Here's
a great starting point for finding out about Germany.
There are links to dozens of German cities, a weather update, a
fact sheet (including travel do's and don'ts), and general
information.
Panoramic
Views of locations in Germany:
The
Official Page of the Austrian National Tourist Office:
info on famous Austrians, imperial cities, PEZ, even
mouth-watering recipes!
Mit
der Bahn quer durch Deutschland! Click here to visit the homepage
of the Deutsche
Bundesbahn! Click here if you're looking for rail
connections & times.
What
is the shortest route between Aachen and Zwickau? Where are the
best hotels? Which restaurants give the best value for the money?
Falk On-Line
provides tourists in Germany with answers to such questions.
How
far is it? This service uses data from the US Census and a
supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude
and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance
between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing
the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
A
great page for links to lots of stuff travel-related! You
can find links to various airports in Germany, Wetter-Infos,
Städte- u. Länder-Infos, and much more. Check it
out!
Visit
the Hamburger Flughafen
Online! This COOL airport site was awarded second prize in
Internet Applications at COMDEX '97. Visit any of these sites for
links to other airports in Germany: Flughäfen
in Deutschland, Flughafeninformation
Deutschland, German
Airports On-Line, Airports
in Germany & Austria.
Fernweh
has links to lots of German
airports, too. And their homepage
includes information on route planning, planning tips, and pretty
much everything you need to plan a trip!
Flugzentrale.de
provides information about flights, airports and even parking
fees!
Koffer
schon gepackt? Information on youth
hostels in Germany.
Try these
sites to convert US Dollars to German Marks, Swiss Francs or
Austrian Schillings: Universal,
Oanda,
Xenon
Labs, Richey
.
Need
information about a particular German city? Check City.Net!
or any of the following links: German
Trails ,
Robert Shea's German Resources, German
Way, German
Quick Links at Kickapoo High .
The
Kölner Dom even has its own webpage!
Click
here for links to dozens of German Stadtpläne!
Portale für alle deutschen Städte und
Gemeinden
If
you want to travel in Germany, this is where you'll find addresses
and tips for visits to German cities from Aachen to Würzburg.
Traxxx lists
22,000 hotels in the whole of Germany, sorted by region. There's
updated travel weather, theater & concert schedules and
information about travel destinations world-wide. A great
resource!
Looking
for castles? Visit this DINO index page for links to German
Burgen
und Schlösser! Or take a look at Schlößer
Magazin, a guide to " Schlösser, Burgen,
Klöster, Kirchen und Gärten
Baden-Württembergs."
Lauren
Kavanaugh's Webquest: Welcome to Bavaria! "Guess what?!?
You and your teammates have been given the opportunity to go on an
all-expenses paid, imaginary trip to Bavaria, arguably one of the
most beautiful areas of Germany! There is one condition, though .
. . You need to be informed travellers! "
Oktoberfest
links!
Munich!
Find out about Frau Penner's favorite city! Check out these
pages:
And here's a list of Biergärten in München. Don't forget the Deutsches Museum either! One of the largest science & tech museums in the world! Click here for information about concerts, operas, theater, & movies in Munich. Or take a look at this cool panoramic photo of what you'd see if you climbed up tower of the Peterskirche! (Same idea, but a view from der Olympiaturm.)
All
About Hamburg: Check out all sorts of interesting information
about Germany's second largest city! Astron-City
Guide Hamburg (find the Astron Suite Hotel in
Hamburg and click on "City Guide), Hamburg
Hype: das Stadtmagazin im Internet, Hamburg-Net,
Hamburg City
Guide, Freie
und Hansestadt Hamburg, Go
On Hamburg, Willkommen
in Hamburg
Take
a virtual tour of Germany's capital city: Berlin.
Visit the BVG page for
info about using the busses and subway trains in Berlin. Berlin-Live
provides info on what's going on in Berlin.
Columbus
City-Guide: der On-Line Stadtführer für
Köln. Es gibt hier auch ein "Regio-Navigator"
für Köln und das Rheinland. Über 2,010 Links!
Visit
Neuss, home of our
textbook friend Wiebke Nedel!
All sorts of information about the Allgäu
region in southern Germany
Check out these links for info on the city of Husum (and
surrounding area):
Check
out the KHS
German "Wappen" page! (Click on the German flag, and from
there on "Wappen.") Wappen of all the German Länder are
displayed, and by clicking on the "Wappen" of a particular state,
you can find coats-of-arms for several cities and towns in that
state. There are also Austrian Wappen online; Swiss and
Liechtensteiner Wappen will follow. A great resource. (Be patient
- there are a lot of graphics here, so this site takes a while to
load.)
