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Registration: Room 33 (Service-Portal for International Students), Seminarstrasse 2 Mon 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 – 3 p.m., Tue, Wed, Fri 10 a.m.– 12 p.m. Departure: Bahnhofstraße (rear „“/ opposite „Penny“)

Sunday,15 Oct.: MAULBRONN/ PALATINATE / WINEFESTIVAL Saturday, 03 December: STUTTGART / ESSLINGEN II

MAULBRONN: (UNESCO World Heritage), a fully preserved For description see 26 November former monastery from the 12th/13th century where Hermann Registration: starts Monday, 28 November Hesse went to school. Visit of the picturesque wine-growing area of the Palatinate: Burg Trifels, an ancient imperial fortress on a lofty crag with a superb view of the Palatinate Forest and the Rhine valley, Sunday, 04 Dec.: NUREMBERG II formerly the imperial treasury and state prison. For description see 27 November Trip along and the Deutsche Weinstraße. Registration: starts Monday, 28 November Visit of the “Festival of New Wine” in Landau : marked by a pleasantly rustic atmosphere, this traditional festival honors New Wine with a colourful music program, wine huts and Saturday, 10 Dec.: NUREMBERG III palatine specialities. For description see 27 November Registration: Thursday, 13 Oct., 11.00 a.m. – 13.00 p.m. Registration: starts Monday, 05 December Friday, 14 Oct., 10.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m . Price: 14,– Euros (incl. transport, tours and entrance fees) Departure: 8.00 p.m. Sunday, 11 Dec.: NUREMBERG IV For description see 27 November From Friday, 21 Oct.: Registration for (04- 06 Nov) Registration: starts Monday, 05 December

Saturday, 22 October.: Sunday, 18 Dec.: NUREMBERG V The “city of German classicism“ ( UNESCO World Heritage ): For description see 27 November Goethe House, Schiller House, Wittumspalais, German National Registration: starts Monday, 05 December Theatre, castle, Gothic Herder Church with famous altar by Lucas Cranach, impressive market square, park on the river Ilm with

Goethe`s garden house, Bauhaus-University. Saturday, 21 January.: Registration: starts Monday, 17 October Price: 18,– Euros (incl. transport and guided tour, Explore ´s oldest preserved historical town centre Goethehaus and Schillerhaus not included) (UNESCO World Heritage ): Departure: 6.30 a.m. Old City Hall with unique site on a river island, “Little Venice“ with original fishermen´s houses; Romanic-Gothic “Kaiserdom ” (Imperial Cathedral) with the famous Sunday, 30 October.: FREIBURG / BLACK FOREST I “Bamberg Horseman“ and imperial tomb, Old Palace (Renaissance). FREIBURG : Walk through the “Capital of the Black Forest“, including a visit to the cathedral with Guided tour of the baroque New Residence . „Christendom´s finest spire” and the western portal with remarkable sculptures; cathedral square with Historic Registration: starts Monday, 16 January Merchants´ Hall; Old and New City Hall, Old University, Price: 16,– Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) House of the Whale and the typical Freiburg “Bächle”. Departure: 7.00 a.m. Trip to the Schauinsland mountain with great panorama view across the Black Forest and the Rhine valley. Starts Friday, 27 Jan.: Registration for BERLIN ( 15 – 19 Feb.) Registraton: starts Monday, 24 October Price: 15,– Euros (incl. transport and tour) Departure: 8.00 a.m. Saturday, 28 January.: COLOGNE Tuesday, 01 November (holiday): Explore a city that is over 2000 years old: Cathedral FREIBURG / BLACK FOREST II (UNESCO World Heritage , epitome of Gothic architecture and Germany´s most famous architectural monument), St. For description see 30 October Maria im Capitol – Romanic church on a Roman temple Registration: starts Monday, 24 October. site; historical old town with Old Market, city hall with Renaissance arcades, statues of ”Tünnes and Scheel” Friday, 04 Nov. – Sunday, 06 November.: HAMBURG (popular figures symbolising Cologne humour). Visit of Wallraf-Richartz-Museum : famous painting This trip takes us to two famous Northern German ports and trading cities (cities of the ). collection from the Middle Ages to early 20th century. HAMBURG: bus tour of the city, walk through the city centre with City Hall and Exchange, Jungfernstieg, church of Registration: starts Monday, 23 January St.Michael´s including ascent of the “Michel” tower (emblem Price: 16,– Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) of the city), Nikolaifleet (ensemble of old Hamburg houses), Departure: 7.30 a.m. Speicherstadt (UNESCO World Heritage), St.Pauli-landing bridges with visit of the traditional Fish Market , harbour tour . BREMEN : walk through Germany`s oldest port, market Saturday, 04 February.: STRASBOURG square with historical City Hall, the “Bremen Town Musicians” Walk through the Old City ( UNESCO World Heritage ) including visit and statue of Roland ( UNESCO World Heritage ), to the cathedral (sculptures in the portal of St.Mary and the Pillar of Schnoorviertel: a well-preserved quarter of old crooked lanes. Angels, important glass paintings, famous astronomical clock, etc.); Registration: starts Friday, 21 Oct., from 9.00 a.m. former leather-tanning district "La Petite France ” with fine half- Price: 80 ,– Euros (incl. transport, tours, fees, harbour tour, timber buildings. 2 overnight stays with breakfast in Visit to the Museum of Modern Art . city hostel in Hamburg) “Capital of Europe” Strasbourg with fotostop at the European Departure: 6.30 a.m. Parliament. Registration: starts Monday, 30 January Saturday, 26 November: STUTTGART / ESSLINGEN I Price: 15,– Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) Departure: 7.30 a.m. 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. Wednesday, 15 Feb. – Sunday, 19 Feb.: BERLIN / DRESDEN Mercedes-Benz Museum : the museum presents the more than 125 year old history of the automobile. BERLIN: bus tour of the city including Kurfürstendamm, Esslingen: old imperial city with romantic half-timber Brandenburg Gate, “Holocaust-Monument“, Potsdamer Platz, houses, historical city hall, St.Paul`s (Germany´s oldest Charlottenburg Castle, “East-Side Gallery” (Berlin Wall). mendicant-order church). “A historical winter´s tale” – Guided walk through the historical city centre: Nikolaiviertel, Mediaeval Market with Christmas market. Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall), the Gendarmenmarkt, ““ (UNESCO World Heritage );

Registration: starts Monday, 21 November Exhibition „Topographie des Terrors“; Price: 14,– Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance fee) Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial; Departure: 7.30 a.m. Visit to the Reichstag with its famous new dome, lecture in the Bundestag . Excursion also available on 03 December

Sunday, 29 November: NÜRNBERG I DRESDEN : Visit to the finest and most famous German Christmas Market (”Christkindlesmarkt”) , tour of the city including world-famous imperial fortress, Albrecht Dürer House, tomb of St. “Elbflorenz”: Zwinger festival place, the Semper Opera Sebaldus by Peter Vischer, St. Lorenz with the Angel´s House, the Castle, Frauenkirche, etc. Greeting by Veit Stoß, market square with Frauenkirche church and famous fountain (“Schöner Brunnen”). Visit to the Toy Museum (history of toys from antiquity to Registration: starts Friday, 27 January, from 9.00 a.m. the present). Price: 135,– Euros (incl. transport, tours, entrance fees, 4 overnight stays with breakfast in City Hostels Registration: starts Monday, 21 November in Berlin (3) and Dresden) Price: 17,– Euros (incl. transport, tour and entrance) Departure: 7.00 p.m. Departure: 7.30 a.m.