WS E X CURSIONS 2019 /20

Registration: Room 33 (Serviceportal for International Students), Seminarstraße 2 Mon 10am – 12pm and 1 – 3pm, Tue – Fri 10am– 12pm Departure: Bahnhofstraße (behind ““/ opposite “Penny“)

Sunday, 13 October: / WINEFESTIVAL Saturday, 30 November: NUREMBERG I (D)

Visit of the picturesque wine-growing area of the Palatinate: Visit to the finest and most famous German Christmas Market Burg Trifels, an ancient imperial fortress on a lofty crag with a (“Christkindlesmarkt”) , tour of the city including imperial fortress, superb view of the Palatinate Forest and the Rhine valley, Albrecht Dürer House, tomb of St. Sebaldus by Peter Vischer, St. formerly the imperial treasury and state prison. Lorenz with the Angel´s Greeting by Veit Stoß, market square with Trip along the Deutsche Weinstraße. famous fountain (“Schöner Brunnen”). Visit to the Toy Museum Visit of the German Grape Harvest Festiva l in Neustadt with (history of toys from antiquity to the present). the pageant of the winemakers with many floats, musicians and the splendid coach of the Queen and the GERMAN TOUR traditional half-timbered Wine Village . Registration: starts Monday, 25 November Price: 20, – Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) Registration: starts Wednesday, 9 October Departure: 7.30am Price: 15, – Euros (incl. transport, tours and entrance fee) Departure: 8.30am Saturday, 7 December: / ESSLINGEN Stuttgart: Königstraße, Old Castle with Renaissance arcades, baroque New Castle, Schiller Square with Old Chancellery, Christmas Market : splendidly decorated

wooden roofs with impressive winter landscapes. Mercedes-Benz Museum : the museum presents the more Saturday, 19 October: FREIBURG / BLACK FOREST I (E) than 125 year old history of the automobile. Esslingen: old imperial city with romantic half-timber FREIBURG : Walk through the “Capital of the Black Forest”, including a visit to the cathedral with houses, historical city hall, St.Paul’s (’s oldest “Christendom’s finest spire” and the western portal with mendicant-order church). “A historical winter´s tale” – remarkable sculptures; Cathedral Square with Historic Mediaeval Market with romantic Christmas market. Merchants’ Hall; Old and New City Hall, Old University, House of the Whale and the typical Freiburg “Bächle”. Registration: starts Monday, 2 December Trip to the Schauinsland mountain with great panorama Price: 15, – Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) view across the Black Forest and the Rhine valley. Departure: 7.30am

ENGLISH TOUR Registraton: starts Monday, 14 October Sunday, 8 December: NUREMBERG II (D) Price: 19, – Euros (incl. transport and tour) Departure: 8am GERMAN TOUR For description see 30 November Registration: starts Monday, 25 November Saturday, 26 October FREIBURG / BLACK FOREST II (D) Saturday, 14 December: ROTHENBURG The epitome of the medieval German town, tour with a walk GERMAN TOUR along the almost entirely intact town wall, impressive city For description see 19 October hall and Gothic taproom, church of St. Jakob with the Registration: starts Monday, 14 October famous altar by Tilman Riemenschneider.

Romantic Christmas Market : every year medieval Saturday, 2 November: COLOGNE I (D) Rothenburg transforms into a wintertime fairy tale. Registration: starts Monday, 9 December Explore a city that is over 2000 years old: Cathedral/Dom Price: 17, – Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) (UNESCO World Heritage , epitome of Gothic architecture Departure: 8am and Germany’s most famous architectural monument), St. Martin – Romanic church on a Roman site; historical old town with Old Market, city hall with Renaissance arcades, statues of “Tünnes and Scheel” (popular figures symbolising Cologne Sunday, 15 December: NUREMBERG III (E) humour). ENGLISH TOUR For description see 30 November GERMAN TOUR Registration: starts Monday, 25 November Registration: starts Monday, 28 October Price: 18, – Euros (incl. transport and tour) Departure: 7.30am Friday, 17 January: Registration for / (12-16 Feb) Saturday, 25 November: COLOGNE Saturday, 9 November: Saturday, 18 January: STRASBOURG COLOGNE II (E) Walk through the Old City ( UNESCO World Heritage ) including visit to the cathedral (Pillar of Angels, important glass paintings, famous ENGLISH TOUR astronomical clock, etc.); former leather-tanning district “La Petite For description see 2 November France” with fine half-timber buildings. Registration: starts Monday, 28 October Visit to the Museum of Modern Art . “Capital of Europe” Strasbourg with a photo stop at the European Parliament. From Monday, 4 Nov, 9am: Registration for (22-24 Nov) Registration: starts Monday, 13 January Price: 16, – Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) Departure: 7.30am Saturday, 16 November: The “city of German classicism” (UNESCO World Heritage): Saturday, 25 January: Goethe House, Schiller House, Wittumspalais, German National Explore Germany’s oldest preserved historical town centre Theatre, Castle, Gothic Herder Church with famous altar by Lucas (UNESCO World Heritage ): Cranach, impressive market square, park by the river Ilm with Old City Hall with unique site on a river island, “Little Venice” Goethe’s garden house, Bauhaus University. with original fishermen´s houses; Romanic-Gothic Registration: starts Monday, 11 November “Kaiserdom” (Imperial Cathedral) with the famous Price: 18, – Euros (incl. transport and tour, “Bamberg Horseman” and imperial tomb, Old Palace Goethe House and Schiller House not included) (Renaissance). Departure: 6.30am Guided tour of the baroque New Residence .

Registration: starts Monday, 20 January Price: 16, – Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) Departure: 7am

Friday, 22 November – Sunday, 24 November: HAMBURG

Wednesday, 12 Feb – Sunday, 16 Feb: BERLIN / DRESDEN This trip takes us to two famous Northern German ports and trading cities (cities of the ). HAMBURG: bus tour of the city, walk through the city BERLIN: Bus tour of the city including stops at Brandenburg Gate, centre with City Hall and Hamburg Stock Exchange, “Holocaust-Monument”, “East-Side Gallery” (Berlin Wall). Jungfernstieg, church of St.Michael’s including ascent of Guided walk through the historical city centre: Nikolaiviertel, Rotes the “Michel” tower (emblem of the city), Nikolaifleet Rathaus (Red Town Hall), Gendarmenmarkt, Berliner Dom, “Museum (ensemble of old Hamburg houses), Speicherstadt Island” (UNESCO World Heritage ); (UNESCO World Heritage), St.Pauli landing bridges with Exhibition “Topographie des Terrors“; visit of the traditional Fish Market , harbour tour . Visit of Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial; BREMEN : walk through Germany`s oldest port, market Visit to the Reichstag square with historical City Hall, the “Bremen Town building with its famous Musicians” and statue of Roland ( UNESCO World new dome, lecture in the Bundestag (Federal Diet). Heritage ), Schnoorviertel: a well-preserved quarter of old crooked lanes. DRESDEN : world-famous “Elbflorenz”: Zwinger festival place, the Semper Opera House, the Castle, Frauenkirche, etc. Registration: starts Monday 4 Nov, at 9am Registration: starts Friday, 17 January, at 9am Price: 90, – Euros (incl. transport, tours, fees, Price: 145, – Euros (incl. transport, tours, entrance fees, Harbour tour, 2 overnight stays with breakfast 4 overnight stays with breakfast in a city hostel in Hamburg) in City Hostels Berlin (3x) and Dresden) Departure: 6.30am Departure: 6.30am