18 Sights in Gotha, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Gotha, 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 18 sights are available in Gotha, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Gotha1. Prinzenpalais
The Prinzenpalais is an early classicist villa at Mozartstraße 1 in Gotha, Germany. It was built in 1776 and is one of the earliest buildings of classicism in Germany, along with Wörlitz Castle near Dessau (1769–1773) and the Friedericianum in Kassel (1769–1785). After many years of vacancy, the ensemble, consisting of the Prince's Palace and the Kavaliershaus, was bought by AWO AJS gGmbH. While the Prince's Palace was being rebuilt and extensively restored, the Kavaliershaus and the gallery were demolished in protest. Since 6 August 2018, two side extensions with flat roofs have completed the building.
2. Gymnasium Ernestinum
The Ernestine Gymnasium is a humanistic and modern gymnasium in Gotha, Germany, the successor of the Illustrious Gymnasium, founded in 1524, which in 1853 was merged with the recently founded Real-Gymnasium Ernestinum, named in honour of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The merged school continued to be known as the Ernestinum. Until 1947, when it was closed, it was considered the oldest gymnasium in the German-speaking world. It was re-founded in 1991, shortly after German reunification.
3. Reyherschule
The state regular school "Andreas Reyher" is a regular school in Gotha. The school building of the school was built in 1900 as a community school for boys and girls. The school has always been bearing the name of the educator Andreas Reyher, who organized the Gotha school system in the 17th century, although the school's organizational form changed several times. At the moment, the building houses a state regular school and a state primary school that bears Reyher's names.
4. Herzogliches Museum
Located in the castle park south of Friedenstein Castle, the Ducal Museum Gotha is a museum building in the Neo-Renaissance style from the 19th century. Since its reopening in 2013, it has been showcasing the art collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Gotha with Egyptian and Greco-Roman antiquities, Renaissance painting, East Asian art from China and Japan, and sculptures from various eras. A masterpiece of the exhibition is the Gotha Lovers, a painting from 1480.
5. Grundschule “Josias Friedrich Löffler”
The Josias Friedrich Löffler State Primary School is a primary school in Gotha, Germany. The schoolhouse, which is a listed building, was built in 1892 and extended by a gymnasium in 1894. The school initially bore the name of Josias Friedrich Löffler and then served as a vocational school from 1959, then named after Käthe Kollwitz. In 1991, the building became a primary school again, which has borne Löffler's name again since 1992.
6. Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum
The German Insurance Museum Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi is a museum of insurance history in Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. It is located at Bahnhofstraße 3a, in the former management building of the Gothaer Lebensversicherungsbank. It is operated on behalf of the city of Gotha by the Friends of the Insurance Museum of the same name.
Wikipedia: Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi (DE), Website
7. Am Schmalen Rain
The horseshoe-shaped garden city settlement "Am schmalen Rain" in the south of Gotha is an example of the cooperative housing of the 1920s, which was influenced by the early garden city movement. The settlement takes its name from its entrance street, which in turn was named after an old field name.
8. Christkönigskirche
The Church Christkönig, also a Christkönigskirche to the precious blood, was the second church, next to the church of St. Bonifatius, the Roman Catholic community in Gotha, which belongs to the parish of St. Bonifatius Gotha. In 2019 it was sold to the Romanian Orthodox church.
9. St. Bonifatius
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Boniface is a Roman Catholic parish church in Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. It is the parish church of the parish of St. Bonifatius Gotha in the deanery of Meiningen in the diocese of Erfurt. It bears the patronage of St. Boniface.
10. Versöhnungskirche
The Church of Reconciliation is a parish centre of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany in Gotha. The church building in the West district at Werner-Sylten-Straße 1 is a functional building for church services and community work, it was inaugurated in 1985.
11. Neue Sternwarte
The Gotha Observatory was a duke foundation for the purpose of astronomical research. It consisted of several research sites in the city area of Gotha, including the building located on Jägerstraße, whose street facade is shown on the photo below.
12. Hauptfriedhof
The 20-hectare main cemetery in Gotha is the last of Gotha's five cemeteries still in operation. It is located on Langensalzaer Straße in the northeast of the Thuringian city. The crematorium located here from 1878 is the oldest in Germany.
13. St. Johannes
St. John's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Uelleben, a district of Gotha in Thuringia, Germany. It was built in the 17th century, belongs to the Superintendentship of Gotha and is located in the centre of the village.
14. Alte Sternwarte
Gotha Observatory was a German astronomical observatory located on Seeberg hill near Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. Initially the observatory was dedicated to astrometry, geodetic and meteorological observation and tracking the time.
15. Ekhof Theater
The Ekhof Theatre is one of the oldest baroque theatres with a functioning stage machinery from the 17th century, which is still operated manually today. It is located in the west tower of Friedenstein Castle in Gotha.
16. Winterpalais
The Winter Palace in Gotha, Friedrichstraße 2, was a classicist city palace built mainly in 1822 and an important cultural monument. It was largely demolished in 2010 and replaced by a new building completed in 2014.
17. Gedenkstein Bahnhof Leinakanal
The Leina Canal is a medieval artificial river that was created to supply the water-scarce city of Gotha. The technical monument still transports water from the Thuringian Forest over almost 30 km to Gotha.
18. Altes Rathaus
The old town hall is a listed building at the Hauptmarkt 1 location in Gotha and the historic town hall of the city. Due to its red facade color, the building is also unofficially called the red town hall.
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