What to See in Zweibrücken - Top Sights and Attractions

Zweibrücken Castle is a building in the town of Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It was built as a ducal palace in 1720-1725. It is the largest and most magnificent secular building in the Palatinate. It is now the seat of the Palatine Higher Regional Court, and of the Zweibrücken law courts.^[1]

Zweibrücken Observatory, or the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association, is a public observatory in Zweibrücken, Germany. Its dome was painted to resemble the Star Wars character R2-D2 in 2018.^[2]

Evangelical church in Zweibrücken, Germany. The Karlskirche is a church in Zweibrücken built in 1715, destroyed in 1945, rebuilt in 1970. It is one of two landmarks of the town with Alexander's Church. It was court church from 1733 to 1858. Its congregation forms part of today's United Evangelical Church of the Palatinate.^[3]

The Alexander Church in Zweibrücken was a late Gothic hall church that was rebuilt in a greatly simplified form after being destroyed in World War II.

The Church of the Holy Cross is a Catholic parish church in Zweibrücken. Next to the Alexander Church and the Karlskirche, it is the third oldest church building in Zweibrücken's city center in terms of construction history. The church is listed in the directory of cultural monuments of the district-free city of Zweibrücken.

Courthouse in Zweibrücken, Germany. The Palatine Higher Regional Court in Zweibrücken is one of two Higher Regional Courts in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, along with the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz.^[4]