A hobbyist using a metal detector in Brandenburg discovered a cross featuring Jesus inside a wheel that dates back roughly 1,000 years.
Germany wears its history openly. In its medieval towns, time doesn’t just linger, it breathes. Cobbled lanes twist past gabled houses, stone towers rise above red rooftops, and the scent of fresh ...
A United Nations committee designated a group of medieval Jewish buildings in Erfurt, Germany, as a World Heritage Site on Sunday. UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, ...
Update: Mennonite Life has an Intro to German Script class, 10-11:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The class will teach the basics of reading German script and include the chance to interpret 18th- and ...
Sailing solo through Germany’s storybook towns felt like stepping into a living fairytale—no rental car, no repacking—just castles, cathedrals and cobbled streets unfolding beyond my cabin window. The ...
Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but a few years back I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt. The capital of the German region of Thuringia, ...