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yet a state and central germany with a lot to offer. our reporters take you to picturesque old towns, places steeped in history. and one of germany's most famous hiking trail. lucas stig visits the claim applica, the tourist attraction and effort. nicole clearly takes you to buy my that small city, a big thinker. and lucas hike then steak. right through the ther and jin forest we start with a journey back to the middle ages. ah ah . do you sometimes wonder what, but be like to live in the middle ages? will i do?

and that's why i am an afo to day. the old town here is typically met even effort is the state capital of their india and lives right in the middle of germany . about half way between berlin and munich in the middle ages, several trade routes crossed here, making our foot rich and powerful city. he can still see that in the old town today . there are many beautiful buildings, but there is one place in particular that is known far beyond afoot. as a tourist, an effort. this is the 1st place i must see. the came up wicker, that came up. lincoln or merchants, bridge is old. it has spent this river the giga for almost 900 years, and the bridge is lined with houses. something like this is rare from this angle. you can clearly see it's a bridge ah,

from above the came applica looks just like any street in the old town. this spot is a major draw for tourists, though many don't take the time to stop by the small shops co face studios. that's a shame because they're such a large part of the cable gast chart. as in the middle ages, the shopkeepers sell their products here. for example, small fine goods, such as spices, fabrics, paints, and books. the came up with a has undergone many changes over time. it burned down and was rebuilt, houses were merged. they used to be a church at either end of the bridge, but only one has survived st. charles church.

ah, i recommend climbing the tower like i do. the way up is an experience in itself. it's $128.00 steps to the top. and how's that for a view? that's the came up liquor from a book up here. i can see that our foot has a lot of churches there there and there is another one there. towering above the old town is cathedral hill. there are 2 churches there. the church of saint severus on the right and our foot cathedral on the left asked only to be expected. the architecture is gothic the epitome of the middle ages. and i take a look inside the cathedral, oo

generations of architects have left their mark on the cathedral since the initial construction was started in the 8th century. ah, you can easily explore efforts, old town on foot, past large magnificent townhouses. you'll also find a lot of half timbered houses and cobblestones. it's fun to just wander around it every turn to find romantic alleyways. i can hardly believe this is the city of over 200000 people. ah,

wealthy people lived here. you can tell by the name portals they date back to the renovations, but the houses behind them are much older. this one year, for example, is a walk in monument, a residential and commercial building from the middle ages, around the 13th century. it's named the house of the crew. didn't include back in these days. we don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds kind of interesting. you'll find many other house names like it in the old town, some spots and the black wheels, ah, the white lily. the black horn, the red ox, the ion had well and so on. some golden and swan golden swan. well, sometimes these names sound a bit strange today, but in the middle ages that was normal. these were like the house numbers. ah,

the golden rule for alpha, the old town is that nothing is ever more than a 15 minute walk away. and sooner or later, you always come back to the cream of liquor. in the late afternoon, the bridge white's down the tourists trouts thin out and there is time to enjoy the atmosphere and p. ah, i'd like to know what it's like to live in the house of the cream of work. oh, just try my luck. ah, hello, hello. hello. do you still hear me? yeah, yes or something. what do you have for it? would you like to come in? alright. the bill has been selling antiques and came up looking for 20 years. she's easy to talk to and she lives right on the ridge. this room has a very, like thick back to the year 1518. their kid is for the renaissance,

and so very old. as elaine as songs and what were alto, dick, he does it. this painted breed motif here is typical of that time. this is an original as though we're going to live upstairs in rhoda niche. no, i live in the 2nd house over house. can we take a look your shores? i am a little curious. yes, i can tell her this condition mamma, okay, of as far as his death wellness is a living ruin. this is how we live on the clean up. i've got came up with this. this is my and this is my little kitchen where i feel at home, which will, if it's not very big, but it's another,

it's christ. he hears the porch where i've got my flowers, which minute boom harbor for me and listen, i totally enough space. remember we take a look at the balcony. yeah it goes. i wonderful. oh yeah and yes most is my feel good or wasted him. is mine with my tomato and flower was toma with mine in blue men. oh there is still a big green. yes, but you can already see the blossom newton here and there's even a visual tomato on till might that time. or how does it feel to live on the came up with her book down below. it's often crowded with locals and tourists. it's been loyal f. what the tourist about in that was not during the week. cool. so you do have some peace and quiet roster, but often after work i sit out here and read or have some friends over and did die as it was a nice life would and doesn't bother you that all these people are photographing your apartment all the time. for about a month to fulfill the insight stewart and that doesn't bother me. show you sneeze

respect, did you hide when people start snapping photos? i know they don't see me here. they're taking pictures of the bridges. a whole lot of me said, i don't have any problem with leon damage. yes, it's beautiful here. yeah, i sent soon here on the warm summer evenings, the people off our foot meet on the cream applica and soak in the atmosphere. you could join them at imagine for a moment what it must have been like in the middle ages. next nicole foolish takes us to weimar or 2nd stop and through india, even 200 years ago, the world had its eyes on this small city considered to be the intellectual center of germany at the time. this was mainly due to these 2 poet johan boys, gung fun,

gota and sleepily sheila the works of good to and cilla a great german classics. but 200 years ago they were considered extremely progressive. somehow, by my has managed time and again to attract pioneers and trailblazers, contributing to the mix of new and old classics that kenton day me found all around town. my tour of lima begins at good, his former residents in the very heart of the city. the author and naturalists lived here for 50 years. the house was a gift to him from his patron grand duke, called out with good, your remodeled the home and had it furnished to his liking. mm. for instance, he put in this staircase built in the italian style. i wonder if the steps already squeaked like this and go to the day. it's possible,

he wrote that it's a staircase one, never tires of going up and down. in the front part of the house you find elegantly furnished rooms. this mortgage a welcomed his guest artists, scholars, politicians, and members of the royal family sculptures were to remind him of his time in italy as well as hadda and sheila beloved companions who died 30 years before him. the girl to a family lived in the real part of the house. ah, this room is referred to as christiane. is room in honor of christiana volpe, your skirt, his wife. the couple lived together for 18 years before marrying something the citizens of weimar found scandalous. when they finally did get hit, their son was already 16 years old. ah,

good to study was simple and uncluttered. he wanted nothing to distract him from thinking and writing. and it was here in his bedroom that good to died at the age of 82. ah ah, it's almost impossible to get lost and buy him up. all you have to do is follow the enticing smell of grilled sausages and you'll end up at the market square with delicious also here on the markets where is the most famous hotel in town? the elephant, which has been welcoming prominent guests for 300 years with

definitely worth having a look inside. and this is one of the most beautiful rooms hotel b, r manager, casting, dealing regularly organized concerts, readings here on the walls, paintings and drawings from the hotel's own collection. and how hotel with its own art collection. is that something unique or is standard practice environment. this isn't that hot seems it is unusual, a couldn't see what it is as unknown. this on collection was put together in the 1990s, with high gazelle shaft ordinance. it is something of a pillow on which the hotel stands, of the ones, a house or steed. koonce was not a music architecture, design and literature. they're all things closely associated with this city of by mouth, by mouth problem to post the liberties have always felt at home here at the elephant of how many guests are drawn to the hotels history and how many book

a room just because it's a beautiful blaze, right in the center of town and sureness will tell us, written him by mom is think of the vog ahead of the stuff that i think it is a mix vessel telling the fun. but the hotel elephant is definitely famous for its long history and tradition. as well as for its many prominent guests who continued to come and stay with us in music or yup, staying on ireland. many of your prominent guests have signed a guest book. i've heard you have a few of them around here somewhere. gonna mind if we take a beating with him? i am so good. again. athletes, actors, politicians, they all stayed at the elephant mikhail gorbachev. joe cocker, chris ria, robin gave of the bee gees filmmaker, vim van death rider til mussman. and fashion designer, vault gun, yelp. they've all signed the guest books some even have works included in the

collection. another vi my classic is the bow house school founded in 1919 to day. it's a university. back then it was a school of architecture, crafts and fine arts. it's director architect but a globule invited, famous artist to the city. like was it contin ski publicly, and leonor, finding out the bowels architects built their 1st model home in weimar house. i'm hon. which introduced a new approach to housing. as of 2019, there's a new building about house museum and commemoration of the centennial. you can download an app to your phone that'll guide you through the museum. this is peter kayla's famous cradle it utilized condense, keys, color theory,

circles must be blue squares, red and triangles. yellow. the design is still produced to day and can be yours for $1880.00 euro. ah, the museum center piece is about to go be as collection. he chose 170 pieces that were to stay in weimar when the bow house moved to death, though in 1925. many of these objects became famous. the world over like this land by the land bag and felt this tea pot by manion and blunt or myself lawyers can't deliver chairs all of them modern classics. ah, after taking in so much culture, it's time to take in some fresh air in the thir indian forest. there are many hiking trails in this low mountain range, but none more famous than that and tag it follows the forest ridge right across the

state. look, as steger is on the trail, ah, the inch deck is one of the oldest hiking trails of germany. it begins that eisenhower on the vow river and ends the town of blank and shine on the zebedee river. it's customary to take stone from the river along with you. it said to bring good luck and when you reach the end of the gun strike, you throw it into visited bits. so my mission is clear, but from start to finish, their inside rich trail is about 170 kilometers long. i'll pill downhill. always along the crest of the thir engine forest. it's going to be exhausting. and maybe my shoes will look like this. ah,

the 1st section of the gun strike is uphill. of course. fortunately, it's a low mountain range here in the ther engine forest. so i don't have to huff and puff my way up to 2 or 3000 meters. ah, all in all the tree, it stretches 170 kilometers. some hikers do the whole thing in 6 days. others and 8 or 10. ah, along the way i passed by the to the todd water. it's artificial, a small river has been dams up here and faults 58 meters to the ground. ah, by the way, the end steak was 1st mentioned in the 14th century as a border road between franconia and tooling and

many boundaries stones are still standing. ah, and now i faced my biggest challenge ins. it's back mountain. the climb isn't easy, but it's worth it, especially on a day like today. ah, ah, here on the inside spec, there's also a fun park. ah, anyone can take the alpine slide. i want to try the v flyer. ah

ah, ah, again, steak is one of the most popular hiking trails in germany, around 100000 people, walk along these paths every year. in the fall invite vista, biosphere reserve. i catch up with a guided to a group. matthew nicholas has been off free. dear, what she tours for many years. we walk deep into the forest, so hopefully we will see some animal soon. as quietly as possible. we all go into the observation ox. and then we see them ah, bread dear and the wild and so close. i didn't expect to see so many.

ready ah, use matthew nicholas here with visitors almost every evening. oh it is miss false house. them that is i said that you've been doing this for 15 years. did you ever get bored or is there always something new and exciting? here in the forest morris. he invite, get them all, it was my but there's always something new to see and discover in the forest to see and you never get bored of animals. every evening is different home sooner i think read dear, such appealing creatures from guns, and i like the way they look and behave like now can watch them every day. how much into one glue my next stop along the end. strike the hot house in the town of clientele.

guys. schmidt was one of the co founders of this you funded pilot project 15 years ago. the hot house is warmed, using heat from the local glass manufacturer and exotic fruits. coffee and spices thrive on the ranch dike without long environmentally harmful transports from asia a south america. and from a can you show me the most exotic fruit here? nick sawdust, if the most exotic for right at the moment is down then says sun constable. the giant granite dx galatea would in columbia. it's called a bad idea to home. we also have seats here from colombia, but here is the biggest passion fruit in the world as of the, the guitar pumping to it. this thing year. does that think it's almost right knife

of may i? yes. as it is most of as way as much as they do in their countries of origin. me at 4 to 5 kilos with vomit yet. the fear papa. here he, papa. we've learned that the papaya is the plant that really flourishes. here we now have is one and a half tons of papayas on an area of about 500 square meters, 20 and then who buys them? as all of the i visitors for one over then some is made into fruit sprints for food, or some visitors prefer that to taking a one or 2 kilo papa home or, and we have customers in the restaurant business, for instance, a country in that's interested in the punches, if you would like to know more about this environmental project, it is best to join a guided tour. ah, the 170 kilometers of french dyke are behind me. i am in the town of blank and stine, on the sabbath river, and my shoes are still okay. hello. hello. hi,

chris. how long have you been on the trail example that makes the takes days when i was a tough guy mine. so well, yes, by the end of the day, your legs are suffering from snaps in by or is it, but you don't look that tired and your shoes are still looking good. what was the hardest part of the trail and strings? amongst links with the hardest part was climbing up in his bag. that was hard going . he will, he was 40 to 50, but it was worth the reward. the next day when we had sun and clouds over touring and the mist was grain while they're throwing their stones into the river, another group arrives on bikes. if you like, how long have you been on the road? 23 and a half days. and his is the wrench take also good for cycling or do you have to improvise cushioning it musician for that far? you know, the cycling path is great. it's a bit longer and sometimes runs parallel to the hinge dyke, but sometimes on it,

it's a really lovely roots. i highly recommend it and not to him pin. ah, the stone from the veteran river brought me luck. the weather was just perfect. i met interesting people and experienced a lot of nature and like any other hiker on the against dyke, i will throw the stone now into the zip its river. ah, ah, ah ah, ah, with

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