Berlin,Dresden,Hamburg,cologne (sorry Koln) not very many thats english o level geography for you:oops:

Edit: Just looked back through the thread as I didn't want to spoil it for myself now I'm reminded I do know a few others.

I've been to Koln, Aachen, Hamburg and Berlin. Also Munster - but I'm not sure whether that's a city or not without checking... Been through Dresden on the train too.
Is that really a place in Germany, or are you having us on?

My family name or last name translated to german/norwegean would be the same:up: Han-sen, Han-son, or John-son (English), all mean "Son of John/Hans". In russian it would be "Ivanov", I think:yep:

Surely you remember Martin Luther and the 'Diet of Worms', from school history?

I thought Munster was in Ireland.

Thank you very much for your replies. The actual argument that I had with my friend was about the status of Cologne (Köln) and Düsseldorf. There´s always been a kind of fight between those two (similar to Manchester and Liverpool), not to be taken too seriously of course, but it´s godd for many jokes. Now my point was that nobody in the world has ever heard about Düsseldorf, but they will have heard about Cologne...

Interestingly enough, your answers didn´t quite match what I would have expected since some of you actually DO know Düsseldorf, whereas both cities are not mentioned very often. Another thing I find interesting that only a few think of Berlin (the capitol!), but you know outsiders like Ulm or Münster (lovely, but very small).

So, thank you very much again,

Cheers, AS

(@Gizzmoe, no offence intended, I know you´re from Düsseldorf...nobody´s perfect...)

I could think of a whole lot of cities; I picked that one because it's special to my heart.

Like he said, it's a small place where we have friends in Germany, but the 'u'-umlaut key on my keyboard seems to be missing! lol! :lol:

However, you're quite right! Munster - the umlaut-less city - is in Ireland.

And I've never heard of Worms. Sadly, History at school sacrificed Martin Luther King for the Vietnam war.

Is there a place in Germany called "Worms"? If it's a joke, I don't get it!

No itsn't a joke, we laughed about it at school but Martin Luther the father of protestantinism pinned the tennets of his belief to the door of worms cathedral and pretty much changed northern europe and through that the world not acknowlededged enough in my book...not that I'm a particularly devout christian:know:

Mike


This has been such a great question I'm going to ask the same of our european (and other neighbours) in a fresh topic right now.

To be fair, only reason I'd heard of Köln is that it's also one of the few WW2 German surface ships, and Düsseldorf isn't.

Hold up a sec, here. Martin Luther King is NOT Martin Luther. One is a black American civil rights leader in the 1960s, the other is a white German 'founder' of the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s.

Berlin
Bonn
Munich
Frankfurt
Stuttgart

These are the 1st 5 that pop into mind. Next 5:

Dortmund
Hamburg
Munchengladbach
Essen
Hanover

Riiiight... I confused the two. Thanks to you guys (and subsequently Wikipedia!) for straightening that out! My bad! :oops:

Army or Civilian?
Would make me wondering,if a US civilian lived in Augsburg in the late 70´s:D

Kiel,Wilhelmshaven,Stettin,Rostock,and a hundred more because i am German.:cool:

St.Nazaire,Brest,Bordeaux,La Rochelle(OK just a joke)

Only 2-5? I don't know so few.

Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, Koln, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Baden, Munich, Lahr, Dortmund, Dresden, Leipzig, Halle, Augsburg, Potsdam, Nuremburg, Weimar, Hannover, Stuttgart, Heidelburg, Lubeck, Lunenburg, Magdeburg, Rothenburg, Bayreuth, Nierstein, Oppenheim, Bernkastle, Deidesheim, Koerner...

That's just a few that come quickly to mind. Perhaps some are too small to be considered cities.

There are so many ways to know of a German city: History (military, social and religious), music, wine, people...

East Berlin...West Berlin...No, wait....That was a long time ago...oh cr@p..:nope::rotfl: