FILE - In this June 22, 2005 file picture the former East German parliament building the 'Palast der Republik' (Palace of the Republic) is photographed in Berlin. Germany has launched construction of ...

From 1976 through 1990, the building in East Berlin served as a symbol of the communist state's power. The "People's Palace" ...

A fierce argument is taking place in Berlin about a building that represents a difficult part of the city's history. In a few weeks, the old East German parliament is scheduled to be torn down. But as ...

A new building boom is sweeping Germany as royal palaces destroyed during or after World War II are set to rise again, writes AFP's Brett Neely. Planning is underway to rebuild long-destroyed palaces ...

In the market for a fixer-upper palace? A small town in the eastern German state of Brandenburg is selling a three-story palace with more than 100 rooms for just over a dollar. But there's a catch: ...

BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany (Reuters) - More than four decades after Braunschweig tore down its palace, the western city's landmark has risen from the rubble, in Germany's latest attempt to recapture a past ...

HOHENSCHWANGAU, Germany — I was driving along the Romantic Road when I realized a few things. For one, bombs cannot kill cities. For another, eccentrics sometimes create masterpieces. For a third, ...

During the sliver of time between world wars, when Germany wasn’t suffering from hyperinflation or teetering on the knife’s edge of civil war, a flour tycoon named Kurt Kampffmeyer built a ...