The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is located on both sides of the river Weser, with its approximately 549,000 inhabitants it makes the 10th largest city of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the Hanseatic era, towards the middle of the 13th century, it developed into a flourishing commercial metrop...
Since its foundation by the Roman Emperor Augustus between 15 BC and 8 BC, Augsburg is the crossroads for the most important traffic connections on the continent. Augsburg also owed its great importance to this privileged position in the Middle Ages. The wealthy Fugger family and sea-trading Welser ...
The city of Bielefeld is located in Ostwestfalen-Lippe and is home to 325,000 inhabitants, making it the largest city in the region. At the same time, it is the economic center of the region. Surrounded by natural landscapes and close to the Teutoburg Forest, the small metropolis is a popular excurs...
The city of Bochum with its 375,000 inhabitants is the second largest city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The musical Starlight Express made the metropole internationally known and as numerous steel works had to close their doors during the steel crisis, Bochum developed into a city with a ...