22 Sights in Coburg, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Coburg, Germany! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Coburg. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Coburg1. Gebäude D2 (Hofbrauhaus)
The Hofbrauhaus Coburg was a brewery in Coburg since 1858, which was closed in 1982. After a major fire in 1999, the listed renovated main building is used by the Coburg University of Applied Sciences, among others.
2. Naturkundemuseum
The Natural History Museum Coburg is a natural history museum in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg, Germany. It is located on the grounds of the Coburg Court Garden and goes back to the Coburg dukes' passion for collecting.
3. Palais Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Palace on Coburg's Schlossplatz, designed in the neo-Renaissance style, ideally closes the ensemble of historic buildings between the Landestheater and the arcades of the Hofgarten with its memorial. Located exactly opposite Ehrenburg Castle, the Edinburgh Palace, formerly known as the "Wangenheimsches Palais", is a masterpiece of the master builder Georg Konrad Rothbart. In 1865, Alfred, the son of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, acquired it and used it as a residence. Today the palace belongs to the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Coburg.
4. Schloss Neuhof
The origins of Neuhof Castle in Neu- and Neershof, a district of Coburg in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Franconia, lie in the 14th century. From 1873 to 1879, Field Marshal Count Albrecht von Roon was the prominent owner of the castle in Neuhof, which is located in an English landscape park and is home to a therapeutic facility for addicts after changing ownership.
5. St. Moriz
Morizkirche is a Protestant church dedicated to Saint Maurice in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany, and is the town's oldest church. Its earliest remaining structures date back to the 14th century, which superseded a church from the 12th century. Martin Luther is known to have given several sermons there in 1530 A.D. This church currently houses the family tomb of the Dukes of Coburg. In modern times, Morizkirche serves as the main church for the congregation of St. Moriz. Due to the height of its towers, the church is one of the landmarks of Coburg. It is also one of the most important Luther memorial sites in southern Germany.
6. Schloss Callenberg
Callenberg Castle is a schloss on a wooded hill in Beiersdorf, an Ortsteil of Coburg, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the town centre. It was a hunting lodge and summer residence and has long been the principal residence of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It is currently owned by Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who created the Ducal Saxe-Coburg and Gotha House Order. A large and architecturally important family chapel is contained within.
7. Schloß Eichhof
Eichhof Castle stands in the Coburg district of Scheuerfeld, district of Eichhof, on a small hill above the valley of the Güßbach and was mentioned in a document in 1440. It has been privately owned since 1979 and is managed as a farm with horse breeding.
8. St. Augustin
St. Augustine's Church is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg located in the Bavarian town of Coburg, Germany. It was built between 1856 and 1860. Originally designed in the Gothic Revival style, the church was remodelled in 1960 due to a liturgical reform. There is a crypt under the church that contains the remains of fifteen members of the Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a Roman Catholic branch of the originally Protestant ducal house.
9. Bürglaß-Schlösschen
On the street Oberer Bürglaß, opposite the back of the Landestheater in Coburg, stands the classicist building of the Bürglaß Castle from the 18th century, which was called the Bulgarian Castle or Augusten-Palais until the 1950s. It served as the residence of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria for 30 years after his abdication until 1948. Today the castle is used as a registry office.
10. Esco Park
The Escora building is a neoclassical building at Rosenauer Straße 27 in Coburg. The oldest part of the building was built in 1914 and was the headquarters of the former Escora corset factory. The building is listed as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.
11. Stadthaus
The Coburg town hall, formerly a chancellery building, is located in the centre of Coburg on the northern side of the market square. The Renaissance building, built between 1597 and 1601, has three storeys with two corner oriels and a gable roof with three dwarf houses.
12. Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche
The Holy Cross Church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Coburg, Germany. From 1870 to 1918, the hall church was the garrison church of the Thuringian Regiment No. 95, whose barracks were nearby.
13. Bismarckturm Coburg
The Bismarck Tower in Coburg is one of the many Bismarck monuments in Germany that have survived to this day. The 16-metre-high sandstone observation tower, built in 1901, is located in the western part of the city at Himmelsacker 63.
14. Rosenauer Burg
Rosenau Castle, located in Coburg between Rosenauer Straße and Hahnweg on the Rittersteich, was first mentioned as a castle in 1397, and in 1426 as the house of the mint master. In 1434, the Lords of Rosenau probably ordered the new construction of the moated castle. After thorough grinding, use as a fish, wash house and warehouse and gradual decay into the 20th century, it is now one of the jewels of historical architecture in Coburg.
15. Reithalle
The Coburg Riding Hall is a single-storey neo-Gothic sandstone ashlar building with a gable roof on Coburg's Schlossplatz. The riding hall was built in 1852 by order of Duke Ernst II according to plans by the painter and master builder Georg Konrad Rothbart. The building replaced the riding arena at the southern end of the Marstall building, which had been demolished in 1835. The west façade facing Coburg's Schlossplatz is characterized by a wide pointed arch portal, above which is a tondo with a sculptural horse's head by Theodor Behrens, framed laterally by two crenellated towers.
16. Landestheater Coburg
Landestheater Coburg is a medium-sized three-division theatre in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany. Located on Schlossplatz, a central square, the Neoclassical building has 550 seats. In 2008, the theatre employed 250 permanent staff and 100 part-time employees.
17. Schloss Falkenegg
Falkenegg Castle is a castle and park in the Neuses district of Coburg. It is one of the romantic buildings of historicism at the beginning of the 19th century and presents itself in a fundamentally neo-Gothic design. Falkenegg Castle is located on the southwestern edge of Neuses in a mountain location. Between Rodacher Straße and Kantstraße stretches the small mountain park of the castle with some remarkable monuments.
18. Eckardtsturm
The Eckardtsturm is an observation tower in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg, which was built in 1873 and is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments. The structure stands on the 432-metre-high Eckardtsberg. Together with the landmarks Veste Coburg, Callenberg Castle and Bismarck Tower, it forms a rectangle of towers on the hills around the city centre of Coburg with a mutual visual connection.
19. Sonnenhaus
The Sonnenhaus or the Sonnenburg is an Art Nouveau building that stands in the Upper Franconian city of Coburg at Alexandrinenstraße 4. The Sonnenhaus was built in 1902/03 and is the only building in Coburg that was designed in the floral or vegetal Art Nouveau style. Due to the sun emblem on the façade, the stately town house is popularly known as the Sonnenhaus or, in connection with the crenellated tower, also known as the Sonnenburg.
20. Hotel Victoria
Villa Victoria is located at Ketschendorfer Straße 2 in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg. It is a Biedermeier house that was built in 1835 and is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.
21. Arkaden
The arcades are a terraced building on Schlossplatz in the Upper Franconian city of Coburg. They close off the Schlossplatz on the eastern side and form the transition to the Hofgarten. The arcades are registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.
22. Schnürs Pavillon
Schnür's Pavilion is a neo-Romanesque garden house built in 1862, which stands on the Adamiberg in the Upper Franconian city of Coburg. The building is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.
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