A bit about national parks here, which may well be something I consider starting to tick off if I manage to finish visiting the list of Bundesländer in the next couple of years.
Questions
Models made by them usually containing numbers with S650 and 57 being two examples, the German luxury car maker Maybach is a subsidiary of which other German car brand?
MERCEDES-BENZ
His works with Gottlieb Daimler including the ‘Standuhr’ or ‘grandfather clock’ engine, Wilhelm Maybach has been called the ‘King of’ what?
DESIGNERS
Containing beech forests that make up part of an extensive World Heritage Site listing with other green areas across Europe, which national park on a namesake peninsula north-east of Rügen is known for the largest chalk cliffs in Germany, the highest of these being Königsstuhl?
JASMUND
Shallow lagoons called ‘bodden’ can be found in Germany’s third largest national park, which you may well be visiting if you find yourself on the Darß or Zingst peninsulas. In which region of Germany can this coastal landscape be found?
VORPOMMERN / WESTERN POMERANIA
Like Jasmund National Park containing some of UNESCO’s protected beech forests, which Mecklenburg-Vorpommern national park that lies between Berlin and Rostock is also known for its many lakes, these including the second largest one in Germany for which it is named?
MÜRITZ
A key conversation area for beech forest, which German national park is the only one that can be found in Thuringia? The towns of Mühlhausen and Eisenach lie on its outskirts.
HAINICH
Carrying a nicely alliterative name that reminds one of a different country, which national park near Dresden is in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains? Some of its rock formations like Lilienstein are stunning.
SAXON SWITZERLAND
Named for a Balzac short story, which statue created by Peter Lenk and clandestinely erected at the entrance to Konstanz’ harbour commemorates the Council of Constance that took place there between 1414 and 1418?
IMPERIA
The German president is elected by which political body whose name translates as ‘federal convention’? It consists of members of the Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates.
BUNDESVERSAMMLUNG
Operating at a lower level than a state but a higher level than a ‘Gemeinde’, Germany’s administrative divisions include hundreds that are known by what ‘circular’ term, this sometimes being preceded by ‘Land’ or ‘Stadt’ in a compound word?
KREIS