Download the Lonely Planet Germany - Central Germany (PDF Chapter)
Germany - Central Germany (PDF Chapter)
Crucial to its culture, science, industry and history, Mittel-deutschland is Germany’s beating heart. It is studded with cities whose historical importance matches their modern vitality, ridged by low, forested mountains that loom large in German mythology; and edified by museums, cathedrals and castles without number.
- delight in the baroque paradise of Kassel’s Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe or invoke your inner child at Grimmwelt
- climb up to the Zitadelle Petersberg to gaze out over beautifully preserved Erfurt
- walk in Luther’s footsteps in the historic university town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg, and in nearby Lutherstadt Eisleben
Coverage includes: Fairy-Tale Road, Hanau & Steinau, Fulda, Marburg, Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee, Kassel, Göttingen, Bad Karlshafen, Hamelin, Bodenwerder, Thu-ringia, Erfurt, Weimar, Gotha, Kyffhäuser Mountains, Mühlhausen, Thuringian Forest & the Saale Valley, Eisenach, Jena, Harz Mountains, Bad Harzburg, Brocken & Torfhaus, Goslar, Quedlinburg, Thale, Wernigerode, Saale-Unstrut Region, Freyburg, Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau-Rosslau, Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz, Halle, Lutherstadt Eisleben, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Magdeburg.
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