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Aachen
Aachen (Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle) is a German border city of about 261,000 near Belgium and the Netherlands, built on hot springs, Charlemagne's residence and coronation site of German kings until 1531, home of RWTH Aachen.
Apensen
Apensen, Lower Saxony: village in the district of Stade with the Roman Iron Age burial ground Apensen 1 (703 excavated cremations, est. 2,000-3,000 burials) and 5,500-year-old megalithic tombs at Grundoldendorf.
Augsburg
Augsburg, a district-free city in Bavaria and Germany's third-largest Bavarian city with about 308,000 residents, was founded by Rome in 15 BC, hosted the 1555 Peace of Augsburg, and holds the UNESCO-listed Water Management System and the Fuggerei.
Bad Bertrich
Bad Bertrich, a spa town in the Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Üßbach valley; Roman Bertriacum; 32 °C Glauber's-salt thermal spring, Germany's only; Prussian state spa from 1815.
Bad Nauheim
Bad Nauheim: Hessian spa town in the Wetterau, Germany, on brine springs worked by Celts from the 5th century BC, a Roman fort and Limes signal tower, later the Söderdorf Niwiheim and a 19th-century health resort.
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town of about 27,900 people and the county seat of the Ahrweiler district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 1969 by merging the towns of Bad Neuenahr and Ahrweiler.
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden, until 1931 simply Baden, is a Black Forest spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with twelve thermal springs (56–68.8 °C, 800,000 L/day), Roman origins as Aquae around 70 AD, and UNESCO World Heritage status since 2021 as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe.
Balingen
Balingen, seat of the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, is documented here through TSG Balingen von 1848 e.V., its >1250-member sports club, the Bizerba Arena football ground, and the town's 28 Kitas.
Bamberg
Bamberg is a county-independent town in Upper Franconia, northern Bavaria, on the Regnitz river, with about 77,000 residents. A prince-bishopric founded in 1007 by Henry II, its intact old town was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1993.
Bautzen
Bautzen (Budyšin), town of about 42,000 in Saxony, seat of Landkreis Bautzen, 50 km east of Dresden; center of the Sorbian minority, with the Niederkaina prehistoric cemetery, 1523 Taucherfriedhof, and Gedenkstätte Bautzen memorial.
Bayreuth
Bayreuth, a Bavarian city of about 72,500 residents, is known for the Baroque Margravial Opera House (UNESCO World Heritage, 2012), the Bayreuth Festival founded by Richard Wagner in 1876, and the University of Bayreuth.
Bendorf
Bendorf, a town in Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine; recorded as Bodofrica in 643, a Roman Limes fort site, iron industry center (Sayner Hütte, 1769), with the Kulturpark Sayn; distinct from Bendorf in Haut-Rhin, France.
Benningen
Benningen (Benningen am Neckar) is a municipality in the Ludwigsburg district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a Roman fort on the Neckar-Odenwald Limes built around 85 CE, garrisoned by the cohors XXIV voluntariorum, plus the medieval Annakirche.
Berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden: Bavarian market town at the Watzmann, founded as an Augustinian abbey in 1102, ruled by prince-provosts until 1803, Bavarian since 1810; salt mined continuously since 1517, with the Obersalzberg, Königssee, and Berchtesgaden National Park nearby.
Bergisch Gladbach
Bergisch Gladbach, Kreisstadt of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia near Cologne; about 111,000-114,000 residents, merged with Bensberg in 1975, former papermaking center (Zanders), home to Miltenyi Biotec and Saint-Gobain ISOVER.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, a city-state located on the Spree. With 3.7 million residents, it has served as a royal, imperial, and divided capital.
Bielefeld
Bielefeld is a German city in North Rhine-Westphalia, founded around 1214 by the Counts of Ravensberg. About 343,500 residents, Sparrenburg castle landmark, Bielefeld University (1969), and first place for objective quality of life in the 2026 Glücksatlas city ranking.
Blankenheim
Blankenheim, a town in the Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia (Kreis Euskirchen), first recorded as Blancio in 721; seat of the counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim, with Burg Blankenheim (1115), the Ahr source, and the Römervilla, one of the largest Roman villas in the Rhineland.
Böbingen
Böbingen (Böbingen an der Rems), a municipality in Baden-Württemberg's Ostalbkreis on the Limes, site of Kastell Unterböbingen, a 2 ha Roman cohort fort under Antoninus Pius, occupied to about 260 CE, now a UNESCO World Heritage stop on the Deutsche Limes-Straße.
Bocholt, Germany
Bocholt is a city of about 71,000 in the western Münsterland, district of Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia, near the Dutch border. Chartered 1222, a former textile town, retail hub, cycling city, and site of a costly town hall renovation.
Bochum
Bochum, city in the central Ruhr, Germany (~375,000 residents); former coal and steel giant (74 collieries by 1929), now a university and technology hub with Ruhr University, the world's largest mining museum, and the MARK 51°7 quarter on the former Opel site.
Bonn
Bonn is a city of about 324,000 on the Rhine in western Germany, the birthplace of Beethoven and the capital of West Germany from 1949 until reunification in 1990.
Bordesholm
Bordesholm, a municipality in Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, north of Neumünster; about 7,855 residents (2024). Former Augustinian monastery island in the Bordesholmer See; home of Hans Brüggemann's 1521 Bordesholm Altar, now in Schleswig Cathedral.
Bornstein
Bornstein: village in Neudorf-Bornstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; also the nearby late Roman Iron Age princely graves (Fürstengräber), the Sochaczew rabbinic dynasty, and a Bavarian Forest hill.
Bottrop
Bottrop, a county-free city of about 117,000 in Germany's Ruhr area, grew around coal mining from 1856, closed its last mine in 2018, and is known for the Tetraeder landmark, InnovationCity climate program, Movie Park Germany, and the Alpincenter indoor ski slope.
Braunschweig
Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony's second-largest city with about 255,000 residents, former residence of Henry the Lion and Hanseatic city, now a German research and automotive industry center.
Bremen
Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), Hanseatic city on the Weser in northwest Germany; with Bremerhaven it forms Germany's smallest two-city state. First recorded 782, Hanse member 1358, UNESCO Town Hall and Roland, major port and industrial hub.
Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven, a North Sea port city at the Weser mouth, founded 1827 by Bremen under Mayor Johann Smidt; fourth-largest European container port, part of the two-city state of Bremen.
Burladingen
Burladingen, a town in the Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, in the Killertal; home of the Roman fort Burladingen-Hausen (c. 80 AD, Vespasian, Alblimes) with its vicus and a second march camp found in 2006.
Capital of Germany
Capital of Germany: Berlin, seat of Bundestag, government, and federal president since the 1991 Bundestag vote (338 to 320) and the 1999 move from Bonn; Bonn remains the Federal City with a quarter of ministry jobs.