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Above: Foggy dawn over Lake Constance, 23 Sep 2017 (HL).

For over fifteen years, I’ve traveled with German Rail throughout the the country. I was always passing through the centre of the country; thanks to InterCity Express trains on journeys between Frankfurt and Berlin, I’d seen stops with names “Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe”, “Hildesheim”, and “Hannover”; and I’d wondered what there was to see in these places. I finally decided to stop and find out for myself.

I wrote about my return to Germany to explore the country’s central corridor from Lake Constance to Hannover. I covered about 3000 kilometres by train with a German Rail Pass. Over 4 weeks from mid-September to mid-October, I visited for the first time 11 of the country’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS):

1. Alfeld, Fagus factory
2. Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, Gartenstadt Falkenberg
3. Blaubeuren, Ice Age caves
4. Goslar, Rammelsberg ore mines
5. Hildesheim, St. Mary’s & St. Michael’s
6. Höxter, Corvey Abbey
7. Kassel, Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
8. Lorsch Abbey
9. Reichenau Island
10. Unteruhldingen, Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
11. Würzburg Residence.

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