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yumyum Says: In 1244 a Franciscan monastery was founded. The monastery and its church were built from 1260-90. With the death of the last monk after 310 years the monastery closed in 1554. From 1658-62 the church was renewed with a baroque interior. During the 7 year war Zittau was...
german_eagle Says: This church is Zittau's main parish church, first mentioned in 1291. When the Austrians destroyed the town in 1757 the Johanniskirche also burnt down. It was rebuilt from 1766 - 1832 in Classicistic style by Christian August Schramm after plans of famous architect Karl...
german_eagle Says: The former Franciscan convent was turned into the city museum (currently named: Museum on Art and History, but that changes from time to time :-)). Aside from the exhibits (small Lenten Cloth the most prominent piece) the buildings alone are worth a visit. You can see the...
german_eagle Says: The Petri-Pauli church, the former Franciscan convent's church, is with its tall and very slender tower (70 m) another landmark of Zittau. The church was built in 1480 in Gothic style, later several additions were made.A specialty are the Baroque boxes at the southern side...
german_eagle Says: The Church of the Holy Cross was built in the 14th century and its shape has not changed since 1410. Have a look at the Gothic vaults (Bohemian influence - only one, central pillar!), altar and pulpit from 1654 and the statues of Maria and Johannes from 1450, the oldest...
Hotel und Parkhaus Dreilaendereck
1 Review and 5 Opinions The name of the hotel is Dreiländereck, but I wasn't able to change the spelling on the VT database....
Zittauer Bürgerbräu (Brauhaus): Beer Hall
german_eagle Says: After a tennis match on the neighbouring courts my friends and I found this very charming restaurant - a brewery with nice beer hall and sunny terrace overlooking a small lake, located in the Weinau - Park in the southeast of Zittau, close to the border to Poland.This...
german_eagle Says: After an hour or two shopping and sightseeing in Zittau :-) you might need a break ... a nice place is the Café Schedel, right next to the Town Hall.We happened to pass by this place, and saw the yummy cakes and tarts inside ... I could not refuse.Very reasonable prices,...
german_eagle Says: Zittau's poshest hotel "Dreiländereck" (which doesn't mean much) has a brasserie style restaurant with terrace right in the pedestrian zone of Zittau. It is a very pleasant place to relax, browse through the (free) newspapers, sip on your tea of coffee and do some people...
german_eagle Says: Zittau has pretty good train connections. Trains run frequently from/to Dresden, (Cottbus-) Görlitz and the Czech city Liberec. If you can, take a Regional Express (RE) which is much faster than the Regionalbahn (RB) - and doesn't stop at every tiny village.The Sachsen...
german_eagle Says: One of the nicest way to do the side trip to the mountains south of Zittau is to ride the narrow-gauge steam railway, which operates since 1890. This steam train starts right next to the main train station Zittau where the trains from/to Dresden, Görlitz and Liberec...
Don't watch Hitchcock's The Birds
christine.j Says: Don't go to Zittau if you are afraid of crows. It's also not a good idea to watch the Hitchcock film "The Birds" shortly before a trip to Zittau.Never in my life have I seen so many crows, of heard so many! In fact, renaming Zittau Crow City would be a fitting name.I talked...
Fleischbänke (butcher's stalls)
german_eagle Says: Zittau is one of the few towns where the old butcher's stalls are still preserved. Granted, they were transfered from their original place in the back of the old town hall to their current place when the new town hall was built, but still ...They are now in Reichenberger...
Old High School (Altes Gymnasium)
german_eagle Says: The precedessor of the present "Christian Weise Gymnasium" (High School) in the Johanneum building was the so called "Alte Gymnasium", located at the square north of Johannis church. The school was founded in 1586, initiated by mayor Nikolaus von Dornspach in 1571 - the poor...
german_eagle Says: Walking from the train station to the old town you come across a fountain with a lion relief above on the left side of the street, just after a few steps. This lion monument was created in the 18th century for the outside of the city gate next to the Weber church. When the...
german_eagle Says: Right on that prominent place, where Johanneum, Haberkorn monument and Constitution column are, is another interesting building located: the Waentig house. Built for Geheimen Kommerzienrat Waentig (oh, these titles!) in 1853 it was later used as headquarters for the Nazi...
german_eagle Says: The site where the city gate "Bautzner Tor" once stood is now called Haberkorn square. It is one of the most frequented places in Zittau - the crossroad between the street that leads from the train station to the Market square and the circular street around the old town on...
german_eagle Says: Zittau is the only town in Saxony that commemorates the first Saxon constitution from 4 September 1831. On 3 September 1833 a so called "constitution column", an obelisk on a podest, was inaugurated next to one of the city gates (Bautzner Tor). More than 35 years later the...
german_eagle Says: This is another of the buildings that were erected at the circle around the old town where the former city walls had been. 1846-48 Carl August Schramm, a student of Schinkel, designed the building in the tradition of Schinkel's famous Bauakademie in Berlin.Outside Schramm...
german_eagle Says: The Johanneum, nowadays Christian Weise High School (Gymnasium in German), was built 1869-71 according to plans of Erich Trümmler. Saxon King Johann was present at the ceremony when the foundation stone was laid, thus the name of the school. The architecture is eclectic - it...
german_eagle Says: Zittau has numerous Baroque Patrician houses, all of them worth to have a closer look at. You'll pass them when strolling along the cobbled alleys of the old town. Not all of them are in best shape, as they're usually quite large it takes a lot of money to restore them....
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The city's original Gothic Town Hall burned down in 1757, little aside from the town's 1533 crest was salvaged. The newer version was built in the 1840s and...
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Zittau, pop. 33'000, is located in the far east of Germany, right on the border to both Poland and Czech Republic. First mentioned in 1238 it quickly grew and became an important town in Bohemian...
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Zittau deserves to be better known
Zittau is a small town in the South-Eastern corner of Germany, only a short drive from both the Czech Republic and Poland. There are some beautifully restored old houses, but the biggest attraction......
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We came to Zittau from Goerlitz in order to have some dinner before heading back to Dresden. We spent about two hours here and saw part of the town illuminated. Zittau is definitely worth a whole day...
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Situated at the center of the triangular meeting of Poland, the Czech Republic and the Saxon state of Germany, Zittau is a little known treasure full of a variety of architectural styles. Its distinct...
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