The streets are deserted and the church square empty in the small Bavarian town of Mitterteich, the first in Germany to go into total lockdown over the spiralling coronavirus outbreak.
Bavaria has warned that a full lockdown will be imposed on people in the southern German state if they do not comply with social distancing restrictions.
The southern German state of Bavaria has declared a 'disaster' situation with new extreme restrictions on public life in a bid to slow down the spread of coronavirus.
Eight out of 10 cases of coronavirus in Germany have been in Bavaria. How did the virus spread there, and how is the southern state currently coping with it?
Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa on Monday said it was suspending all flights to and from mainland China for longer than initially announced, as the death toll from the novel coronavirus climbed past 360.
Germany now has four confirmed cases of the coronavirus sweeping China, health officials said Tuesday, all of them employees at a Bavarian firm recently visited by a Chinese colleague.
A German man went on trial Wednesday suspected of inflicting damage worth €930,000 on 642 cars, but prosecutors say he may have damaged twice as many vehicles.
Germany isn’t as famous for skiing as the high Alpine regions of Austria, Switzerland, France or Italy. But the Bavarian Alps still offer gemütlichkeit galore – and some pretty fun pistes too.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
retraced his steps Thursday in the eastern German village of Mödlareuth, once
a divided "Little Berlin" where he served as a young army officer.
Why do we sometimes find ourselves staring into space for no reason? And why don’t we have a word for this in English? Well the Bavarians do: die Goaßgschau.
Ready to kick the queues, kitsch, selfie-stick wielding crowds and overpriced schnitzel? Check out our guide to Germany's worst tourist traps and discover their lesser-known (and sometimes superior) alternatives.
Three Germans killed with crossbows in a series of five deaths shared a passion for medieval folklore and
weaponry, local media reported Tuesday, as an autopsy suggested a murder-suicide pact.
There are still more questions than answers after three people were found dead in a Bavarian hotel from crossbow injuries, and two others were found dead in an apartment in Lower Saxony.
Doctors at a hospital in Munich had to perform emergency surgery on a young woman at the weekend after she was hit by a cannon ball during rehearsals for the anniversary of the death of a medieval king.
The southern state of Bavaria has said it will pass into law a hugely popular "save the bees" petition that promises drastic changes in farming procedures.
One person was killed and another went missing in an avalanche in the southern German state of Bavaria close to the Austrian border, police said Saturday.
Germany plans an insect protection
law to slash use of pesticides and pump tens of millions of euros into research, a minister said Sunday, as global concern grows over mankind's impact on the crucial invertebrates.
