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Highlights
History (1st part)
History (2nd part)
Famous inhabitans
Dear Mr. Weissenfels
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Weissenfels - Highlights
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| Weissenfels is a nice city. It has got the name from the white rock, which you can see from the “Klemmberg“.
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The castle “Neu-Augustusburg“ is on top of the “Klemmberg“.
In the biggest part of the early baroque area of the castle is a real castle church with a “Foerner-organ“, the crypt of the ducal family and a museum about the historical development of shoes.
In this museum you can find, among others, a pair of shoes which the German ex-chancellor Kohl left there as a present.
He wore them in one of his election campaigns.
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Weissenfels has got a market place, where different trades meet and sell their products every Tuesday and Thursday.
Many visitors are here. Near the market place there is a bridge, which is called “Pfennigbruecke“, penny-bridge.
In the old days the people had to pay when they wanted to go over it.
In the Merseburger Straße you can find the "Maerchenbrunnen“, which means fairy tale fountain.
It was reconstructed some years ago.
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The so-called “Geleitshaus“ was built in 1552.
It was the first townhouse made of stone in Weissenfels.
Wallenstein´s officer Pappenheimer spent there some nights in the Thirty Years´ War.
In 1632 the Swedish King Gustav Adolf II died in the battle at Luetzen.
His body was brought to the Geleitshaus.
Today there is a museum inside.
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