The Fichtelgebirge, favourably situated for city sightseeing tours

Excursions, cultural highlights, shopping tours, gastronomic delights - all this and much more will make this trip an unforgettable experience for you.

We provide the appropriate setting for your group journeys. You will get all excited about it. We will be pleased to competently assist you in preparing your activities,be it a festive evening, a cultural event or a day trip. So we offer, for example, a folklore evening with bread baking, beer brewing, gold washing, painting porcelain or a raft ride. We, from the
Hotel Barbara , have numerous suggestions and will be pleased to help you. Our ideas will inspire you and, above all, your guests.

A successful event needs highlights. Do not hesitate to call us!
And for all that, we only charge the regular hotel price with bed and breakfast, as well as half board if requested.

Convince yourself: We are favourably situated for tourist activities with the advantage of a fixed accomodation in an attractive vacation area.

 

One-day excursions  in the closer vicinity:

Fichtelgebirge round-trip: Bischofsgrün - Bad Berneck - lake "Weißenstädter See", lake "Fichtelsee", lake "Nageler See", leasure park Mehlmeisel.

beer city Kulmbach: visit a beer brewery - castle "Plassenburg"  with the most beautiful renaissance court north of the Alps + pewter-figure museum  
- lunch in the old vaults of the "Mönchhof" brewery - pottery village Thurnau - steam-engine museum in Neuenmarkt - butterfly park in Neumarkt.

Wunsiedel (city of fountains) - visit a porcelain factory - "Fichtelgebirge" museum - rock labyrinth - Luisenburg (oldest natural outdoor stage) - schnapps tasting in the "Sechsämter" factory, Marktredwitz (liqueur factory "Rauh" with schnapps museum and factory sale) 
- "the deepest hole in the world" in Windischeschenbach with guided tour.

Bayreuth, the Richard-Wagner City: festival theatre - Markgravian Opera - Eremitage park with fountain garden - Neues Schloss (New Castle) - town museum - typewriter museum - possibility to go shopping

Franconian Switzerland: Pottenstein - grotto "Teufelshöhle" - Gößweinstein - Behringersmühle - Wiesenttal

Bamberg (old part of town, Kleinvenedig [little Venice]), Cathedral, have a smoked beer in the pub "Schlenkerla" near the cathedral), steamboat ride to Würzburg 
- wine-growing region: Volkach, Sommerach and Iphofen with wine tasting. On our way back: pottery village Thurnau

Trip along the border area: Waldsassen - monastery library - basilica - chapel (baroque church from Dientzenhofer), Eger (in Czechia), 
Konnersreuth (grave and house of Therese Neumann), "Hohenberg an der Eger" porcelain museum, porcelain town Selb.

 Lichtenfels (town of basket makers) -Vierzehnheiligen - castle Banz - Staffelstein - the fortress towns Kronach or Coburg - toy town Sonneberg (Thuringia) with toy museum and afterwards a raft ride on the river "Wilde Rodach" near Wallenfels

Hof - Plauen in Saxony (Plauener lace) - Mödlareuth (museum dealing with the history of the German partition - museum village „Klein- Berlin")

leasure park Plech or castle Thurn

 

One-day excursions to more distant places

spa trip: Czech Republic- Franzensbad - Marienbad - Karlsbad

Plauen in Sachsen (Plauener lace) - Mödlareuth (museum village "Klein - Berlin")

trip to the Erzgebirge: Bad Brambach - Bad Elster - Markneukirchen im Musikwinkel (largest collection of musical instruments in the world) - Klingenthal - Oberwiesenthal with the mountain "Fichtelberg"

Dresden (Zwinger, Semper Opera, the church "Frauenkirche")

Eisenach (castle Wartburg) - Erfurt - Weimar (Goethe) - Buchenwald (concentration camp)

Nuremberg: (old part of town, castle, Handwerkerhof (square where traders used to offer their goods), steam-engine museum, Germanic museum, planetarium)

Regensburg: (Cathedral, old part of town, ride on the Danube), way back via Windischeschenbach (deepest hole in the world)

Prague (historic town centre, castle, Goldenes Gässchen [Golden lane])

mediaeval town Rothenburg o. d. Tauber

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Hotel Barbara

rooms- apartments-holiday apartments in the "Hohes Fichtelgebirge"
Fleckl 27, 95485 Warmensteinach
Tel.:09277/9170, Fax:09277/6153
E-Mail:Hotel Barbara