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Germany Facts Germany offers something for everyone. Culture, shopping, sports, everything you could hope for from a trip. Capital: Berlin Official language: German Currency: Euro Passport and visa: A Finnish citizen needs a passport or identity card as a travel…
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There are no direct flights to Nuremberg from Russia. Turkish Airlines carry passengers from Moscow Vnukovo with a transfer in Istanbul, and Lufthansa from Domodedovo via Frankfurt am Main or Munich. The flight takes at least 6 hours, including the…
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The municipality of Winterberg is located in the district of Hoogsauerland. Winterberg is mainly known as a winter sports resort, where mainly Dutch and Germans hope to be able to stand on their skis during the winter sports season. Because…
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An undeniable sense of national solidarity induced the various Germanic peoples, Saxons and Thuringians, Franconians, Alamanni and Bavarians, to pay homage, as their king, to Arnolfo, who then ruled the Carinthian marque. Natural son of Charlemagne of Bavaria, he could…
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Conrad III The game between the aristocracy and the king of Germany – who as such, moreover, was the designated emperor – was mainly played around the question of the elective nature of the sovereign function. In fact, Henry V…
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Among the most popular genres of the time are the Serienfilme, episodic detective films in the wake of the French Fantômas and Les vampires, already in vogue before the war, which repeated the pattern of serial feuilleton, as well as…
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Political events profoundly influenced the development of German cinema. The first, fragile non-monarchical experiment on German soil, the Weimar Republic, born from the uprising of the sailors and the Workers ‘and Soldiers’ Councils, can be considered a unique case: the…
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On the Baltic coast and in the immediate hinterland, the German expansion reached its maximum development with the conquests of the knights of the Teutonic Order and Sword-holder: the occupation of Prussia (1230-1283), to which the regions north of the…
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In the sec. XII, in fact, after about a hundred years of rest, the German advance towards the East resumed from the Baltic to the Alps, and in the XIII-XIV centuries made its maximum effort. In the lead, not the…
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Under the label of ” neo-expressionism ” or ” violent art ” various genres and formal languages developed during the 1980s are included. On the whole, it is a question of a revolt of sensuality, of the commitment of the…
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However, the openings of cultural policy are accompanied by new limitations and restrictions. In 1976 the dissident singer and poet W. Biermann was deprived of citizenship. The alternative artistic environment, under Penck’s leadership, solidarizes. It is the sign of a…
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German Democratic Republic. – The development of art in the GDR must be seen in immediate relation to the directives and strategies of the state cultural policy. At the time of its foundation, the GDR saw itself imposing the Soviet…
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The desertion of the three ecclesiastical princes was a prelude to that of the lay princes. When on 17 July 1245 Innocent IV had solemnly pronounced the deposition of Frederick II in the council of Lyons, and invited the Germanic…
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The princes, therefore, especially the ecclesiastics, were the pivot on which Frederick II set his government in Germany, giving full development to a political system, whose roots were in the reign of his ancestor. In this way he achieved the…
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The Hohenstaufen had therefore managed to keep the crown against the revival of the Guelphs. But the real victors were the German princes, who had decided the outcome of the struggle with the weight of their strength, and they reaped…
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In October 1189 Henry the Lion reappeared in northern Germany, determined to reconquer the lost dominions, and the following year, the discontent of the Lorraine princes and many German lords due to the suspicion that Henry VI had been the…
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The court had to function according to a written procedure, to sentence on the basis of Roman law and local customs, and also had jurisdiction over the ban on the Empire, which had hitherto been reserved for the sovereign. In…
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On the religious ground, the concordat of Vienna (February 17, 1448) had for the moment repressed those tendencies towards a national church and towards rebellion against the multiple interference of the Curia in the country, which ten years earlier had…
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It seemed for a moment that to the repercussions of the Western schism in Germany the damage of a political schism had to be added: the voters were divided between the brother and the cousin of Wenceslaus, Sigismund and Jost,…
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In 1090 another of the leaders of the feudal coalition Egberto Margravio di Misnia disappeared, whose brand was transferred to Enrico Margravio di Lusazia. Saxony could now be said to be pacified, nor did the rebellion of Conrad, who was…
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According to Answerresume, the struggle began in Saxony, where the regional autonomies were most deeply rooted, which in a certain way resulted in the inheritance of the ducal dynasty of the Billungs, and where the leaders of the feudal opposition…
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According to Answermba, Henry II had taken care to have his son recognized as his successor as soon as he was born (1050); three years later Henry IV had been elected from the Tribur diet (November 1053) and crowned in…
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According to abbreviationfinder, Berlin is the capital and at the same time one of the 16 federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany with an area of 892 km 2 and 3.7 million people. As a city-state, Berlin is located in…
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According to abbreviationfinder, Hamburg is the second largest German city and world port on the lower Elbe with an area of 755 km 2 and (2019) 1.8 million residents. In addition to the university, the Technical University and the new HafenCity University,…
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According to abbreviationfinder, Munich is the capital of Bavaria, on the Isar, with (2019) 1.5 million residents, the third largest city in Germany. Independent city and administrative seat of the district of Munich and the administrative district of Upper Bavaria….
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According to abbreviationfinder, Cologne is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, with (2019) 1.1 million residents, is the fourth largest city in Germany, in the fertile Cologne basin on both sides of the Rhine area. Cologne has a university (founded in…
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According to abbreviationfinder, Frankfurt is a city in Hesse, in the sub-Main level, with (2019) 763 400 residents, the largest city in Hesse. Educational institutions include the university and the Senckenberg research institute (the largest German research museum), libraries (including…
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According to abbreviationfinder, Düsseldorf is the capital of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the administrative district of Düsseldorf, independent city, lies on both sides of the Rhine, 36 m above sea level, on the terraces of the Lower Rhine,…
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