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City in Thuringia, Germany
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Rathaus
One of the biggest Renaissance town halls in Germany with a nearly 60-m-high tower, built between 1573 and 1576. The Marktplatz forms a good ensemble of 18th-century patricians' houses in late-Baroque style.
The former royal Reussian theatre, built in 1902 by Heinrich Seeling in neo-Baroque style.
city pharmacy
A Renaissance building with a beautiful bay, established in 1592.
With the Orangerie, it is a park ensemble west of the city centre, established in 1732 by the Reussians.
A cellar system under the city centre with a length of approx. 9 km, established in 17th and 18th century for storing beer.
It was the royal summer residence of the Reussians, built in 1748 in Baroque style with a surrounding park.
It was the main royal residence of the Reussians, built during the 16th century in Renaissance style. It was hit by bombs in 1945 and partial demolished in 1962. Only the tower remained.
It was demolished in the 19th century, only a small part at Stadtgraben remained.
It is the evangelical main church of Gera, built between 1717 and 1720 by David Schatz in Baroque style.
An evangelical parish church (since 1886), built between 1609 and 1611 as cemetery church.
An evangelical parish church, built between 1881 and 1885 in neo-Gothic style.
It is the evangelical parish church of the former village Untermhaus, built around 1450.
The Catholic parish church of Gera, built in 2000 in modern style as one of only few bigger new churches in Thuringia after 1990.
An evangelical parish church, built in 1895 in neo-Gothic style.
It is an evangelical parish church that was rebuilt during the 1750s.
It hosts an exhibition of art from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
It shows paintings of the Gera-born painter Otto Dix and an exhibition about his life.
Museum for Applied Arts
It shows 20th-century art (inside "Ferber House"). It displays collections of Bauhaus ceramics by the artists Otto Lindig und Theodor Bogler; architectural works of Thilo Schoder; and photographs by Aenne Biermann.
Natural History Museum
It hosts a natural history exhibition (inside the "Schreiber House", the oldest building in the city), with its adjacent botanical garden, the Botanischer Garten Gera.
City museum
It shows an exhibition of Gera's municipal history.
Schulenburg House
It is a factory owner's mansion, built in 1913/14 by the famous architect Henry van de Velde. It hosts topical furniture and decoration and can be visited.
Thüringer specialities
By car
Gera has a direct connection to the west-east motorway (Autobahn) A4 (Frankfurt-Dresden), the interchange with the north-south motorway A9 (Berlin-Munich) is about 15 km east.
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