WW2 Museums North Germany -looking for recommendations

[jc_bromley]

Hi, I'm off on the bike for 4-5 days just after Easter. I'm heading East looking to go no further than Munster. I'm into WW2 museums with aircraft & tanks being my favourite....

Would anyone have any recommendations between Calais and Munster? I'm also going to do some Atlantik Wall stuff in the Netherlands on my way back, so any recommendations there would be appreciated!

ta for reading,

JC

 

[Captain Darling]

Looks like we have the same interests.

Worked in Holland for a while and this is definitely worth a visit. Museum located on the grounds of the Battle of Overloon, so as you walk around the grounds there are still traces of whats left of the battle. Walking into the museum its as if the vehicles have just driven off the production line and into the displays.

Well worth a look.

http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl

 

[Deleted account Cooperman]

The start of this ride report might give you some ideas.

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?349070-Croatian-First-Date&highlight=croatia

 

[Neil W]

www.panzermuseum-munster.de

 

[Glyno]

www.battleofthebulgememories.be/museums12/luxembourg10/18-the-na...

Havnt looked at your route but if you are passing anywhere near Diekirch then this great museum is well worth the visit.

 

[sven]

Probably too far south for you, but the Auto and Technik Museum in Sinsheim is brilliant and they have loads of WW2 planes and tanks, as well as hundreds of cars, motorbikes and planes

Probably the best museum I've visited along with Duxford and the RAF Museum.

There's also a sister museum nearby in Speyer which is also said to be really good.

 

[paul08]

Probably too far south for you, but the Auto and Technik Museum in Sinsheim is brilliant and they have loads of WW2 planes and tanks, as well as hundreds of cars, motorbikes and planes

Probably the best museum I've visited along with Duxford and the RAF Museum.

There's also a sister museum nearby in Speyer which is also said to be really good.

I did sinsheim and speyer last year: I preferred the museum at Speyer. And the advantage is that speyer is a much nicer town/city to stay in and visit. Highly recommended

 

[sven]

I did sinsheim and speyer last year: I preferred the museum at Speyer. And the advantage is that speyer is a much nicer town/city to stay in and visit. Highly recommended

If Speyer is as good as Sinsheim, I'll make a point of visiting the next time I'm heading to the Alps

They're not far apart and you can buy a ticket which permits entry to both. Heidelberg is quite close too, so is another alternative for an overnight or two with its lovely castle

 

[Taff]

Bergen Belsen?

 

[jc_bromley]

Many thanks to you all, plenty to work on.

JC

 

[paul08]

Bergen Belsen is really worth a visit. And the town of Celle is nearby and is a nice town too.

And I am told that the Panzer (Tank) Museum a little to the north in Munster is well worth going to.

 

[Noddy]

JC will you please get in touch via the Gnome (Roland). We have VHS to DVD of one of the 1992 weekend bashes.

 

[snelly]

Bergen Belsen is really worth a visit. And the town of Celle is nearby and is a nice town too.

And I am told that the Panzer (Tank) Museum a little to the north in Munster is well worth going to.

We visited Belsen a few years ago,and found it quite eerie.You are always mindful of the events that took place all those years agn a personal level i felt rather ghoulish wandering around, but at the same time interested,and sympathetic . I did,nt know about the tank Museum,that also sounds interesting. We stayed in a hotel in Winster, not too far away from the Army Barracks.

 

[Taff]

We visited Belsen a few years ago,and found it quite eerie.

I visited en-route to Berlin on the bike. It happened to be a crappy overcast damp sort of a day and there were very few other visitors. Quite a strange feeling walking around such an infamous place with hardly anybody else about.

The thing that struck me were the trees that had had grown inside the old perimeter fence. Apparently, life was so bleak in the camp that some of the prisoners had planted trees just in the hope of seeing any form of life. Obviously, the majority died before the trees started growing.

 

[sven]

Looks like we have the same interests.

Worked in Holland for a while and this is definitely worth a visit. Museum located on the grounds of the Battle of Overloon, so as you walk around the grounds there are still traces of whats left of the battle. Walking into the museum its as if the vehicles have just driven off the production line and into the displays.

Well worth a look.

http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl

The website doesn't seem to do this place justice. My son visited it the other day with his Dutch girlfriend and he said it's a huge place. It certainly looked so from their photos. I'll have to visit on the way back to the Rotterdam ferry next year

 

[seadog]

Wevelsburg castle, home to the ss during the war, worth a visit.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Panzer museum at Munster is a must, try and find out when they are running the King Tiger, that's great to see. Also, not sure if it's been mentioned but Bremerhaven and head around the Type XX1 "Walther" Uboat http://www.u-boot-wilhelm-bauer.de/

 

[Spencert231]

I visited en-route to Berlin on the bike. It happened to be a crappy overcast damp sort of a day and there were very few other visitors. Quite a strange feeling walking around such an infamous place with hardly anybody else about.

The thing that struck me were the trees that had had grown inside the old perimeter fence. Apparently, life was so bleak in the camp that some of the prisoners had planted trees just in the hope of seeing any form of life. Obviously, the majority died before the trees started growing.

I agree with you a very eerie place to visit I visited in several times when I lived in Bergen Hohne. I can also testify to having the same feeling on cold wet or bright sunny days its the memories it conjures up and needless cost of life. Unfortunately the trees could not have been planted by prisoners as that is not the prison camp site.

The old prison camp is in an undisclosed area, but probably up the range road to Falinbosel (can't remember it's correct spelling). Those of us who lived there will still feel the vibration of the tanks going up the range road, it frightened the life out of my mother when she came to visit lol.

 

[Kritou]

Some more options ......

 

[Loiq]

kaisers hotel on the island of usedom, there's a tank place nearby and you can drive a few of'em as well. Plus you've got hitlers hotel.... your in striking distance to poland, there's a bloke there that does/ did tours into the masurian marshes and lakes of poland.

I also like the U-boat a Kiel/ Laboe