German-speaking cities by size / tourist destinations
| «Ybbs, Enns, Krems und Stein
Brünn, Prag, Wien, Graz und Köln am Rhein Sind der schönsten Städte neun.» |
T = known as a tourist city, a stop on organized tours, your friends at home will have heard of it
ET = well known and visited by European tourists, probably little known to American tourists.
- = may be interesting for specific reasons to certain people, [your relatives came from there, you read a story about it, you want to visit the beer museum] but if your time is not unlimited don't go there
* interesting for a general tourist
** very interesting for a general tourist
*** build your tour around them, unique for general tourists
I. Berlin 3.4 Million ***
| II. | |
| Wien | 1.6 Million ** T |
| Hamburg | 1.6 Million ** |
| München | 1.2 Million * T |
| Köln | 1 Million * |
| III. | |||
| Frankfurt | 625,000 - | Essen | 625,000 - |
| Dortmund | 600,000 - | Düsseldorf | 575,000 - |
| Stuttgart | 560,000 * | Leipzig | 530,000 - |
| Bremen | 525,000 - | Hannover | 500,000 - |
| Dresden | 500,000 * | Nürnberg | 485,000 ** |
| Bochum | 400,000 - | Wuppertal | 375,000 - |
| Kiel | 250,000 - | Mannheim | 300,000 - |
| Chemnitz | 300,000 | ||
| IV. | |||
| Wiesbaden | 270,000 | Bonn | 290,000 |
| Braunschweig | 250,000 - | Augsburg | 250,000 - |
| Münster | 270,000 - | Lübeck | 210,000 ** |
| Graz | 250,000 *** | Linz | 250,000 |
| Aachen | 240,000 - | Mainz | 190,000 - |
| Freiburg | 190,000 ** T | Salzburg | 150,000 **+ T |
| Darmstadt | 140,000 - | Heidelberg | 130,000 *+ T |
| Oldenburg | 140,000 - | Würzburg | 130,000 * |
| Basel | 170,000 [360,000] - | Zürich | 350,000 [835,000] - |
| Innsbruck | 125,000 * T | Bern | 140,000 [300,000] -* |
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A. Barockkleinstädte und -stätten
1. Birnau
2. Wies
3. 14 Heiligen
4. Neresheim
5. Würzburger Residenz
B. Märchenkleinstädte
1. Rothenburg
2. Miltenberg
3. Dinkelsbühl
4. Landsberg an der Lech
5. Hameln
6. Goslar
7. Hannoversche Münden
8. Freistadt
9. Steyr (8 and 9 near Linz)
C. New States
1. Meißen
2. Harz
3. Freiberg
4. Kamenz
5. Görlitz / Zittau
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ET: Meersburg 5,100
Michelstadt 14,000
Miltenberg 9,500
Goslar 55,000
Marburg 75,000
Baden-Baden 50,000
Bamberg 72,000
Görlitz 63,000
Urach 11,000
Rothenburg 12,000
Steyr 43,000
Freistadt 6,000
Rattenberg i/Tirol 650
Retz (NÖ) 5,000
Krems an der Donau 25,000