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The Darmstadt Artists' Colony The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony Travel Passports Baggage allowance Please ensure your 10 year British Passport is not We advise you to check the baggage allowances out of date and is valid for a full three months carefully as you are likely to be charged the excess beyond the duration of your visit. EU, Andorra, if you exceed the weight limit. Maximum weights Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino or Switzerland for single bags apply. valid national identification cards are also acceptable for travel to Germany. With British Airways your ticket includes one hold bag of up to 23kg plus one cabin bag no bigger than Visas 56 x 45x 25cm including handles, pockets and British and EU passport holders are not required to wheels, and a personal bag (handbag or computer have a visa. case) no bigger than 45 x 36 x 20cm including handles, pockets and wheels. For all other passport holders please check the visa requirements with the appropriate embassy. For more information please visit www.britishairways.com German Embassy: 23 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PZ. Labels Tel: (020) 7824 1300. Fax: (020) 7824 1435. Please use the luggage labels provided. It is useful Web site: https://uk.diplo.de/ to have your home address located inside your Consulate: Visa applications have been outsourced suitcase should the label go astray. to VFS, please schedule an appointment via the blow website: Transfers http://www.vfsglobal.com/germany/uk/ On arrival in Frankfurt, transfer by coach to Opening hours: 0900-1130 Monday to Friday. Darmstadt (approx. 40 minutes) with an en-route visit to Waldspirale, continuing onwards to the Best Western Hotel in Darmstadt. Tickets Departure Tax Included with your detailed itinerary is an e-ticket, The departure tax is included in the price of your which shows your flight reference number. You will flight tickets. need to quote/show this reference number at the check-in desk and you will be issued with your Special Requests boarding pass. Online check-in is not available for If you haven’t already, please notify Travel Editions this booking. of any special requests as soon as possible to allow sufficient time to make the necessary Your Group Scheduled or Club Class ticket is non- arrangements. transferable and non-refundable. No refund can be given for non-used portions. Accommodation Best Western Plus variety and flavours to be found in Germany’s The 3-star Best Western Plus is a modern, first class Bäckerei. hotel, located in the city center in a quiet location. The shopping center, congress center and theatres Drink are within walking distance. The hotel has 77 The national drink is beer in its many forms. rooms, each equipped with telephone, safe, 32-inch Regional flavours vary from light pilsner-type lagers full HD flat screen television, mini-bar, tea and to Weißbier and heavy stouts. Try Darmstadt’s coffee making facilities and air conditioning. locally brewed Braustüb’l. Hesse is home to the Rheingau, a small but For more information visit their website innovative viniculture area, which predominantly https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/book/hotels-in- produces a fine Riesling. darmstadt/best-western-hotel- A local Hessian speciality is Apfelwein, a wine made darmstadt/propertyCode.95278.html from apples, that can be tasted pure, gespritzt (mixed with sparkling water), or served hot, as a delicious warming drink in the winter. Both white Riesling and Apple wines are an excellent Food accompaniment to the local Handkäse (sour curd Due to the region’s position in central Germany, cheese) Hessian cuisine is a fusion of northern and southern cooking, and based on locally available produce, Schnapps is another German favourite and comes with core ingredients including potatoes, bread, and flavoured with the likes of cherries, plums, locally grown vegetables, such as cabbage, onions, raspberries or pears. beans, asparagus. A typical dish would be meat, such as Kasseler Rippchen (smoked pork chops), Waiter or waitress service in restaurants is normal. served with potatoes, prepared in a variety of ways, Bars have table and/or counter service, although a vegetable, such as Sauerkraut or Zwiebelkuchen customers will often find that the drinks bought are (onion cake), topped with Grüne sosse (green simply marked down on a beer mat to be paid for sauce, often accompanies fish/meat, potatoes or on leaving. It is customary to tip bar and restaurant boiled eggs). staff, with an average 5-10%, rounding up the bill. Please note that it is not typical to leave the tip on The main meal of the day in Germany tends to be the table after paying the bill. More common is to lunch with a light snack eaten at about seven in the tell the waiter the amount including tip you want to evening. Breakfast served in homes and hotels pay before paying (via cash or credit card). usually consists of a boiled egg, cold cuts, cheese slices, jam, honey and a large variety of bread rolls. Meals included in the price of your holiday are: The typical German snack, grilled, fried or boiled Breakfast – daily sausages (Bratwurst) with a crusty bread roll or potato salad, are available from snack bars Dinner – one dinner at the hotel plus dinner with (Wurststand), butcher shops, bakers and cafés. wine at a local restaurant Bread rolls filled with sausage slices, hot meat filling (such as Leberkäse), pickled herring, gherkins and onion rings or cheese are also popular. Throughout Germany, cakes play an important role in the cuisine, and Hesse is no exception to this. Frankfurter Kranz (butter cake), Baumkuchen, Kreppel (donuts), Blechkuchen, Wasserweck, Streuselkuchen are mere examples of the unlimited Destination Darmstadt is near Frankfurt in southwest Germany. all 23 artists who worked on the Mathildenhoehe It’s known for the Mathildenhöhe district's art between 1899 and 1914. Downhill from the museum nouveau buildings, like the iconic Wedding Tower. lie seven of the eight artists‘ houses, which were Museum Künstlerkolonie features art nouveau show-cased during the first exhibition in 1901 (three glass, textiles and jewelry. Hessisches further exhibitions were held in 1904, 1908 and Landesmuseum displays art by Joseph Beuys. 1914). Northeast, the Messel Pit has Eocene-era fossils. To the south is the ruined Frankenstein Castle, which For more information about Artists Colony Museum, may have inspired the famed book. visit: https://www.darmstadt- Places of interest included in the tour: tourismus.de/en/visit/darmstadt-is-culture/cultural- institutions/pois/museum-kuenstlerkolonie- Waldspirale darmstadt/detail.html The Austria artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser is said to have once called straight The Wedding Tower lines “the devil’s tools.” Hundertwasser designed In honour of the marriage between Grand Duke many buildings throughout Austria and Germany, Ernst Ludwig and Princess Eleonore of Solms- but the Waldspirale is a loud testament to Hohensolms-Lich in 1905, the city wanted to give Hundertwasser’s hatred of straight lines and his the couple a gift. A previously expressed desire of allegiance to nature. Waldspirale translates to the Grand Duke’s to have an observation platform “wooded spiral,” and that is exactly what it is. The on the Mathildenhöhe was subsequently approved large spiraled building is topped with an incredible by the City Council in 1906. The Wedding Tower forest - beech, maple and lime trees grow on the designed by architect Joseph Maria Olbrich was undulating, twisting roof. Completed in 2000 – the thus erected in 1907/1908. same year Hundertwasser died – the Waldspirale has 105 apartments and more than 1000 windows. For more information about The Wedding Tower, visit: Not one of these windows are shaped the same in http://hochzeitsturm-darmstadt.eu/en/the-wedding- this “out of line” building, and many have “tree tower/the-tower.html tenants” growing right through them. Russian Church For more information about Waldspirale, visit: Built by the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/waldspirale Tsarina Alexandra (Princess Alix of Hesse- Darmstadt) from private funds. The deeply religious Mathildenhohe complex rulers did not want to renounce Russian Orthodox The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony refers both to a services during their family visits to Darmstadt. For group of Jugendstil artists as well as to the buildings this reason, the Tsar donated the funds for the in Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt in which these construction of the church on the Mathildenhöhe, artists lived and worked. The artists were largely which was therefore private property of the tsar's financed by patrons and worked together with family. The church was built as the first building on other members of the group who ideally had the Mathildenhöhe. Only later did the concordant artistic tastes. Jugendstilensemle, which was supported by Ernst Ludwig, come into being. The church is built in the For more information about Mathildenhohe, visit: style of the early Yaroslavsky churches. She stands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt_Artists%27_Col on earth, which had been specially transported ony from Russia to Darmstadt and came from all the provinces. With its gilded onion domes and richly Artist Colony Museum ornamented gilded roof ridges, this church is a gem The Ernst Ludwig House was designed as a studio of Russian church architecture in Germany. building by Joseph Maria Olbrich. Since 1990, the Museum Kuenstlerkolonie exhibits here the work of For more information about the Russian Church, visit: http://darmstadt-church.de/geschichte/baugeschichte/ Hessian State Museum Schlossmuseum, Darmstadt The art and natural history collections of the counts The original Palace Museum was established based and grand dukes are the foundation of today’s on an initiative of the last Grand Duke of Hesse and Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (HLMD, by Rhine in what were formerly the representation Hessian State Museum).
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