paddle canoes and go swimming.

After, I was in Berlin. Berlin's new Hauptbahnhof or Train station is quite marvelous if you like architecture.

I was an exchange Student in Koeln, in 1997-98. My heart is always im Rheinland.

I also stopped in Bonn where my best friend attends the University there. The new German History Museum, however everything after the Second World War. It was absolutely wunderbar! Also, the headquarters for DHL or the German Post Office. This tall building changes colors in the evenings. The central building for the European United Nations.

One person need about two or three years to get the contact needed to get to know things about Germany.

Answer 7

I am heading back for my sixth trip to Germany, including a two month immersion visit two years ago with the Goethe Institut.  I love Germany.  Here are ten of my favorite places:

1.  Berlin - This really tops the list.  Berlin is fascinating because it has everything - great museums, great nightlife, great shopping, fantastic history,  world-class attractions, everything!  Favorite places include the former East neighborhoods of Mitte and Prenzenlauer Berg, the museums all over town, but mostly on Museumsinsel, the Jewish Museum, all of the sights associated with the Wall, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche - and I could go On and On. I spent a month there in 2005 and didn't even touch the surface.

2.  The Rhine (and to a lesser extent the Mosel) Valley - This is the birthplace of the Germanic spirit, the spiritual center of Germany.  This is where the Niebelungenlied is set, the great national myth of Germany, and where the Lorley's siren song is heard.  This is also home to some of the most beautiful scenery, and some of the best white wines in the world.  Stay in a half-timbered village like Bacharach, or wine town like Boppard, and enjoy the River and the people.  Here Germany is never strict, is never dour.  Here she laughs and dances.   And that, my friend, is her soul!  Don't miss the 900 year old, undamaged Burg Eltz, my favortie castle in Germany!  If you can, catch a K-D Steamship and travel the Rhine Gorge between Koblenz and Bingen.

3.  Munich and Bavaria - impossible to resist, Munich and Bavaria practically are Germany in the US conciousness, as incorrect as that is. But the alps are beautiful, the fantastic castles of King Ludwig are heartstopping, and the museums are fantastic.  Go to Englisher Garten and drink beer and listen to oom-pah bands (for just the price of the beer!)  Watch the Glockenspiel in Marienplatz! Visit the Deutsches Museum.  Go to the wonderful Baroque Weiskirche, or Ettaler Monastary.  Drive on the Romantic Road!

4.  The Wartburg/Eisenach - The Castle is a national treasure, and part of the history of the Reformation.  The history here is ancient.  This is also the town that birthed J.S. Bach, and the Bach Gebursthaus is worth a visit.

5.  Buchenwald, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen.  Names that should chill the heart.  The Holocaust is an inescapable fact of German history, and much as the country is beyond it, the memory of it is something that the world will always live with.  It's important to go see it.  This will not be a fun, you go to these not because you want to, but because you must.

6.  Dresden - Florence on the Elbe.  Baroque beauty soars and finds flower in this beautiful city, which was almost totally destroyed in one night during the end of WW II.  The restored Frauenkirche is a marvel, the still blackened Zwinger recalls those fantastic days.  There is far more to do and see in Dresden - other churches to visit, the Kreuzkirche with it's fantastic choir among them, the opera, and the like.  In addition you can indulge a little Ost-algie in a Trabi-tour.  And Dresden has one of Germany's best Weihnachtsmarkts

7.  Medieval Towns - Quendlenburg, Rothenburg ob du Tauber, and especially Goslar are my favorites.  Go walk around these ancient houses, still inhabited, and enjoy a day or two in this great history.  Goslar also has the Rammelsberg mine to offer - 1000 years of continuous mining history, and the palace that housed many Holy Roman Emperors.  

8.  Cologne/Bonn - I put them together, since they are easy to do from each other, only about 40 minutes apart by train, and because one of their unique features - Roman history - is a common one.  When Romans came and colonized Germany, they stopped at the west bank of the Rhine. The "savages" beyond were too much for them. But they built an incredible civilization in "Colonia" and Bonn. Visit the Romisches Museum in Cologne for that history.  Not to mention the most magnificent Gothic Cathedral in Germany. It is amazing, taking 800 years to build.  Just the stained glass there is amazing.  Bonn has Roman sites, too, and a central church with a beautiful courtyard and an incredibly carved organ not to be missed. But Bonn also has Ludwig von Beethoven as it's native son - and an excellent museum dedicated to this native son.  As a university town, it also has some great pubs and nightlife.  And of course Cologne's Carnival, which starts to great fanfare on 11/11 at 11:11 AM, and runs up until the day before Ash Wednesday, is one of the most colorful.

9.  The Schwartzwald - Cuckoo clock land, this place that murmers the fairy tales of yesteryear is a lovely place to come and relax, in the baths of Baden-Baden or the university town of Freiburg, or even on the shores of the Titisee - it matters not where you are, life is a little slower here, the scenery is a little richer.  

10 - Leipzig - I'm a classical music fan, and Bach's career as the Thomaskirche choirmaster brought me to this city in the former east, but just as fascinating is the history of the Wende, and the story of the freedom movement that started in the Nicholaikirche (also see the Gethsemanekirche in Berlin).  Add to this the Stasi museum, and some of the best shopping in Germany, and little Leipzig is a great place to visit.

Answer 8

Depends on the length of your stay

First: The big cities as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne

Second: Smaller but nicer towns like Münster, Freiburg, Heidelberg etc.