Übersicht: Museen in Gotha
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Overview Gotha’s sights
"Maria Magdalenae” hospital
The former Mariae Magdalenae hospital is hidden behind a beautiful Baroque portal. Saint Elisabeth personally had a facility built here to care for...
Buttermarkt
As the name suggests, the Buttermarkt used to be a trading place for dairy products and meat. Today the small, gorgeous square is lined with cafés and...
Friedenstein Palace
Friedenstein Palace towers over the city with its differently shaped corner towers as a landmark that can be seen from afar. Ernest the Pious laid the...
Friedenstein Palace - Ekhof Theatre
The fact that Gotha’s dukes staged their Friedenstein Palace as a pre-eminent centre of artistic endeavour is not just made clear by their passion for...
Friedenstein Palace - Palace museum
The palace museum in the north and west wing mainly displays the unchanged chambers of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as...
Friedrichsthal Palace
On the way from the train station to the city centre, the road divides the grand Baroque ensemble of the Friedrichsthal Palace and the orangery...
Guild Hall
This stately building on the Unterer Hauptmarkt on the corner of Marktstraße has seen some turbulent times. The foundation stone was already laid in...
Gustav Freytag memorial
The writer and cultural historian Gustav Freytag lived in Gotha’s Siebleben district today for many years and wrote many of his most important works...
Historical town hall
The red town hall is the unmissable heart of the Hauptmarkt and splits the inner city square into the Oberer and Unterer Hauptmarkt, formerly called...





















