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The Best Attractions In Wetzlar

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Stadt- und Industriemuseum Wetzlar

Burg Kalsmunt

Historische Altstadt Wetzlar

Dunkelkaufhaus Wetzlar e.V.

Lottehaus

Jerusalemhaus

Leica Welt IM Leitz-Park

Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar

Kanu Lahn-Dill

Reichskammergerichtsmuseum Wetzlar

Forum Wetzlar

Sammlung von Lemmers-Danforth

Kletterwald Wetzlar

Wetzlar Cathedral

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Wetzlar is a city located in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is a former free imperial city that owed much of its fame to being the seat of the Imperial Supreme Court of the Holy Roman Empire. Located at 8° 30′ E, 50° 34′ N, Wetzlar straddles the river Lahn and is on the German Timber-Frame Road which passes mile upon mile of half-timbered houses. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis on the north edge of the Taunus. The city is known for its ancient town and its medieval cathedral. Notable architectural features include the Eisenmarkt and the steep gradients and tightly packed street layout of a medieval town. The sa...
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The Best Attractions In Wetzlar

1. Wetzlar Cathedral Wetzlar
Wetzlar is a city located in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is a former free imperial city that owed much of its fame to being the seat of the Imperial Supreme Court of the Holy Roman Empire. Located at 8° 30′ E, 50° 34′ N, Wetzlar straddles the river Lahn and is on the German Timber-Frame Road which passes mile upon mile of half-timbered houses. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis on the north edge of the Taunus. The city is known for its ancient town and its medieval cathedral. Notable architectural features include the Eisenmarkt and the steep gradients and tightly packed street layout of a medieval town. The sandstone cathedral of St. Mary was commenced in the 12th century as a Romanesque building. In the later Middle Ages the construction was cont...
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2. Historische Altstadt Wetzlar Wetzlar
3. Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar Wetzlar
The Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar was founded in 1989 and has become one of the largest public libraries specialised in Fantasy literature worldwide, it is the largest in Europe. It is generally a reference library, open for the public and researchers. The aim of the library is to collect everything in print which belongs to: science fiction, fantasy, literature, classical fantasy, horror, utopian novels, fantastic journey and adventure novels, fairy tales, saga, myths, etc. At the moment the library is in possession of 150,000 titles. This collection includes hardcovers and paperbacks, dissertations, magazines and fanzines. There are also some rare materials, e.g. the documenta 1984 science-fiction-collection.
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4. Leica Welt IM Leitz-Park Wetzlar
5. Sammlung von Lemmers-Danforth Wetzlar
6. Lottehaus Wetzlar
The Lottehaus is a museum in Wetzlar, Germany. It was the birthplace of Charlotte Buff, who lived there for the first 20 years of her life until she got married. The Lottehaus was originally an establishment of the Teutonic Order, which founded it in 1285 under the name Haus Wetzlar as its principal office in the city of Wetzlar. Over the years the establishment was extended by several buildings and the actual Lottehaus was constructed in 1653 to house the local curator of the order. Heinrich Adam Buff moved into the Lottehaus in 1740, when he started his work as curator for the order. His daughter Charlotte, after who the house is named today, was born in it on 11 January 1753 and to lived there for the first 20 years of her until she got married in 1773. After Charlotte had become famous...
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7. Kletterwald Wetzlar Wetzlar
8. Forum Wetzlar Wetzlar
The Roman Forum of Lahnau-Waldgirmes is a fortified Roman trading place, located at the edge of the modern village Waldgirmes, part of Lahnau on the Lahn, Hesse, Germany. The site has the oldest known stone buildings in Magna Germania. The archaeological evidence at Waldgirmes suggests the remains of one of a series of planned towns and market places founded by the Romans east of the Rhine and north of the Danube, with the aim of long-term growth into population centres. The complex was never completed. In the absence of any historical reference or local inscriptions, the original name of the site remains unknown.
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9. Burg Kalsmunt Wetzlar
10. Jerusalemhaus Wetzlar
The Jerusalemhaus is a house museum at Schillerplatz 5 in Wetzlar, Germany. On October 30, 1772, the Braunschweig legation secretary Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem shot himself here in a two-room apartment on the second floor. Goethe, who knew him personally due to an internship they completed together at the Reichskammergericht in Wetzlar, immortalized Jerusalem as the suicidal Werther in The Sorrows of Young Werther . The apartment is today a memorial equipped with historical furniture and documents.The Jerusalemhaus houses the Goethe-Werther-Sammlung . The special library strives for maximum completeness in the documentation of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther and not only keeps precious contemporary German editions of the novel, but also collects new editions in every conceivable la...
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11. Stadt- und Industriemuseum Wetzlar Wetzlar
12. Alte Lahnbruecke Wetzlar
13. Dunkelkaufhaus Wetzlar e.V. Wetzlar
14. Reichskammergerichtsmuseum Wetzlar Wetzlar
15. Kanu Lahn-Dill Wetzlar

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