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One of the most important Gothic buildings in Germany.
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Cathedral
Watch an opera or play.
Zitadelle Petersberg
A historical defence system and a great lookout over the city.
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.