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A historical defence system and a great lookout over the city.
Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt, central Germany, is one of the largest and best-preserved town fortresses in Europe. The citadel was built on Petersberg hill, in the north-western part of the old town centre from 1665, when Erfurt was governed by the Electorate of Mainz. It is surrounded by over two kilometres of stone walls and is 36 hectares in size.
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Church
One of the most important Gothic buildings in Germany.
Watch an opera or play.
Cathedral
Art gallery exhibiting contemporary art.
with its Burgerhouses and town hall.
Oldest surviving European synagogue, today a museum that has an impressive collection of 14th century Jewish jewelry. The synagogue was in use as such until the 1349 pogrom and was converted to a warehouse afterwards. This "forgetfulness" of its history proved a serendipitous blessing in disguise as the Nazis never knew or cared enough about this part of Jewish history to destroy it in the same way they destroyed Jewish lives and heritage elsewhere. It was only in the 1980s that people started to care about this building again and after reunification, the Erfurt city council bought up the building and restored it to its current state, turning it into a museum.