Friday June 18th
Dessau was our first stop on the excursion. The first part of the day consisted of a tour of the grounds of the all famous Bauhaus. Bauhaus is German for "Building house" or "Building school". The Bauhaus was established by a famous architect Walter Gropius.
After leaving Dessau we drove to Leipzig and had a tour of the BMW Plant where the 1 series BMWs are made and also the New X1 line. It was every 20 year old man's dream watching these amazing pieces of machinery come to life. This BMW plant is also the home of a famous architectural designers work Zaha Hadid.
Saturday June 19th
Our morning started at 7:30 and we hopped on the bus and headed to Nurnberg to see the Nurnberg Frauenkiche. Which is giant coo coo clock that sits within the steeple of a church. This church and clock were built in 1509 which was amazing.
Shortly after 1 we hopped back on the bus and traveled to the Nazi Party Rally grounds. Which to me was a little eerie just knowing what all went on at these grounds.
The photo above is just one of the many building that Hilter was having built at the time but this was the only one of two that survived post war. If you cant tell Hitler was obsessed with the Roman style architecture. This building you see above was massive.
Sunday June 20th
We left this morning to head to our next stop on the tour of southern Germany. The Next stop was Dachau. We traveled here to get a tour of the Dachau concentration camp which was one of the first concentration camps under the Nazi party. This concentration camp was open on the 22nd of March 1933.
Later that day we toured the BMW Welt.
Monday June 21st
We started our journey to Stuttgart but before we got there we stopped off in Wiel – am- Rhien and toured the Vitra Campus. This Campus was filled with amazing architecture and amazing furniture.
Zaha Hadid - Fire Station
Next stop before we got to Stuttgart was at the Hohenzollern Castle. I’ll just let the pictures do the talking.
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