Readers share favourite Germany trips, from a €63 rail pass to a historic bridge
Guardian readers share their top tips for travelling around Germany, including a cheap nationwide transport pass and lesser-known gems like Münster.
Readers of The Guardian submitted their favourite travel experiences from across Germany as part of a regular tips competition.
Winning tip: Münster
The winning entry highlights Münster, a city near the Dutch border known for its Italian-style covered porticoes, gothic churches, and buns from the bakery Zeit für Brot. The city also houses the room where the Treaty of Westphalia was signed in 1648, alongside its Botanical Gardens along the Münstersche Aa river.
Other highlights
Another reader recommends the Müngsten Bridge near Düsseldorf, a 129-year-old structure and Germany's highest railway bridge at 107 metres, where visitors can climb to the top wearing a harness.
A family story describes the North Sea island of Sylt, praised for its cycling paths through dunes and villages, as well as its beaches and traditional hooded beach chairs.
One tip promotes the Deutschlandticket, a €63 monthly pass covering buses, trains, trams and ferries nationwide, excluding faster long-distance trains.
Other mentions include Cologne's acclaimed cocktail bar scene, Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld — a former airfield turned recreational green space — an ebike tour through the Black Forest, the historic town of Görlitz near the Polish border with 500 years of architecture, a family drive around the Nürburgring racetrack, and Kassel's Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, a Unesco site known for its dramatic water cascades.
