German fairy tale route

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German fairy tale route
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Basic data
Overall length: about 600 km
Federal states: Bremen
Hesse
Lower Saxony
North Rhine-Westphalia
Thuringia
Regions: West Germany
Course direction: South - north
Start: Hanau
The End: Bremen
Routes: 2
Overview map
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The German Fairy Tale Route is a holiday route in Germany. Since 1975, the route has led from the Hessian Brothers Grimm town of Hanau in the Kinzig valley over 600 kilometers to Bremen in northern Germany , the town of Bremen's town musicians . It lined up the life stations of the Brothers Grimm as well as the places and landscapes in which their fairy tales are at home, along one travel route.

history

On April 11, 1975, the "German Fairy Tale Road Working Group" was founded in Steinau an der Strasse . In addition to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and some districts, 40 cities and municipalities joined it. The idea was, based on an initiative by the Hessian Minister of State Herbert Günther , to strengthen the region's tourist attraction. Since January 1, 2007, the association “Deutsche Märchenstraße e. V. "with an independent office in the" Haus der Wirtschaft "in Kassel has taken over the sponsorship of the unregistered working group.

Attractions

The German Fairy Tale road passes through many different landscapes with eight natural parks such as the Hessian Spessart Natural Reserve , Natural Park Upper Vogelsberg , nature park basement Edersee , Geo Natural Park Mother Hulda country (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Forest) , Habichtswald Nature Park and the Natural Park Weserbergland .

The Brothers Grimm cities of Hanau , Steinau , Marburg and Kassel are important stations from a thematic point of view . Kassel is the in 2005 by the UNESCO for World Soundtrack Awards declared fairy tales Book of the Brothers Grimm , published in 1812th

Also of importance in relation to fairy tales are Alsfeld with the Little Red Riding Hood House , Bad Wildungen with the Snow White Museum, Baunatal as the place of the storyteller Dorothea Viehmann , the Hohe Meißner as the local mountain of Mrs. Holle , the Reinhardswald with the Sleeping Beauty Castle Sababurg , Hameln as the rat catcher town , Bad Oeynhausen with the German Fairy Tale and Weser Legends Museum and Bremen as the city of town musicians .

Significant sights are the numerous medieval cityscapes such as B. von Alsfeld (already recognized as a European model city for monument protection by the Council of Europe in 1975 ), Hann. Münden with around 700 half-timbered buildings in the historic city center, Fritzlar as an almost 1300-year-old cathedral and imperial city and Hameln as an important city of the Weser Renaissance .

Once the Baroque complexes of are castle Philippsruhe in Hanau and the fountains in the mountain park Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and at the World Heritage Site of UNESCO belonging Town Hall and Roland on the Town Musicians Bremen.

In the years 2012/2013 the 200th anniversary of the children's and house fairy tale book of the Brothers Grimm took place with festivities. Numerous other events, open-air festivals, exhibitions and theater on the topic of fairy tales are held every year. “Awesome. 200 years of German sagas by the Brothers Grimm ”is the motto of the Grimm anniversary from 2016 to 2018 on the German Fairy Tale Route. Because in 1816 and 1818 the Brothers Grimm published 585 "German sagas" for the first time in two volumes.

Route

Brothers Grimm monument in Hanau
Reference to the fairy tale route at the entrance to Buxtehude

The German Fairy Tale Route leads from south to north past the following places and sights:

Between Hanau and Lahntal

Between Alsfeld and Fritzlar (Rotkäppchenland)

Between Kassel and Fürstenberg

There are two different routes between Kassel and Fürstenberg:

Frau-Holle route

Kassel: Cascades with Hercules

Sleeping Beauty Route

Sleeping Beauty Castle Sababurg

Between Fürstenberg and Bremen

Hameln: Pied Piper Fountain

From Fürstenberg the fairy tale route runs together again:

Impressions

literature

  • Dorothee Hemme: Fairy Tale Streets - Worlds of Life. For the cultural construction of a tourist themed street. Lit, Berlin and Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10179-2 (University publication: Supplementary dissertation University of Göttingen 2007).
  • Eberhard Michael Iba: In the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm. Part I: A literary journey from Hanau to Höxter. Strassen (Luxembourg) 2000, ISBN 2-9599793-0-3 .
  • Eberhard Michael Iba: In the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm from Hanau to Bremen. Fairy tales, sagas, stories. Pustet, Regensburg 1978, ISBN 3-7917-0536-9 .
  • Michael Pasdzior, Matthias Reinhard: The German Fairy Tale Route. In the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm. Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-89234-681-X .
  • Knut Diers: The German Fairy Tale Route. Travel Guide. Explorise scenic routes. Grebennikov Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-941784-31-4 .
  • E. Michael Iba / Thomas L. Johnson: The German Fairy Tale Landscape. The storied world of the Brothers Grimm. CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, Hameln 2015, ISBN 978-3-8271-9139-7
  • Eberhard Michael Iba: German Fairy Tale Route. A travel and reading book with fairy tales, sagas and legends. 2nd edition CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, Hameln 2018, ISBN 978-3-8271-9152-6

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Märchenstraße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: German Fairy Tale Route  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press information from the association: "April 10, 2010 - Basic press information" (PDF) ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 8, 2010)
  2. ^ Official map of the Märchenstrasse , published by the Association of German Märchenstrasse e. V. (accessed on October 14, 2015)
  3. ↑ Brochure , published by the German Fairy Tale Route Association. V. (accessed on October 14, 2015)