LAUCHHAMMER, Germany — Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification that followed, more Germans are returning home to the East. Now, small towns in the former Communist ...

Its Old Town may be nicknamed the ‘longest bar in the world’, but good beer is just one asset of this lively culture hub in west Germany.

A shrinking population and the tendency for people to move into big cities in western Germany has emptied out thousands of homes in small towns in the eastern region. Updated - November 17, 2011 ...