10 Sights in Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany (with Map and Images)

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1. St.-Annenkirche

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St. Anne's Church in Annaberg-Buchholz, German Free State of Saxony, is a hall church whose architectural style is on the boundary between the Late Gothic and Saxon Renaissance. With a length of 65 metres (213 ft) and width of 40 metres (130 ft), it is the largest, true hall church of the Late Gothic in Saxony. Its tower is 78 metres (256 ft) high, the interior of the church 28 metres (92 ft) high. It is the emblem of the town and visible from a long way off. Saint Anne's was originally built in 1499 as a Roman Catholic church, but became Lutheran in 1539.

Wikipedia: St. Anne's Church, Annaberg-Buchholz (EN), Website, Heritage Website

2. Erzgebirgsmuseum

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Erzgebirgsmuseum Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Ore Mountain Museum is a museum in Annaberg-Buchholz in the German state of Saxony and located in the Ore Mountains of Central Europe. Its display includes examples of Ore Mountain folk art, especially carvings, bobbin work and passements) and gives an insight into the history of the town of Annaberg and of silver mining in the region. The museum also owns a work from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger from 1572 and a large collection of valuable pewter vessels. Adjoining the museum is the visitor mine of Im Gößner.

Wikipedia: Ore Mountain Museum (EN), Website

3. Manufaktur der Träume

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The Manufactory of Dreams is an adventure museum in Annaberg-Buchholz. It houses the Marie Ströher Memorial Collection on 1100 square meters. The museum and the exhibition were opened to the public on 29 October 2010. The collection includes folk art from a period between the 18th century and the present. Most of the exhibits date from the period between 1890 and 1930. The collection is considered the most extensive and important private collection of Erzgebirge folk art in the German-speaking world.

Wikipedia: Manufaktur der Träume (DE), Website

4. Trinitatiskirche

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The St. Trinitatis Hospital Church in Annaberg is a classicist hall church in the Erzgebirge, Saxon. The church was built in front of the former Wolkensteiner Tor in 1826, which formed a complex with the hospital and the city god bag. A center for contemporary art is to be created in the long -standing church. The Kät, the largest folk festival in the Ore Mountains, developed from the pilgrimage to St. Trinitatis, which was launched in 1519.

Wikipedia: Trinitatiskirche (Annaberg-Buchholz) (DE)

5. Kursächsische Postmeilensäule

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The listed Electoral Saxon distance column Annaberg is one of the postal milestones that were erected on behalf of the Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony by the Land and Border Commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner in the first half of the 18th century in the Electorate of Saxony. It is located in a green area on the Köselitzplatz near the former Bohemian Gate in the Erzgebirge district town of Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirgskreis.

Wikipedia: Kursächsische Distanzsäule Annaberg-Buchholz, Böhmisches Tor (DE)

6. Kursächsische Postmeilensäule

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The listed Electoral Saxon distance column Annaberg is one of the postal milestones that were erected on behalf of the Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony by the Land and Border Commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner in the first half of the 18th century in the Electorate of Saxony. It is located at its original location in front of the former Wolkensteiner Tor in the Erzgebirge district town of Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirgskreis.

Wikipedia: Kursächsische Distanzsäule Annaberg-Buchholz, Wolkensteiner Tor (DE)

7. Frohnauer Hammer

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The Frohnauer Hammer is an historic hammer mill in Frohnau, a village in the municipality of Annaberg-Buchholz in the Ore Mountains of southeast Germany. The mill is an important witness to proto-industrial development in the Ore Mountains. Of the once-numerous hammer mills only three others remain working in Saxony: the Dorfchemnitz Iron Hammer Mill, the Grünthal Copper Hammer Mill and the Freibergsdorf Hammer Mill.

Wikipedia: Frohnauer Hammer (EN)

8. St.-Katharinen-Kirche

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The Evangelical Church of St. Katharinen is a late Gothic indoor church in the Buchholz district of Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirge district in Saxony. It belongs to the parish of Buchholz in the church district of Annaberg of the Evangelical Lutheran state church in Saxony.

Wikipedia: St. Katharinen (Buchholz) (DE)

9. Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater

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Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater is a theater in Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirge and functions under the umbrella of the Erzgebirgische Theater und Orchester GmbH (ETO), to which the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie also belongs as the orchestra of the house.

Wikipedia: Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater (DE), Website, Heritage Website

10. Bergkirche Sankt Marien

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The Bergkirche St. Marien, built between 1502 and 1511, is the only special mining church in Saxony. It was built by the miners for the miners on the northwest side of the market square of Annaberg-Buchholz.

Wikipedia: Bergkirche St. Marien (Annaberg-Buchholz) (DE), Website

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