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Germany landmarks quiz: guess where 35 photos were taken
The 35 Germany locations from the game, laid out with their photos and facts. Play a round first, then read.
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The round is five photos long. Look, tap the map, read the distance, move on.
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The neoclassical gate at the end of Unter den Linden in Berlin.
Photo: Berthold Werner / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 19th-century fairytale castle in the Bavarian Alps.
Photo: Ximonic, Simo Räsänen (post-processing) & Tauno Räsänen (photograph) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A perfectly preserved walled town on Germany's Romantic Road.
Photo: Tuxyso / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A twin-spired Gothic cathedral beside the Rhine.
Photo: Martin Falbisoner / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A ruined red castle above an old town on the Neckar.
Photo: R. J. Mathar / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A half-timbered town hall built on a bridge over the river.
Photo: Ermell / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Bavarian lake south of Munich where King Ludwig II was found drowned in 1886.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Frederick the Great's rococo summer palace above terraced vineyards.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The hilltop castle where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German.
Photo: Krzysztof Golik / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Frankfurt's 259-metre tower, the first ecological skyscraper with sky gardens.
Photo: Commerzbank AG / CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
Berlin's big east-side square beneath the TV tower, rebuilt in socialist style.
Photo: Christian Wolf (www.c-w-design.de) / CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
A fairy-tale castle on a rock in a wooded valley, owned by the same family for 850 years.
Photo: Johannes Dörrstock / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A bombed church tower left as a war memorial beside a modern blue-glass chapel.
Photo: Flocci Nivis / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A rococo palace and hunting lodge of the archbishops of Cologne.
Photo: Martin Falbisoner / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A baroque palace with the largest ceiling fresco in the world, by Tiepolo.
Photo: Flocci Nivis / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A monastery island in Lake Constance, farmed since the 8th century.
Photo: Martin Steiger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A fairytale hilltop castle, ancestral seat of the Prussian royal family.
Photo: A. Kniesel (= User:-donald-), Lauffen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A pilgrimage church in a Bavarian meadow, plain outside and dazzling rococo inside.
Photo: Bönisch / CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
A fjord-like Alpine lake with the red-domed St Bartholomew's chapel on its shore.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
King Ludwig II's small rococo palace, the only one of his castles he saw completed.
Photo: Softeis / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A fairy-tale castle on an island in a lake, seat of the Mecklenburg state parliament.
Photo: Moahim / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Gothic-Renaissance town hall on the market square, guarded by the Roland statue.
Photo: Aleksandr Zykov from Russia / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The city of Bach and the 1989 peaceful revolution, the largest in Saxony.
Photo: Tuxyso / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest Romanesque church still standing, burial place of eight German emperors.
Photo: Roman Eisele / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Munich's central square, where the town hall's glockenspiel plays daily.
Photo: Burkhard Mücke / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of the largest city parks in the world, with a river wave that surfers ride.
Photo: Jakub Hałun / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Germany's oldest city, with the Roman Porta Nigra gate still standing.
Photo: Wolkenkratzer / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Parthenon replica above the Danube honouring great Germans.
Photo: SimonWaldherr / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Bavarian Sea', with King Ludwig's Versailles copy on an island.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 132-metre slate rock on the Rhine, home of the siren who lured sailors to their doom.
Photo: Jörg Braukmann / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The wooded mountains of cuckoo clocks and the source of the Danube.
Photo: Stefan Karl / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The tallest church in the world, with a 161-metre spire.
Photo: Flocci Nivis / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Carolingian abbey from 822 with the oldest surviving westwork in the world.
Photo: Aeggy / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Beethoven's birthplace and the capital of West Germany for 40 years.
Photo: Thomas Wolf (Der Wolf im Wald) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Charlemagne's octagonal palace chapel, where 30 German kings were crowned.
Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Bavaria takes a third of the 35. Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and the Wieskirche are within 20 km of each other in the Alps south-west of Munich; Munich itself has Marienplatz and the Englischer Garten, with Lake Starnberg just south; Chiemsee and Königssee are the lakes to the east towards Salzburg. Würzburg, Bamberg, Rothenburg and the Walhalla are Franconia and the Danube, the band above Munich.
The Rhine is a line you can follow. Cologne Cathedral, the Augustusburg palaces at Brühl and Bonn are within 25 km of each other on the river; Aachen is 60 km west of them against the Belgian border; the Loreley rock and Eltz Castle are upstream in the gorge; Speyer's cathedral is further up still. Trier is off to the west on the Moselle.
The north and east are sparser and easier to tell apart. Berlin has the Brandenburg Gate, Alexanderplatz and the Gedächtniskirche, with Sanssouci at Potsdam under 30 km west. Schwerin's castle is the northernmost place in the set and Bremen's town hall the north-western one. Leipzig sits between Berlin and the Wartburg at Eisenach. Corvey abbey is the lonely one, on the Weser between Bremen and the Wartburg.
Germany is one country. The daily draws from all 167.
Play the daily in the appQuestions & answers
How many Germany photos does the game have?
35. They run from Schwerin down to Königssee, and a round takes five at random.
What is the hardest Germany round?
Start with Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Town Hall of Bremen and Marienplatz; two more share the rating. Hard photos halve in value with each 451 km of miss.
Where is full marks easiest in Germany?
Rothenburg ob der Tauber: 70 km of leeway, the most generous circle on this page.