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Mini guide to Landsberg
LandsbergIf Munich is ""The City of the Movement"" and Nuremberg ""The City of the Party Congresses"", in Germany then Landsberg enjoys the title of “The City of Youth"". The name was bestowed upon Landsberg because the youth of Germany i.e., delegations of the Hitler youth organizations staged vehement ‘Adolf Hitler Marches’ in Landsberg. This was just after the Nazi Party Congresses of 1937 and 1938.
Though much smaller in size as compared to Munich and Nuremberg, Landsberg was given the status of an important city of Germany by the Nazi Party. The major reason for this fame being that Landsberg has the prison that contains the cell where Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle), his famous autobiography. Hitler was jailed following his Munich coup attempt in 1923.
Landsberg is a city in the Saalekreis in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany inhabiting about 8,500 people. It lies in the Greater Halle area. The original German name Landsberg an der Warthe derives from the German words land or 'state' and berg or 'mountain', together with Warthe, the German name for the river Warta.
The head of the Hitler Youth organization, Baldur von Schirach, called Landsberg the ""Place of Pilgrimage for German Youth"" and a ""Stage in National-Socialist Education."" It was being planned initially that the prison, originally constructed around 1910, with its ""Hitler Cell"" will be transformed into the largest youth hostel in Germany and a gigantic stadium for mass demonstrations will be built there. This will be a stadium whose dimensions would exceed those of the historic city core of Landsberg. However, with the beginning of World War II these plans had to be cancelled.
After World War II the prison was declared as the ‘War Criminal Prison’ by the US Army and held many convicted Nazi war criminals.
Though damaged heavily during World War II Landsberg still has various tourist attractions. One of the Landsber’s attractions is the Double Chapel that is visible even far from the town. Built in the Romanesque style up on a cliff, it is believed to date back to the twelfth century. Only traces of the wall remain now.
Also famous is the Felsenbad (""Cliff Bath""), a swimming pool complex with diving platforms, a 50-m stretch of competition swimming lanes, and a vast shallow pool where non-swimmers may bathe.
Other tourist attractions are St. Crucis (Holy Cross), Double Chapel (right), City Hall and Nicolaikirche (Evangelical church dating from the 13th to 15th centuries).
The little town is the namesake of the well known winter catch crop made out of crimson clover, Italian ryegrass and fodder vetch, which is used as livestock fodder or silage.
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