Excursion tips for your holiday in Thuringia
What you can do on holiday in Thuringia
Is this not your first holiday in Oberhof? Or are you planning a longer holiday in Thuringia? We are busy collecting many more excursion tips here. What else you can discover in the Thuringian Forest. What secrets are hidden in Thuringia? We have investigated these questions for our guests at the hotel in Oberhof and have compiled our tips for you here:
German Thermometer Museum Geraberg
– A museum you can touch –
Temperature not only plays an important role in our everyday lives, as in the questions: “What will the weather be like? Is the fridge at the right temperature? Do we have a fever?
It is also a very important topic in power stations, chemistry, medicine and for the optimum utilisation of energy as well as in times of climate change. It is not for nothing that temperature is one of the most frequently measured physical quantities.
In the German Thermometer Museum you can learn all about temperature measurement. With a thermal imaging camera, infrared thermometer and replicas of historical instruments, you can go on a discovery tour yourself. Look over the shoulder of a thermometer blower and a thermometer recorder and experience how precision instruments are made from a simple glass tube.
Distance from our hotel in Oberhof: approx. 22 km
Contact & opening hours
Deutsches Thermometermuseum Geraberg | Dorfplan 9 | 99331 Geratal OT Geraberg
Tel: 03677 20 56 81 | E-Mail: mail@thermometermuseum.de | www.thermometermuseum.de
Dwarf Park Trusetal
The Zwergen-Park® is a garden of over 5000 square metres, which we have lovingly designed. Our railway runs through the park, ringing its bells, through a tunnel past an idyllic pond and part of the grounds.
There is plenty to see to the right and left of the railway tracks. There are over 2500 gnomes of all shapes and sizes to admire across the entire site. Beautiful, curious, strange and funny things alternate. The Zwergen-Park® is currently home to the only Dwarf Tree.
Here you can watch the dwarves grow from the Dwarf Fruits®. Dwarves that have hatched from the Dwarf Fruits® are already running around. Many beautiful photo motifs guarantee a lasting memory. An impressive 7-metre-high climbing rock invites you to go alpine climbing. There is also an 18-hole dwarf golf course, a great and sporty pleasure with fun for young and old.
The Zwergen- Schänke (60 seats) and the Zwergen Imbiss Gnomeria with beer garden (80 seats) cater for your physical well-being.
Contact & opening hours:
Distance from our hotel in Oberhof: approx. 35 km
Zwergen-Park Trusetal | Brotterroder Str. 55 | 98596 Brotterode-Trusetal
Tel.: 036840/40153 | info@zwergen-park.de | www.zwergen-park.de
Inselsberg Funpark
The Inselsberg is a well-known excursion destination in the Thuringian Forest, as the views and leisure facilities make the mountain a famous landmark in the region.
Nestled in the beautiful landscape of the Thuringian Forest, the Inselsberg Funpark offers a unique leisure experience close to nature, where tobogganing, views and adventure are the order of the day. This sets the Inselsberg Funpark apart from conventional leisure parks and is more reminiscent of large alpine adventure mountains.
A summer toboggan run, the Wie-Flyer and our Rennsteig-Fox provide plenty of fun, weightlessness and a pinch of thrills. Our panoramic barbecue invites you to linger while the children explore the entire leisure park. Ideal for families looking for a day of outdoor fun and relaxation. There is a variety of play equipment for children, such as slides, climbing frames and the marble run. For daredevils, there is a spectacular Luna Loop and our trampoline. The wide range of leisure activities make the Inselsberg Funpark an exciting day trip destination or an unforgettable weekend getaway.
Contact & opening hours:
Inselsberg Funpark | Kleiner Inselsberg 3 |98599 Brotterode-Trusetal
www.inselsberg-funpark.de | Distance from our hotel in Oberhof: approx
KATI ZORN porcelain art
Cursdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1537 as Cunradesdorf. The village on an old trade route from Erfurt to Nuremberg belonged to the county of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. The inhabitants of the village were traditionally active in forestry and glass processing, as well as in the olive oil trade. So much for the text from the encyclopaedia. Today, Cursdorf stands for recreation, the mountain railway and porcelain.Georg Heinrich Macheleidt was born in Cursdorf in 1723. He is regarded as one of the inventors of porcelain and is the founder of the oldest Volkstedt porcelain manufactory. And here we have come full circle. Kati Zorn, who stands for the New Art of figurative porcelain like no other, worked in the oldest Volkstedt porcelain manufactory and has been an independent porcelain designer in Cursdorf since 2000. she is a master at capturing the moment of great emotions such as lust, love, sadness and melancholy in unique porcelain figurines. a visit to her gallery is a very special experience. What the building promises on the outside is also kept on the inside – modern architecture meets a contemporary interior and unrivalled porcelain sculptures. Whimsical, amusing, lascivious and also a little frivolous and cheeky, the sculptures, each individually hand-painted, are a wonderful contrast to the somewhat Biedermeier porcelain culture of the well-known “brands”.
Contact & opening hours:
KATI ZORN porzellan Kunst | Treibe 19 | 98744 Cursdorf
Telefon: 036705 6 11 50 | E-Mail: katizornporzellan@t-online.de
www.katizornporzellan.de | Distance from our hotel in Oberhof: approx. 60 km
Holidays in Thuringia – individual – diverse – enchanting
Our guests love the many possibilities they have on holiday in Thuringia. Nature & culture or fun and active holidays. Whatever you are looking for, you will find a suitable offer for your holiday in the Thuringian Forest.
Zella-Mehlis marine aquarium
“Visit a 1,000,000 litre shark tank in the marine aquarium, which is unique in Thuringia and is home to lemon sharks, nurse sharks, sand tiger sharks and bull sharks.”
Why not take a dive! The “Sea Aquarium Adventure Park” in Zella Mehlis, the largest and most attractive of its kind in central Germany, offers an unusual opportunity to do just that. In our adventure park, a colourful underwater world of tropical oceans awaits you with
- sharks, moray eels and piranhas
- Petting pond with koi carp
- Spacious outdoor area with koi ponds
- Separate crocodile house, accessible via a bridge construction
The adventure park and restaurant are easily accessible for wheelchair users via a lift!
With an outdoor area designed as a koi park with the three koi ponds and the shark tanks (100,000, 250,000 and one million litre capacity) and over 60 aquariums as well as the separate crocodile house, the marine aquarium offers an unforgettable and unique experience for the Central German region on a viewing area of 7,150 square metres.
Distance from our hotel in Oberhof: approx. 11 km
Contact & opening hours:
Erlebnispark Meeresaquarium | Beethovenstraße 16 | 98544 Zella-Mehlis
Tel: 03682 41078 | E-Mail: info@meeresaquarium-zella-mehlis.de | www.meeresaquarium-zella-mehlis.de
For your holiday in Thuringia
Book your hotel in Oberhof, your ideal starting point for your holiday in Thuringia. The 3-star Hotel Thüringenschanze is an individual hotel for active holidaymakers. You will stay in cosy double rooms, while the hotel’s relaxation oasis with sauna provides the necessary relaxation after an active day. More about the hotel…
