Germany - tourist attractions (page 6)

	Grüneburgpark	The Grüneburgpark is a park in the Westend district of Frankfurt, whose name derives from the "Green castle", which used to stand on the site from the 14 century. In 1789 the banker Peter Heinrich von Bethmann Metzler acquired the property and designed the park. In the following years the great thin...
	Hackesche Höfe	The Hackesche Höfe is a notable courtyard complex situated adjacent to the Hackescher Markt in the centre of Berlin. The complex consists of eight interconnected courtyards, accessed through a main arched entrance at number 40 Rosenthaler Straße. The complex was designed in the Jugendstil (or Art N...
	Aachen Central Station	Aachen Central Station (Aachen Hauptbahnhof) is the railway station for the city of Aachen, in the far west of Germany near the Dutch and Belgian border. It is the largest of the four currently active Aachen stations, and is integrated into the long-distance network. A station at Aachen was first o...
	Weissenhof Estate	The Weissenhof Estate or Weissenhof Settlement (Weißenhofsiedlung) is a housing estate built for exhibition in Stuttgart in 1927. It was an international showcase of what later became known as the International style of modern architecture. The estate was built for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition...
	Doberan Abbey	Doberan Abbey (Kloster Doberan) is a former Cistercian monastery in Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The church continues in use as Doberan Minster (Doberaner Münster). After the conversion to Christianity of the Wendish prince Pribislav, Doberan was the first monastery founded in Meck...
	Castle Frankenstein	Frankenstein Castle is a hilltop castle about 5 km south of Darmstadt in Germany. Modern claims of the castle having an influence on the work of Mary Shelley remain controversial. Before 1250, Lord Konrad II. Reiz von Breuberg erected Frankenstein Castle and since named himself von und zu Frankenst...
	Eltz Castle	Burg Eltz is a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier, Germany. It is still owned by a branch of the same family that lived there in the 12th century, 33 generations ago. The Rübenach and Rodendorf families' homes in the castle are open to the public, ...
	Blutenburg Castle	Blutenburg Castle is an old ducal country seat in the west of Munich, Germany, on the banks of river Würm. The castle was built between two arms of the River Würm for Duke Albert III, Duke of Bavaria in 1438–39 as a hunting-lodge, replacing an older castle burned down in war. Albert's son, Duke Sig...
	Satzvey Castle	Satzvey Castle (Burg Satzvey) is a tipical medieval water castle built in the twelfth century, which is located on the north-eastern edge of the Eifel mountains in Mechernich (district Satzvey) in Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). Among the experts, is considered the best preserved water...
	Commerzbank Tower	Commerzbank Tower is a 56- storey, 259 m (850 ft) skyscraper in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. An antenna spire with a signal light on top gives the tower a total height of 300 m (980 ft). It is the tallest building in Frankfurt am Main, the tallest building in Germany and t...