Kulmbach Attractions

The Tin Figures Museum in the Plassenburg, near Kulmbach, has a remarkable collection of over 300,000 tin figures, displayed in more than 220 dioramas (tin figure exchange held in alternate, odd-numbered years), and a collection of hunting weapons.

On the Burgberg (Castle Hill) in Kulmbach is the Langheimer Klosterhof, a richly decorated Baroque monastery (1694).

Plassenburg, above Kulmbach, was passed to the Hohenzollern family in 1340 and until 1604 was the seat of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. The present building dates mainly from 1560-70. Its finest feature is the Renaissance courtyard, the Schöner Hof.

St Peter's Church (15th C.) in Kulmbach was built in the Late Gothic style.

The Kulmbach Town Hall has an elegant Roccoco facade (1752).