Discover 9 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Sondershausen (Germany). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Schloss Sondershausen, Gottschalcksches Haus, and Church of the Holy Trinity. Also, be sure to include St. Matthias in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Sondershausen (Thuringia).
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Schloss Sondershausen
Castle in Sondershausen, Germany. From an architectural and art historical point of view Sondershausen Palace can be considered one of the most important palace complexes in Thuringia. It is an irregular four-wing complex. With its imposing silhouette the former Schwarzburg residence dominates today's district town of Sondershausen in the Kyffhäuserkreis district.[1]
Address: 1 Schloss, Sondershausen
Gottschalcksches Haus
Gottschalck's House, former town palace, is an 18th-century Baroque palace with a prehistory dating back to the 14th century. It is one of the oldest houses in Sondershausen and has cultural-historical significance as the home of famous composers and conductors of the Loh Orchestra.
Address: 34 Lange Straße, Sondershausen
Church of the Holy Trinity
The Trinitatiskirche in the Thuringian district town of Sondershausen is an Evangelical Lutheran church which, along with the princely residence palace, is one of the most important architectural monuments in the town. It once served the princely family of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen as a court church with its own rulership inside. The last members of the princely family were buried in the attached mausoleum.
Address: Lange Str. 29, 99706 Sondershausen
St. Matthias
St. Matthias Church in Sondershausen, built in 1905, is considered one of the most beautiful church buildings in the region with its historicist or neo-Gothic appearance. It is an Evangelical Lutheran place of worship and was dedicated to the apostle Matthias.
Address: 1 Pfarrer-Carl-Moeller-Straße, Sondershausen
Cruciskirche
The 14th century Crucis Church is the oldest building in the town of Sondershausen.
Address: Planpl. 9, 99706 Sondershausen
Jewish Cemetery
Also known as: Jüdischer Friedhof
The Jewish Cemetery Sondershausen is a Jewish cemetery in the Thuringian district town of Sondershausen in the Kyffhäuser district.
Ehrenmal des Sondershäuser Verbandes
The Rondell of Sondershausen is a half-rondell built in 1910 with a World War Memorial inaugurated in 1929 on the ridge Hainleite in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia. Situated at 390 m above sea level, it serves as a lookout point down to the Sondershausen core town and the Harz Mountains, among other things.
Petersenschacht
The "Glückauf" Sondershausen potash mine in the Kyffhäuser district of Thuringia is the oldest potash mine in the world still open to traffic and is considered the eleventh potash mine in Germany. It is currently used as an adventure mine and for mining rock salt. The deposit covers an area of over 23 km². The construction of the plant and the drilling of the first shaft began in 1893, the first deposit discovery of carnallitite / potash seam Staßfurt was already made in May 1892 by the entrepreneur Heinrich Brügmann from Brünninghausen, a district of Dortmund. As early as December 1891, he found a massive rock salt deposit during a test drilling. The Sondershausen site developed into the potash combine of the GDR. Potash salt was mined here for 96 years, until 1991. At the time of closure, almost 3,000 people worked at the Sondershausen site. In 1995, the Glückauf Sondershausen Entwicklungs- und Sicherungsgesellschaft mbH was founded, which from then on took care of backfilling and employed around 230 people in 2011. Since 2006, 200,000 t of rock salt have been mined annually as road salt for winter road maintenance.
In total, the plant produced 110 million tons of crude salt between 1896 and 1991. In 1989 alone, an output of 2.3 million tons was produced. The potash salt was mainly processed into fertilizers in the company's own factory.
Spatenberg
The Spatenberg is a cone-shaped limestone mountain with a height of 366.1 m above sea level on the southern edge of the district town of Sondershausen in Thuringia. It bears the remains of a castle of King Henry IV and the Spatenberg Tower, built in 1895 as a Bismarck tower.