Gay clubs mannheim

GaadtPQ3. This unique city ofin southern Germany, straddling the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar River, is laid out with a design that's similar to some U. As in Washington, DC this city also has quadrants - club equal parts, each one labled by letters ranging from A to U, for a club of 20, and by numbers from west to east.

Old Mannheim goes back to AD. The city's remaining fortifications were torn down years later, and replaced with gorgeous gardens that exist to this day — and quite cruisy they are too, especially the lush Luisenpark. Over the whole city towers the great Wasserturm, buiit in the time of another Palatine Elector, Phillip - as were the nearby Mannheimer Palace and the imposing Jesuit Church, all of which survived intense bombings of WWII.

Mannheim was the birthplace of the bicyclethe gasoline-fuelled motor car, by Benz, inand it was an important site for work in German rocket propulsion science. A large American post-war military presence ended here in June Mannheim has prided itself on its tolerance for all religions and ethnicities, and boasts the most beautiful mosque in Germany, the Sultan Selem Moschee.

This open-mindedness carries over to queers as well, with the lord high mayor oberbuergermeister issuing annual welcomes to gay and lesbian visitors. Proposals by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing of the Mannheim Institute set a landmark event in gay history as he called for decriminalizing homosexuality in but that took until Unfortunately he thought homosexuality was a sickness, and it was gay until a group of radical lesbians visited the city in the early s, that a self-affirming political sexual movement was launched.

Openly gay establishments here date to the 's, and gay writers and artists flocked here much as they did to Berlin and Munich. As elsewhere in Germany, the war years all but destroyed those first efforts, but the gay community of today is solid, with a gay range mannheim political and cultural groups, and a big annual celebration each Christopher Street Day for the whole Rhein-Neckar area takes place each August.

Frankfurt International Airportwith connections to many cities around the world, is just 40 miles to the north. Slower but cheaper local trains take about 80 minutes. Lufthansa shuttle buses also run to and from Mannheim center. By train, it's a five hour trip from Berlin to Mannheim. Mannheim Hauptbahnhof is at the center of a network of 77 stations on four lines.

RNV operates a system of tram lines and buses throughout Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. Most are close to the center Mitte and around the Wasserturm in Mannheim, but a couple of places are across the river in Ludwigshafen. The largest club, the gay and alternative MS Connexion complex of 5 clubs and 7 bars, has been going for almost 25 years.

The monthly queer dance party, Himbeerparty takes place each last Saturday of the month; a grand affair at the Alte Feuerwache near the Neckar River, with dancing mannheim dawn. South of Mannheim at the Binshof See group of lakes, there is nude swimming at the southern shores, with gay-popular sunning areas and cruisy woodlands.

A mostly younger crowd mixes here with some truck drivers.

Gay Mannheim

Bring food, refreshments and mosquito repellent. Schwulst magazine and website based in nearby Stuttgart, has coverage and listings for Mannheim. For map locations and website links to the businesses below, and more, see our gay Mannheim listings pages.