The German village of Fuggerei has not raised rent for more than 500 years, enabling residents to live there for $1 a year. Established in 1521, the Fuggerei, which is not a village per se but rather ...

ERKELENZ, Germany >> Police on Wednesday entered a condemned village in western Germany, launching an effort to evict activists holed up at the site in an effort to prevent its demolition to make way ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Residents in German Village are coming together to protect the neighborhood’s historic streets and buildings, speaking out against a city proposal they say would change the ...

The German Village Society has filed a lawsuit against Columbus, asking a judge to stop sidewalk and curb construction set to begin Sept. 2 in the historic neighborhood. The lawsuit filed on Aug. 29 ...

Several hundred climate activists on Tuesday were trying to block the entry of heavy machinery into an abandoned village in Germany which is due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine after a ...

The Columbus City Council will soon weigh in on a fight between city officials and the German Village Society over how to balance accessibility, expense and historic preservation when installing curb ...

Climate activists pledged Sunday to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine that has become a battleground between the government and ...

German Village remained a working-class neighborhood throughout much of the mid-20th century. Throughout the years of World War II, the city suffered from deferred maintenance because of the war ...

For years, activists tried to save tiny Lützerath from being razed to make way for the expansion of an open-pit coal mine. This past week, the police moved them out. By Christopher F. Schuetze ...

The German Village Society has dropped its lawsuit that blocked Columbus from installing curb ramps. Columbus City Council members have agreed to consider policies around historic preservation that ...

Alpine Village, a Bavarian-themed commercial complex near Torrance that for decades was the heart of the region’s German American community, has been sold and faces the specter of shuttering, ...