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Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With nearly 83 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, with its main centres of Dortmund and Essen. The country's other major cities are Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Bremen, Dresden, Hannover, and Nuremberg. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the north...
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  • 4. Pulverturm Greiz Greiz
    A powder tower , occasionally also powder house , was a building used by the military or by mining companies, frequently a tower, to store gunpowder or, later, explosives. They were common until the 20th century, but were increasingly succeeded by gunpowder magazines and ammunition depots. The explosion of a powder tower could be catastrophic as, for example, in the Delft Explosion of 1654. Buildings formerly used as powder towers include the following: Langer Turm, Aachen Pulvertürmchen in Aachen Pulverturm, Andernach Pulverturm, Anklam Pulverturm, Bad Bentheim Pulverturm, Bad Reichenhall Bremer Pulvertürme Pulverturm, Burghausen Malteserturm in Chur Knochenturm in Einbeck Pulverturm, Greiz Färberturm, Gunzenhausen Pulverturm, Johanngeorgenstadt Pulverturm, Jena Pulverturm, Krems Pulve...
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  • 7. The Adam-and-Eve-House Paderborn
    Popes Pius XI and Pius XII led the Roman Catholic Church through the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Around a third of Germans were Catholic in the 1930s. The Church in Germany had spoken against the rise of Nazism, but the Catholic aligned Centre Party capitulated in 1933 and was banned. In the various 1933 elections the percentage of Catholics voting for the Nazis party was remarkably lower than the average. Nazi key ideologue Alfred Rosenberg was banned on the index of the Inquisition, presided by later pope Pius XII. Adolf Hitler and several key Nazis had been raised Catholic, but became hostile to the Church in adulthood. While Article 24 of the NSDAP party platform called for conditional toleration of Christian denominations and the 1933 Reichskonkordat treaty with the Vatican purport...
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  • 9. Main Tower Frankfurt
    Main Tower is a 56-storey, 200 m skyscraper in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is named after the nearby Main river. The building is 240 m when its antenna spire is included. The tower has five underground floors and two public viewing platforms. It is the only skyscraper in Frankfurt with a public viewing observatory. It is the 4th tallest building in Frankfurt and the 4th tallest in Germany, tied with Tower 185. The foyer of the building has two art pieces accessible to the public: the video installation by Bill Viola The World of Appearances and the wall mosaic by Stephan Huber Frankfurter Treppe / XX. Jahrhundert . The tower's design features what appears to be two connected towers. The smaller of the two is of a cuboid shape and a design common to 1970s architecture....
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  • 13. Mauerpark Berlin
    Mauerpark is a public linear park in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. The name translates to Wall Park, referring to its status as a former part of the Berlin Wall and its Death Strip. The park is located at the border of Prenzlauer Berg and Gesundbrunnen district of former West Berlin.
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