Main Sights
- Old Town with Kronberg Castle, or Burg Kronberg, with its keep, which is the town's oldest building
- the Schloss Friedrichshof (a stately home built as a widow's residence for "Empress Frederick" and now home to the Schlosshotel Kronberg)
- the Recepturhof, Mainz Electorate's administration building
- the town park
- Saint John's Evangelical Church (Kirche St. Johann, 1440)
- the "Streitkirche" ("Dispute Church", 1758)
- "Hellhof", a noble seat built by the Kronberg Knights (first mentioned in 1424), nowadays partially converted into a gallery.
- Opelzoo, a medium-sized animal park between Kronberg and Königstein. The Opelzoo originally came into being from Opel Works founderGeorg von Opel's grandson's private animal reserve. About 1956, the younger Opel brought a pair of endangered Persian fallow deer to Kronberg and through breeding ensured their survival.
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