The brothers Jacob (1785 - 1863) and Wilhelm (1786 - 1859) lived in six cities during their lifetimes. Except for their last station in life, Berlin, they are all located along the German Fairy Tale Route and offer a variety of access opportunities to their impressive life's work. Every year Hanau invites you to the Brothers Grimm Festival. In Steinau you can relive with all your senses how the Grimms lived as children. The GRIMM WORLD Kassel presents Jacob and Wilhelm as linguists who were networked worldwide and presents their personal copies of the "Tales of Children and the Home", part of the UNESCO "Memory of the World". The university town of Marburg takes you back to the time of romantic world exploration, while in Göttingen the two brothers are mainly known as politically committed scholars.