17 Sights in Pforzheim, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Pforzheim, 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 17 sights are available in Pforzheim, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Pforzheim1. Wildpark Pforzheim
The Pforzheim Wildlife Park was founded in 1968. More than 400 mammals, fish and birds of 70 species live on an area of 16.5 hectares in the Pforzheim Wildlife Park. There are numerous offers for children. Exhibitions and workshops are regularly held in the nature education centre, the Ewald-Steinle-Haus, which is located on the grounds of the wildlife park. The nature education centre was founded in 1997 by the Förderverein Wildpark Pforzheim e.V. and the previous association under its chairman at the time, Ewald-Steinle.
2. Barfüßerkirche
The Barfüßerkirche in Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg goes back to the medieval Franciscan monastery in the city, which was lifted at the Reformation. In the destruction of the monastery buildings at the city fire in 1689, only the impressive choir of the church was preserved, which from the 18th century again served various beliefs as a church and is now a list of monument protection as a cultural monument.
3. Schloß- und Stiftskirche St. Michael
The former castle and collegiate church of St. Michael in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, together with the neighbouring archive tower, is one of the last medieval testimonies of Pforzheim, whose medieval townscape was almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, the War of the Palatine Succession and most recently in the Second World War. In 2021, the church was designated a cultural monument.
4. Kulturhaus Osterfeld
The Kulturhaus Osterfeld is a cultural centre in the city of Pforzheim (Baden-Württemberg), Osterfeldstraße 12. It was opened on 2 September 1994 in the Osterfeld building and is located in the former largest elementary school in the state of Baden, which was built by the then city architect Alfons Kern between 1904 and 1907. The building is a listed building.
5. Antoniuskirche
St. Antonius in Brötzingen, a district of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg, is a Catholic parish church. There were plans for the construction of a Catholic church in Brötzingen as early as the 19th century, but the church could not be built until 1934/35. Their interior was fundamentally redesigned, especially in the 1970s.
6. Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Church of the Herz Jesus in Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg is a Roman Catholic church, originally built in 1928/29 and rebuilt after the destruction of the war in 1948–1951. The church belongs to the Catholic Church of Pforzheim in the Dean of Pforzheim in the Erzdiocese of Freiburg.
7. Pforzheimer Wasserturm
The Wartberg water tower is a water tower with a container with a capacity of 350 cubic meters in the north of Pforzheim without an antenna. The Wartberg water tower was built in 1954 and also serves to spread several radio programs on FM and as a carrier of Mobile phone transmission mast.
8. Burgruine Kräheneck
The ruins of Kräheneck Castle, formerly also known as Creinegg, are the ruins of a spur castle on a mountain spur surrounded by the Nagold River above the castle ruins of Weißenstein (Rabeneck) and the Schlossweg in the Pforzheim district of Dillweißenstein in Baden-Württemberg.
9. St. Martinskirche Stadtmuseum
The Church of St. Martin in Brötzingen, a district of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg, is the original church of the place. The Christuskirche was built next to her in 1911/12. The old Martinskirche was profaned in 1938 and is now part of the Pforzheim city museum.
10. Bergkirche
The mountain church in Büchenbron, a district of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg, is a Protestant parish church and the original church of the village. It was built around 1400, later changed several times and is a cultural monument under monument protection.
11. Hoheneck
Hoheneck Castle is the remnant of a hilltop castle on the Hämmerlesberg near the Dillweißenstein district of the city of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The castle site on the northern edge of the Black Forest is the terminus of the Eppingen Lines.
12. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche in Brötzingen, a district of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg, is an Evangelical parish church. It was built in 1911/12 according to plans by Heinrich Henz and replaced the neighboring older church of St. Martin, which was profaned in 1938.
13. Stadtkirche
The Evangelical Stadtkirche in Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg is the Protestant main church of the city. The church, inaugurated in 1968, is the fourth city church, after three predecessors had been destroyed by wars and fires since the Reformation.
14. Burgruine Liebeneck
The ruins of Liebeneck Castle were once a high mediaeval spur castle in the southwestern part of the Heckengäu, a forested region southeast of the village of Würm, in the county of Pforzheim in the south German state of Baden-Württemberg.
15. Stadtmuseum Pforzheim
The Pforzheim City Museum in Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg has been located in the profaned parish church of St. Martin and in the old school building since 1974. The address is: western Karl-Friedrich-Straße 241/243.
16. Liebfrauenkirche
The Liebfrauenkirche in Dillweißenstein, a district of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg, was built from 1908 to 1910 according to plans by Johannes Schroth. It is under monument protection as a cultural monument.
17. Rabeneck
The Rabeneck castle ruins, also called Dillweißenstein, historically actually Weißenstein Castle, is the ruin of a castle in the Dillweißenstein district of the city of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg.
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