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Black Forest, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Gold City Pforzheim - Reuchlinhaus

Museums

Schloßberg 15-17, 75175 Pforzheim

Located in the Black Forest Pforzheim presents itself in a beautiful landscape. With the rivers Enz, Nagold and Würm it is also known as the "Three Valley City".

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Welcome to Pforzheim

By decree, Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden laid the foundation stone over 250 years ago: Since then, gold, jewellery and watch manufactories have turned Pforzheim into a world-famous jewellery and watch metropolis.

Brilliantly beautiful insights are provided by two exciting museums. The jewellery museum is located in the Reuchlinhaus, which itself is known as a piece of jewellery thanks to its unique architecture. About 2.000 exhibits present jewellery art from antiquity to the present day. In the Technical Museum, former employees of the jewellery industry show production processes on original machines. Inspired by so much beauty, the Schmuckwelten, Europe's largest jewellery and watch house, offers a varied shopping experience.

However, this is the end of golden storytelling, because there is much more to discover in Pforzheim. For example, the Gasometer, which offers fantastic 360° panoramas on a variety of topics. Or the wildlife park in Pforzheim, with its 70 wild and farm animal species as well as forest climbing garden, which is particularly popular for young people.


Tourist Information

Schloßberg 15-17
75172 Pforzheim

Tel.: +49 7231 39 37 00
tourist-info@ws-pforzheim.de
www.pforzheim.de

Opening hours

Monday to Friday 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Saturday 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. - April to September
and on 11/30, 12/7, 12/14 and 12/21/2019

October to Match closed on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays

Gasometer: the 360° panorama of artist Yadegar Asisi can be seen from a 15 m high platform.

© Markus Born

Gasometer: the 360° panorama of artist Yadegar Asisi can be seen from a 15 m high platform.
Zoo: Beautiful, with view over Pforzheim. About 70 species. A lot of them can be fed.

© Markus Zindl

Zoo: Beautiful, with view over Pforzheim. About 70 species. A lot of them can be fed.
Bertha Benz: 1888 she drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim. In her honor a classic car rallye starts every 2 years from Pforzheim.

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Bertha Benz: 1888 she drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim. In her honor a classic car rallye starts every 2 years from Pforzheim.
Schmuckwelten Pforzheim - Europes largest jewellery and watch house.

© Schmuckwelten Pforzheim

Schmuckwelten Pforzheim - Europes largest jewellery and watch house.
Wallberg Hill: the Pforzheim memorial, erected with the rubble after WW II.

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Wallberg Hill: the Pforzheim memorial, erected with the rubble after WW II.
Schloß Church: the most significant church of Pforzheim. Built in the 13th century. Rebuilt after WW II.

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Schloß Church: the most significant church of Pforzheim. Built in the 13th century. Rebuilt after WW II.
Jewellery Museum: worldwide unique museum about the history of jewellery. 2000 exhibits from 5000 years of history.

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Jewellery Museum: worldwide unique museum about the history of jewellery. 2000 exhibits from 5000 years of history.
Technical Museum: explore the tradition of the once world famous Pforzheim jewellery and watch making industry.

© Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim

Technical Museum: explore the tradition of the once world famous Pforzheim jewellery and watch making industry.
Golden Gate: the trailhead of three hiking trails: East, Middle and West trail.

© Markus Born

Golden Gate: the trailhead of three hiking trails: East, Middle and West trail.
City Gardens: on the promotory between Nagold and Metzelgraben with the Reuchlinhaus as monument.

© Markus Born

City Gardens: on the promotory between Nagold and Metzelgraben with the Reuchlinhaus as monument.

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