After Adolf Hitler ordered Munich's main synagogue to be demolished in June 1938, no one knew what became of the rubble — until last week. Construction crews working on a river dam unearthed ...

But this week, during a project to refurbish old underwater infrastructure, a construction crew found pieces of the synagogue in a river five miles from where it once stood in Munich. The ...

BERLIN (JTA) — Alongside Munich’s river, construction workers made a sensational discovery last week: Stone tablets carved with the Ten Commandments from the city’s former main synagogue ...

The German city of Munich has closed its river surf wave known as the Eisbachwelle after a surfer was critically injured.Munich's fire department has closed the Eisbachwelle, a famous wave in the ...

Per reports coming out of Deutschland, a serious rescue took place at the river, prompting officials to close all surfing activity. As translated from the post above from the Munich Fire ...

Mr. Hockenos is a Berlin-based writer. MUNICH — The mesmerizing scene along the banks of Munich’s lime-green Isar River on a recent summer afternoon made me, an out-of-towner, quiver with envy.