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Heuneburg Castle — The Heart of the Celts0
- Allgemein, Culture, Main article, Travel
- July 10, 2026
There are many legends and fairy tales about the Celts – yet hardly anyone knows where their origins really lie. An unassuming hill overlooking the Danube in the district of Sigmaringen provides a surprising answer: here, on the Heuneburg, stood the oldest city north of the Alps 2,600 years ago – and to this day
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Art in the Flow —The Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum0
The setting is truly spectacular and quite unique: situated right in the middle of an artificial peninsula in the Danube – which is exceptionally wide at this point, within the reservoir area for the Gabcˇikovo Power Plant – lies the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, showcasing international and Slovak paintings, sculptures, installations, and other artworks from
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And every day, the Danube greets us – Childhood and youth along the ‘River Europe’0
- Culture, Current, Main article
- July 2, 2026
In Freiburg, there is an institute that studies the lives of Germans in Eastern Europe: the Institute for Cultural Analysis of Germans in Eastern Europe (IKDE). Researchers there have delved into the archives and unearthed photographs and audio recordings of childhoods and youth along the Danube. Together with partners from the Danube countries, this has
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666 Flags for the Danube Festival – art quarter Budapest0
- Allgemein, Culture, Main article
- June 14, 2026
Flags for this year’s International Danube Festival – which takes place every two years in Ulm – are being handcrafted by artists at the art quarter Budapest, situated along the beautiful Danube. We visited this creative workshop. János Borsos is the designer. Lilla Lőrinc manages the project. Eszter Nagy and Marcell Horváth do the sewing
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Danube Swabian women in today’s Europe0
- Culture, Main article, Society
- March 15, 2026
What does Danube Swabian identity mean today? Women from across the Danube region gathered in Budapest to discuss language, memory and the future. The first Danube Swabian Women’s Conference demonstrated just how strongly women continue to shape culture, tradition and community – and why their stories have long been overlooked. It was precisely these questions
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Srebrenica: Films for a better future0
The journey from Sarajevo to the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica leads through a beautiful landscape. It is the middle of July. The countryside that seems so peaceful today was the scene 29 years ago of one of the worst war crimes in Europe since the Second World War, which went down in history as
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