Kehl on the Rhine

25 March 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Kehl © Uwe Barghaan/cc-by-3.0

Kehl © Uwe Barghaan/cc-by-3.0

Kehl is a town in southwestern Germany in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the river Rhine, directly opposite the French city of Strasbourg. In 1338 the first permanent bridge between Kehl and Strasbourg was completed. In 1678 the city was taken over by France, as it was considered to be part of the defence system of Strasbourg. Hence the village was transformed into a fortress in 1683 by the French architect Vauban.   read more…

Salem Castle School

4 December 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  4 minutes

Schloss Salem © F. Bucher/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

Schloss Salem © F. Bucher/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

Salem Castle School is a boarding school with campuses in Hohenfels, Salem and Überlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany. It is considered one of the most elite schools in Europe.   read more…

Calw in the Black Forest

7 November 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Market Square © Softeis

Market Square © Softeis

Calw is a town in the middle of Baden-Württemberg in the south of Germany, capital of the district Calw. It is located in the northern Black Forest and is approximately 18 kilometers south of Pforzheim and 33 kilometers west of Stuttgart.   read more…

Büsingen on the Upper Rhine

24 September 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Büsingen am Hochrhein © Prekario

Büsingen am Hochrhein © Prekario

Büsingen am Hochrhein, commonly known as Büsingen, is a German town (7.62 km2 or 2.94 sq mi) entirely surrounded by the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen and, south across the Rhine, by the Swiss cantons of Zürich and Thurgau. It has a population of about 1,450 inhabitants. Since the early 19th century, the town has been separated from the rest of Germany by a narrow strip of land (at its narrowest, about 700 m wide) containing the Swiss village of Dörflingen.   read more…

Hohenzollern Castle

24 August 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  6 minutes

Corona Prusia - Prussian King's Crown (Hohenzollern Castle Collection) © Mirko Junge/cc-by-sa-3.0

Corona Prusia – Prussian King’s Crown (Hohenzollern Castle Collection) © Mirko Junge/cc-by-sa-3.0

Hohenzollern Castle is a castle about 50 kilometers (31 mi) south of Stuttgart. It is considered the ancestral seat of the Hohenzollern family, which emerged in the Middle Ages and eventually became German Emperors. The castle is located on top of Mount Hohenzollern at an elevation of 855 meters (2,805 ft) above sea level, 234 m (768 ft) above surrounding Hechinge and nearby Bisingen to the south, both located at the foothills of the Swabian Alps. It was first constructed in the first part of the 11th century.   read more…

The Europa-Park

25 May 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Greece © Jonaslange/cc-by-sa-3.0

Greece © Jonaslange/cc-by-sa-3.0

Europa-Park is the largest theme park in Germany and a second most popular theme park resort in Europe. Having 4.5 million visitors in 2011, it is the most popular seasonal theme park in the world and the second most visited theme park in Europe after Disneyland Paris. Europa-Park is located in Rust, in the south-west of Germany between Freiburg and Strasbourg, France. It is usually open from just before Easter until the beginning of November (summer season) and from the end of November to the second week in January (winter season).   read more…

Ulm on the Danube

27 June 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

© Cholo Aleman

© Cholo Aleman

Ulm is a city in the federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 (2006), forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district. Ulm, founded around 850, is rich in history and traditions as a former Free Imperial City (German: freie Reichsstadt). Today, it is an economic centre due to its varied industries, and it is the seat of a university (University of Ulm, founded in 1967). Internationally, Ulm is primarily known for having the church with the tallest steeple in the world, the Gothic minster (Ulm Minster) and as the birthplace of Albert Einstein.   read more…

Schönau in the Black Forest, Germany’s ‘Electricity Rebels’

21 December 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Environment Reading Time:  5 minutes

Bergkirche - Protestant Church © Taxiarchos228

Bergkirche – Protestant Church © Taxiarchos228

Schönau im Schwarzwald is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 35 kilometres (22 mi) northeast of Basel, Switzerland, and 23 kilometres (14 mi) south of Freiburg. Schwarzwald transliterally is defined as “Black Forest” in German.   read more…

Walldorf in the Rhine-Neckar district

21 September 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Museum Astorhaus © Heeeey

Museum Astorhaus © Heeeey

Walldorf is currently probably best known as the city that headquarters the world’s third largest software company SAP, but it is also the birthplace of the millionaire John Jacob Astor, at the time of his death the wealthiest man in the United States. Astor’s descendants of the Astor family perpetuated the North-Americanized version Waldorf in the names of The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Waldorf salad. It is also the origin of the name of the Waldorf-Astoria-Zigarettenfabrik and through it Waldorf education.   read more…

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