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Town in Bavaria, Germany
Photo: Benreis, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kulmbach is a city in Franconia. Its main claim to fame is a high brewery density, which albeit much diminished with economic consolidation was historically quite remarkable.
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Petrikirche
The oldest church in town and perhaps the oldest in all of Upper Franconia
The castle towering over the town. Its Pewter Figurine Museum (Zinnfigurenmuseum) holds over 300,000 pewter figures, most of which are displayed in over 220 dioramas. Special exhibitions are also frequently shown in the museums and open-air concerts are held regularly in the Schönen Hof.
Today, it houses a branch of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment. There are display boards on various nature topics in the outdoor area.
Deutsches Dampflokomotiv-Museum
The museum is close to the schiefe Ebene (inclined plane), one of the first rail lines with a significant incline (up to 25 permille) that trains had to climb without any outside help - quite a challenge for 19th-century steam engines.
The snack bar is popular with craftsmen, it is still cooked by hand and nothing comes from the bag. If you come outside business hours, you will find a vending machine that offers everything from sausage to ready-made pastries in glasses to barbecue.
Kulmbach's youngest brewery, with an inn with good and inexpensive Franconian food.
Former brewery with good Franconian dishes and beer garden
Traditional restaurant founded 1898, with Franconian dishes and beer garden. Meats and sausages from own butchering.
Good Franconian dishes.
An inn on brewery grounds with regular events and museum beer on tap. In summer with Kulmbach's largest beer garden.
The last brewpub in Kulmbach, founded in 1994 as brewing cooperative . A small group of townspeople decided to open small brewery where they could make traditional, unfiltered beer. They offering a light “Hell” and a dark beer “Bernstein” and every month a special beer. The first taste of the new brew is every first Wednesday in month. It’s in a nice location, the building is an old water mill, but it’s the in-house brewery that sets it apart.
Oldest pub in town, interior furnishing from 1938.
By plane
Nuremberg Airport (NUE) is the closest airport with scheduled flights
By car
Kulmbach is easily accessible on the autobahn A70, approximately 90 km north of Nuremberg and 40 km south of Hof.
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