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The German holidays route alpine Baltic Sea (DFAO) is a holidays road and leads from Berchtesgaden (king lake) after Puttgarden (Fehmarn). It is 1,738 kilometers long and crosses five Lands of the Federal Republic. It is the longest of the tourist routes out-described in Germany.

Lands of the Federal Republic

The DFAO leads first by Bavaria only in northern, then westward, to turn around itself in Baden-Wuerttemberg again northward and by Hessen, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein of the Baltic Sea zuzustreben.

Landscapes

On this distance one becomes acquainted with Germany with its different landscape forms: The alpine summits and the hilly Voralpenland, which schroffen large and small rivers, which become green, sometimes, sometimes gentle low mountain ranges, the heath landscape and finally the far lowlandses of the north. In detail is this:

  • Alpine region Berchtesgadener country
  • Chiemgau
  • Hallertau
  • Inn valley
  • Hohenloher level
  • Neckartal
  • Odenwald
  • Lahn valley
  • Bird mountain
  • Hessian mountain country
  • Weser mountain country
  • Calibration field
  • Resin
  • heath
  • North German lowlandses
  • Baltic Sea

Objects of interest

Locks and castles are everywhere at this holidays road, pictorial villages likewise. In South Germany baroque architecture dominates. Prince and ruling families, in addition, monasteries and churches are exemplary witnesses of a splendid time. One can call the middle section of the German holidays route alpine Baltic Sea romantic. In close small towns, the Fachwerkgiebel enclosed itself around the highest in each case point, the mountain with the castle from towers and gates, urge. The lonely yards, villages and cities of the north offer against it a landscape to dreaming width unit.

Particularly to emphasize are:

  • Berchtesgaden with salt mine and king lake
  • Water castle at the Inn, the bead of the Bavarian Middle Ages
  • Baroque, bishop and university town
  • with its medieval townscape
  • Of Europe only ivory carving center and - museum in hereditaryoh
  • The prince lock in
  • The framework small town Homberg (Efze)
  • Bath Sooden Allendorf with its medieval framework townscape and the saltworks
  • The university town Goettingen
  • The Marzipanstadt Luebeck
  • The bird protected area Wallnau
  • Puttgarden on the Baltic Sea island Fehmarn

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