Germany Kayla Larkins 3rd Hour

Scenery

People can put houses in the Harz mountains and live there. The Harz Mountains also provide firewood for when it gets cold!

The Rhine River Valley in the Western part of Germany is a main waterway for transporting goods from Northern ports.

Built between 1788 and 1791 by Prussian King Frederick William II as a key entry point to the city of Berlin, Brandenburg Gate was topped off with a statue known as the “Quadriga,” which depicted a statue of the goddess of victory driving a chariot pulled by four horses.Jun 19, 2013

It is close to poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Belgium, and a bunch of other countries in Europe.

Culture

Language: German belongs to the West Germanic group of the Indo-European language family, along with English, Frisian, and Dutch (Netherlandic, Flemish). The recorded history of Germanic languages begins with their speakers' first contact with the Romans, in the 1st century bc.

Religion

Religion in Germany – Christianity. About 65% to 70% of the population are followers of the Christian religion in Germany. They are more or less evenly split between the mainstream denominations of Lutheran-Protestantism and Calvinism united in the EKD (Evangelical Church in Germany) and the Roman Catholic Church.

Food

Wurst is a VERY popular dish in Germany!

Brez'n is a pretty popular dish in Germany to.

They say that Brathend'l is a lot like chicken.

Somemore dishes are Schweinebraten, Steckerlfisch, Eintopf, Lebkuchen, SCHWARZWÄLDER KIRSCHTORTE, and a ton more. Germany is also known for it's acohol.

Sports

Together with football, ice hockey and handball, basketball in Germany is among the most popular spectator sports. Germany is very good at football (soccer) and they have won the world cup 4 times.

Music

A few popular songs in Germany are,Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Der Rosenkavalier, The Magic Flute, St John Passion, and many more!!

Dance

Clothing

Lederhosen, which means "leather trousers" in German, are the short, leather pants worn by men. These are usually knee-length and are the historically worn by working-class German men. The dirndl is a ruffled apron dress worn by German women that consists of a bodice, or blouse, and a skirt.

Housing

This is what German homes look like.

Government

The current Chancellor is Angela Merkel, who is serving her third term in office.

History

Fasching. Fasching serves as the Catholic carnival for German-speaking countries. ...

Oktoberfest. Beginning as a celebration of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig's marriage to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen, Munich's Oktoberfest now is the largest festival of its kind in the world. ...

Weihnachtsmärkte. ...

Kinderzeche.

Wars

They were involed in the French-German War, World War 2, and a bunch of other wars to. They are in conflict with Ukraine, Russia, and Some others.

People

Adolf Eichmann is one of the major organizers at the Holocaust. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.

Anne Frank was a German-born diarist and writer. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously following the publication of her diary, The Diary of a Young Girl.

Famous People

Author: Thomas Mann, he is a short story teller and 1929 Nobel Prize winner.

Til Schweiger is a German actor, director, and producer. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.

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