Drive 1
DRAMATIC NORTH SEA COAST
Lüneburg to
East Frisia &
East Frisian Islands 30
3–4 daysDrive 2
WONDERS OF SCHLESWIG-
HOLSTEIN
Wedel To Husum 40
3 daysDrive 3
THE BALTIC COAST
Bad Doberan to
Usedom 48
5–6 daysDrive 4
LAND OF A THOUSAND LAKES
Wismar to Neustrelitz 58
2–3 daysDrive 5
HISTORY AND REVOLUTIONS
ALONG THE ELBE
Havelberg to Lutherstadt
Wittenberg 66
3 daysDrive 6
PRUSSIAN SPLENDOR
Schloss Charlottenburg to
Filmpark Babelsberg 74
1–2 daysDrive 7
GRAND OLD PRUSSIAN AVENUES
Schloss Rheinsberg to
Freilandmuseum Lehde 80
3 daysDrive 8
PALACES AND CASTLES OF
MÜNSTERLAND
Kalkar to Münster 88
2 daysDrive 9
MYSTICAL MOUNTAINS
Burg Falkenstein to
Rammelsberger
Bergbaumuseum 94
2–3 daysCONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK 6
INTRODUCING GERMANY 8
GETTING TO GERMANY 10
PRACTICAL INFORMATION 12
DRIVING IN GERMANY 16
WHERE TO STAY 22
WHERE TO EAT 24
THE DRIVES 28
Below Upper gate of the Schloss Harburg along the
Romantic Road, Lower SaxonyBelow Seventeenth-century Schloss Wachsenburg,
Drei Gleichen, ThuringiaAbove Punting on the Neckar river, Tübingen,
Baden-WürttembergMANAGING EDITOR Aruna Ghose
EDITORIAL MANAGER
Sheeba Bhatnagar
DESIGN MANAGER Kavita Saha
PROJECT EDITOR Arundhti Bhanot
EDITORS Beverly Smart,
Parvati M. Krishnan
PROJECT DESIGNER Mathew Kurien
DESIGNER Kaberi Hazarika
PICTURE RESEARCH
Taiyaba Khatoon, Shweta Andrews
DTP DESIGNERS Rakesh Pal,
Azeem Siddiqui
CARTOGRAPHY MANAGER
Uma Bhattacharya
CARTOGRAPHY
Jasneet Arora, Mohammad Hassan
ILLUSTRATOR
Arun PottirayilFirst American Edition, 2011
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ISBN 978 0 7566 7283 6
Jacket: Parish church near Berchtesgaden,
Upper Bavaria