Palm Garden: Nobody has to sweat in the subantarctic house
If you want to show the vegetation from the cool, temperate regions such as Patagonia or Tierra del Fuego, you have to come up with something for the summer in the Rhine-Main area.
And that's what Frankfurt's Palmengarten did when it turned a glass palace built at the turn of the century into a subantarctic house 30 years ago.
The tinted windows, automatic ventilation and fogging ensure that it is significantly cooler in this show house near the steppe meadow than outside during the day.
The temperatures are usually between 20 and 22 degrees.
On a weekend when the temperatures in southern Hesse are expected to rise to 38 degrees, the subantarctic house in the Palmengarten is an attractive place to stay where you don't have to sweat.
This is not the only place in the Palmengarten that can offer this:
On the northern bank of the large pond, below the rock garden, there is a grotto that is certainly a small but excellent place to cool off this weekend.
Just as the large, old trees of the more than 150-year-old palm garden will provide wonderful shade again on this hot weekend.
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Oppenheimer Unterwelt: Scary chills
When the wine spritzer heats up too quickly and the rosé also evaporates, it's time to go to the cool cellar.
In Oppenheim am Rhein, located between Mainz and Worms, visitors should join one of the guided tours through the extensive underworld, which are offered several times a day on weekends in summer.
Finally, the labyrinth of staircases, corridors and cellars, used as storerooms and shelters since the 12th century, extends over several floors.
More information and the possibility of booking can be found at www.stadt-oppenheim.de.
If that's not enough for you, you should take a look into the ossuary of St. Catherine's Church: a shivering shiver is guaranteed.
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Graduation works Bad Nauheim: Like by the sea
The graduation towers in Bad Nauheim were originally built for salt extraction.
It was only later that their recreational value was recognized and they were integrated into the cure.
The ten-meter-high and 650-meter-long graduation buildings, which still characterize the townscape, date from the 18th and 19th centuries and have been renovated several times.
The industrial monuments, made of wooden scaffolding and blackthorn walls, are popular with locals and visitors alike because the evaporation of the water is refreshing and the salty air clears the respiratory tract.
A gentle sea breeze blows along the graduation buildings.
If you sit down in a beach chair, you would think you were at the sea - if the blackthorn walls didn't block the view of the horizon.
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Senckenberg Museum: cooling on the coral reef
If the holiday budget is not enough for a diving holiday in the Maldives this summer due to inflation, there is an ecologically correct alternative destination very close by: In the Frankfurt Senckenberg Museum there has been a picture of a coral reef for a year, lovingly designed according to Indonesian models.
The designers have integrated around 3,000 objects into the model, from cleaner fish to seahorses.
The visitor cannot immerse himself in the tropical ecosystem behind panes of glass, but the visit is nevertheless refreshing: the reef room is one of the best-cooled exhibition halls in the museum.
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Mainz Cathedral: solidly bricked
The Romanesque walls of the Mainz Cathedral have withstood all the storms of the times, and they are also a reliable bulwark against the extreme heat of the present.
Strolling between the pillars, looking at the works of art, sitting down on a pew for a few minutes and maybe inhaling a little incense aroma - this is good at any time of the year, but especially when the temperatures outside reach the 40-degree approach mark.
A visit to the cathedral is particularly worthwhile for lovers of monumental musical instruments: one of the largest church organs in the world is currently being built there.
The most important part of the plant is to be completed in the summer.
If you like, you can look around the naves and guess where the thousands of pipes are hiding.
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