Wasserkuppe, Quedlinburg and Dessau

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Germany has an interesting aviation history. Part of it are sailplanes, all-metal airplanes and flying wings. End of 2013, we made a trip to Wasserkuppe and Dessau, and we visited Quedlinburg.

 

The Wasserkuppe is the highest peak in the Rhön Mountains in the German state of Hessen. Between the first and second world wars great advances in sailplane development took place.

 

Hugo Junkers was a major German aircraft pioneer. His company produced some of the world's most innovative and best-known airplanes over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau. Although his name is also linked to some of the most fearsome German warplanes of the second world war, Hugo Junkers himself had nothing to do with their development.

 

Quedlinburg is one of the best-preserved medieval and renaissance towns in Europe.

 

 

A trip report with pictures can be found here

 

 

[TezzaP]

Thanks for posting. I particularly enjoyed the article about the Wasserkuppe. It is on my list of destinations should I travel to Germany.