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CATHEDRAL 1 LOTTEHAUS 2 CITY AND INDUSTRY MUSEUM 3 Take a closer look closer a Take Ernst Leitz Collection of Historic Microscopes 10 Sammlung historischer Mikroskope Ernst Leitz Dom Neues Rathaus Domplatz Ernst-Leitz-Straße 30 35578 Wetzlar 35578 Wetzlar Telephone: +49 (0)6441 42493 Contact: Leica Microsystems GmbH www.dom-wetzlar.de Telephone: +49 (0)6441 29-0 Open: Fax: +49 (0)6441 29-2590 April to 15 October Stadt- und Industriemuseum www.leica-microsystems.com 9:00 am – 7:00 pm Lottestraße 8 – 10 Lottestraße 8 – 10 Open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday, 8 am – 6 pm 16 October to March 35578 Wetzlar 35578 Wetzlar Wednesday, 8 am – 5 pm 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Telephone: +49 (0)6441 99-4140 Telephone: +49 (0)6441 99-4140 Fax: +49 (0)6441 99-4134 Fax: +49 (0)6441 99-4134 Dunkelkaufhaus 11 www.wetzlar.de www.wetzlar.de Church Services: Sundays Karl-Kellner-Ring 48-50 [email protected] [email protected] 9:30 am – 10:40 am (Catholic) 35576 Wetzlar 11:00 am – 12:30 pm (Protestant) Open*: Open*: Telephone: +49 (0)6441 2091529 The cathedral is not open for Tuesday – Sunday, Tuesday – Sunday, www.dunkelkaufhaus.de viewing during church services. 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 5 pm 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 5 pm [email protected] A tour for individuals and groups of less than 8 persons is available daily at 5 pm. Groups of 8 or more persons can arrange individual towards Blasbach 14 HOSPITAL CHURCH 9 towards Garbenheim 15 VISEUM 4 tours. aße g-Kühle-Str fgan ol W Busbahnhof The world of LEICA at the Leitz-Park 12 Am Forum Leica Camera AG Am Leitz-Park 5 35578 Wetzlar street-map Coloraden Telephone: +49 (0)6441 2080-0 Including www.leica-camera.com [email protected] Open: Monday – Friday: 10 am – 8 pm Saturday and Sunday: 10 am – 6 pm Lottestraße 8 – 10 Hospitalkirche 35578 Wetzlar Museum of Agriculture 13 Am Haarplatz / Langgasse 3 11 Telephone: +49 (0)6441 99-4140 Landwirtschaftliches Museum 35576 Wetzlar Fax: +49 (0)6441 99-4134 Frankfurter Straße 113 (Finsterloh) Telephone: +49 (0)6441 94430 www.wetzlar.de 35578 Wetzlar [email protected] Telephone: +49 (0)6441 45150 Open: Contact: Michael Drucker 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month Open*: [email protected] from 11 am – 4 pm Tuesday – Sunday, E... MOR AND USEUMS CATHEDRAL, M CATHEDRAL, Open: 2nd Saturday of every month and by appointment 10 am –1 pm and 2 pm – 5 pm from 11 am – 4 pm (March – October) and by appointment. FRANCISCAN CHURCH 8 Blasbach: Museum of Local History 14 Siegen Marburg Blasbach: Heimatstube 45 9 Bergstraße 31 3 Alsfeld 1 Herborn 35585 Wetzlar 5 480 Telephone: +49 (0)6446 1383 or 1659 or 549 Gießen 2 3 16 480 4 www.wetzlar.de 49 485 13 Weilburg Wetzlar Open: by appointment Braunfels 12 Limburg Bad Nauheim 45 6 15 3 3 66 Garbenheim: Museum of Local History Frankfurt 7 5 Garbenheim: Heimatmuseum Wiesbaden 10 Franziskanerkirche Untergasse 3 66 3 8 35583 Wetzlar 5 Untere Stadtkirche Aschaffenburg ße Telephone: +49 (0)6441 946126 Schillerplatz 7 itz-Stra Ernst-Le www.wetzlar.de 35578 Wetzlar 17 towards Münchholzhausen Open: 1st Sunday of every month, 3 pm – 5 pm Telephone: +49 (0)6441 94430 and by appointment Open: by appointment and every Friday from 6 pm for vesper services Münchholzhausen: Museum of Local History 16 featuring musical accompaniment towards Steindorf Münchholzhausen: Dorfstube Rechtenbacher Straße 2 35581 Wetzlar JERUSALEMHAUS 7 MUSEUM OF THE IMPERIAL COURT 6 THE VON LEMMERS-DANFORTH COLLECTION 5 Telephone: +49 (0)6441 97143 www.wetzlar.de Open: by appointment Steindorf: Museum of Local History 17 Steindorf: Heimatmuseum TOURIST-INFORMATION Schulstraße 2 Domplatz 8 t 35578 Wetzlar 35579 Wetzlar Telephone: +49 (0)6441 22333 Tel. +49 (0)6441 99-7755 www.wetzlar.de Fax +49 (0)6441 99-7759 [email protected] Open: December – March: 2nd Sunday of every month Reichskammergerichtsmuseum European Domestic Interiors 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm and by appointment www.wetzlar-tourismus.de from the Renaissance to the Baroque Schillerplatz 5 Hofstatt 19 OPENING HOURS 35578 Wetzlar 35578 Wetzlar Kornblumengasse 1 * Please note: Opening hours may vary on holidays May – September Telephone: +49 (0)6441 99-4131 Telephone: +49 (0)6441 99-4160 35578 Wetzlar and on days following holidays. Monday to Friday: 9 am – 6 pm Fax: +49 (0)6441 99-4134 Fax: +49 (0)6441 99-4134 Telephone: +49 (0)6441 99-4150 Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm www.wetzlar.de www.wetzlar.de Fax: +49 (0)6441 99-4134 Please check with the museum or the Sunday: 11 am – 3 pm [email protected] [email protected] www.wetzlar.de Tourist Information Office. [email protected] October – April Open*: Open*: Monday to Friday: 9 am – 5 pm gebauer.de Tuesday – Saturday Tuesday – Sunday, Open*: Tuesday – Sunday, Saturday: 10 am – 12 pm 2 pm – 5 pm 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 5 pm 10 am –1 pm and 2 pm – 5 pm The entire house has been used as a museum Art and Culture Optics and Iron Town and Country since 1922. Portraits, manuscripts, utensils, personal articles, and historic furnishings give us a view into You are sure to be impressed The City and Industry Museum The Agricultural Museum of Wetzlar (Landwirt- is a town alive with history. One look at its domestic life of the 18th century. Three of the rooms by the Dr. Irmgard von (Stadt- und Industriemuseum) 3 schaftliches Museum) 13 keeps the memory alive of are dedicated to Goethe’s Werther novel. Besides a Lemmers-Danforth Collection allows the visitor to gain insight the region’s rural traditions. An extensive collection of re mark able cathedral and old town will tell you as rare first edition of the book, there are numerous imi- of European Domestic Interiors into the history of Wetzlar as well ploughs and tilling instruments as well as numerous much. If it’s history and culture you’re looking for, then Wetzlar should be tations, polemic pamphlets, parodies, and transla- from the Renaissance to the as of local industries up to the sowing and harvesting machines vividly illustrate tions, all attesting to the widespread affect “Werther Baroque5 . In one of Wetzlar’s present day. working conditions in farming of days gone by. The your destination. most beautiful townhouses, a exhibition of sowing and harvesting machines and Fever” had as literary history was being written. Wetzlar still sees itself as the “Centre distinctive collection of historical tractors will fascinate not only the mechanically A small literary memorial, the Jerusalemhaus 7 of the Optics Industry.” The foundations furniture, invaluable gold and sil- inclined. pays tribute to the tragic circumstances surrounding were laid when Carl Kellner founded the Optics In- verwork, ceramics, tapestries, Join us on a stroll through Wetzlar! the Werther story. stitute in 1849. Numerous companies followed suit. and paintings is to be found. The Ernst Leitz Collection of Historical Micro- It was in this two-room apartment that legation The Wetzlar paediatrician Dr. von Lemmers-Danforth s copes (Sammlung historischer Mikroskope Ernst secretary Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem took his own life. was not only a collector and patron, she was also a Leitz)10 , located in the “Neues Rathaus”, displays Goethe knew the young lawyer personally and was master of the art of combining pieces of the col lec - various examples of early developments in the his- deeply touched by his death. tion to create authentic interiors ranging from the tory of the microscope. Baroque interior. The church was built in 1764 to The two rooms and numerous documents impres- Renaissance to the Baroque. Churches and Monasteries Not to be forgotten, Wetzlar is the cradle of the replace a Gothic hospital chapel. sively illustrate Jerusalem’s unhappy life and the ulti - 35 mm picture format photography, a stroke of The old town of Wetzlar is mately hopeless situation in which he found himself. At Schillerplatz you will find the Franciscan Church genius on the part of Oskar Barnack. He created this dominated by the cathedral A Goethe-Werther library is also located (Franziskanerkirche) 8 . Its origins date back to a format for his legendary Leica, which went into serial (Dom) 1 . But only by taking here. Authentic, realistic, cosy, graspable – the local monastery built around 1300. The spire is typical of production in 1925. An exhibition of the history and a closer look does it become history museums (Heimatmuseen und Dorfstuben) Gothic mendicant-order church structures. The purpose of Goethe’s production is shown at The world of LEICA at the clear what makes it so 14 to 17 have a charm of their own. We are not deal- sojourn in Wetzlar was legal Leitz-Park12 . unique. ing here with sweeping world events, but with village studies at the Imperial history and traditions: weavers’ looms, threshers, The Gothic west facade is Goethe and Justice Court, which was then the shoe makers’ workshops, completely furnished rooms seemingly unfinished; the left highest court of law in the Accompany us on a journey to the summer of of the 19th and early 20th centuries. tower is the incompleted Holy Roman Empire of the 1772. The Buff family was living in what was then stump of what was originally German Nation. Fascinating the Teutonic Order administrator’s house, now planned. A “church within a church” is visible behind insights into German legal history await you in the known as the Lottehaus 2 . The resident best known the facade, the remains of what was once an impor- Museum of the Imperial Court to us today was Charlotte, and it was due to her that tant late Romanesque basilica from the 12th century (Reichskammergerichtsmuseum) 6 .