https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed It's not a discovery that happens every day, let alone in household furniture. But a man from Bremen found three gold bars worth €83,500 euros in an old kitchen cabinet. https://www.thelocal.de/20180920/treasure-2 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:04:52 +0200 treasure-2 All that glitters is definitely gold in a new exhibition at Germany's central bank that lifts the veil on the nation's massive reserves of the precious metal, partly to reassure sceptics that the prized ingots are really there. https://www.thelocal.de/20180422/finally-home-bundesbanks-gold-goes-on-show Sun, 22 Apr 2018 11:48:37 +0200 finally-home-bundesbanks-gold-goes-on-show The Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, said Wednesday it had returned to German soil all of its gold kept in Paris and some reserves from the US, three years ahead of schedule. https://www.thelocal.de/20170823/germany-secretly-takes-back-all-gold-from-paris Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:24:59 +0200 germany-secretly-takes-back-all-gold-from-paris A rather forgetful Berliner had a slice of luck on Thursday. A very honest person found several bars of gold and a huge wad of cash that he had forgotten under a tree in the Neukölln district. https://www.thelocal.de/20170728/man-forgets-kilo-of-gold-under-tree-in-berlin-as-he-locks-up-bike Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:59:40 +0200 man-forgets-kilo-of-gold-under-tree-in-berlin-as-he-locks-up-bike Thieves stole a gold coin with a face value of almost €1 million and weighing 100 kilograms from Berlin's Bode Museum on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170327/1-million-gold-coin-stolen-from-iconic-berlin-museum Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:06:22 +0200 1-million-gold-coin-stolen-from-iconic-berlin-museum Germany's central bank said on Thursday it sped up the process of bringing its gold home from foreign vaults in 2016, moving more than 200 tonnes from New York and Paris. https://www.thelocal.de/20170209/germany-moves-100-tonnes-of-its-gold-from-new-york-to-frankfurt Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:49:05 +0100 germany-moves-100-tonnes-of-its-gold-from-new-york-to-frankfurt A teenager who found a bar of gold in Lake König in the Bavarian Alps in the summer will get to keep it after the owner failed to come forward. https://www.thelocal.de/20160204/teen-gets-to-keep-gold-found-near-hitlers-summer-home Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:41:37 +0100 teen-gets-to-keep-gold-found-near-hitlers-summer-home Police got involved after a stash of gold worth millions was dug up in the back garden of a house in eastern Bavaria – just after the owner of the house had died. https://www.thelocal.de/20160105/huge-gold-stash-found-in-bavarian-garden Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:20:04 +0100 huge-gold-stash-found-in-bavarian-garden No evidence supports the existence of a Nazi "gold train" loaded with treasures and buried in Poland at the end of World War II, researchers said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151216/nazi-gold-train-doesnt-exist-say-scientists Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:37:19 +0100 nazi-gold-train-doesnt-exist-say-scientists Germany's eurosceptic right-wing populist AfD party Tuesday asked its members for cash donations as a new law threatens to torpedo its main fund-raising method, an online gold shop. https://www.thelocal.de/20151208/closing-gold-loophole-puts-squeeze-on-afd Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:54:39 +0100 closing-gold-loophole-puts-squeeze-on-afd The Bundesbank (Federal Bank) has released a detailed list of all the gold Germany owns, hoping to settle fears it has been exaggerating its wealth. https://www.thelocal.de/20151007/germany-counts-gold-to-assuage-conspiracists Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:12:13 +0200 germany-counts-gold-to-assuage-conspiracists The mystery surrounding a fabled Nazi gold train allegedly buried in southwestern Poland intensified Friday after a week of tests by an army unit including a bomb squad appeared to have produced no clues. https://www.thelocal.de/20151003/suspense-heightens-over-nazi-gold-train Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:32:14 +0200 suspense-heightens-over-nazi-gold-train A teenager swimming in Bavaria came upon a solid gold bar at the bottom of a lake and may get to keep it, local police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150813/teen-swimmer-finds-18000-gold-bar-in-lake Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:36:27 +0200 teen-swimmer-finds-18000-gold-bar-in-lake A man in northern Germany has found a €45,000 hoard of Nazi gold – but will only pocket a small portion of the sum. https://www.thelocal.de/20150715/amateur-archaeologist-finds-nazi-gold-hoard Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:40:02 +0200 amateur-archaeologist-finds-nazi-gold-hoard A man who struck gold when he dug up an ancient "barbarian treasure" was in the dock on Wednesday on charges of embezzlement for not reporting the find. https://www.thelocal.de/20150225/man-put-on-trial-for-finding-ancient-treasure Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:07:25 +0100 man-put-on-trial-for-finding-ancient-treasure The Berlin film festival wrapped up Sunday after awarding its Golden Bear top prize to Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi, in a move hailed as a triumph for freedom of expression. https://www.thelocal.de/20150216/iran-win-at-berlinale-a-free-speech-triumph Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:41:39 +0100 iran-win-at-berlinale-a-free-speech-triumph Renowned director German Wim Wenders was presented with the Berlinale's Golden Bear for a lifetime of movie achievements on Thursday evening. https://www.thelocal.de/20150213/berlinale-wenders-takes-golden-bear-for-a-lifetime-in-film Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:56:46 +0100 berlinale-wenders-takes-golden-bear-for-a-lifetime-in-film Good Samaritan motorists pay the price as fraudsters target Germany's highways with a fake jewellery scam. https://www.thelocal.de/20141125/all-that-glitters-might-be-autobahngold Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:48:00 +0100 all-that-glitters-might-be-autobahngold An Erfurt court has decided not to force a 56-year old man to pay damages for more than 31 kilos of gold teeth taken from the crematorium in Hamburg where he worked between 2003 and 2011. https://www.thelocal.de/20140822/false-teeth-of-the-dead-finders-keepers Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:00:00 +0200 false-teeth-of-the-dead-finders-keepers The German financial watchdog, BaFin, said on Wednesday it was looking into allegations of possible manipulation by banks in gold and silver price-fixing. https://www.thelocal.de/20131127/watchdog-probes-gold-and-silver-price-fixing-claims Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:30:00 +0100 watchdog-probes-gold-and-silver-price-fixing-claims