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EAT AND DRINKHAVELBERG
Bella Vista inexpensive
This restaurant offers superb town
views from its terrace and serves
pizzas and simple pork and fish dishes.
Domplatz 2, 39539; 039387 598 44TANGERMÜNDE
Alte Brauerei inexpensive
The food at this restaurant is good,
with various salads, steaks, and fish
dishes on offer.
Lange Strasse 34, 39590; 039322
441 45MAGDEBURG
Le Frog inexpensive
A popular brasserie in the town’s
main park, Stadtpark, Le Frog’s beer
garden often hosts live music. The
menu includes local game, wild
mushrooms, and good salads.
Heinrich-Heine-Platz 1, 39104;
0391 531 35 56
Kornhaus moderate
Housed in an elegant Bauhaus
building, this restaurant serves
regional cuisine.
Kornhausstrasse 146, 39104;
0340 640 41 41
Petriförder moderate
A large restaurant in a pleasant
riverside location with an extensive
international menu that includes
standard Italian options.
Petriförder 1, 39104; 0391 597 96 00
Die Saison expensive
The restaurant of the Herrenkrug
Parkhotel serves the best food in
Magdeburg. There are many gourmet
treats in store, such as lobster and
prawn with pine nut and spinach
salad, and various wonderful desserts.
Herrenkrug 3, 39114; 0391 850 80DRIVE 5: History and Revolutions Along the Elbe
Eat and Drink: inexpensive, under €20; moderate, €20–€40; expensive, over €404 Magdeburg
Saxony-Anhalt; 39104
Established as a trading post by
Charlemagne in the 9th century,
Magdeburg became the main
residence of Emperor Otto I in the
10th century. The town was brutally
sacked in 1631 by Catholic imperial
forces, while World War II leveled
most of it. However, Magdeburg
is not without reminders of its
glorious past. The most impressive
is the Gothic Dom St. Mauritius
und St. Katharina (open daily) with
distinctive octagonal turrets and
spires. Its construction began in
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The Grüne Zitadelle in Magdeburg
was the last work of Austrian
architect and designer Friedensreich
Hundertwasser (1928–2000).
Inspired by Antonio Gaudí and
Gustav Klimt, Hundertwasser is
famed for his rejection of straight
lines in favor of unruly shapes, bright
colors and chaotic designs.
Fascinated by spirals, he called
straight lines “the devil’s tools.”Bauhaus
The Bauhaus movement was begun
in 1918 by painter Max Pechstein to
utilize art for revo lutionary purposes.
One of its members, architect Walter
Gropius, founded the design school.
At odds with the Nazis during World
War II, many members went into
exile in the US, where they founded
the International Style movement.5 Bauhausgebäude
Saxony-Anhalt; 06846
Built in 1925 in Dessau, the Bauhaus
School continues to be a design
school. The work of architect Walter
Gropius, this white concrete building
is famed for the Bauhaus logo beside
its parking lot and the innovative
balco nies at the back of the building.
Its small museum, Ausstellung im
Bauhaus (open Mon–Fri), has displays
showcasing the application of
Bauhaus theory to many areas of art
and design. The front desk also sells
tickets to the other Bauhaus attrac-
tions: the Meisterhäuser (masters’
houses) and the Tö r t e n, a 1920s proto-
type housing estate, 4 miles (7 km)
southeast of central Dessau.
ª Go back to Puschkinallee, turn right
and follow the street to the T-junction
with Friedrichstrasse. Turn left then
right on to Kavalierstrasse. Turn left to
Vockerode, and at the T-junction, turn
left to Wörlitz. Turn left on Seespitze
and follow signs to the parking lot.1209, vastly enlarging an earlier
monastery church founded by
Otto I in 926. Look out for the
emperor’s tomb, sculptor Ernst
Barlach’s contemplative 1929 memo-
rial to the dead of World War I, and
the sculpture of the Magdeburger
Virgins (1240), illustrating the Parable
of the Ten Virgins. In contrast, the
most celebrated new building is
the Grüne Zitadelle (tour: daily). With
its playful curves and colours, this
apartment complex, designed by
Austrian architect Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, is a key landmark.
ª Turn right along Ernst-Reuter-Allee
and continue on the Brückstrasse,
which becomes the B1, on to the B184.
In Dessau, turn right on Rosslauer Allee
then right on to Antoinettenstrasse,
which becomes Puschkinallee, then
left on Gropiusallee to the parking lot.the late-Gothic St. Stephanskirche,
com pleted at the end of the 15th
century. The church was built by
Charles IV, King of Bohemia, who used
the town as his second royal resi dence
after Prague. Behind the church are
the remains of his castle, which was
destroyed in 1640 by a Swedish
campaign in the Thirty Years’ War.
ª Turn left to Lüderitz on to the
B189, which becomes the B71 in
Magdeburg. Follow signs to Zentrum
then the Dom to reach the Domplatz
for on-street parking.
Above Striking Grüne Zitadelle complex,
Magdeburg Below Elegant Meisterhäuser,
the masters’ houses, Bauhausgebäude