East of the famous German Luther-Town Wittenberg and just a few meters from the state border lies the "Linda" special we

Local Focus: For nearly 50 years, a monstrous concrete giant has stood lost in the woods by the beautiful Königsee lake,

Beelitz-Heilstätten offers endless corridors filled with frozen history, a treetop walk, and the chance to go for a bare

On the edge of an Old Town in Eastern Germany a stretch of street comprising 200-year-old Baroque houses lies in ruins.

Freddie Mercury of Queen turned 80 today. He's unforgettable.

Across the Baltic coast, East German enterprises based inland maintained holiday camps for their employees' children. M

A century ago, the first tender shoots of enthusiasm for aviation began to sprout in the small German town Köthen. Count

Three decades of vacancy and failed investment attempts had long since turned the imposing buildings of the malt factory

Hidden in an unassuming courtyard, just steps away from Europe’s oldest variety theater, stands a charred ruin that almo

Remnants of a socialist-era local recreation area have survived within a landscape in the Mansfeld region that was artif

Lying half-hidden in the undergrowth along the B 91 federal highway between the two east German cities Weißenfels and Ze

A hundred years ago, the architect Bernhard Sehring, originally from a village named Edderitz in Mid-Germany, built his

Once a premier luxury hotel catering to the "most exacting tastes" of the Roaring Twenties, and later an exclusive GDR h

For more than 1,000 years, a mill has stood on the banks of the Saale River in Germany. Following several major fires, t

One hundred years ago, the heirs of the Halle-based industrialist Carl Adolph Riebeck began exploiting the coal reserves

Discover the bizarre history of Hettstedt’s Heilandskirche—a forgotten East German church where Neo-Gothic architecture

Once a thriving industrial hub that exported printing inks worldwide, the historic, 1905-founded Hallische Farbenfabrik

It is a hidden dreamscape, reminiscent of the U.S. national park, Yellowstone. Yet this is Germany—a secluded corner sit

More than a century ago, an alternative utopian commune in Germany’s Harz Mountains drew prominent thinkers and artists

Deep in eastern Germany—hidden just beyond the border between Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia—stand the mysterious remains