Sankt Augustin in the Rhineland

3 April 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Monastery of Divine Word Missionaries © Marcus Bentfeld

Monastery of Divine Word Missionaries © Marcus Bentfeld

Sankt Augustin is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the patron saint of the Divine Word Missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The Missionaries established a monastery near the current city centre in 1913. Sankt Augustin is situated about eight km north-east of Bonn and three km south-west of Siegburg.   read more…

Wipperfürth, the oldest town in the Bergisches Land

14 December 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Town Hall © J. Berger

Town Hall © J. Berger

Wipperfürth is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis of North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, about 40 km north-east of Cologne, and the oldest town in the Bergischen Land. Wipperfürth lies on the flow Wupper which is designated in the upper reaches to the east of the town Wipper.   read more…

The city of Bergisch Gladbach

13 December 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Konrad-Adenauer-Platz © Frank Vincentz

Konrad-Adenauer-Platz © Frank Vincentz

Bergisch Gladbach is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (district). Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river Rhine, approx. 10 kilometers east of Cologne.   read more…

The university city of Münster

27 September 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Bronze model of the inner city of Münster © Florian Adler

Bronze model of the inner city of Münster © Florian Adler

Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland. The city is best known as the location of the Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation, as the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years’ War in 1648, and as the bicycle capital of Germany.   read more…

Nordkirchen Castle, Versailles of Westphalia

30 May 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Architecture, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

Main building with Venus Island in front © Mbdortmund

Main building with Venus Island in front © Mbdortmund

Schloss Nordkirchen in the Gemeinde Nordkirchen in Kreis Coesfeld, Westphalia, Germany, built in 1703 to 1734, is known as the “Versailles of Westphalia” as it is the largest of the partly moated Wasserschlösser in that region. It was originally one of the residences of the Prince-bishops of Munster.   read more…

Königswinter on River Rhine

17 May 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Environment Reading Time:  5 minutes

Federal Guesthouse Petersberg © Tohma

Federal Guesthouse Petersberg © Tohma

Königswinter is a town and summer resort in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, with approximatly 40,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, opposite to Bonn, at the foot of the Siebengebirge and the Petersberg, which hosts the Federal Guesthouse on Petersberg where several national and international governmental events and conferences took and still take place.   read more…

Cologne – 2000 years of history

29 April 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Architecture, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  7 minutes

Rhine Garden © Raimond Spekking/cc-by-sa-3.0

Rhine Garden © Raimond Spekking/cc-by-sa-3.0

Cologne is Germany’s fourth-largest city (after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich), and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.   read more…

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