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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Road map D4. * 200,000. n
Benediktsplatz 1 (0361-66400).
_ Krämerbrückenfest (Jun),
Weinfest (Aug), Petersbergfest
(Sep), Christmas market (Dec).
∑ erfurt­tourismus.de
Transport
k Flughafenstraße 4 (0361-65
60). £ Am Bahnhofsplatz. @
Bürgermeister-Wagner-Straße.
Fischmarkt, surrounded by houses from various periods
E EGA and Gartenbau
E Stadtmuseum E Angermuseum museum
Johannesstraße 169. Tel (0361) 655 56 Anger 18. Tel (0361) 55 45 615. Cyriaksburg, Gothaer Straße 38. Tel
51. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. (0361) 223 22 0. Open May–Oct:
Erfurt’s history museum is housed Barfüßerkirche: Barfüßerstraße 20. 10am–8pm daily; Nov–Apr: 10am–4pm
in a beautiful, late-Renaissance Tel (0361) 55 45 615. Open Mar–Nov: daily. Museum: Tel (0361) 22 39 90.
building called Zum Stockfisch 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. & Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. Closed Jan
(To the Dried Cod), built in 1607. The museum, housed in a & Feb. &
Baroque building, has a On the hill around Erfurt’s ruined
P Anger collection of decorative and castle (around 1480) are the
Now pedestrianized, this is a sacred arts including grounds of the International
market square and Erfurt’s main paintings by Lucas Cranach Garden Show (Erfurter Garten­
shopping street, lined with attrac- the Elder, and 19th- and ausstellung) with exhibition halls,
tive 19th-century mansions and 20th-century German works. gardens, a butterfly house and a
commercial premises. There are One of its rooms is decorated museum of horticulture and
two Gothic churches: Kaufmanns­ with Expressionist murals beekeeping.
kirche and Reglerkirche, with a (1923–4) by Erich Heckel.
huge Gothic altar dating from The medieval section is in Environs
around 1470. At Nos. 37 and 38 the presbytery of the Molsdorf, 10 km (6 miles) to the
there is the Dacherödensches Barfüßer kirche, a former southeast, has a 16th-century
Haus, a complex of beautiful Franciscan church that was Baroque palace set in landscaped
Renaissance buildings. destroyed during World War II. parkland, with a museum.

Erfurt City Centre
1 Dom St Marien
Augustinerkirche
2 St Severi-Kirche AUGUSTINE R STRASSE
3 Fischmarkt
4 Krämerbrücke
5 Augustinerkirche G O TTHAR D T S T R ASSE Schottenkirche
6 Stadtmuseum MICHAELISSTR.
JOHANNESSTRASSE
7 Anger PERGAMENTERGASSE Kaisersaal
8 Angermuseum ALLERHEILIGENSTR. Zum Michaeliskirche WENIGE- FUTTERSTRASSE Stadt-
museum
MARKT
Breiten Herd
KRÄMERBRÜCKE
FISCHMARKT MEIENBERGSTR.
MARKTSTR. Kleine Aegidienkirche
Zum Roten Rathaus Synagoge Kaufmannskirche
Ochsen PILSE
DOMPLATZ ANGER
Zitadelle GROSSE ARCHE Neue SCHLÖSSERSTR.
Petersburg
St Severi-Kirche Mühle
Predigerkirche
Barfüsserkirche
Angermuseum
Dom BAHNHOFSTR.
St Marien MEISTER-ECKEHART-STR Bartholo-
WALKSTROM Statthalterei mäusturm 250m (275 yards)
Hauptbahnhof
Gera
REGIERUNGSSTRASSE
0 metres 300 Gartenbaumuseum
MOLSDORF
0 yards 300 Airport
3 km (2 miles)
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