9 Sights in Cottbus, Germany (with Map and Images)

The monastery church of the former Franciscan monastery in Cottbus, later called the "Wendish Church", is the oldest surviving sacred building in the city. It was built in its current form in the 15th century in the Gothic style. The church is located in the northwest of the old town between Klosterstraße and Münzstraße in the Wendish quarter.

Wikipedia: Klosterkirche (Cottbus) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Oberkirche St. Nikolai is a late Gothic brick church in Cottbus, Brandenburg. The church is located on Oberkirchplatz and Sandower Straße near the Altmarkt. The building is the largest medieval church in Lower Lusatia, it has been a listed building since the 1970s. The upper church of St. Nikolai serves the parish of St. Nikolai Cottbus in the church district of Cottbus of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. It used to be called the German Church.

Wikipedia: Oberkirche St. Nikolai (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Cottbus Chamber of Crafts is one of 53 chambers of crafts in the Federal Republic of Germany and one of three chambers of crafts in the state of Brandenburg. The Cottbus Chamber was established in 1953 by the legislature as a public corporation to carry out self-governing tasks in the craft industry. It acts in accordance with the Law on the Order of Crafts and the Statutes of the Cottbus Chamber of Crafts.

Wikipedia: Handwerkskammer Cottbus (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The space planetarium "Yuri Gagarin" in Cottbus – named after Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (1934–1968), the first man in space – was opened on 26 April 1974 after almost two years of construction on today's Lindenplatz. Its dome with a diameter of 12.5 m offers space for 91 visitors. The planetarium technology allows the representation of a realistic starry sky regardless of the time of day or season, the geographical position or the weather. However, it is also possible to leave Earth and get to practically any place in the universe known so far. Planetarium shows, but also lectures, concerts or theatre performances take place regularly. Various programs can also be shown in other languages, such as English or Polish.

Wikipedia: Raumflugplanetarium „Juri Gagarin“ Cottbus (DE), Website

The Kreuzkirche in Karlstraße in the city of Cottbus is a listed sacred building and was built in 1879. It is the place of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche parish. It belongs to the church district of Lusatia of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Wikipedia: Kreuzkirche (Cottbus) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Cottbus Zoo is a zoo in the town Cottbus in the Brandenburg region of Germany. The zoo was founded in 1954, and covers 25 hectares. The park includes a lot of trees, growing along the river Spree. The zoo breeds over 70 species of waterfowl, and its symbol is the red-breasted goose.

Wikipedia: Cottbus Zoo (EN), Website

The Protestant, listed Zinzendorf Church is located in Schmellwitz, a district of the independent city of Cottbus in Brandenburg. The church belongs to the monastery parish of Cottbus in the church district of Cottbus of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.

Wikipedia: Zinzendorfkirche (Schmellwitz) (DE)

The Evangelical village church Döbbrick is a hall church built in the style of the Neorococo in Döbbrick, a district of the city of Cottbus in the state of Brandenburg. It belongs to the Cottbus monastery church in the Cottbus church district of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz.

Wikipedia: Dorfkirche Döbbrick (DE), Heritage Website

The Catholic nursing home "St.-Elisabeth-Haus" is a listed building in the district-free city of Cottbus in the state of Brandenburg. The building initially served as a sisters' settlement of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Elisabeth until 1983, today the building houses a daycare center, among other things.

Wikipedia: Schwesternheim (Cottbus) (DE), Heritage Website