Local Attractions
- Windeck Castle, originally built around 1100 to protect the Lorsch monastery, it was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War and by Louis XIV of France.
- Wachenburg Castle, built between 1907 and 1928 by student fraternities.
- The Market Square
- The Schloss, home of the town council
- Gerberbach Quarter, old haunt of the leather makers
- Schlosspark
- Exotenwald Weinheim, a forest arboretum
- Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof, a botanical garden
- Weinheim's beautiful synagogue was destroyed on Kristallnacht.
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