Wunsiedel - Main Sights

Main Sights

  • Luisenburg Rock Labyrinth, municipal landscape garden and national geotope
  • Luisenburg Festival stage on the Luisenburg (oldest natural stage in Germany)
  • Katharinenberg Municipal Park
  • The now empty grave of Rudolf Heß in the cemetery, major Nazi war criminal, sentenced in the Nuremberg
  • In the same cemetery are the individual and multiple graves of 30 Jewish concentration camp victims, who lost their lives during a death march in the last days of the Second World War in 1945
  • Wunsiedel Birds of Prey Park and falconry at the Katharinenberg Municipal Park
  • Lernort Natur Deer Park
  • Historic town walk through the classicist old town (Altstadt)
  • Jean-Paul circular walk in North Wunsiedel
  • The Markus-Zahn-Allee and St. Joseph's Chapel
  • Fichtelgebirge Museum, the largest Bavarian regional museum with an extensive stone and mineral collection
  • German Natural Stone Archive, the largest collection of its kind in the world with 5,500 templates (Musterplatten) of natural stones from across the world
  • St. Veit's Parish Church
  • St. Maria Spitalkirche
  • Parish Church of the Twelve Apostles
  • Peace Church of the Holy Trinity
  • Ruined church of St. Katharine's on the Katharinenberg, the oldest building in the town
  • The Town Hall of 1835/1837
  • The Koppete Gate (Koppetentor), the only surviving gate of the old town defences (erected in 1471)
  • Jean Paul's birthplace (a former schoolhouse) with a bust of Jean Paul by Ludwig Schwanthaler
  • Bernstein Castle

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