Kulmbach

By train

• Kulmbach stationThe sole extant rail line through Kulmbach leads from Bamberg to Hof and is not electrified through Kulmbach. It thus sees regional service only.

By plane

Nuremberg Airport (NUE) is the closest airport with scheduled flights

• Kulmbach AirfieldA small airfield for general aviation

By car

Kulmbach is easily accessible on the autobahn A70, approximately 90 km north of Nuremberg and 40 km south of Hof.

There are two main breweries in Kulmbach, the small Kommunbrau Brewery and the big Kulmbacher Brauerei.

• Bavarian Brewery Museum

• PlassenburgThe castle towering over the town

• St. Peter's churchThe oldest church in town and perhaps the oldest in all of Upper Franconia

Events

• In March is spring market
• In April or May there is public celebration (Volksfest) at Schwedensteg.
• The annual Bierfest (Kulmbach Beer Festival) begins on the last Saturday in July and continues through until the first weekend in August. Getting accommodation might be a bit difficult at the time of the Bierfest. But not impossible, if you're early enough with for reservations.
• The Alstadtfest (Old Town Festival) takes place on the first weekend in July and is organised by the restaurants, bars and pubs in the old part of the town.
• Every other year odd-numbered years), Kulmbach hosts one of the world's largest model figure shows, Internationale Zinnfigurenbörse. Thousands of miniatures from exhibitors and retailers from around the world are on sale and display. Also visit the German Museum of Miniatures inside the Castle Plassenburg. Founded in 1929, the museum has more than 300,000 individual pieces.

The Farmers Market, in front of the Town hall, takes place every Wednesday and Saturday 07:00-12:00, and sells fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, sausages and flowers.

Best of Kulmbach are fried sausages (Bratwurst) and beer.

Budget

• Imbiss Metzgerei Kleinheinz

  phone: +49 9221 87485
  address: E.-C.-Baumann-Str. 17A, 95326 Kulmbach
  The snack bar is popular with craftsmen, it is still cooked by hand and nothing comes from the bag. If you come outside business hours, you will find a vending machine that offers everything from sausage to ready-made pastries in glasses to barbecue.

• Zum Gründla

  phone: +49 9221 823884
  address: Am Gründlein 5, 95326 Kulmbach
  Kulmbach's youngest brewery, with an inn with good and inexpensive Franconian food.

Mid-range

• Schweizerhof

  phone: +49 9221 92830
  address: Ziegelhüttener Straße 38
  Former brewery with good Franconian dishes and beer garden

• Zum Seelöwen

  phone: +49 9221 84200
  address: Grünwehr 32
  Traditional restaurant founded 1898, with Franconian dishes and beer garden. Meats and sausages from own butchering.

• Hagleite

  phone: +49 9221 4231
  address: Matth.-Schneider-Str.6
  Good Franconian dishes

• Zum Mönchshof Bräuhaus

  phone: +49 9221 80514
  address: Hofer Straße 20, 95326 Kulmbach
  Restaurant of the biggest brewery, near Brewery museum, with the largest beer garden in town. Try the museum beer

Splurge

Kulmbacher Eisbock, ice bock, is a dark, tasty beer speciality with 9% alcoholic content. Overall Kulmbach is famous for its beer and several breweries still operate in town, though diverse factors have lead to a consolidation and reduction of independent breweries, with many either bought up by bigger companies or driven into bankruptcy.

• Kulmbacher Kommunbräu

  phone: +49 9221 84490
  address: Grünwehr 17
  The last brewpub in Kulmbach, founded in 1994 as brewing cooperative . A small group of townspeople decided to open small brewery where they could make traditional, unfiltered beer. They offering a light “Hell” and a dark beer “Bernstein” and every month a special beer. The first taste of the new brew is every first Wednesday in month. It’s in a nice location, the building is an old water mill, but it’s the in-house brewery that sets it apart.

• Zunftstube

  phone: +49 9221 83377
  address: Obere Stadt 4
  Oldest pub in town, interior furnishing from 1938.

Hotels

• Hotel an der Eiche

  address: Pörbitscher Platz 9

• Weisses Roß

• Hotel Purucker

• Hotel Ertl

• Hotel Kronprinz

Bed & Breakfast

• Pension Maintal

  phone: +49 9229973750
  address: Kirchweg 33a in 95336 Mainleus

• Pension Hilde

  phone: +49 9221 7244
  address: Mangersreuther Str. 37

Visit Bamberg to see the medieval town and try the local smoked beer (Rauchbier) or to Bayreuth, is famous as the host of the Richard Wagner Festival, furthermore the Markgräfliches Opernhaus is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List