Main Sights
Sights in Gera include:
- Town Hall (1576, Renaissance)
- Market Square with Simson-fountain
- Osterstein Castle, Gera (largely destroyed 1945)
- City Pharmacy
- Theater (1902)
- Villa Schulenburg, designed by Henry van de Velde
- St. Johannis church (Neo-Gothic)
- St. Salvator church (Baroque with Art Nouveau interior decoration)
- St. Marien church (Late Gothic)
- St. Trinitatis church (Late Gothic)
- Old beer cellars called "Geraer Höhler"
- Zoo Gera (since 1973)
Museums in Gera include:
- City Museum
- Otto Dix House
- Art Galley "Orangerie"
- Museum of Natural History ("Schreiber House", the oldest building in the city), with its adjacent botanical garden, the Botanischer Garten Gera
- Museum for Applied Arts ("Ferber House"), displays collections of Bauhaus ceramics by the artists Otto Lindig und Theodor Bogler; architectural works of Thilo Schoder; and photographs by Aenne Biermann.
In 2007 Gera, together with Ronneburg, is venue of the Bundesgartenschau (the federal horticultural show).
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