German town

Historic Pennsylvania community

A German town is a municipality in Germany, or more loosely, any town where German is the primary language.

The phrase appears in contexts ranging from travel writing to historical accounts: We stopped in a small German town along the Rhine.

It also describes the architectural or cultural character of a place: The village had the feel of an old German town.

Related

Christmas markets · beer garden · municipality · cobblestone · cobblestone streets · Nuremberg · half-timbered houses · Bamberg · market square · Weimar · Wittenberg · Heidelberg · steeple · Bavaria · clocktower · church bells · spire · Trier

Opposites
nationality/geography

German townFrench town

Municipality in France

American town · British town · Australian town · Italian town

settlement size/type

German townGerman countryside

Rural areas of Deutschland

German city · rural Germany · wilderness · Berlin · Munich

urbanization/development

German townundeveloped land

Unbuilt natural property

natural landscape

Family

town, German

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G