Gera - Main Sights

Main Sights

Sights in Gera include:

• Town Hall (1576, Renaissance)
• Market Square with Simson-fountain
• Osterstein Castle, Gera (largely destroyed 1945)
• City Pharmacy
• Theater (1902)
• Villa Schulenburg, designed by Henry van de Velde
• St. Johannis church (Neo-Gothic)
• St. Salvator church (Baroque with Art Nouveau interior decoration)
• St. Marien church (Late Gothic)
• St. Trinitatis church (Late Gothic)
• Old beer cellars called "Geraer Höhler"
• Zoo Gera (since 1973)

Museums in Gera include:

• City Museum
• Otto Dix House
• Art Galley "Orangerie"
• Museum of Natural History ("Schreiber House", the oldest building in the city), with its adjacent botanical garden, the Botanischer Garten Gera
• Museum for Applied Arts ("Ferber House"), displays collections of Bauhaus ceramics by the artists Otto Lindig und Theodor Bogler; architectural works of Thilo Schoder; and photographs by Aenne Biermann.

In 2007 Gera, together with Ronneburg, is venue of the Bundesgartenschau (the federal horticultural show).