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Town in Saxony, Germany

Zwickau

Zwickau is the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, with around 88,000 inhabitants.

Zwickau
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The place

Zwickau is the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, with around 88,000 inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Marienkirche
  2. 02
    Priesterhäuser am Domhof

    Some of the oldest existing residential buildings in Saxony, dating back to the 13th century.

  3. 03
    Galerie am Domhof

    Built in 1876 as an art gallery and continues to house exhibitions.

  4. 04
    Town Hall
  5. 05
    Kräutergewölbe and Löwen-Apotheke

    The buildings immediately facing the town hall were built as pharmacies in the late 15th century, some of the oldest buildings of that kind in Germany.

  6. 06
    Gewandhaus

    The former cloth merchant's hall is perhaps the most known historic building of Zwickau.

From Wikivoyage: Zwickau, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH

From Wikivoyage: Zwickau, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

The Zwickauer Bürgersteak is a pork back steak filled with ham, gherkin, onions and mustard, which is fried in an egg shell. Citylight, Hauptmarkt 17/18, 08056 Zwickau. Basilikum, Leipziger Straße 180, 08058 Zwickau. Brasserie Philine's, Klosterstraße 1, 08056 Zwickau. No.9, Am Kornmarkt 9, 08056 Zwickau. Remarque, Bahnhofstraße 19, 08056 Zwickau. Alte Mühle, Gewandhausstraße 7, 08056 Zwickau.

From Wikivoyage: Zwickau, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Zwickau

Airports
Karlovy Vary (KLV), 64 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 80 km · Dresden (DRS), 100 km
  • Schkeuditz → Zwickau
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €11–15
  • Dresden → Zwickau
    95 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €12–17
  • Erfurt → Zwickau
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €12–17
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Zwickau. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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