Pirmasens is in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Understand
Get in
By train
Get around
See
- Westwallmuseum Pirmasens, 49.1756°, 7.59642°. A museum dedicated to the "western wall" the Nazis had built to try and defend Germany against the Allied counterattack.
- Dynamikum, 49.202°, 7.60012°. A science museum
- Old Postal Building, with an exhibition of the life and work of Hugo Ball and a picture gallery of the painter Heinrich Bürkel
- Collected works of Hugo Ball in the public library
- Old Town Hall, now a museum of local history and shoes, with silhouettes from Elisabeth Emmler
- Siegfried Line Museum
Do
- The "Landgrafen-Tage" (days of the landgraves) - every second weekend in April
- Open-Air Highlights at the parade-ground (e.g. musicals, opera)
- "Schlabbeflicker-Fest", a parade of uniformed musicians - every first weekend in August
- Parade-ground festival - every second weekend in September
- Euroclassic festival (Festival of the cities: Pirmasens, Bitche, Zweibrücken, Blieskastel and of the Verbandsgemeinde Zweibrücken-Land)
- "Grenadiermarkt" (infantryman market) - in Autumn
- "Novembermarkt" - last weekend of October or first weekend of November
- Christmas market in Advent
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
- Hotel Alt Pirmasens, Wittelsbacher Straße 26, 66954 Pirmasens, 49.19740°, 7.59781°, +49 6331 55450, info@alt-pirmasens.de. Restaurant: M–Sa from 17:30 (beer garden from 17:00), closed Su except holidays. Also includes the Restaurant Alt Bärmesens. single from €55, double from €81, €5 per person for breakfast
- Hotel-Restaurant Kunz, Bottenbacher Straße 74, 66954 Pirmasens OT Winzeln, 49.18833°, 7.56437°, +49 6331 8750, info@hotel-kunz.de. single from €82, double from €92, suite from €108
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