Districts and cities in Bavaria dominate the list of top ten places to live in Deutschland, a study published by public broadcaster ZDF on Thursday has found.
With an all-German Champions League final and a comfortable World Cup qualifying campaign, 2013 was a strong year for German football. But there were also success stories in F1, tennis and athletics.
It was a bumper year for European sports fans, with the London Olympics and the Euro 2012 football championship - but it wasn't always a shining trail of glory for Germany's athletes. The Local looks back at the year's sporting highs and lows.