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RÜDESHEIM – DrosselgasseRüdesheim's Drosselgasse has a long tradition. It first appears in the records in the 15th century. At that time the area was where the Rhine boatmen found board and lodgings. In the 18th and 19th centuries, inns and later seasonal wine tavern [...]
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RÜDESHEIM – NiederwalddenkmalThe Niederwald Monument was built in the years from 1877 to 1883. The 38 m high monument was meant to commemorate the Franco-German War of 1870-1871 and the re-establishment of the German Empire.It is located above the city of Rüdesheim in the [...]
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RUDESHEIM – SeilbahnIn order to do justice to the numerous visitors who wanted to see the Niederwalddenkmal in Rüdesheim, a rack railway was built in 1884. This was the forerunner of today's cable-car, which transported the visitors through the vineyards to the m [...]
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RUMELANGE – MNM Rumelange – LogoThe collection of the National Mining Museum includes tools, machinery and archive documents in relation to iron ore mining in Luxembourg from the mid-19th century until the 1980s. The largest part of the collection is on display in the mine's [...]
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RUMELANGE – MNM Rumelange Mine MuseumThe collection in the national mining museum consists of tools, machines, equipments and archive documents from the era of iron ore which lasted from the beginning of the19th century until the Eighties. The principal part of the collection is [...]
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SAARBURG – Saarburg WaterfallThe city of Saarburg, known for its Medieval character, its bell foundry and its wine, is situated in the hilly landscape of the Saar River Valley. Its natural and historical attractions impress many guests year after year.The waterfall on the [...]
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SAARBURG – Saarburg CastleThe lively history of the city of Saarburg and its castle began in 964 A.D. with the purchase of mount 'Churbelun' by Count Siegfried von Luxemburg.Of all the german castles built upon hills, the Saarburg is one of the oldest and loveliest. It [...]
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SABABURG – Tierpark SababurgSababurg Zoo (Tierpark Sababurg) is one of Europe's oldest and largest wildlife parks.The history of the Tierpark in Sababurg goes back to 1571. Set on 130 hectares (321 acres) of lush countryside, the park features dozens of animal exhibits a [...]
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SACHSEN – Anna Constantia Grävin von CoselAnna Constantia von Brockdorff (17 October 1680 – 31 March 1765), later the Countess of Cosel, was a German noblewoman and mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. Eventually he turned against her and exiled her t [...]
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SACHSEN – AUGUSTUSBURG – Hunting LodgeThe Hunting Lodge of Augustusburg was built from 1568 to 1572 above the town of the same name on a hill called the Schellenberg on the northern edge of the Ore Mountains of Germany. The castle, which is visible from afar, is a local landmark. [...]
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SANKT PETER-ORDING – Wilkommen in St. Peter OrdingSankt Peter-Ording is a popular German seaside spa and a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the only German seaside resort that has a sulphur spring and thus terms itself 'North Sea spa and sul [...]
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SAYN – Schloss SaynThis former mansion of the Herren von Reiffenberg dates back to the middle ages. In 1848 Prince Ludwig Adolph Friedrich von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg purchased the manor and had it turned into a neo-gothic palace by François Joseph Girard, w [...]
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SCHARFENSTEIN – Burg Scharfenstein – Karl StülpnerScharfenstein Castle lies on an elongated hill spur above the village of Scharfenstein, in the municipality of Drebach in the Ore Mountains of Saxony, Germany. The castle is one of 24 sites run by the state-owned State Palaces, Castles and Gar [...]
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SCHARNEBECK – 35 Jahre SchiffshebewerkThe Scharnebeck twin ship lift is on the Elbe-Seitenkanal, which connects the Elbe (at Artlenburg) and the Mittellandkanal (near Wolfsburg).The boat lift was built in Scharnebeck to the North-east of Lüneburg in 1974 and was at that time the l [...]
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SCHENGEN – Schengen AgreementThe Schengen Agreement is a treaty signed on 14 June 1985 near the town of Schengen in Luxembourg, between five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community. It was supplemented by the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreem [...]
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SCHERPENHEUVEL – BasiliekFor more than six centuries now the people of Scherpenheuvel have been venerating a miraculous statue of Mary. In 1605 the archduke and duchess Albrecht and Isabella gave this village the privileges of a city and instructed that a monumental c [...]
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SCHWANGAU – ColomanskircheThis church is dedicated to St Coloman of Stockerau, and is located in the village of Schwangau in southern Bavaria near the Austrian border, 1.5 km from the famous Neuschwanstein Castle of Ludwig II of Bavaria. St Coloman was an 11th-c. Irish [...]
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SCHWANGAU – MarienbrückeThe Marienbrücke (Mary’s Bridge) is a bridge over the Pöllat Gorge directly behind Neuschwanstein Castle. The bridge was named after Queen Marie. With the construction of the bridge by King Maximilian II over the Pöllat Gorge, he named it afte [...]
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SEEGEBIT MANSEFELDER LAND – Fundort Geiseltal – UrpferdA recently rediscovered sample of browncoal in the Geiseltalmuseum of the Martin-Luther-University in Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, Central Germany, which is labelled as gut content of an early horse has been studied together with the accompa [...]
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SEEVETAL – Nordseeheilbad St. Peter OrdingSt. Peter-Ording is situated on the North Sea coast, on the western tip of the Eiderstedt peninsula, approx. 45 km southwest of Husum. Part of the municipality lies in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park. Its characteristics includ [...]
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