Paulskirche, Wetzlar

Name: Paulskirche
Address: Wetzlar, Germany

#10 among attractions in Wetzlar

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St. Paul's Church was built between 1491 and 1492 in what is now the Hermannstein district of Wetzlar in central Hesse. The late-Gothic hall church has a three-aisle front and a west tower dating from the 1520s. Significant furnishings from the time of construction include a triumphal cross, a sandstone relief from 1492, and a red sandstone baptismal font depicting the birth of Christ.

Coordinates: 50°34'46"N, 8°29'30"E

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Paulskirche – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Lottehaus, Wetzlar Cathedral, Dünsberg, Cube - DAV Kletterzentrum Wetzlar.

1.8 miS
Museum, Historical place
Lottehaus, Wetzlar
45 min walk • 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.
1.7 miS
Historical place, Church, Romanesque architecture
Wetzlar Cathedral, Wetzlar
43 min walk • Wetzlar Cathedral is a large church in the town of Wetzlar, located on the Lahn river some 50 km north of Frankfurt. Construction began in 1230 and is still unfinished, since the western front is still missing its northern belfry.
6.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Dünsberg
160 min walk • Dünsberg is a hill slightly northwest of Gießen in Hesse, Germany. At 498 meters in height, it is the highest mountain in the Gießen and Wetzlar area. On the southern slope of the hill, grave mounds were found from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. Fortification systems of the hill are detectable from the Urnfield period.
2.3 miSE
50°33'13"N • 8°31'32"E
Cube - DAV Kletterzentrum Wetzlar, Wetzlar
60 min walk • Sport complex, Climbing
3.5 miSE
50°32'23"N • 8°32'29"E
Kletterwald Wetzlar, Wetzlar
90 min walk • Game and entertainment center, Theme park, Amusement park
4.1 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Altenberg
106 min walk • The Altenberg is a hill in Hesse, Germany. It is next to the L3053 road.
1.8 miS
Museum, Specialty museum
Reichskammergerichtsmuseum, Wetzlar
48 min walk • The Imperial Chamber Court Museum presents an exhibition on the structure, functioning and history of the Imperial Chamber Court throughout the period of its activity. Opened in 1987, the museum is located in Hofstatt 19 in Wetzlar, a cameral...
1.9 miS
Museum
Palais Papius, Wetzlar
48 min walk • Palais Papius is a plain baroque two-story palace in the old town of Wetzlar in the Lahn-Dill district. It is located at Kornblumengasse 1.
1.9 miS
Library
Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar, Wetzlar
49 min walk • 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.
1.9 miS
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Jerusalemhaus, Wetzlar
48 min walk • 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.
5.3 miN
Forts and castles
Burg Hohensolms
135 min walk • Hohensolms Castle, also called Neu-Hohensolms, is a hilltop castle on the so-called "Ramsberg" about 430 m above sea level in the district of the same name of the municipality of Hohenahr in the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse.