The River Danube is the historical artery of eastern Europe, navigable from southern Germany to the Black Sea. The Danube Navigation Museum centres on vessels moored on the south bank of the river, between

museum in the Kulturzentrum Rathenow (Rathenow Cultural Centre) at the town of Rathenow in north-east Germany. The pioneer of optics, who brought the future industry to Rathenow, was Johann Heinrich August Duncker

Near Fell in western Germany, 20 km east of Trier, are the former slate mines Barbara and Hoffnung. The mines produced roofing slates: Hoffnung from around 1850 and Barbara from around 1908. They are now

This mine open for visitors is in the Erzgebirge-Krušnohoří World Heritage Site on the border of Germany and Czechia. Silver was discovered near Freiburg in 1168 and mining continued until the 1990s.The

One of Germany's best-known brands is the Miele company from Gütersloh in eastern Westphalia. Its history began in 1899 when Carl Miele (1869-1938) and Reinhard Zinkann (1869-1939) founded a company to

used them until they ceased to be roadworthy. The display at Autoworld includes cars from France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain and the United States. It has a comprehensive selection of cars vehicles made

founded in Berlin in 1876. There are some diesel locomotives and an early diesel railcar built in Germany. The museum also includes freight wagons of various kinds, and equipment used for loading and unloading

food for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The collection consists of more than 220 cars made in Germany, some of them on loan from the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the German Museum of Technology in

was opened in 1860, and remains one of Europe’s most important main lines. The last station in Germany through which trains pass before entering Austria is at Freilassing, where, in 1902-05 the Bavarian

for artillery, munitions and heavy weapons. Germany modernised roads and railway lines for strategic purposes. The path to industrialisation dictated by Germany was continued under Soviet aegis after Cz [...] Hungary, and a half-hearted land reform failed to give Slovakian farmers access to fertile land. When Germany annexed the Czech part of the republic in 1939, a nominally independent “Slovak state” was established

that was developed from 1957, involving collaboration between the railway systems of France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy, and later of Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain. There were also [...] Stuttgart, and by the introduction of second class on some trains. The new timetable introduced in West Germany in 1979 offered many services that were the equal of TEE trains, as did the TGV trains that began

h centuries from Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and Flanders, many of them dated, superb wrought-iron work of the early modern period from Spain, Germany and Italy, and examples of the distinctive steel

and a Rolls Royce from England, some early Fords from America and some historic Mercedes cars from Germany.

what was once the flying field of the aircraft factory in Speyer, which was one of the largest in Germany during the First World War. The ample space that the museum enjoys enables it to display some very

many other air museums, a Douglas DC6 or C54, a Sud Caravelle from France, a Dornier Do28 D-1 from Germany, and a De Havilland Dragon Rapide and a Vickers Viscount from the United Kingdom. There are also

helicopters and gyrocopters made by companies in many countries, for example Focke-Wulf and Bölkow in Germany, Kamov in the Soviet Union, Aérospatiale in France, Bristol in the United Kingdom and Bell, Sikorsky

similar locomotives that from the 1920s until the early 1960s hauled express trains in most parts of Germany. It was placed with much ceremony in the Deutsches Museum in 1958, although similar locomotives continued

Leonida modelled the museum on the Deutsches Museum in Munich that he visited when studying in Germany, but as the founder of a pioneering training school for electricians and mechanics, he saw its purpose

1915 and in the years after the Second World War. In the 1960s a third of all the shoes worn in Germany were made in the town. As in other shoemaking towns in Europe, the industry has declined as production

present Czech Republic. Freiberg was granted privileges that made it the first free mining city in Germany in the mid-14th century, and extraction of silver and iron ores reached a peak in the 15th and 16th