Eastern Germany GuideEastern Germany includes most of the states that used to belong to the former country of East Germany. The highlight is the metropolitan capital of Germany, Berlin. HotelsFind hotels in Berlin, Leipzig, Grosshennersdorf, Dresden, Vienenburg and more. BerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. LeipzigLeipzig is the largest city in the German federal state of Saxony, with a population of approximately 532,000. HerrnhutHerrnhut is a small town in the Upper Lusatia region of Saxony, in Germany. In the 18th century, Herrnhut gave birth to the Moravian spiritual renewal and prayer/missions movement under Count Nicolaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf. SaxonySaxony is federal state in the east of Germany. Outside of Berlin it contains the two largest and important cities in eastern Germany, Leipzig and Dresden. Saxony-AnhaltSaxony-Anhalt is a state of Germany. BrandenburgBrandenburg, is both a historical region and a modern federal-state in Germany. Brandenburg was historically composed of a larger amount of territory now located across the Oder River in western Poland.