Germany - Central Germany (PDF Chapter)

This is the Central Germany chapter from Lonely Planet’s Germany guide-book.

Crucial to its culture, science, industry and history, Mittel-deutschland is Germany’s beating heart. It is studded with cities whose historical importance matches their modern vitality, ridged by low, forested mountains that loom large in German mythology; and edified by museums, cathedrals and castles without number.

• delight in the baroque paradise of Kassel’s Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe or invoke your inner child at Grimmwelt
• maps
• climb up to the Zitadelle Petersberg to gaze out over beautifully preserved Erfurt
• transport
• walk in Luther’s footsteps in the historic university town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg, and in nearby Lutherstadt Eisleben
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Fairy-Tale Road, Hanau & Steinau, Fulda, Marburg, Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee, Kassel, Göttingen, Bad Karlshafen, Hamelin, Bodenwerder, Thu-ringia, Erfurt, Weimar, Gotha, Kyffhäuser Mountains, Mühlhausen, Thuringian Forest & the Saale Valley, Eisenach, Jena, Harz Mountains, Bad Harzburg, Brocken & Torfhaus, Goslar, Quedlinburg, Thale, Wernigerode, Saale-Unstrut Region, Freyburg, Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau-Rosslau, Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz, Halle, Lutherstadt Eisleben, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Magdeburg.