Best places: Monuments in Germany

91m-high memorial to the 1813 Battle Of The Nations with a viewing platform & a history museum.

Landmark hilltop monument accessible by foot or cablecar, with dramatic river & valley views.

Landmark, restored replica of the 14th-century Beautiful Fountain, built to resemble a Gothic spire.

Imposing neo-classical edifice with a marble hall housing plaques & busts of illustrious Germans.

Memorial to victories over Napoleon in the Wars of Liberation, with allegories of Germanic tribes.

War memorial with tower & observation deck, built in 1936 originally to honour World War I sailors.

Hilltop Romanesque & Gothic style Roman Catholic place of worship with ornate stained glass windows.

👍👍 What a view and what an atmosphere! I would definitely visit again. It is quite a hike to get up there but it's worth it as the view you get is second to none.

Massive military memorial & cemetery for the millions of Soviet soldiers killed in World War II.

👍👍 Schönes Fleckchen um sich vorm Spiel zu stärken und die Kehle anfechten. Hier gibt's Wurst, Steak, Fischbrötchen, Sandwich, Getränke und nebenan ein kleines Zeughaus. U.N.V.E.U.

2,710 columns forming a vast mazelike Holocaust memorial, with an underground exhibition room.

A 37m high equestrian monument marks this headland where two main rivers join.

67m-high gilded column commemorating victory in the Prussian-Danish war, with a deck for city views.

👍👍 The Deutsches Eck with the huge monument is now a popular meeting place, tourist magnet and landmark. When you stand in front of it you are very impressed by its size. The German Corner was created for the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument, an artificially raised headland at the mouth of the Moselle and the R...

Storied medieval landmark on a mountain offering a museum, plus a relaxed bistro with a beer garden.

Famed statue covered in gold leaf of King August II dressed as a Roman Caesar & riding a horse.

Site of a church destroyed in WWII air raids, with a museum in the ruins & a viewing platform.

Memorial, with an information center & guided tours, at a Nazi & Soviet concentration camp site.

👍👍 Augsburg is really interesting city in that one finds places like this one just a little outside the main city area. On the tower the city is visible and suddenly appears smaller. It makes for great walk from fairly distant car park to walk up. The houses themselves in this town give somewhat a feel...

Fully restored, brick-built Medieval gate containing a museum dedicated to the city's history.