All cities of Germany

Altenkirchen is a town and a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approx. 40 km east …

Altheim is a municipality in the district Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located between Schemmerhofen and Ingerkingen. It has about 630 …

Altkirchen is a German municipality in the Thuringian landkreis of Altenburger Land and belongs to the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of the same name. …

Bergen, the ‘Gateway to the Fjords’, is Norway’s second city and one of its most attractive. It has a delightful natural setting, with seven imp …

After a fifty-year lull, Berlin is back – back as the capital of a reunified Germany and back as one of Europe’s greatest cities. After World War …

The history of Bonn goes back beyond the Stone Age and archaeological findings prove that people have lived in Bonn for more than 12,000 years. The fo …

Cologne was founded by the Romans in 38 BC. The Roman governor for Gallia, to which the Rhineland belonged at the time, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, indu …

Early Times First traces of settlements in the area of the Elbe valley go back to the neolithic period. In the 6th century BC Germanic settl …

Düsseldorf’s development from an insignificant farming settlement on the banks of the Düssel into a lively cosmopolitan metropolis bursting with cu …

Erfurt is a city in central Germany. It is the capital of the state of Thuringia, a manufacturing centre with a population of 196,500. Erfurt …

Essen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Located on the Ruhr river, it ranks as the second largest city of the Ruhr area and as the 8th lar …

The fifth biggest city in Germany, Frankfurt on Main (Frankfurt am Main) has gained enormous economic power (both within Germany and abroad) thanks to …

There is no firm evidence of settlement in Hamburg before the 4th century AD. Most city histories use 810 as their starting point, when Charlemagne bu …

Hamelin (German: Hameln) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Hamelin-Pyrmont. The Weser river runs through the to …

Hanover may have been a bit of late starter, with the city not founded until the 12th century and not coming to prominence until the 17th, but it has …

Traces of human existence around Heidelberg date from the dawn of history: 500,000 years ago the Homo heidelbergensis lived in this area and from the …

During efforts to resurrect the centre of Leipzig to its former glory in the 1960s, traces of 6,000 year-old human settlement were discovered in the a …

It took three attempts to build the city of Lübeck, attempts which have lasted until today. The first settlement was called Liubice which means the b …

Located to the north of the Bavarian Alps, on the River Isar, Munich (München) is a city that combines proud provincialism with international glamour …

The history of Nuremberg is one in which both the fortunes and the misfortunes of German history can be readily traced. This is a city that has been c …