Sonneberg is a town of 24,000 people (2018) in Southern Thuringia. It has long been a centre of toy-making. It is the home of PIKO, a model railway manufacturer which became one of the few such enterprises in the Warsaw Pact countries and supplied model trains depicting railway stock of all the Soviet bloc countries. Sonneberg is home to the German Toy Museum.
Understand
[edit]Sonneberg is culturally closer to Franconia to the south than Thuringia to the north, despite belonging to Thuringia and being cut off from Franconia and the rest of West Germany for 40 years during German partition.
Get in
[edit]By train
[edit]- 1 Sonneberg Hauptbahnhof. There is direct local train service to Nuremberg and Erlangen but not to Erfurt.
Get around
[edit]
Map of Sonneberg
See
[edit]- 1 German Toy Museum (Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum), Beethovenstraße 10, ☏ +49 3675 702856, fax: +49 3675 742817, [email protected]. Tu-Su public holidays 09:00 to 17:00. €4, reduced €2, families €8.50..
Do
[edit]Buy
[edit]Eat
[edit]- 1 Restaurant – Café Kesselhaus, Cuno Hoffmeister Straße 5, ☏ +49 3675 4263502, [email protected]. Closed on Mondays, Tu-Th 11:00 – 22:30, F 11:00 – 00:00, Sa 15:00 – 00:00, Su 11:00 – 21:00. Mostly Thuringian fare.
- 2 Restaurant Rhodos, Bettelheckerstr. 82, 96515 Sonneberg, ☏ +49 3675 703189, [email protected]. W–M 11:30 – 14:30 17:30 – 00:00, Tu closed. Greek cuisine.
- 3 Gaststätte Hasenhütt, Steinweg 16, ☏ +49 3675 4697385, fax: +49 3675 401945, [email protected]. M W–F 17:00 – 23:00 Sa 17:00 – 00:00, Su 17:00 – 22:00, closed on Tu.
- 4 Försterquelle, Kirchstraße 14, ☏ +49 3675 703291, fax: +49 3675 425441, [email protected]. German cuisine, large selection of various schnitzel and steak dishes, reasonable prices.
- 5 Alter Fritz, Erholungsstraße 2, ☏ +49 3675 743264. Tu – Su 11:00 – 23:00, closed on Mondays.
- 6 Gaststätte "Zum Tiegela", Ortsstraße 42, ☏ +49 3675 745192, [email protected]. Good traditional, Thuringian cuisine.
Drink
[edit]Sleep
[edit]- 1 Hotel Schöne Aussicht, Schöne Aussicht 24, ☏ +49 3675 804040, fax: +49 3675 804041, [email protected]. Restaurant and beer garden available. Single from €54, double from €76, family room from €115.
