4 PM Mauerfal Touristische Highlights GB
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
www.germany.travel Press information 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall – Highlights Nature and culture – flagship tourism projects 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall Frankfurt am Main, September 2019 – Thirty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German National Tourist Board (GNTB) has an unprecedented variety and quality of tourism services with which to promote Destination Germany around the world. Across the whole of Germany – in both the ‘old’ federal states of former West Germany and the ‘new’ states of the former GDR – tourism highlights have been created or improved that add to the ever-growing popularity of Germany as a travel destination. Federal state Examples of highlights Baden-Württemberg Mercedes Benz Museum Porsche Museum Kunsthalle art gallery in Mannheim Europa Park Bavaria BMW Welt in Munich Active holidays in the Alps and the Bavarian Forest Weltenburg Abbey Oberammergau Berlin Museum Island, UNESCO World Heritage site City Palace TV Tower Brandenburg Gate Deutsche Zentrale Telefon +49 69 97464-262 für Tourismus e. V. Telefax +49 69 97464-233 Beethovenstraße 69 [email protected] 60325 Frankfurt am Main www.germany.travel www.germany.travel Brandenburg Potsdam palaces and parks, UNESCO World Heritage site Barberini Museum in Potsdam Lusatian Lakeland Tropical Island Spree Forest and its waterways Bremen Harbour Worlds complex in Bremerhaven incl. Klimahaus and the German Emigration Centre UNIVERSUM Schlachte Embankment Hamburg Elbe Philharmonic Hall HafenCity Speicherstadt warehouse district, UNESCO World Heritage site Miniatur Wunderland model railway Hessen Frankfurt’s ‘new’ old quarter Grimm Worlds in Kassel Wilhelmshöhe Park, UNESCO World Heritage site Kellerwald-Edersee National Park, UNESCO World Heritage site, Mecklenburg-Western Schwerin Castle Pomerania Marinas Ozeaneum aquarium in Stralsund Warnemünde Rügen’s chalk cliffs Lower Saxony Schloss Dankern holiday park Papenburg shipyard Autostadt in Wolfsburg Harz Witches’ Trail Deutsche Zentrale Telefon +49 69 97464-262 für Tourismus e. V. Telefax +49 69 97464-233 Beethovenstraße 69 [email protected] 60325 Frankfurt am Main www.germany.travel www.germany.travel North Rhine-Westphalia #urbanana Zollverein coal mine, UNESCO World Heritage site Gehry Buildings, Düsseldorf Eifel National Park Rhineland-Palatinate Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park Geierley suspension bridge Ehrenbreitstein Fortress and cable car Contemporary wine boutiques in the Pfalz region Long distance walking trails: Eifelsteig, Moselsteig, Soonwaldsteig Saarland Völklingen Ironworks, UNESCO World Heritage site Saar Polygon Treetop walk/Saar Bow Bliesgau biosphere in the spring Saxony Dresden’s Church of Our Lady Royal Palace in Dresden Plagwitz district in Leipzig Elbe Sandstone Massif Saxony-Anhalt Luther’s Eisleben and Wittenberg, UNESCO World Heritage site Bauhaus Dessau, UNESCO World Heritage site Ferropolis industrial heritage Green Belt, Harz Schleswig-Holstein Haithabu Viking Museum Wacken Wadden Sea, UNESCO World Heritage site Deutsche Zentrale Telefon +49 69 97464-262 für Tourismus e. V. Telefax +49 69 97464-233 Beethovenstraße 69 [email protected] 60325 Frankfurt am Main www.germany.travel www.germany.travel Thuringia Classical Weimar, UNESCO World Heritage site Hainich National Park Bauhaus Weimar, UNESCO World Heritage site Wartburg Castle, UNESCO World Heritage site Anna Amalia Library About the GNTB The German National Tourist Board (GNTB) has its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It works on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) to represent Germany as a tourist destination and is funded by the Ministry in accordance with a decision taken by the German Bundestag. The GNTB develops and communicates strategies and products to promote Germany’s positive image abroad as a tourist destination and to encourage tourists to visit the country. It has 31 agencies around the world to support its activities. Further information is available from our online press centre at www.germany.travel/presse . Deutsche Zentrale Telefon +49 69 97464-262 für Tourismus e. V. Telefax +49 69 97464-233 Beethovenstraße 69 [email protected] 60325 Frankfurt am Main www.germany.travel .