More about Bavaria

Farming and forestry have played an important role for many years, because about 57% of the land is used for farming and 32% for forestry.

Main products are rye, wheat, oat, potatoes, hops( Hallertau ), vegetables, fruit and dairy products in the Alps.

Bavaria has nearly no mineral resources except some ore, coal , granite, kaolin (china clay) and salt.

Tourism is very important for Bavaria. There are a lot of interesting cities like Munich, the capital of Bavaria, Regensburg, Nürnberg or Bamberg. But also the Alps and are worth being visited.

Upper Palatinate

The Upper Palatinate is one of the seven districts in Bavaria. Its seat of government is in Regensburg, one of the oldest cities in Germany, thanks to its strategic location on the Danube. Historians have not been able to precisely determine when Regensburg was founded, but traces of human habitation dating back to the sixth millennium B.C. have been discovered in the are. The town was already powerful back in Roman times. Weiden, dating back to 1241, can give a visitor a glimpse into a hectic central European past. First a flourishing trade centre thanks to its location on the "Golden Road", the trading route to Bohemia, the town suffered terribly during the Thirty-Years War. Fires and then the plague sped its economic decline and up to the 19^th century, Weiden was just a small, quiet, country town. However when it was linked to the railroad network in 1863, Weiden’s economy began to revive; a new glass and china industry developed. It now prides itself as the city with the fastest expanding economy in the whole of Bavaria during this century