The best city hikes and walks around Tennenloher Forest

Franconian inn culture can be experienced in the cozy Bräuschänke in a historic ambiance. The brewery was founded here in 1712, and since 1833 it was owned by the Kitzmann brewing family until Peter Kitzmann closed it in 2018. The brand rights were taken over by Kulmbacher Brauerei, and beer production was relocated to Kulmbach. Five types of Kitzmann beer are still produced, including the Bergkirchweihbier.

Despite generous donations from Margrave Christian Ernst, the French Reformed and German Reformed communities of the city, and many parishioners, the money for the construction of the Neustädter Kirche could not initially be raised. The faithful collected for their house of worship through fundraising tours and in inns; it was built starting in 1722 and consecrated in 1737, at least provisionally completed. The sixty-meter-high tower was only finished in 1830. Since 1837, Erlangen's main Evangelical Lutheran church has also been the university church.

Outside of France, there is no Huguenot church still in use today that is older than the one in Erlangen. It was built between 1686 and 1693 as part of the Baroque design of the new town of Erlangen, based on plans by Johann Moritz Richter. The first French religious refugees came to Erlangen in 1686 at the invitation of Margrave Christian Ernst. The Calvinists called their church the French Reformed Church. In 1922, it merged with the German Reformed Church and is today the Evangelical Reformed Church. However, the name Huguenot Church has remained in common parlance.

In 1728, construction began on the monumental Palais for Privy Councillor and District Administrator Christian Hieronymus von Stutterheim, where the bread, flour, and meat benches of the market square had previously been. From 1836, the building served as the town hall of Erlangen. Since the town hall moved into a new building in 1971, the Palais has housed the Erlangen City Library. The municipal gallery, now called "Kunstpalais Erlangen", has been located on the ground floor since 1974.

Friedrich Wanderer created the design for the Paulibrunnen fountain in the late Renaissance style in 1889, which was then realized by Georg Leistner (sculptor), Christoph Lenz (bronze caster) and Georg Suter (stonemason). Two allegorical figures in ancient robes stand above the main basin: Erlangia with the signs of local industry and trade and Alma Mater with the symbols of science. In the center of the fountain, one can see relief portraits of the Margraves Christian Ernst and Alexander, as well as Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria.

The Bayreuth court sculptor Elias Räntz created the Huguenot Fountain in 1706. In an oval fountain basin stands a cone-shaped rocky mountain. On its lowest level, noble Huguenot families are depicted, above them ancient deities, and at the very top Margrave Christian Ernst. An opening in the rock cone allows a view through to the equestrian statue of the Margrave.

In the Kollegienhaus, a central building of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, lectures and seminars of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Theology, as well as the Faculty of Law, mainly take place today. Friedrich Scharff designed the sandstone building in the Neo-Baroque style. The Kollegienhaus was inaugurated in 1889. Incidentally, the valuable academic gowns of the faculties are stored in the attic of the building, which are only used for festive occasions and events abroad.

Professor Dankwart Lehinant designed the memorial for the Sudeten German expellees from Brüx in North Bohemia (today: Most). In 1949, the city of Erlangen took over the sponsorship for the expellees from Brüx. The memorial also includes the Brüxer Brunnen (Brüx Fountain), which shows the courses of the Elbe, Vltava, and Ohře rivers within the outline of the former Kingdom of Bohemia. A stele displays the coats of arms of Erlangen and Brüx, as well as the Brüxer Madonna, a masterpiece of High Gothic art.