Germany's Medieval Heartland

Proud cathedrals and small country churches, defiant castles and peaceful monasteries – they all bear witness to the deep-rooted fear of God, yet also to the most mysterious eras in history: the medieval …

Passion Play 2010: Tickets for Sale

A play of life and death, promised in a moment of mortal threat - so began the history of the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1633. In the middle of the Thirty Years War, after months of suffering and death …

High Speed Mobility with ICE Trains

Germany certainly has not become smaller but distances between cities are shrinking fast – at least if you take the train. Due to extensive investments in railroads and tracks, new ICEs connect German Cities with a travel speed of up to 160 mph. With the German Rail Pass, the ICE offers high speed mobility at a very competitive price …

Historic Lodging

Muenster. Tipped off by a European Union investment scheme, 14 castles, monasteries and manor houses in North Rhine Westphalia have started to run Bed & Breakfast services – providing both, remarkable historical authenticity and a high grade accommodation.
Hotel-turned-castles include, amongst others, Schloss Diersfordt (built 1432), 14th century country house Hertefeld or Schloss Ossenberg with its unique Rococo style architecture. Vacancies can be checked by online booking requests…

Coburg. – The city may be a bit off the beaten track, but Coburg unites art, culture and history in a way not too many historical cities in Germany do: One of Germany´s largest castles, the mighty Veste Coburg (Coburg Fortress), makes history since medieval times, but offers also in the 21st Century again and yet again new occasions for a visit. The latest occasion is the re-opening of the dynasty after fundamental reconstruction and restoration that enables from 16th of March starting access for visitors.
Sightseeing is not only possible in the chambers of the last reigning duke of Coburg, but also in the former Armory, containing the largest collection of medieval armor and weaponry in Germany as well as the Art Collections which contain a world class collection of engravings and coin collections – Exhibits that are to some extent for the first time open to the public.
Another Sightseeing highlight is the Ehrenburg Palace (a former Franciscan Monastery) that allows tourists to experience the pompous living space and chambers of Queen Victoria I and the first Belgian King Leopold I.
Situated beyond Coburg, the suburban Schloss Rosenau invites tourists to dwell on a romantic and fairytale-like location. It is not only worth to survey the inventory and the beautiful parquet flooring that lay behind its front.
Another eye catcher is the adjacent European Museum for modern glass that re-opens across from the orangery after a closure in autumn. Callenberg Palace is finally closing the romantic Coburg quartet: It ranks among the most popular sights of the summer residence of the dukes of Coburg with its 400 year old palace chapel and most notably the royal roses and the German Rifle Museum. But it is not only the famous Veste (Luthers safe house from April 24th to October 4th in 1530), the art collections and the towers, narrow lanes and churches of the historic medieval center, that make a stay worthwhile. It is also the city's advantageous location in the very center of Frankonia with hundreds of traditional beer breweries, Bamberg, Bayreuth, the Wartburg castle of Eisenach and Gotha just around the corner.

Coburg's Tourist Service has turned this advantageous situation into an impressing selection of guided tours and day trips taking visitors right into the heart of German history: They can choose from 25 different guided tours.