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Photo: Michael Sander, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Take a walk around the town park and see the green side of the city
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This synagogue sits on the site of the 1884 building plundered and burned down by the Nazis in 1938 and later razed. The Nazis had forced the congregation to sell the land on which the building sat afterwards, but astonishingly the city council gave the land back to the reestablished congregation in 1947. There was debate on the style of the synagogue to be built, with early suggestions rejected as "too ecclesiastical" by the anti-religious East German authorities so the resulting building is pretty modest and betrays its 1950s origins. It is kept under police surveillance due to fear of antisemitic attacks and you can see security cameras near the entrance.
The company Topf & Söhne built the cremation ovens for concentration camps during the Holocaust. The site of the factory is now a Holocaust memorial site and a museum.
with its Burgerhouses and town hall.
The name could be translated as "merchants' bridge"
A bridge with houses built on either side, mostly used for shops. Once this style of bridge was rather common in medieval European cities. However, in many cities such bridges were abandoned due to fire safety concerns or fell victim to the demands of car culture. It is by far Erfurt's most iconic landmark.
Art gallery exhibiting contemporary art.