The best views in German Europe will be in southern Germany and Austria. Several cities, including Munich and Stuttgart, are holding eclipse-fests. The Vienna Symphony will be in Turkey for the occasion. You don't have to be a scientist to appreciate this astronomical phenomenon. From beginning to end, the entire solar event in any one location will last about two hours and 40 minutes as the moon takes ever bigger bites out of the sun, blocks all but the corona, and then recedes.
Totality only lasts about two minutes, but it's a spectacular sight.
Then it is on to Austria. About an hour or so after the eclipse begins, people in these cities will see a total solar eclipse. Other places in Germany and Austria will experience only a partial eclipse. In Frankfurt, the sun will be about 98 percent covered. In Switzerland, people in Basel and Zurich will see a 97-percent eclipse.