Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Coburg, Germany

The Veste Coburg is one of the best-preserved medieval fortresses of Germany. It is situated on a hill above the town of Coburg, in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria.

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The Coburg Riding Hall is a single-storey neo-Gothic sandstone ashlar building with a gable roof on Coburg's Schlossplatz. The riding hall was built in 1852 by order of Duke Ernst II according to plans by the painter and master builder Georg Konrad Rothbart. The building replaced the riding arena at the southern end of the Marstall building, which had been demolished in 1835. The west façade facing Coburg's Schlossplatz is characterized by a wide pointed arch portal, above which is a tondo with a sculptural horse's head by Theodor Behrens, framed laterally by two crenellated towers.

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The Marstall is located in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg on Schlossplatz, east of Ehrenburg. The former stables are registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.

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The arcades are 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.

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The Edinburgh Palace on Coburg's Schlossplatz, designed in the neo-Renaissance style, ideally closes the ensemble of historic buildings between the Landestheater and the arcades of the Hofgarten with its memorial. Located exactly opposite Ehrenburg Castle, the Edinburgh Palace, formerly known as the "Wangenheimsches Palais", is a masterpiece of the master builder Georg Konrad Rothbart. In 1865, Alfred, the son of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, acquired it and used it as a residence. Today the palace belongs to the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Coburg.

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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.

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The former Kyrill Palace, also known as Villa Edinburgh, is located in the Upper Franconian city of Coburg at Oberer Bürglaß 2. It bears the name of its last host, the Russian Grand Duke Kirill.

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On the street Oberer Bürglaß, opposite the back of the Landestheater in Coburg, stands the classicist building of the Bürglaß Castle from the 18th century, which was called the Bulgarian Castle or Augusten-Palais until the 1950s. It served as the residence of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria for 30 years after his abdication until 1948. Today the castle is used as a registry office.

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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.

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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.

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St. Salvator is an Evangelical Lutheran cemetery church in Coburg, Lower Salvatorgasse 6.

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The Ketschentor is one of three surviving city gates of the Upper Franconian city of Coburg. The gate tower demarcated the city centre to the south and belonged to the outer city wall ring.

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Villa Victoria is located at Ketschendorfer Straße 2 in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg. It is a Biedermeier house that was built in 1835 and is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.

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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 Sonnenhaus or, in connection with the crenellated tower, also known as the Sonnenburg.

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The Rose Garden is a park in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany, located between the Ketschentor and the Angerturnhalle.

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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.

Wikipedia: Hofbrauhaus Coburg (DE)