Elisabethenburg Palace, Meiningen

Name: Elisabethenburg Palace
Address: Schlossplatz 1, Meiningen, Germany

#2 among attractions in Meiningen

Top attraction, Museum, History museum, Baroque architecture

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Elisabethenburg Palace is a Baroque palace located on the northwestern edge of Meiningen in Germany. Until 1918 it was the residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen. The castle now houses the Meininger Museum as well as the Max Reger archives, the Thuringian State Archives, the Max Reger music school, the Johannes Brahms concert hall, a restaurant, the tower Cafe, and the ceremonial rooms of the Meinigen City Council and Registry Office. ()

Local name: Schloss Elisabethenburg Completed: 1692 (332 years ago)Coordinates: 50°34'13"N, 10°24'46"E

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Schlossplatz 1Meiningen Germany

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Elisabethenburg Palace – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Meininger Staatstheater, Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, Schloss Landsberg, Johanniterburg Kühndorf.

~1320 ftNE
Concerts and shows, Theater
Meininger Staatstheater, Meiningen
7 min walk • The Meiningen Theatre, now called the Meininger Staatstheater, is a four-division theater in the Thuringian town of Meiningen. The theatre offers music theatre, drama, concerts and puppet theatre.
0.9 miNE
Museum
Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, Meiningen
23 min walk • The Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works is a railway repair shop in Meiningen, Germany. It is owned by Deutsche Bahn and has specialised in the maintenance of museum steam locomotives since 1990, having extensive experience in maintaining steam engines.
2.2 miN
Forts and castles
Schloss Landsberg, Meiningen
58 min walk • Landsberg Castle in Meiningen is a former pleasure palace of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen and housed a romantic first-class hotel until December 2013.
4.4 miNE
Forts and castles, Historical place, Architecture
Johanniterburg Kühndorf
113 min walk • The Johanniterburg Kühndorf, later also called Kühndorf Castle, was built in 1315 by the Order of St. John on the remains of a predecessor castle as a fort consisting of broad towers and was expanded by the Counts of Henneberg to become their last...
4.8 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Dolmar
122 min walk • The Dolmar is a 739.6 m above sea level extinct volcano of the Werra Geuplatten about 2 km northwest of Kühndorf in the Thuringian district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen.
2.2 miE
Memorial
Gedenkstein Fritz Scherer, Meiningen
57 min walk • Fritz Scherer was an anarchist migrant worker and bookbinder.
2.2 miE
Hiking, Alpine hut
Bakuninhütte, Meiningen
57 min walk • The Bakunin Hut is a cultural monument of anarcho-syndicalism near Meiningen on the 498 meter high mountain Hohe Maas. Named after Mikhail Bakunin, a Russian revolutionary, anarchist and opponent of Karl Marx, the hut was built from 1926 by the...