Hof

Hof sometimes called Hof an der Saale, to distinguish it from other towns of that name, used to be on the very edge of West Germany, bordering both East Germany and the Czech republic. As such it enjoyed special subsidies until the fall of the wall and has entered a sort of crisis since 1990. Still it it is a lovely town that is rarely visited by casual tourists

By train

• Hof Main StationThere is a regional express (RE) from both Nuremberg and Dresden with hourly departures. as this used to be a through service, trains from both directions wait for each other in Hof. The lines towards Dresden and Leipzig are electrified while the line towards Nuremberg is not.

By bus

Some Intercity buses in Germany stop in Hof.

By car

Both A 9 and A 72 pass close by

The Stadtwerke Hof cover most of the city with a dozen bus routes. Other than that the city is not all that big and generally walkable.

• Fernweh Park

  address: Graben 26
  A park where numerous people have left signs of places they visited or come from. If you donate a sign yourself, you get a free tour.

• Streichholzmuseum Wirth

  phone: +49 9281 140534
  address: Georg-Könitzer-Straße 19, 95028 Hof
  Showing figures built from matches as well as matchboxes

• Untreuseean artificial lake (2km by 700 meters) just out of town. It can be used for swimming, fishing and all types of water activities, including cruising on small craft. A restaurant is close by as a re several other things to do

• Kletterpark Untreusee

  address: Stelzenhofstr
  different rope climbing parcours with different difficulties

As this is Franconia, Bratwurst are obviously very much part of the local cuisine. Hof however has a special feature in the Wärschtlamo (Franconian for Sausage-man, high German would be "Würstchen-Mann") who serves sausages from a mobile stand, street food style.
The Hof Bratwurst is made from lean pork and some beef. It is cut very finely with the addition of ice cubes, and then about 50 grams of sausage meat is filled into a pork gut with a diameter of 18-22 mm. It is usually sold and eaten in pairs.

• Meinels Bas

  phone: +49 92 81 14 13 66
  address: Vorstadt 13
  Also has a beer garden on site

• Gourmet Palast Hof

  phone: +49 9281 5932445
  address: Ossecker Straße 175, 95030 Hof
  Asian food and live-cooking buffet style soft drinks included in price

• Kastaniengarten

  phone: +49 9281 6050
  address: Kulmbacher Str. 4, 95030 Hof
  Belonging to the Sorat Hotel upscale regional food

• Season's und Tante-Emma

  phone: +49 9281 5915460
  address: Ludwigstraße 36, 95028 Hof
  Season's is a restaurant while Tante-Emma is a coffee-bar

• Bulut

  phone: +49 9281 1447314
  address: Marienstr. 67, 95028 Hof
  Turkish food

• Jugendherberge Hof

  phone: +49 92 81 932 77
  address: Beethovenstraße 44

• Hotel Strauss

  phone: +49 92 81 97 20 630
  address: Bismarckstraße 31

• The tiny border hamlet of Mödlareuth, 13km (8 miles) north on the B2 highway, was divided by a wall in the days of Cold War Europe as part of a glorious workers' paradise. An open-air museum records the history.