20 Sights in Coburg, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Coburg, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 20 sights are available in Coburg, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Coburg1. 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 Its earliest remaining structures date back to the 14th century, which superseded a church from the 12th century.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.
2. Palais Edinburgh
Designed in the Neo-Renaissance style, the Edinburgh-Palais on Coburg's Schlossplatz is an ideal place to close the ensemble of historic buildings between the Landestheater and the arcades of the Hofgarten with its memorial. Located directly opposite Ehrenburg Palace, the Edinburgh Palace, formerly known as the "Wangenheimsches Palais", is a masterpiece by the master builder Georg Konrad Rothbart. In 1865, Alfred, the son of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, acquired it and used it as his residence. Today, the palace belongs to the Coburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
3. Reithalle
The Coburger Riding Hall is a single -storey neo -Gothic sandstone block building with a gable roof on Coburg Schlossplatz. The riding hall was built in 1852 on behalf of Duke Ernst II according to plans of the painter and master builder Georg Konrad Rothbart. The building replaced the riding arena demolished in 1835 at the southern end of the stall building. The west facade to the Coburger Schlossplatz is characterized by a wide pointed arch portal, a tondo is arranged with a plastic horse head by Theodor Behrens, framed by two tin towers.
4. 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.
5. Rosenauer Burg
The Rosenauer Burg, located in Coburg between Rosenauer Straße and Hahnweg am Rittersteich, was first mentioned in 1397 as a castle, in 1426 as a house of the mint master. In 1434, the Lords of Rosenau probably induced the new building of the water castle. After thorough grinding, use as a fishing, washing and warehouse and gradual decline until the 20th century, it is now renovated as an exemplary piece of the jewels of historical architecture in Coburg.
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. 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 Sun House or, in connection with the crenellated tower, also as the Sun Castle.
8. Schloss Falkenegg
Falkenegg Castle is a castle with a park in the Neuses district of Coburg. It is one of the romantic buildings of historicism of the beginning of the 19th century and presents itself in a fundamentally neulic design. Falkenegg Castle is located on the southwestern edge of Neuses in Berglage. The small mountain park of the castle stretches with some remarkable monuments between Rodacher Straße and Kantstraße.
9. Bürglaß-Schlösschen
On the Road Oberer Bürglass, opposite the back of the Landestheater in Coburg, the classicist construction of the Bürglass-Schlösschen from the 18th century, which was called Bulgaren-Schlösschen or Augusten-Palais until the 1950s. It served Zar Ferdinand of Bulgaria as a place of residence until 1948 after his abdication. Today the castle is used as a registry office.
10. Schloss Neuhof
The origins of Schloss Neuhof in Neu- und Neershof, a district of Coburg in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Franconia, date back to the 14th century. From 1873 to 1879, Field Marshal Count Albrecht von Roon was the prominent owner of the castle, which is located in Neuhof in an English landscape park.
11. Arkaden
The Arkaden is 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.
12. 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 bays and a gable roof with three dwarf houses.
13. 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 bodice factory. The building is managed as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
14. 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.
15. Bismarckturm Coburg
The Bismarck Tower in Coburg is one of the many Bismarck monuments in Germany that have been preserved 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.
16. Naturkundemuseum
The Natural History Museum Coburg is a natural history museum in the town of Coburg in Upper Franconia, Germany. It is located on the grounds of the Coburg Hofgarten and goes back to the passion for collecting of the Coburg dukes.
17. Kapelle St. Nikolaus
The St. Nicholas Chapel is an Old Catholic church in Coburg, Germany, at Ketschendorfer Straße 30. Over the centuries, it has been used as a place of worship by four Christian denominations and the Jewish community.
18. 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.
19. 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 located nearby.
20. Hotel Victoria
Villa Victoria is located in Ketschendorfer Straße 2 in the Upper Franconian city of Coburg. It is a Biedermeierhaus that was built in 1835 and is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
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