{"id":70,"date":"2018-12-31T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:52:31","slug":"moving-living-and-traveling-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving, living and traveling to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">Are you planning to live in Germany or to move to Germany as an expat, a student, to work, as an AuPair or to travel to Germany as a tourist for a longer period of time? Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Cologne and many other cities are very popular travel and residential areas to start a new life. To master the first steps well, you should note the following points:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">Open online current account or bank account in Germany (free of charge \/ low priced)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">\u00a0Find apartment \/ house and rent \/ buy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">\u00a0 Registration of your residence at the town hall or local district office<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">Electricity provider<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">Gas \/ water provider<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">Telephone \/ Internet provider<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">Mobile phone provider\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">Important German insurance<br \/>\n(Health insurance, liability insurance, accident insurance, foreign health insurance, dental insurance)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\"><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\">Do not forget to quit the church \/ religion because you pay 7% church tax for evangelical or catholic denomination<\/span><\/span>Federal States of the Federal Republic of Germany\n<p>The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is divided into 16 federal states. Germany&#8217;s federal states and provincial capital are:<\/p>\n<p>Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg (Stuttgart)<br \/>\nFree State of Bavaria (Munich)<br \/>\nBerlin (Berlin)<br \/>\nBrandenburg (Potsdam)<br \/>\nFree Hanseatic City of Bremen (Bremen)<br \/>\nFree and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Hamburg)<br \/>\nHesse (Wiesbaden)<br \/>\nMecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Schwerin)<br \/>\nLower Saxony (Hanover)<br \/>\nNorth Rhine-Westphalia (Dusseldorf)<br \/>\nRhineland-Palatinate (Mainz)<br \/>\nSaarland (Saarbr\u00fccken)<br \/>\nSaxony (Dresden)<br \/>\nSaxony-Anhalt (Magdeburg)<br \/>\nSchleswig-Holstein (Kiel)<br \/>\nFree State of Thuringia (Erfurt)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you planning to live in Germany or to move to Germany as an expat, a student, to work, as an AuPair or to travel to Germany as a tourist for a longer period of time? Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Cologne and many other cities are very popular travel and residential areas to start a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moving, living and traveling to Germany&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatzak.de\/travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}