List of cities with historical centers in Germany

A sign draws attention to a historic town center.

This list of cities with a historical city center in Germany provides a nationwide overview of places and cities that have a historical city center (also known as the old town in general ) with monument preservation significance.

The additional names for the individual cities are intended to identify the respective historical city type of a city with a historical city center. The list does not make any statement about the completeness of preserved old towns, but is intended to show representative types of towns.

List of German old towns

Baden-Württemberg

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  Bad Mergentheim : market square with St. Johannes

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  Baden-Baden : old town of the health resort

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  Freiburg : Martinstor on the edge of the old town

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  Freudenstadt : planned town with a market square

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  Constance : Rheintorturm

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  Meersburg

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  Neckargemünd at the confluence of the Elsenz in the Neckar

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  Ravensburg : Marktstrasse with a blower tower

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  Schiltach : market square with town hall

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  Schwäbisch Gmünd : around 1900

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  Tübingen : Neckar front

Aichtal- Grötzingen Altensteig (with Berneck ) Bad Liebenzell Bad Mergentheim (medieval core with castle) Bad Säckingen Bad Teinach-Zavelstein Bad Urach Bad Waldsee Bad Wimpfen ( Wimpfen on the mountain and Wimpfen in the valley ) Bad Wildbad Baden-Baden Bartenstein (Baroque town complex with castle) Besigheim Biberach an der Riss Bietigheim-Bissingen Blaubeuren Bräunlingen Breisach am Rhein (Münster and Schlossberg) Bruchsal ( Heidelsheim and Obergrombach ) Calw Donaueschingen Dornstetten Eberbach Ellwangen (Jagst) Endingen am Kaiserstuhl Narrow Eppingen Esslingen am Neckar Ettenheim Ettlingen Forchtenberg (two historical city centers) Freiburg im Breisgau , see old town (Freiburg im Breisgau) Freudenstadt Fridingen on the Danube Geislingen an der Steige Gengenbach Gernsbach Gundelsheim Haigerloch Haslach in the Kinzigtal Hechingen

Heidelberg , see Heidelberg Old Town Herrenberg Horb am Neckar Hüfingen Ingelfingen Isny in the Allgäu Kandern Karlsruhe– Durlach Kenzingen Kirchberg an der Jagst Kirchheim unter Teck Koenigsbach stone Constancy Kraichtal - Gochsheim Ladenburg Langenburg (core and suburb) Laufenburg (Baden) Lauffen am Neckar (town and village) Leonberg Leutkirch in the Allgäu Marbach am Neckar Markdorf Markgröningen Meersburg amounts Messkirch Möckmühl Mosbach Mühlheim on the Danube Munderkingen Murrhardt Neckargemünd Neubulach Neudenau Neuenbürg Neuenstein Niedernhall Öhringen Pfullendorf Radolfzell on Lake Constance Rastatt

Ravensburg Reutlingen Riedlingen Rose field Rottenburg am Neckar Rottweil Scheer Schiltach Schopfheim Schorndorf Schrozberg– Bartenstein Schwäbisch Gmünd Schwäbisch Hall Schwetzingen Sigmaringen Staufen im Breisgau Stuehlingen Stuttgart-center Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt Sulz am Neckar Sulzburg Tengen (with field of flowers ) Trochtelfingen Tettnang Tübingen Überlingen Ulm Vaihingen an der Enz Vellberg Veringenstadt Villingen-Schwenningen Vogtsburg– Burkheim Waghausel Waiblingen Waldshut-Tiengen Wangen in the Allgäu Weikersheim Because of the city Weinheim Wertheim Zell am Harmersbach

Bavaria

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  Map of the royal seat of Ansbach in the 18th century

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  Augsburg with Maximilianstrasse , town hall , St. Moritz church and St. Ulrich and Afra basilica

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  Bamberg: Old Town Hall

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  Dinkelsbühl old town

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  Forchheim: Martinskirche

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  Füssen: towards the northeast

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  Neoclassical Neustadt Hof

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  Ingolstadt: Kreuztor

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  Landsberg am Lech

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  Lindau: port entrance

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  Memmingen around 1650, copper engraving by Merian

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  Merkendorf: market square with church fair tree

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  Nuremberg : View from Burgberg to the wintry old town with the Old Town Hall , the churches of St. Lorenz , St. Sebald , St. Elisabeth and the Spittlertor - as well as the White Tower

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  Regensburg Cathedral and Old Town Hall

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  Rothenburg ob der Tauber town hall square

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  Würzburg: Marienberg Fortress with old Main Bridge

Abenberg , see old town Abenberg Abensberg Aichach Altdorf near Nuremberg On the mountain Amorbach Ansbach (royal seat) Arnstein Aschaffenburg Aub Augsburg , see Augsburg old town Bad Brueckenau Bad Kissingen Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld Bad Neustadt an der Saale Bad Reichenhall , see Ensemble Obere Stadt Bad Rodach Bad Staffelstein Bad Tölz Bad Windsheim Baiersdorf Bamberg (royal seat: intact old town center as UNESCO World Heritage) Bärnau Baunach Bayreuth (City of Culture) Beilngries Berching Betzenstein Bischofsheim on the Rhön arc Burgau Burghausen Burgkunstadt Burglengenfeld Cadolzburg Cham Coburg Cussen Dachau Deggendorf Dettelbach , see old town (Dettelbach) Dietfurt an der Altmühl Dillingen on the Danube Dingolfing Dinkelsbühl (medieval core with city wall) Donauwörth Villages Ebermannstadt Boars Eggenfelden Eibelstadt Eichstatt Ellingen Eltmann Erding gain Wet cheeks Fladungen Forchheim Freising , see Freising old town Freystadt Friedberg Fuerth Furth in the forest Feet Gemünden am Main Gerolzhofen Goldkronach Graefenberg Greding Gunzburg

Gunzenhausen Hammelburg Harburg (Swabia) Hassfurt Heideck Heilsbronn Herrieden Hersbruck Herzogenaurach Hilpoltstein Höchstadt an der Aisch Höchstädt on the Danube Courtyard , see city ​​center (courtyard) Hollfeld Ichenhausen Immenstadt in the Allgäu Ingolstadt , see old town northwest , old town northeast , old town southeast , old town southwest Iphofen , see old town (Iphofen) Karlstadt Kaufbeuren Kelheim Kemnath Kempten (Allgäu) Kirchenlamitz Kitzingen Klingenberg am Main Koenigsberg in Bavaria Kronach Krumbach (Swabia) Kulmbach Landau on the Isar Landsberg am Lech Landshut Run on the Pegnitz To run Lauingen (Danube) Leipheim Leutershausen Lichtenberg Lichtenfels Lindau (Lake Constance) Lohr am Main Mainbernheim , see old town (Mainbernheim) Mainburg Market wide Marktredwitz Mellrichstadt Memmingen Merkendorf , see old town Merkendorf Miltenberg Mindelheim Monheim Moosburg on the Isar Mühldorf am Inn Münchberg Munich (royal seat), see old town (Munich) Münnerstadt Murnau am Staffelsee Neuburg on the Danube Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate Neumarkt-Sankt Veit Neunburg vorm Wald Neunkirchen am Brand Neuötting Neustadt an der Aisch Neustadt an der Donau Neustadt am Kulm Neustadt an der Waldnaab Neustadt near Coburg Nördlingen (medieval core, city wall accessible from all sides) Nuremberg (royal seat with castle) Oberkotzau

Obernburg am Main Ochsenfurt Oettingen in Bavaria Ornbau Ostheim in front of the Rhön Pappenheim Passau , see old town (Passau) Pegnitz Parish churches Pfreimd Pleystein Pottenstein Prichsenstadt , see old town (Prichsenstadt) Rain Regensburg and old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof - town hall, cathedral, stone bridge as UNESCO world heritage Rehau Rieneck Rosenheim Roth Rothenburg ob der Tauber Rothenfels Röttingen Schauenstein Scheinfeld Scheßlitz Key field Schnaittenbach Schongau , see old town Schongau Schönsee Schrobenhausen Schwabach Schwandorf Schwarzenbach on the Saale Schweinfurt , see old town (Schweinfurt) Same Sesslach gap Stadtprozelten Stadtsteinach Straubing Sulzbach-Rosenberg Teuschnitz Tirschenreuth Tittmoning Traunstein Trostberg Uffenheim Velburg Vilsbiburg Vilseck Vilshofen on the Danube Volkach , see old town (Volkach) Waischenfeld Waldkirchen Wasserburg am Inn Wassertrüdingen Willows in the Upper Palatinate Weilheim in Upper Bavaria Weismain Weißenburg in Bavaria , see old town (Weißenburg) Weissenhorn Weißenstadt Wemding Wertingen Windsbach Wolfratshausen Wolframs-Eschenbach Wunsiedel Würzburg (residence city with castle as UNESCO World Heritage), see old town (Würzburg) Zeil am Main

Berlin

• Historic center (old town center of Berlin)
• Charlottenburg ( old town Charlottenburg )
• Köpenick (old town and Kietz )
• Spandau ( old town Spandau with citadel )

Brandenburg

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  Sign "Historischer Stadtkern" in the state of Brandenburg

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  Old town hall in Brandenburg / Havel

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  Old half-timbered house in Kyritz

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  Potsdam: Fortunaportal and St. Nikolai Church on the Old Market

In Brandenburg, many cities are designated separately by the state government and signposted on site. Some are members of the “Cities with Historic Town Centers” working group of the state of Brandenburg.

Altlandsberg Angermünde Bad Belzig Bad Freienwalde (spa town) Bad Liebenwerda (spa town with castle) Bad Wilsnack (spa town) Beelitz Beeskow (garrison town) Bernau near Berlin Brandenburg an der Havel (cathedral and residence city), see old town (Brandenburg an der Havel) cottbus Dahme Doberlug-Kirchhain (twin cities) Drebkau Eberswalde Elsterwerda Finsterwalde (Singer City) Freyenstein (small residential town with castle) Friesack Fürstenberg / Havel Fürstenberg (Oder)

Fürstenwalde / Spree (cathedral city) Gransee Herzberg (Elster) Jueterbog Cramps Kyritz Lenzen (Elbe) Love rose Lindow (Mark) Luebben (Spreewald) Lübbenau / Spreewald Luckau Luckenwalde Mittenwalde Mühlberg / Elbe Nauen Neuruppin (garrison town) Niemegk Oderberg Oranienburg (royal seat with castle) Outskirts Peitz

Perleberg (garrison town) Potsdam (royal seat; palaces and gardens UNESCO World Heritage) Potsdam- Babelsberg Pritzwalk Rheinsberg (royal seat with castle) Ruhland Close Sonnewalde Storkow (Mark) Strausberg Teltow (arable town: Rübchenstadt ) Trebbin (garrison town) Treuenbrietzen Uebigau Wahrenbrück Werder (Havel) Wittenberg Wittstock / Dosse Wusterhausen / Dosse Zehdenick Ziesar Zossen

Bremen

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  Bremen town hall with Roland

• Bremen (town hall and market square as UNESCO World Heritage), see old town (Bremen)
• Schnoor - old town with houses partly from the 15th century
• Vegesack (old town by the harbor)
• Steintor and Ostertor (district of the Wilhelminian era with the specific Bremen house )

Hamburg

• Hamburg-Bergedorf (core with castle)
• Hamburg - Speicherstadt

Hesse

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  Fritzlar Cathedral of St. Peter

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  Fulda Cathedral of St. Salvator

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  Limburg Cathedral of St. George

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  Old town of Wetzlar : Am Mühlgraben

Alsfeld Amöneburg Babenhausen Bad Arolsen (royal seat) Bad Camberg Bad Hersfeld Bad Homburg vor der Höhe Bad Karlshafen (baroque town) Bad Orb Bad Soden-Salmünster (old towns in two districts) Bad Sooden-Allendorf (half-timbered and salt town) Bad Wildungen (spa town) Bensheim Braunfels (royal seat with historical market place) Büdingen (royal seat), see old town (Büdingen) Butzbach The castle Dillenburg Dreieich- Dreieichenhain Eltville on the Rhine Erbach in the Odenwald Eschwege Frankenberg Frankfurt am Main , see Frankfurt-Altstadt Frankfurt-Höchst , see Höchst old town Friedberg (old town with castle)

Fritzlar (half-timbered town with cathedral and city wall) Fulda (baroque city, residential city with cathedral) Gelnhausen (old town with the Palatinate) Grebenstein Groß-Umstadt Gudensberg Hanau-Steinheim Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) Herborn Hessian Lichtenau Hirschhorn (old town with castle) Hochheim am Main Hofgeismar Homberg (Efze) Idstein (old town with castle) Immenhausen Korbach Kronberg im Taunus Laubach (old town with castle) Lauterbach Lich (old town with castle) Lindenfels Limburg an der Lahn (old town with cathedral) Marburg (university town with castle)

Melsungen Michelstadt Neckarsteinach Nidderau wind corners Ortenberg (old town with castle) Oberursel (Taunus) Rotenburg on the Fulda Rudesheim am Rhein Runkel Schlitz (old town with castle) Seligenstadt Spangenberg Staden Steinau an der Straße Trendelburg Trebur Wanfried Weilburg (old town with castle) Wetzlar (half-timbered town with cathedral), see Wetzlar historic old town Wiesbaden (royal seat) Witzenhausen Wolfhagen Goat grove Zierenberg Zwingenberg

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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  Grabow : Town hall on the market

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  Greifswald market with town hall. In the background the St. Nikolai Cathedral

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  City center Röbel / Müritz

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  Schwerin : Schelfstadt

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  Stralsund : Old Market (town hall and Nikolaikirche) - UNESCO World Heritage

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  Wismar : " Wasserkunst " and the "Alte Schwede" on the market - UNESCO World Heritage

Altentreptow (arable town) Anklam (Hanseatic city with remains of the old town) Bad Doberan (country town with minster and monastery) Bad Sülze (country town) Barth (port city with old town center) Bergen (central old town of Ruegen) Boizenburg (half-timbered town) Brüel (country town) Stargard Castle (country town with hilltop castle) Bützow (country town and former university town with castle ruins) Crivitz (country town) Dargun (country town with castle and monastery) Dassow (country town) Demmin (Hanseatic city with remains of the old town) Dömitz (country town with fortress) Franzburg (country town) Friedland (country town with remains of the old town) Gadebusch (old town with renaissance castle) Garz / Rügen (country town) Gnoien (arable town) Goldberg (half-timbered town) Grabow (half-timbered town) Greifswald (Hanseatic and university town with the old town center) Grevesmühlen (country town) Grimmen (country town) Güstrow (residential city with extensive old town center) Gützkow (country town) Hagenow (country town) Jarmen (country town)

Klütz (country town with castle) Krakow am See (spa town) Kröpelin (country town) Kühlungsborn (seaside resort town) Laage (arable town with Scheunenviertel) Lassan (country town) Loitz (country town) Lübenheen (country town) Luebz (country town) Ludwigslust (baroque residence town with castle) Malchin (country town with partly preserved old town) Malchow (old island town and monastery) Marlow (country town) Mirow (country town with castle) Neubrandenburg (city wall with four city gates and remains of the old town, floor plan of a planned medieval town) Neubukow (country town) Neukalen (country town) Neukloster (country town) Neustadt-Glewe (country town with palace and castle) Neustrelitz (baroque residential town with an unusual floor plan) Parchim (country town with two historical cores) Pasewalk (country town with partly preserved old town and city wall) Penkun (arable town) Penzlin (country town with castle) Plau am See (half-timbered town) Putbus (Classicist residence town) Rehna (country town) Ribnitz-Damgarten (twin town with a Mecklenburg and a Pomeranian old town center)

Richtenberg (country town) Röbel / Müritz (half-timbered town on the lake with two historical cores) Rostock (Hanseatic and university town), see Rostock old town Rostock- Warnemünde (seaside resort town ) Sassnitz (seaside resort town) Schönberg (country town) Schwaan (country town) Schwerin (large residential town with castle), see old town (Schwerin) Schwerin- Schelfstadt (half-timbered town) Schwerin- Feldstadt (Wilhelminian City) Stavenhagen (country town with castle) Sternberg (country town with preserved city wall) Stralsund (Hanseatic City) - UNESCO World Heritage Strasburg (country town with remains of the old town) Ticino (country town) Teterow (country town) Torgelow (industrial village) Tribsees (model city) Ueckermünde (port city with old town center) Usedom (city) (port city with old town center) Waren (Müritz) (old town center and spa town on the lake) Warin (country town) Wesenberg (old town center and castle) Wismar (Hanseatic City) - UNESCO World Heritage Wittenburg (country town) Woldegk (country town with remains of the old town) Wolgast (port city with old town center) Zarrentin am Schaalsee (monastery town)

Lower Saxony

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  Alfeld (Leine): town hall

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  Braunschweig: old town market

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  Celle: old town

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  Goslar: Hotel Kaiserworth around 1895

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  Göttingen: market square and town hall

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  Hameln: horse market

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  Hanover: Burg and Kramerstraße, Holzmarkt and Marktkirche

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  Hann. Münden: old town

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  Hildesheim: Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption - UNESCO World Heritage and cathedral courtyard as the founding core of the city

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  Lüneburg: View from the shower bridge

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  Holzminden: old town and Weserkai

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  Oldenburg Castle

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  Osnabrück: St. Peter's Cathedral

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  Wolfenbüttel: city market

Alfeld (Leine) (medieval town center with Latin school) Bad food Bad Gandersheim (medieval town center with pen) Bad Münder am Deister (medieval town center with brine bath) Bleckede (medieval town center with castle) Bockenem (medieval town center) Bodenwerder / Kemnade (medieval town center with pen) Braunschweig (medieval royal seat), see old town (Braunschweig) Bückeburg (royal seat) Buxtehude (medieval town center) Celle (medieval residence town, half-timbered town), see Blumlage / Altstadt Clausthal-Zellerfeld (districts Clausthal and Zellerfeld - former mining towns) Dannenberg (Elbe) (medieval town center) Dassel (medieval town center) Duderstadt (medieval town center) Einbeck (medieval town center, Bierstadt) Emden , see old town (Emden) Göttingen (medieval city center, university town) Goslar (mountain town, medieval town center with the Palatinate as a UNESCO World Heritage Site) Gronau (Leine) (medieval town center) Hameln (medieval city center, fortress city) Hanover (medieval city center in the area of ​​the Marktkirche), see old town (Hanover)

Hann. Münden (medieval royal seat with castle) Hardegsen (medieval town center) Helmstedt (medieval town center) Hildesheim (medieval city center with cathedral as UNESCO World Heritage) Hitzacker (medieval town center on Werder) Holzminden (medieval town center) Jever Königslutter am Elm (market settlement with pen) Lamspringe (market town with a monastery) Leer (Ostfriesland) (harbor with city scales and town hall) Lingen (Ems) (medieval town center) Lüchow (Wendland) (medieval town center) Lüneburg (medieval city center) Meppen (medieval town center) Moringen (baroque town plan) Neustadt am Rübenberge (medieval town center with castle) Nienburg / Weser (medieval town center) North (medieval city center) Northeim (medieval town center) Obernkirchen (medieval town center with pen) Oldenburg (Oldb) (royal seat) Osnabrück (medieval old town with cathedral)

Osterode am Harz (medieval town center) Peine (medieval town center) Quakenbrück (medieval town center) Rinteln (medieval town center) Salzgitter (new settlement "Reichswerke") Sankt Andreasberg (mountain town) Schladen-Werla (district of the town of Hornburg ) (medieval town center) Schnackenburg (baroque town plan) Schöningen (medieval town center with monastery and castle) Seesen (regular city plan) Jump Stade (medieval Hanseatic city) Stadthagen (medieval town center with castle) Stadtoldendorf (medieval town center) Uelzen (medieval town center) Uslar (medieval town center with castle ruins) Verden (Aller) (medieval episcopal city) Weener (Hafenplatz) Wittingen (medieval town center) Wittmund Wolfenbüttel (royal seat, fortress town) Wolfsburg- Fallersleben (medieval town center) Worpswede ( Worpswede artists' colony )

North Rhine-Westphalia

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  The Aachen City Hall

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  Castle in Detmold

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  Hattingen: old town and St. George's Church

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  Höxter: Half-timbered houses on the Litto house

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  Münster: Prinzipalmarkt

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  Monschau with the Red House, 2003

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  Soest: Freiligrathhaus, next to it the house where Wilhelm Morgner was born

Aachen (old town; cathedral as UNESCO World Heritage) Aachen- Kornelimünster Altena (center with castle) Arnsberg Attendorn Bad Berleburg Bad Laasphe Bad Münstereifel Bad Salzuflen Barntrup Bergneustadt Blankenheim Blomberg Brakel Breckerfeld Brilon Brühl (residential city with castles as UNESCO World Heritage) Detmold (royal seat with castle) Dormagen - City district of Zons Düsseldorf (Altstadt, Karlstadt), see Altstadt (Düsseldorf) Düsseldorf- Kaiserswerth Emmerich on the Rhine Erftstadt- Lechenich Eschweiler , see Eschweiler old town Essen- Kettwig eat- Will Euskirchen , see old town (Euskirchen) Freudenberg Hallenberg Hattingen (old town and Blankenstein) Heimbach

Hennef - City district of Blankenberg Herdecke Herford , see old town (Herford) Westerholt Horn-Bad Meinberg Höxter Hückeswagen , see Hückeswagen old town Kalkar Kallenhardt Kempen Kevelaer Kleve Koenigswinter Cologne (old town with cathedral as UNESCO World Heritage, new town including green belt), see Altstadt-Süd and Altstadt-Nord Kranenburg Lemgo Lichtenau Lippstadt Luebbecke Ludenscheid Lie Meschede- Eversberg Mettmann Minden (old town with cathedral) Moers Monschau Münster ( old town with cathedral ) Neuss Never home Olpe Paderborn (old town with cathedral)

Radevormwald Rees Remscheid- Lennep Rheda- Wiedenbrück Rheinberg Rheine Rietberg Rüthen Schieder-Schwalenberg Key castle Schmallenberg Wins Soest (old town with cathedral) Suderwich Solingen- Graefrath Steinfurt- Burgsteinfurt Stolberg (Rhld.) (See Stolberg old town ) Stolberg - Breinig Tecklenburg Velbert - districts of Langenberg and Neviges Viersen - Dülken and Süchteln districts Wachtendonk Warburg Warendorf Werl Werne Wipperfürth Wuelfrath Wuppertal- Beyenburg Xanten (old town with cathedral) Zülpich

See also : List of the Working Group on Historic Town Centers in NRW and the Working Group on Historic Town Centers in NRW

Rhineland-Palatinate

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  Bacharach from the post tower

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  Münstermaifeld former collegiate church St. Martin and St. Severus

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  Bernkastel-Kues: market square

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  Speyer Cathedral

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  Main market in Trier

Adenau Andernach (medieval town center) Annweiler am Trifels Bacharach (medieval town center) Bad Bergzabern Bad Ems Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler Beilstein (former residence town) Bernkastel-Kues (historical wine trading town) Bingen am Rhein Boppard (historical city structure) Braubach Cochem (historical core with castle) Deidesheim , see historical city center (Deidesheim) Diez Edenkoben drake

Freinsheim Germersheim Mr. Stein Ingelheim am Rhein (see Ingelheimer Kaiserpfalz ) Kaub (historical core with moated castle) Kirchheimbolanden (baroque residence town) Kirchberg (Hunsrück) Koblenz , see Koblenz old town Lahnstein Landau in the Palatinate Linz on the Rhine Mainz , see Mainz old town Meisenheim Monreal Montabaur Münstermaifeld

Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (medieval town center) Upper moschel Oberwesel Oppenheim (medieval town plan) Saarburg Sankt Goar Sankt Goarshausen Speyer (medieval city center with cathedral as UNESCO World Heritage) Traben-Trarbach Trier (old town with Roman buildings as UNESCO World Heritage) Trier-Palatinate Uncle Wachenheim on the Wine Route Wittlich Worms (Jewish quarter) Zell (Moselle)

Saarland

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  The Paradeplatz in the old town of Blieskastel

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  The market square in the old town of Homburg

Blieskastel (royal seat of the 18th century) Homburg Ottweiler

Saarlouis (planned town from 1680/888) Saarbrücken, Sankt Johann district St. Wendel

Saxony

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  Bautzen: city view

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  Görlitz: Peterskirche and Vogtshof

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  Delitzsch: city view

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  Meißen: Albrechtsburg Castle and Cathedral

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  Radeberg market square around 1900

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  Schwarzenberg: Obere Schloßstraße

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  Strehla: Castle

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  Zittau: street with monastery church

Adorf / Vogtl. Altenberg- Bärenstein Annaberg- Buchholz Auerbach / Vogtl. Augustusburg Bautzen Belgians Bischofswerda Borna , see old town Borna Burgstädt Colditz Delitzsch Dippoldiswalde Chub Dohna , see old town (Dohna) Dresden , see Inner Old Town Elsterberg Elstra Frankenberg / Sa. Frauenstein (Ore Mountains) Freiberg Geithain Geringswalde Glauchau Görlitz , see Historic Old Town (Görlitz) Grimma Grossenhain Large umbrella company Siebenlehn Grünhain Hainichen Hartenstein (Saxony)

Hohenstein-Ernstthal (old town and Ernstthal) Jöhstadt Kamenz Kirchberg (Saxony) Königsbrück (Sorbian medieval town center with castle) Lauenstein Leipzig Quietly Lengenfeld (Vogtland) Liebstadt Löbau Lommatzsch Loessnitz Lunzenau Marienberg Markneukirchen Meißen (royal seat with cathedral), see old town (Meißen) Mittweida Mühltroff Mutzschen Neustadt in Saxony Nossen Oederan Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. Olbernhau Oschatz Ostritz Pegau Penig Pirna , see old town (Pirna) Plauen , see old town (Plauen)

Pulsnitz Radeberg Radebeul ( Rundling Am Kreis and Anger Altkötzschenbroda ) Reichenbach in Vogtland Reichenbach / OL Rochlitz Horse wine Sayda Scheibenberg Schlettau Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. Sebnitz Stumble Strehla Torgau Faithful Waldenburg (Saxony) Waldheim City of Wehlen Weissenberg Werdau Wildenfels Wilsdruff Wittichenau Selva (Ore Mountains) Spice up Zittau Zschopau Zwickau

Saxony-Anhalt

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  Halberstadt: Cathedral Square

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  Lutherstadt Eisleben: market square with old scales

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  Merseburg: Castle

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  Naumburg: Cathedral - UNESCO World Heritage

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  View of Quedlinburg

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  Town hall Wernigerode

Alsleben (Saale) (old town with Saalemühle) Annaburg (old town with castle) Arneburg (old town with castle hill) Aschersleben (old town with city wall) Bad Lauchstädt (spa town) Bad Schmiedeberg (spa town) Ballenstedt (valley and mountain town with castle) Barby Bernburg (Saale) (old town with castle) Blankenburg (Harz) (mountain town with castle) Castle (near Magdeburg) Calvörde , market town Coswig (Anhalt) (old town with castle) Derenburg Freyburg (Unstrut) Guards Halberstadt (old town with cathedral) Haldensleben

Halle (Saale) , see old town (Halle) Harzgerode Havelberg (old town with cathedral freedom) Jessen (magpie) Kemberg Skills Köthen (Anhalt) (old town with castle) Lutherstadt Eisleben (old town; Luther memorials as UNESCO World Heritage) Lutherstadt Wittenberg (old town; castle as UNESCO World Heritage) Magdeburg (old town with cathedral) Merseburg Naumburg (Saale) (old town with cathedral as UNESCO World Heritage) Oebisfelde Oranienbaum (old town with castle) Osterburg (Altmark) Osterwieck Pretzsch (Elbe) (old town with castle)

Prettin - Lichtenburg Quedlinburg (old town with collegiate church and castle as UNESCO World Heritage) Querfurt (old town with castle) Salzwedel Sangerhausen Schönebeck (Elbe) - Bad Salzelmen Seehausen (Altmark) Stendal (old town with city fortifications) Stolberg (Harz) (mountain town) Tangermünde (old town with castle) Weißenfels (old town with castle) Advertise (Elbe) Wernigerode (mountain town) Wettin Woerlitz Zeitz (old town with castle)

Schleswig-Holstein

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  Lübeck; View from St. Petri to the north with Marienkirche

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  Ratzeburg; Old town island

Arnis (peninsula, smallest town in Germany) Castle on Fehmarn Eckernförde (fishing town with beach) Eutin (royal seat) Flensburg , see old town (Flensburg) Friedrichstadt Glückstadt (baroque complex) Heiligenhafen Husum

Kappeln Kiel , see old town (Kiel) brim Lauenburg / Elbe (lower town on the Elbe) Lübeck (Hanseatic city center with Holsten Gate as UNESCO World Heritage), see Lübeck old town Lübeck-Travemünde (seaside resort town) Meldorf Mölln Neustadt in Holstein

Plön (royal seat) Ratzeburg (old town island with cathedral) Rendsburg (old town and Neuwerk) Schleswig (royal seat) Toenning Uetersen (historical monastery with old town) Wesselburen Wilster

Thuringia

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  Arnstadt: Church of Our Lady

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  The Luther House in Eisenach

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  Erfurt Cathedral and Severikirche

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  City fortifications of Mühlhausen

Altenburg , royal seat with castle / palace Arnstadt , royal seat with castle ruins Bad Berka , spa town of the baroque and classicism Bad Langensalza , agricultural town with Gothic characteristics Bad Liebenstein , spa town with a classicist character Bad Tennstedt Buttstädt Creuzburg , strategic Werra crossing with castle (Romanesque-Gothic) Dornburg , old town and Dornburg palaces on the Saalehang Eisenach , royal seat, historic city center with fortifications, Wartburg as a UNESCO World Heritage Site Eisenberg , royal seat Ice field , arable town, "Hennebergisches Fachwerk" Erfurt , trading town, Gothic and Renaissance old town with Krämerbrücke and cathedral, see old town (Erfurt) Geisa , agricultural town Gotha , royal seat of the baroque style, with castle Greiz , royal seat Greetings

Heldburg , agricultural town with half-timbered houses and fortress Heldburg Heilbad Heiligenstadt Pegs / helmets Hildburghausen , royal seat with a Renaissance / Baroque style Ilmenau , mountain town of baroque character Jena Kahla Königsee-Rottenbach , the Baroque town hall Kranichfeld , agricultural town with two castles Meiningen , royal seat of the neo-classical style, see Meiningen historic old town Mühlhausen , imperial and trading town of Gothic style Neustadt an der Orla Ohrdruf , Renaissance / Baroque residence town Orlamünde Poessneck Ranis Römhild , former residence town in Grabfeld, at the foot of the Gleichberge

Rudolstadt , royal seat in the Saale valley, dominated by the Heidecksburg Saalfeld / Saale , old town of the Gothic and Renaissance Schleiz , royal seat Schmalkalden , mining and half-timbered town Schleusingen , royal seat with a fortress at the junction of several valleys Sondershausen , royal seat Stadtilm Hit Ummerstadt , half-timbered town (Hennebergisch-Franconian) Vacha , agricultural town Wasungen , half-timbered town (Hennebergisch-Franconian) Weida , residential city in the Weidatal, overlooked by the Osterburg Weimar , Classic Weimar and Bauhaus sites as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, royal seat Weißensee , Gothic agricultural town Wiehe Ziegenrück

See also

• Urban renewal
• Urban history
• Urban monument protection
• List of German health resorts
• List of cities with a historical center
• List of cities with city walls

Web links

Commons : Old Towns in Germany  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

• Association of State Monument Preservators in the Federal Republic of Germany: inventory of the historic city centers from 2006.
• Karl Kühn: The beautiful old town. Your protection, your conversion, your traffic improvement. A study for the practical evaluation of the knowledge of the nature of the old city. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1932 (digitized version).
• Uwe Kieling, Gerd Priese (Ed.): Historic city centers. Cities under monument protection. 1st edition. VEB Tourist Verlag, Berlin and Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-350-00288-9 .