Chemnitz, my second port of call, is the city East Germany’s leaders decided in 1953 to re-christen Karl-Marx-Stadt – only for that change to be reversed in 1990 when it went back to being ...

Towns and cities in eastern German states are inviting people to come and stay in the hope of encouraging more people to move there long-term.

EISENACH, Germany (AP) — Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many once-decrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung up.

Like many towns and cities in the former East Germany, it has seen its population decline since reunification, from a peak of more than 50,000 to the current level of around 24,000, ...

It’s the least German of all the German cities and has become a cultural meeting point for all sorts of people, many in exile. What kind of time you have there depends on your reason for ...

06/21/2025 June 21, 2025. Towns and cities in eastern German states are inviting people to come and stay in the hope of encouraging more people to move there long-term.