The best-known and most visited concentration camp memorial sites in Germany are Dachau (Munich), Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg (Berlin), Buchenwald (Weimar), and Bergen-Belsen (Celle / Hannover / Hamburg).
Rostock-Laage Airport (RLG) is very convenient but has very few flights so most passengers to the Baltic Coast need to fly via Berlin or Hamburg. Flughafen Rostock-Laage (RLG) is located between the Hansestadt Rostok on the Baltic Coast and Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Northern Germany. Currently, only a few weekly flights arrive here from mostly … Read more
Hanover Airport (HAJ) has cheap flights and discount airfares on low-cost airlines to German, Mediterranean, East European, and Central Asian destinations.
Visit the Doberan Minster (Doberaner Münster) in Northern Germany to see one of the finest Brick Gothic churches with important artworks in the magnificent original medieval interior. The Doberaner Münster is an important former monastery church located near Rostock in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northern Germany. It is one of the most impressive sights on the European … Read more
The brick Gothic St Marienkirche in Güstrow in Germany is famous for its magnificent Borman winged altar retable with 181 painted wood-carved figures. St Mary’s parish church in Güstrow near Rostock in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northern Germany is a large brick Gothic hall church. Although part of the church dates from the early 16th century, it … Read more
Ernst Barlach’s Floating Angel (Der Schwebende) in the Dom zu Güstrow brick gothic church is one of the best-known war memorial sculptures in Germany. The Güstrower Dom near Rostock in northern Germany is a large mostly 13th-century brick Gothic former collegiate church. The interior is filled with art with the Angel war memorial statue by … Read more
The German Tank Museum (Deutsches Panzermuseum) has around 150 tanks and related vehicles on display from the earliest examples to modern NATO equipment. The German Tank Museum (Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster) explains the history and development of tanks from the First World War to the present. The museum has around 150 tanks and similar armored vehicles … Read more
The wood-carved Bordesholm Altar and marble cenotaph of Danish King Fredrick I are art highlights in the brick Gothic St Peter’s Cathedral in Schleswig. St. Petri Dom zu Schleswig (Cathedral of St Peter at Schleswig) is one of the most important and most impressive historic buildings in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It combines Romanesque and … Read more
The Hedeby Viking Museum and reconstructed houses at Haithabu in northern Germany is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site one of the top sights to see in Schleswig-Holstein. The Wikinger Museum Haithabu (Hedeby Viking Museum) is one of the most important archaeology museums in Germany with an important collection of items dating from the Viking period. … Read more
The Neumünster McArthur Glen Designer Outlet shopping mall offers shoppers big savings on brand name fashion in factory stores located within easy reach of Hamburg, Kiel, Lübeck, and the Danish border. The Neumünster McArthur Glen Designer Outlet Mall is the largest factory shopping center in Northern Germany. Bargain hunters may save 30 to 70% off … Read more
Lübeck is famous for its UNESCO-listed old town with brick-Gothic architecture including the Marienkirche, Rathaus (Town Hall), and Holstentor, the Buddenbrook House, and Niederegger marzipan.
Altstadt Lübeck is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage-listed site famous for the finest brick-Gothic architecture in Germany. However, Lübeck has many sights in addition to the Marienkirche, Rathaus, Holstentor, and Buddenbrookhaus.
Bargain shoppers save on brand-name fashion labels at the factory stores in the Designer Outlet Soltau village mall between Hamburg and Hannover in Germany. The outlet is directly off the autobahn A7 (exit Soltau Ost) making it an easy stopover to pick up bargains on designer clothes when traveling in northern Germany. The factory stores … Read more