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Pforzheim is one of the regional centers (Oberzentrum) in Baden-Württemberg and has one of the highest densities of industrial activity in the state. Pforzheim is historically an important jewelry and watch-making centre in Germany. Due to this reason, Pforzheim is nicknamed as Golden City.
- Gasometer Pforzheim
- Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
- Wildpark Pforzheim
- Technisches Museum
- St. Michael
- Archäologisches Museum
- Fahrzeugmuseum Marxzell
- Museum Johannes Reuchlin
- Stadtmuseum Pforzheim
- Stadtgarten
The Viennese artist Yadegar Asisi has made a name painting the largest 360° panoramas in the world. Given they’re as much as 32 metres high and more than 100 metres in circumference, the only venues large enough to exhibit these titanic works of art are former gasometers. Pforzheim is the latest German city to have a gasometer (1912) converted for ...
In the International Style Reuchlinhaus from the early 1960s is a museum all about the history of jewellery. Pforzheim has long been a hotbed for jewellery and watch-making, and there’s a section devoted to pieces made locally by the likes of Victor Mayer, whose company produced jewellery for Fabergé into the 21st century . The remainder of the mus...
Southeast of Pforzheim is the city’s animal park where almost 500 mammals, fish and reptiles live in a 16-hectare park. Most of the 70 different animal species in the attraction are native to Central Europe, so you can view a variety of deer species, lynxes, Eurasian otters, long-eared owls, along with animals from other European regions like elks....
The grand Kollmar & Jourdan-Haus holds a technical museum about Pforzheim’s watch and jewellery industry. This Art Nouveau former factory building is listed and has lovely glazed tiles in white green and brown on its street facade. The museum opened in 1979 in response to some of Pforzheim’s jewellery factories closing, as a way of safeguarding des...
An air raid in February 1945 left Pforzheim in ruins, and the only Medieval monument to be spared was this Romanesque and Gothic church dating from the 13th century. Even this building needed extensive restorations, which continued until 1957. The church is also known as the “Schlosskirche” as it was once embedded in a Renaissance palace that was d...
In Roman times Pforzheim, then Portus, was an administrative centre for the Germania Superior Province. On the surface there are no hints of the city’s ancient past. But in 1995 exciting evidence was unearthed at Kappelhofplatz. The excavation site under a Caritas residential home, has been left exactly as it was. Crossing the site on footbridges y...
You could take a detour on the way to Karlsruhe and call in at a transport museum in the village of Marxzell. In a former sawmill, the museum goes back to 1968 when the car enthusiast Bernhard Reichert put his small fleet of cars on show to the public. Since then the collection has swollen to 140 cars, 70 motorcycles, 150 bicycles, 23 tractors, 16 ...
One of the great humanists of the early Renaissance, Johannes Reuchlin was born in Pforzheim in 1455. He helped pave the way for the Enlightenment (he was praised by Goethe) partly by encouraging Christians, Jews and Muslims to enter into dialogue with each other. He also pushed for the translation of the bible in German quite some time before Mart...
Pforzheim’s municipal museum has two locations, an old schoolhouse and the parish church. Beginning at the schoolhouse you can immerse yourself in the city’s old ways at recreated watch-making and goldsmith workshops, while there are models and artefacts for other trades like saddling, tanning, underwear-making and shoemaking. Attached to the schoo...
South and east of the Reuchlinhaus is Pforzheim’s main park, a patchwork of flowerbeds and lawns next to the Nagold River. Where the Reuchlinhaus stands today there was a grand Neo-Baroque performance venue, the Saalbau, which was wiped out in February 1945. The park, dating back to 1885, was also badly damaged but was restored in the 1960s. At the...
- mohammed Abdalqader. Germany 6 contributions. Must visit. An amazing destination visit with so much to see. A must visit place when in Pforzheim or in nearby.
- John R. Anoka, MN1,836 contributions. Great value. Very neat to see many of the animals that are native to Germany. Many of these are huntable species, so being able to see what they actually look like is neat.
- jvhiii2015. Palo Alto, CA25 contributions. Amazing. The exhibit really is amazing, showing jewelry from the western world from ancient times to the present.
- watchhans18. Hannover 42 contributions. If you are a watch enthusiast you have to visit this place. This museum focuses on the production techniques and machinery of watch- and jewellery production.
Pforzheim, city, Baden-Württemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies on the northern edge of the Black Forest (Schwarzwald), where the Nagold and Würm rivers join the Enz, northwest of Stuttgart. Originally the site of a Roman settlement (Porta Hercyniae), it was chartered about 1195.
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Pforzheim — Gateway To The Black Forest. When you visit Pforzheim you’ll see gold, jewelry and watches all over the place. Because of this it’s also called the Golden City. (You may want to start your city journey at the Jewelry Museum — make sense, huh?)
From History to Recreation. Pforzheim's most famous building is St. Michael's Schlosskirche church with its impressive Roman west work. It is not only the Margraves of Baden who lie buried here, but it is also the final resting place of the Grand-Duchess Stephanie, Napoleon's adoptive daughter.
Pforzheim. Pforzheim is known as the "Gateway to Black Forest" or "Goldstadt" (Gold town) for its jewellery and watch-making industries. It is one of the main cities in Baden-Württemberg and lies on the north edge of the Black Forest between Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Pforzheim is a town of 126,000 inhabitants (2021).
