Ludwig II had Herrenchiemsee Palace modeled on Versailles. At a length of 77 meters, his hall of mirrors is even four meters longer than the original outside Paris. Further west, in the Allgäu region, stands Bavaria's most famous castle: Neuschwanstein. It's modeled on a medieval fortified castle, and its idyllic location makes it unique. Ludwig II, who died in 1886, never lived to see it completed. Nowadays about 1.3 million visitors a year come to admire it. Linderhof Palace lies slightly further Read more [...]

A painting of Neuschwanstein Castle, a watercolor signed A Hitler. Photo / AFPPictures presumed to have been the work of a young Adolf Hitler have been sold at auction in Nuremberg for a total of €391,000 (NZD$642,670). Fourteen watercolour paintings and drawings were put up for sale - the highest price was paid for a watercolour of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, which went to a buyer from China for 100,000 euros. A still life picture of a bouquet of carnations changed hands for 73,000 euros. Read more [...]

It's not easy to get inside the head of a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex - especially when its fossilized remains are embedded in a block of sandstone. But that hasn't deterred researchers in the German city of Fürth. They carried out what is believed to be the highest-resolution CT scan ever conducted on a T. rex skull. The procedure was performed at Fürth's Fraunhofer Institute, inside a device known as the XXL computerized tomography machine - the biggest of its type in the world. Read more [...]

BERLIN, June 20 The north-west German state of Lower Saxony risked stoking tensions with Bavaria over energy policy on Saturday by urging companies from the southern region to move north to secure stable power supplies.Bavaria has sparked frustration in Lower Saxony by opposing power lines planned to carry electricity from the breezy north to the industrial heartland in the south.In a light-hearted, half-page advertisement in Bavaria's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, Lower Saxony's Economy Minister Olaf Read more [...]

BERLIN The German government presented a plan on Friday for four interim storage sites to host nuclear waste now piled up at plants in France and Britain, but the move drew criticism from Bavaria, which wants none of the material.After Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, Germany decided to shut all of its nuclear plants by 2022, but still has to work out how to handle tonnes of highly radioactive waste.Original plans to turn an interim nuclear waste storage site in salt formations in Lower Read more [...]

Climate change was a hot topic at this year’s G7 summit, where world leaders took a major step forward on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That’s according to Oakville’s Ella Kokotsis, who was in Bavaria, Germany on June 7 and 8 for the 41st annual G7 summit. Read more [...]

BERLIN, June 19 (Reuters) – The German government presented
a plan on Friday for four interim storage sites to host nuclear
waste now piled up at plants in France and Britain, but the move
drew criticism from Bavaria, which wants none of the material.

Nuremburg - Fourteen watercolour paintings and drawings allegedly by a young Adolf Hitler are set to be auctioned in the German city of Nuremburg this weekend, the Weidler auction house said on Friday.The works, which are set to bring in between $130 000 to $51 000 each and are dated between 1904 and 1922, include a watercolour of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria and several still lifes.Hitler's artistic endeavours are widely considered to be of limited merit, but their sale - though controversial Read more [...]

Nuremburg - Fourteen watercolour paintings and drawings allegedly by a young Adolf Hitler are set to be auctioned in the German city of Nuremburg this weekend, the Weidler auction house said on Friday.The works, which are set to bring in between $130 000 to $51 000 each and are dated between 1904 and 1922, include a watercolour of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria and several still lifes.Hitler's artistic endeavours are widely considered to be of limited merit, but their sale - though controversial Read more [...]

Fourteen watercolour paintings and drawings allegedly by a young Adolf Hitler are set to be auctioned in the German city of Nuremburg this weekend, the Weidler auction house said on Friday.The works, which are set to bring in between 1,000 and 45,000 euros (1,130-51,000 dollars) each and are dated between 1904 and 1922, include a watercolour of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria and several still lifes.Hitler's artistic endeavours are widely considered to be of limited merit, but their sale Read more [...]