{"id":25154,"date":"2024-02-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=25154"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T10:29:11","slug":"sights-in-erlangen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/bavaria\/erlangen\/sights-in-erlangen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sights in Erlangen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Erlangen is very different from other Franconian towns. Although half-timbered houses can also be found here, they are less obvious. Its history as the first baroque planned town and the sights in Erlangen are particularly noteworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Added to this is Erlangen’s youthful dynamism, characterised by the many students who fill the city with life and contribute to its special charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I set off on a discovery tour of the most important sights in Erlangen, I realise just how much the city has to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1700, the Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Georg Wilhelm commissioned the construction of a margravial palace in Erlangen. Just three years later, Margrave Christian Ernst acquired the almost completed shell and gave the palace to his third wife Elisabeth Sophie. It only took another year and the palace was completed in the Baroque style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n