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Zwickau
Town in Saxony, Germany

Zwickau

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

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Getting to Zwickau

The city's main railway station is the Zwickau Hauptbahnhof. Two separate regional trains go from Zwickau to Thuringen (via Gera, Jena, Erfurt and Weimar), as well as Lower Saxony (Göttingen) [RE 1] every two hours. To Leipzig there are S-Bahn-connections every hour with the S5X, which use the Leipzig city tunnel and therefore offer direct connection to the Leipzig city centre, the main station, and the airport.

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    Zwickau Hauptbahnhof

    The closest airports geographically are Leipzig-Halle, Dresden and Erfurt.

See

Worth seeing

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    Marienkirche
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    Priesterhäuser am Domhof

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

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    Galerie am Domhof

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

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    Town Hall
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    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.

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    Gewandhaus

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

Do

Things to do

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    Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH
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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.