Korbach - Sightseeing

Sightseeing

  • Kilianskirche (1450) and Nikolaikirche (1460)
  • Old State School (Alte Landesschule) (1579)
  • A mediaeval pillory
  • Well preserved town wall and a lovingly restored Old Town
  • Several mediaeval stone buildings (warehouses)
  • The bronze Night Watchman ("Nachtwächter") in the pedestrian precinct
  • The Gold Trail (Goldspur), going by interesting goldmining sites and explaining the history of gold at the Eisenberg.
  • Nieder-Ense Church, built between 1130 and 1140, with Baroque altar by Josias Wolrad Brützel about 1700.
  • Visitors' Mine, located at Germany's most important goldmining site, illustrating a goldminer's situation in the Middle Ages and his everyday work.
  • Georg-Viktor-Turm (tower), 24 m high, affords a panoramic view into the Upland as far as the Ederbergland, and of Eisenberg castle ruins.

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