The heart of downtown Stuttgart is the “Neue Schloss” (New Palace), built in late Baroque style.
From 1746 to 1797 and from 1805 to 1807, it served as a residence of the kings of Württemberg.
The castle was almost completely destroyed by Allied bombing during the Second World War and was reconstructed between 1958 and 1964.
During this time most of the inside of the castle was also restored and the building was used by the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament.
Today it is used by the State Ministries of Finance and Education.
We had great weather for March and everyone was chilling out in the palace gardens.
The Stiftskirche Stuttgart (Collegiate Church) is an inner-city church in Stuttgart. It is the main church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg (Evangelische Landeskirche in Württemberg) as well as the parish church of the evangelical (Lutheran) inner-city church district of Stuttgart. The origins of this church lie in the 10th and 11th.
The last two pictures show the famous cake cafe right next to the palace gardens where we had deliciouuuus cake but it was a pain to decide which to take *sighs*
The Greiswalder Oie photographed from the island Usedom
from wikipedia:
The island was a within a restricted area of the Nazi, later East German military, from 1936 to 1991. Between 1937 and 1945 numerous rockets were launched from Greifswalder Oie. There were attempts to launch A3 rockets in December 1937, which all failed, and between 1938 and 1942 the almost successful launches of the A5 rockets. Also 28 A4 or V-2 rockets were launched vertically from Greifswalder Oie between 1943 and 1945. These launches were made in order to watch the reentrance of the A4 rockets into the atmosphere.
These days the islet is an uninhabited sea bird reserve,save for a single man who works the light house, manages the small emergency yacht harbor (depth ca. 1.6m / 6 ft), and creates outdoor art objects that he scatters along a path that circles the island.