page_title: Wunsiedel
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Wunsiedel / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: English: Wunsiedel, Church St.Veit und St.Martin, ceiling painting Deutsch: Wunsiedel, Kirche St.Veit und St.Martin, Deckengemälde This is a photograph of an architectural monument.It is on the list of cultural monuments of Wunsiedel, no. D-4-79-169-157
context_page_description: Wunsiedel is the seat of the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in northeast Bavaria, Germany. The town is the birthplace of poet Jean Paul. It also became known for its annual Luisenburg Festival and the Rudolf Hess Memorial March held there by Neo-Nazis until 2005.
context_section_description: Luisenburg Rock Labyrinth, municipal landscape garden and national geotope
  Luisenburg Festival stage on the Luisenburg (oldest natural stage in Germany)
  Katharinenberg Municipal Park
  The now empty grave of Rudolf Hess in the cemetery, major Nazi war criminal, sentenced in the Nuremberg
  In the same cemetery are the individual and multiple graves of 30 Jewish concentration camp victims, who lost their lives during a death march in the last days of the Second World War in 1945
  Wunsiedel Birds of Prey Park and falconry at the Katharinenberg Municipal Park
  Lernort Natur Deer Park
  Historic town walk through the classicist old town (Altstadt)
  Jean-Paul circular walk in North Wunsiedel
  The Markus-Zahn-Allee and St. Joseph's Chapel
  Fichtelgebirge Museum, the largest Bavarian regional museum with an extensive stone and mineral collection
  German Natural Stone Archive, the largest collection of its kind in the world with 5,500 templates (Musterplatten) of natural stones from across the world
  St. Veit's Parish Church
  St. Maria Spitalkirche
  Parish Church of the Twelve Apostles
  Peace Church of the Holy Trinity
  Ruined church of St. Katharine's on the Katharinenberg, the oldest building in the town
  The Town Hall of 1835/1837
  The Koppete Gate (Koppetentor), the only surviving gate of the old town defences (erected in 1471)
  Jean Paul's birthplace (a former schoolhouse) with a bust of Jean Paul by Ludwig Schwanthaler
  Bernstein Castle
caption: Wunsiedel, Church of St. Veit and St. Martin, Ceiling fresco
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