Architecture

On the occasion of the cross-frontier Garden Show in Kehl and Strasbourg 2004, the pedestrian and cyclist bridge "Passerelle des deux Rives" across the Rhine was built.

The Bad Friedrichshall salt mine is now a visitor mine. A permanent exhibition commemorates the forced labor of the prisoners of the nearby concentration camp.

The airlift memorial at Frankfurt Airport is the counterpart to the memorial in Berlin. Both are in memory of the incredible efforts to supply the former capital from the air following its isolation after the war.

Was heute aussieht wie ein beschauliches Fachwerkdorf, ist tatsächlich eine im frühen 19. Jahrhundert strategisch geplante Werksanlage.

The Schöffer memorial in Gernsheim honours the co-inventor of letterpress printing. Peter Schöffer was born in this Rhine-side town in 1425.

Heute ist die Kokerei Hansa ein Architektur- und Industriedenkmal, das dir mit ihren hohen Türmen und gigantischen Maschinen faszinierende Einblicke in die vergangene Geschichte der Schwerindustrie gibt.

Die Schiffsbrücke Wuppermündung in Leverkusen-Rheindorf überbrückt die alte Wuppermündung bei Rheinstromkilometer 703. Ein technisches Unikat, denn sie besteht, durch einen Steg verbunden, aus drei Schiffen.

The monumental Hall of Liberation, one of the most significant German buildings of the 19th century, is to be found atop the Michelsberg hill near Kelheim. The viewing platform offers a panoramic view of the Altmühl valley.

Neuendettelsau was first mentioned in written records in AD 1298. Through the work of the pastor Wilhelm Löhe, the town underwent a profound change from 1837 onwards.

Ornbau, the small town on Europe’s Continental Divide, is one of the smallest towns in Bavaria. The historic town wall with its 15th-century Diebsturm tower is almost completely intact.

The town of Rehau is the only urban planning model town in Bavaria. Its history goes back to a blaze in 1817 in which the whole town was destroyed within a very short time.

The impressive Walhalla in Donaustauf is a national hall of fame featuring busts and commemorative plaques of important German individuals. Following 12 years of construction, it was opened by Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1842.

Weit über die Stadt hinweg schaut Kaiser Wilhelm I. aus 268 Metern Höhe. Das moderne Besucherzentrum der Stadt und die grandiose Aussicht machen das Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal – das zweitgrößte Denkmal in Deutschland – zu einem Besuchermagnet.