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

The history of Cottbus describes the development of the city of Cottbus in Lower Lusatia from its beginnings to the present day. The town was the centre of the lordship of Cottbus and since 1815 of the district of Cottbus.

Wikipedia: Geschichte von Cottbus (DE), Website, Heritage Website

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 water tower in Vetschauer Straße in Cottbus was built in 1914 on behalf of the Prussian State Railways to supply steam locomotives and was decommissioned in 1955. The tower stands immediately south of the Cottbus station area and is a listed building. The elevated tank belongs to the type of "Klönne tank systems" and was built by the Dortmund steel construction company Aug. Klönne. Water towers like this one are models for the construction of numerous elevated tanks.

Wikipedia: Wasserturm Cottbus (DE)

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

On the Cottbus Schlossberg or Gerichtsberg, in the area of the former castle gardens, is the late Wilhelminian urban green space. It is a section of the green ring that surrounds the old town. The complex is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Grünanlage am Cottbuser Schlossberg (DE)

The Church of St. Mary Queen of Peace is a Roman Catholic church building in the city of Cottbus in Brandenburg, Germany. It belongs to the provost parish of Zum Guten Hirten Cottbus in the deanery of Cottbus-Neuzelle in the diocese of Görlitz. The building is located on Adolph-Kolping-Straße in the Mitte district and is a registered architectural monument in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Wikipedia: St. Maria Friedenskönigin (Cottbus) (DE), Website, Heritage 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 Wendish Museum, Lower Sorbian: Serbski muzej, German: Wendisches Museum, is a museum of the culture and history of the Wends and Sorbs in Lower Lusatia. It is located in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany. It encompasses a large collection of Tracht, especially from the Spree Forest region. Apart from its permanent exhibition, the museum hosted more than 40 special exhibitions on various topics. All exhibitions are bilingual Lower Sorbian and German.

Wikipedia: Wendish Museum (EN)

The Protestant village church of Döbbrick is a neo-Rococo church in Döbbrick, a district of the city of Cottbus in the state of Brandenburg. It belongs to the monastery parish of Cottbus in the church district of Cottbus of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.

Wikipedia: Dorfkirche Döbbrick (DE), Heritage Website

The Staatstheater Cottbus is the only state theatre of the German federal state of Brandenburg in Cottbus. It has its own ensemble presenting plays, operas, operettas, musicals, orchestral concerts and ballet. The theatre had more than 130.000 spectators in 2013.

Wikipedia: Staatstheater Cottbus (EN), Website, 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