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The Ahr is a German wine-growing region in northern Rhineland-Palatinate. The German Wine Institute records 535 hectares under vine in 2025 and identifies Spätburgunder, or Pinot Noir, as its principal variety. Steep vineyards rise above the river near places such as Mayschoß and Dernau. The map points to the start of a published vineyard walk at Altenahr.
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The former botanical garden near Dammtor is now a section of Hamburg’s Planten un Blomen park. The university’s display greenhouses opened for the 1963 International Horticultural Exhibition. The greenhouses and neighbouring Mediterranean terraces are protected monuments.
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Munich’s Old Botanical Garden is a public park between the main station and Lenbachplatz. The early nineteenth-century entrance portal survives on the east side. The present park layout, with a fountain facing the Palace of Justice, took shape in the 1930s.
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The former Augustinian friary in Bad Langensalza, Thuringia, was founded in 1280. Part of its east wing survives, and the buildings at Augustinerplatz now house the town museum. The former church tower forms part of the museum visit when access is available.
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Baden is a German wine-growing region extending from the Tauber to Lake Constance. Its districts include the Kaiserstuhl, where Pinot varieties are prominent. Oberbergen in Vogtsburg is one place to see the vineyards and taste wines from this district.
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The Bastionsgarten on the Schmiedebastion of Willibaldsburg in Eichstätt is a modern planting inspired by the Hortus Eystettensis. It opened in 1998, drawing on the plants recorded in Basilius Besler’s illustrated work of 1613.
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Berlin’s botanical garden covers 43 hectares and reports a collection of almost 20,000 plant species. Its associated museum concerns plants and their cultural and natural history. The institution also researches the diversity of plants, fungi and algae.
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Düsseldorf’s botanical garden supports research and teaching at HHU. Its plant collections provide living material as part of the garden’s work for science. The garden also trains horticultural apprentices in perennial-plant cultivation and presents science-related exhibitions in its orangery and outdoor grounds.
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Halle's botanical garden began in 1698 as a medicinal garden linked to the university. Its medicinal plants formed part of medical students' teaching. The garden was enlarged in 1787, and by around 1800 it cultivated approximately 3,000 different plant species.
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Heidelberg’s university botanical institution dates to 1593. The university describes its work in research, learning, conservation of threatened plants and public education. Its collections support scientific and conservation activity, and an associated herbarium holds approximately 350,000 specimens.
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Braunschweig’s university botanical garden was founded in 1840 and developed from a garden of the anatomy school. An expansion in 1995 brought its area to about three hectares. The garden now holds roughly 4,000 plant species and supports research in plant science.
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The University of Bonn’s botanical gardens include a palace garden, greenhouses and a useful-plant garden. Their collections were assembled for research and teaching and include carnivorous plants. The institution describes more than two centuries of work in research and education.
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Botanika in Bremen presents a Japanese garden, environments associated with Borneo’s cloud forests and the Himalayas, and a tropical house. Its discovery centre introduces plant phenomena and the relationship between nature, people and science. Butterflies also feature in its tropical displays.
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Augsburg’s botanical garden brings together native and exotic plants in themed gardens and displays under glass. Its Japanese garden includes a spring pond and watercourse. A friends’ association supports the development of the garden beside the Siebentischpark.
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Jena’s botanical garden traces its origins to a medicinal garden founded near the Collegium Jenense in 1586 for medical and pharmaceutical teaching and research. August Johann Georg Karl Batsch became the scientific botanical garden’s first director in 1794. The Alpinum was laid out in 1953.
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Burgwalden is a village within Bobingen in Bavarian Swabia. The city records that the earlier settlement was known as Ettenhofen. A church and a moated residence were built here under the Höchstetter family in the early sixteenth century. The residence was later demolished.
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Hamburg’s present St. Marien Cathedral, in the St. Georg district, was consecrated as St. Marien Church on 28 June 1893. In 2018 the metropolitan chapter commissioned an exhibition about the church’s history and earlier background for its 125th consecration anniversary.
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Dresden's former Catholic Court Church was built by Gaetano Chiaveri between 1739 and 1751 in the Roman late Baroque style. It was severely damaged in the air raid of 13 February 1945. The main nave returned to use in 1962, and the church became a cathedral in 1980.
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Cologne’s Flora and Botanical Garden includes tropical greenhouses, a desert house and a subtropical house. Its outdoor landscape includes a hill with alpine plants. The municipal account identifies the site’s main entrance at Alter Stammheimer Weg in Cologne.
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Cologne’s forest botanical garden lies in Rodenkirchen. The city describes collections of trees and shrubs from temperate regions and identifies the rhododendron ravine, heath garden and Japanese section. The adjoining Friedenswald is described separately by the municipal forest service.
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Garlin is a village in the municipality of Karstädt in Brandenburg’s Prignitz district. Karstädt records it as a street village first mentioned in 1255. The Brandenburg heritage list records the village church and the rectory on Garliner Dorfstraße as separate monuments.
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Herrenhausen is a group of gardens in Hannover. The city traces the Great Garden to a seventeenth-century pleasure garden and describes its expansion under Martin Charbonnier by 1714. The aerial photograph shows the Great Garden, one part of the wider Herrenhausen ensemble.
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Herzogspark lies near the historic centre of Regensburg beside the Danube. The official East Bavaria tourism organisation describes a Renaissance-style garden at its heart, with plants associated with William Shakespeare’s plays along a hedge. The palace at the edge of the park houses the Natural History Museum of East Bavaria, while the Prebrunnturm marks another architectural feature of the site.
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Kribbe is a village in the municipality of Karstädt in Brandenburg’s Prignitz district. The state monument register identifies the village church on Kribber Dorfstraße, and its list records a separate house and farm building at number 1.