What to See in Heilbronn - Top Sights and Attractions

Museum in Heilbronn, Germany. The South German Railway Museum is a railway museum at Heilbronn in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany. It was founded in 1998.^[1]

Church in Heilbronn, Germany. Kilian's Church on Kaiserstraße in Heilbronn is a Gothic hall church constructed from Heilbronner sandstone, whose origin dates back to the 11th century. Its western tower, constructed by Hans Schweiner, is one of the first major Renaissance buildings to be built north of the Alps. Inside the church there is an altar by Hans Seyffer from 1498, which is regarded as a masterpiece of sculpture from the Late German Gothic period. Some of the stained glass is by Charles Crodel. The Monument Foundation of Baden-Württemberg appointed the church as monument of the month in December 2016.^[2]

Lake in Germany. Trappensee is a small lake in the eastern city of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Wuerttemberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. It is approximately 2 kilometres east of the city center. In the middle of the lake there is the Trappensee castle, a water castle that dates back to the 16th century and was rebuilt in its current shape in the 18th century.^[3]

Theatre in Heilbronn, Germany. Theater Heilbronn is a theatre in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.^[4]

The House of City History in Heilbronn is home to the Heilbronn City Archives and offers research, documentation and museum services on the history of the city of Heilbronn. The facility opened in its current form in July 2012.

The Deutschordensmünster in the Deutschhof in Heilbronn is a Catholic church built by the Teutonic Order, with origins in the 13th century and dating back to an older predecessor building.

Municipality in Germany. Flein is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.^[5]

The Pankratiuskirche in the Heilbronn district of Böckingen is a Protestant parish church whose oldest parts date back to the 13th century. A stair tower was added to the church in 1610, and it received its current form through an extensive expansion under Heinrich Dolmetsch around 1900. On the northern side of the Pankratiuskirche is the Old Böckingen Cemetery, which was replaced by a new cemetery on Heidelberger Straße in 1905, not least because of the operational noise of the Heilbronn marshalling yard.

The Church of St. Alban in the Heilbronn district of Kirchhausen in northern Baden-Württemberg is a Catholic parish church. Built from 1841 to 1844 in the round-arched style of the Neo-Romanesque period, it is the oldest surviving church in the village, which was predominantly Catholic until the recent past due to its former affiliation with the Teutonic Order. During the various renovation works in 1931 and 1981, monumental ceiling paintings by Anton Glassen from Heidelberg and August Blepp were lost respectively.

Pfühlpark is a park in the east of the city of Heilbronn. It covers 9.3 hectares and is located about 1.5 kilometers east of Heilbronn's city center. With the green spaces around the nearby Trappensee, it forms a 15-hectare green space.

The Wilhelm-Waiblinger-Haus is a building in Heilbronn erected in 1927. In its eventful history, it has already served as a youth hostel, school building, employment office and vehicle registration office. Since 1978, it has been the headquarters of the City and District Youth Ring, which currently has 65 member clubs and associations. Since that time it has been named after the poet Wilhelm Waiblinger.

The list of fountains in Heilbronn lists the fountains in the city of Heilbronn that are significant and worth seeing because of their architecture or history. The list makes no claim to completeness and takes into account only fountains in the core city without the incorporated districts. Other art and cultural monuments or artistically designed objects in the cityscape are listed in the list of buildings, monuments or sculptures in Heilbronn.

Mor Ephräm Church, named after St. Ephräm, is a Syrian Orthodox church in Heilbronn.

The former church of the US military personnel in Heilbronn at Charlottenstraße, corner John-F.-Kennedy-Straße 2 was built in 1951. It is located in the northern part of the Schwabenhof and was renovated in the late 1980s. The sacred building has a 280 m2 church hall for 350 members of the faith. The building also has two chapels, one with a confessional, another with a baptismal font. In the basement of the building there are common and office rooms. Furthermore, there is a kitchen there.

In 1995, the sacred building was sold to the Syrian Orthodox Church.

Event venue in Heilbronn, Germany. The BUGA Wood Pavilion is a 500 m2 experimental shell structure that served as an open event space with a multi-purpose stage at the Bundesgartenschau 2019 in Heilbronn.^[6]

The cemetery of honor in the area of the independent city of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg is a burial ground for 4985 of the total of about 6500 victims of the air raid on Heilbronn on 4 December 1944.