Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

This is the place that the famous Brandenburg Gate in Berlin references to, it is also the city that the State of Brandenburg was named after. There’s a Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and there’s one in Potsdam, both are on roads leading to this city of churches. Although the tourism board may have you believe that Magdeburg is the city with more churches, I find Brandenburg’s churches equally charming.

As charming as this town may seem, it was the host to Nazi Germany’s first concentration camp where they euthanised and killed those with mental illnesses in the 1930’s. In the following decade, Hitler was almost assassinated here, but the assassin was caught and executed.

I’ll just post up a bunch of the church photos because I couldn’t tell St. Paul’s from St. Catherine’s, I’m afraid you’ll just have to Google them up to identify them. The one mistake I made was bringing my bicycle here, you see, the charming streets have tram tracks and cobblestone roads so they are perilous for cyclists in winter. Luckily, I kept my bum off the ground!

It was heavily bombed in the war due to an aircraft factory being located here, so a lot of the buildings are post 50’s modernist. One of the flashiest buildings stands on Marienberg giving you a commanding view of the town below. Do wear sturdy shoes as the hillside tracks can get muddy when wet.