Old towns of Central Europe outlines a list of notable old towns in Central Europe
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Map of Old towns of Central Europe
Austria
[edit]Czech Republic
[edit]Germany
[edit]- 3 Bamberg castle and churches galore seat of a formerly powerful archbishop popular with Americans as it is close to a former US barracks.
- 4 Cologne with the famous cathedral ("Kölner Dom").
- 5 Düsseldorf Cologne's old rival, rebuilt after the war
- 6 Dresden The "Florence of the Elbe" much of it destroyed in the second world war (but rebuilt much like it was before)
- Erfurt
- Göttingen
- Goslar
- Heidelberg
- 7 Lübeck formerly the heart of the Hanse severely destroyed in the second world war now mostly restored to her former beauty.
- Munich/City Center
- 8 Nuremberg a medieval and early modern gem, complete with castle and half timbered houses, even though much of it was destroyed and rebuilt because of World War II.
- 9 Quedlinburg old imperial town of the Ottonian dynasty of the 10th and 11th century AD.
- 10 Rothenburg ob der Tauber virtually untouched by war since the thirty years war in the 17th century one of the few cities to still have an intact city wall.
- 11 Nördlingen surrounded by a wall, built in the 14th century
- 12 Stralsund old Hanseatic city.
- 13 Trier oldest city in Germany, famous for its Roman Porta Nigra (Latin for black gate).
- Tübingen
- 14 Wismar another former member of the Hanse