Pirmasens

Pirmasens is in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Get in

By train

  • 🌍 Main station.
  • 🌍 Pirmasens Nord station. Deceptively named as it is not inside the city limits.

Get around

See

  • 🌍 Westwallmuseum Pirmasens. A museum dedicated to the "western wall" the Nazis had built to try and defend Germany against the Allied counterattack.
  • 🌍 Dynamikum. A science museum
  • Old Postal Building, with an exhibition of the life and work of Hugo Ball and a picture gallery of the painter Heinrich Bürkel
  • Collected works of Hugo Ball in the public library
  • Old Town Hall, now a museum of local history and shoes, with silhouettes from Elisabeth Emmler
  • Siegfried Line Museum

Do

  • The "Landgrafen-Tage" (days of the landgraves) - every second weekend in April
  • Open-Air Highlights at the parade-ground (e.g. musicals, opera)
  • "Schlabbeflicker-Fest", a parade of uniformed musicians - every first weekend in August
  • Parade-ground festival - every second weekend in September
  • Euroclassic festival (Festival of the cities: Pirmasens, Bitche, Zweibrücken, Blieskastel and of the Verbandsgemeinde Zweibrücken-Land)
  • "Grenadiermarkt" (infantryman market) - in Autumn
  • "Novembermarkt" - last weekend of October or first weekend of November
  • Christmas market in Advent

Sleep

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