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Hanover as base

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I am planning my itinerary for a Germany trip sometime in September. Apart from the black Forest region, I am looking to for a 2-3 day base to begin my German leg of the trip and am conflicted between Cologne (from where I was looking to visit Monschau and Aachen) and Hanover (to visit Quedlinburg and Luneburg) - just for context- i love walking around beautiful villages so I narrowed down the aforementioned places and I will be using the excellent German public transport for my travel across Germany.

I have already been to Germany before and visited Heidelberg, Fussen and Tubingen along with Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart.

Would be great if I could get a recommendation on which of the 2 I could look to adding as a base.

thank you in advance for your help

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i love walking around beautiful villages...

You had Monschau (one of those, but hard to reach) in mind. But also Cochem (easy to reach using the MoselValley Railway, one of Germany's top scenic railways) which has a whole bunch of beautiful villages right nearby that are also easy to reach...

Beilstein
Winningen
Bernkastel
More Mosel towns: https://www.mosel-inside.de/en/travel-guide/mosel-villages.html

Also near Cochem:
Braubach: https://delveintoeurope.com/braubach-germany/

Aachen (pop.260,000) is not a village anyway.

Why not just drop Monschau and visit all these other places? Stay in Cochem, travel to the others. Very simple. FRA, LUX and CGN airports are nearby as well.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Karte_der_Bahnstrecke_Koblenz%E2%80%93Trier.png

Hanover: Some nice small towns there too... I very much enjoyed walking through these places...

Goslar
Hameln
Rinteln
Hildesheim
Celle
Hanoversch Münden
Einbeck

I would not stay in Hanover though. Hildesheim would be smart as a base town for easy day trips to these other places.

https://www.niedersachsentarif.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Karte_large.jpg

All the towns I've mentioned are accessible by public transport.

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If you are in Hanover, you should at least visit Celle, if not stay there. Gorgeous, half-timbered town.
You could also visit Bergen-Belsen, which is near Hanover.

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