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
- 🌍 Hotel Alt Pirmasens, Wittelsbacher Straße 26, 66954 Pirmasens, ☏ +49 6331 55450, fax: +49 6331 554599, info@alt-pirmasens.de. Restaurant: M–Sa from 17:30 (beer garden from 17:00), closed Su except holidays. Also includes the Restaurant Alt Bärmesens. single from €55, double from €81, €5 per person for breakfast.
- 🌍 Hotel-Restaurant Kunz, Bottenbacher Straße 74, 66954 Pirmasens OT Winzeln, ☏ +49 6331 8750, fax: +49 6331 875125, info@hotel-kunz.de. single from €82, double from €92, suite from €108.
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