Attractions and Places To See around Erfurt - Top 20

A popular destination. When it's warm, you can also cool off in it 😊🦊 There's also a tube machine nearby in case you get a flat tire 🙏

Molsdorf Palace Park, home to one of the most beautiful Baroque palaces in central Germany, is located south of Erfurt and houses an extensive art collection as well as numerous authentic furnishings from the 18th century. The palace and park are under the care of the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation. The palace museum is one of the art museums of the city of Erfurt. The palace museum can be visited as part of a guided tour. Guided tours are offered every hour on the hour and by appointment: Telephone +49 36202 90505 Museum Opening Hours Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Park and gardens are open to the public. Special opening: December 25 and January 1 from 1:00 p.m. Closed: Mondays, December 24, and December 31

The Gera cycle path .... really beautiful and definitely recommendable

located in the Geraue - a really nice oasis of relaxation not only for Erfurt ....

definitely a nice corner - definitely recommended

For 14 years, he called Schloss Molsdorf his home. From a moated castle, Count Gustav Adolf von Gotter had a picturesquely situated baroque pleasure palace built. However, the diplomatic climber's extravagance destroyed the dream, and Gotter had to sell the castle. Visitors can view the museum in the castle with its historical rooms and special exhibitions as part of a guided tour. The symmetrical baroque garden from Gotter's time was later transformed into a landscape park. Some sculptures from the original furnishings have survived. I am always fascinated: pure history and beauty. 🦊🙏

The cathedral square in Erfurt is a large market square with around 3.5 hectares, with intact or restored peripheral buildings. It was once the main market square and court square. On the square are the Minerva Fountain (1784) and the Erthal Obelisk erected in 1777 in honor of the Elector of Mainz. Since the 1920s there have been repeated plans to rebuild the northern cathedral square and thus reduce it to its historical size. They weren't realised. As part of the socialist urban development in all major cities of the GDR, a high-rise building with many other buildings, a monument and a huge staircase down to the cathedral square was to be built on the neighboring Petersberg. The change of power from Walter Ulbricht to Erich Honecker with a change in the focus of building activity in the GDR prevented the realization of the project. In the 1970s there were plans to build a cultural center on the square. In addition, the end of the Juri-Gagarin-Ring over the Domplatz and through the Andreasviertel was also planned in GDR times. There was resistance to this project from the Erfurt population as early as 1987, but it failed as a result of the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. At the end of the 1980s, the cathedral square was to become Ernst Thälmann-Platz with a large monument to dialectics depicting the history of the labor movement on the northwestern part of the square. An artist's model already existed, the eight flagpoles are still standing today (2019). The latter plans were also prevented by the political change in 1990. Source: Wikipedia

This pretty natural stone arch bridge was built in 1752. Then, as now, no cars drive over it. From the bridge you have a romantic view of the Apfelstädt river. There is a hose dispenser nearby.