page_title: Hof, Bavaria
section_title: Points of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Hof, Bavaria / Points of interest
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Wochenende am Untreusee
context_page_description: Hof is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech border and the forested Fichtelgebirge and Frankenwald upland regions.
  The town has 47,296 inhabitants, the surrounding district an additional 95,000.
  The town of Hof is enclosed by, but does not belong to the Bavarian district of Hof; it is nonetheless the district's administrative seat.
  The town's most important work of art, the Hofer altar, dates from about 1465 and is exhibited in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich today. The Heidenreich organ in the parish church of St. Michaelis, completed in 1834, is considered one of Bavaria's finest.
  Hof is known for two local "delicacies", namely Schnitz, a kind of hotpot, and sausages boiled in a portable, coal-fired brass cauldron, which are sold in the streets by the sausage man. There is also a particularly strong beer, which is available only on the first Monday after Trinity Sunday. This tradition dates back to the establishment of the town militia which forced all shooters to take part in a special shooting training each year.
context_section_description: Botanischer Garten der Stadt Hof, a municipal botanical garden and the Hof Zoo, a zoological garden located on the Theresienstein, a hill near the downtown
  Freiheitshalle, event building
  St Mary's Cathedral, highest church of the town (65 meters high)
  St Michel's Cathedral, second largest church
  Untreusee, a lake in the south of the town
caption: Untreusee in summer
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