By Air

In the eastern part of Gera lies the airfield Gera-Leumnitz.The nearest airport is Leipzig-Altenburg (approx. 40 km).The Leipzig-Halle airport with its with many international destinations is about 90 km north of Gera.

By Train

In Gera there are six stations or stopping points, but up to the main railway station, railway station and the station of Gera Gera South Zwotzen only by regional trains to be approached. At the station Langenberg Regional trains stop from / to Leipzig-Gera and at the stations east (formerly Zwotzen-East) and the Liebschwitz Vogtlandbahn on demand.The station was abandoned in 1996 Thieschitz, Gera-Gessental followed with the new timetable for December 2010.Gera is currently looking for Remscheid Bergische in the country's second-largest German city with no electrified rail connection and one of the major German cities without a long-distance connections.2002, the InterConnex Gera on Berlin to Rostock on the operation, but this turned to the 10th December 2006 again regional express lines lead to Regensburg and Gottingen, also in the thick interval services (Einstundentakt) to the nearby ICE -breakpoints Leipzig, Jena and Saalfeld.The regional express line from Gottingen leads east to Gobnitz .There the two used railcars of series 612 separately and then drive separately to Zwickau and Chemnitz on.

By Trambus

By public transport ( public transport ) serve three tram lines (light rail lines) and 20 bus lines of traffic operation Gera GmbH (GVB).From 1939 to 1977 reversed a trolleybus.The lines of the GVB run exclusively on targets within the city limits, with the exception of line 18 (community chewers ) and line 20 (community Kraftsdorf ).The buses in the city and the metro line 1 in every 10 minutes, the line 3 in the 5-minute intervals.The current length of the tram network is 20.1 km, the current length of 235.4 km bus network.Gera there are 234 stops.The company transported approximately 60 500 people daily.In 2009, the GVB has counted 18.3 million passengers.As a special run the so-called "sparrows train" for children and the "party train" according to a fixed timetable.In addition, Gera is also served by the regional bus lines of the transport association Greiz and several other companies.While the core of urban transport interchanges is the Henry Street station, the regional buses from the bus station next to the railway station, with some also stop at the Henry Street.In December 2010, Gera is part of the transport association Mittelthüringen.

By Road

Through the northern city into east-west direction of the motorway A 4 ( Aachen - Gorlitz ) with the connection points and Gera Gera-Langenberg-Leumnitz.The intermediate junction Gera cross was on 21 April 2007 by Federal Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD) opened to traffic.Furthermore, the lead federal roads B 2 , B 7 and B 92 by Gera. Before the local elections 2004 construction of an eastern bypass of the city it was decided that branches off to the north of the city district Cretzschwitz of the B 2, then the A 4 at the new junction and finally crosses the Gera district Leumnitz empties into the South Tangent.The handover took place in 2007 along the ring road with the Gera cross.Other road construction have been made in connection with the Federal Garden Show 2007 in the city center.The length of the road network in Gera is 507 km.Currently about 56,000 vehicles are registered in Gera.

National Theatre Altenburg, Theater & Philharmonie Thuringen, Gera City Museum, Museum of Applied Arts, Gera Zoo, Hofwiesen park, Golden Sparrow

National Theatre Altenburg

The theater was built 1869-1871 after a design by architect Otto Briickwald in the style of the Renaissance and built in 1871 with " Der Freischütz "by Carl Maria von Weber was inaugurated. 1904/1905 it was rebuilt again and got by its distinctive porch.The capacity of the main hall is 492 seats.In 1995 the theater was completely renovated.Other venues include the Theatre under the roof and the boiler house.Since 2005 the Altenburg castle the Prince of prey Altenburger Festival instead.

Theater & Philharmonie Thuringen

is a multi-use theater in the Free State of Thuringia from the merger of the National Theatre Altenburg with the stages of the city of Gera was established in 1995.The original name after the merger was Altenburg-Gera Theatre Ltd. 2006 it was renamed in Theatre & Philharmonie Thuringen GmbH TPT With approximately 165,000 visitors annually it is the theater with the most viewers in Thuringia.

Gera City Museum

is a museum in Gera, which deals with the history of the city.It is located in the Henry Street 2 in the former orphanage and breeding - in the heart of the city market area.The breeding and orphanage in the years 1724 to 1739 at the site of the first built in 1445 and 1639 spent mentioned Mary Hospital. In the basement there were prison cells the other floors were used as recreation rooms in the house for the orphans and the mentally ill housed.In 1824 the orphanage was closed, the orphans were now housed in middle-class families. However the building served until 1886 as a workhouse and prison then was leased to individual apartments.From the city museum are also available in the old town of Gera Gera caves - a labyrinthine network of underground storage rooms and corridors care.

Museum of Applied Arts

is an arts and crafts museum in Gera.It is located in a house in the Ferbersche Greizer street that represents the most extensive former town house of the old town.Ferbersche The house is a bourgeois grouped around a courtyard dating from the 18th Century, the portal has been built according to an inscription 1760th From 1765 it belonged to the merchant Johann Gottfried Steidel, according to the city fire Gera 1780 the Commerce Heinrich Ebeling, who gave 1785/86 extend the property to the south.In 1842 the House of Commerce, was Moritz Rudolph Ferber acquired a well-known patron of Gera, after which the house bears his name. According to Ferber's death in 1875 his heirs were the living quarters of the first floor within the meaning of historicism remodel.After 1945, the building as a multi-family apartment building was used.

Gera Zoo

The Waldzoo Gera Thuringia was founded in 1962 as a small local zoo and became the largest and one of the largest Waldzoo eastern Thuringia Thuringia. It is located in the urban forest - just outside the town of Gera - the reason Martin. An anomaly occurs due to strong erosion created deep gorges.The Thuringian Waldzoo Gera has a miniature railway . This was in 1975 as a pioneer railroad created and now carries about 45,000 annually zoo visitors on its 800-meter-long railway line. There is a petting zoo and adventure playground. Guides as well as the many visual and resting places in the park are among other attractions.The visitor count was 107 748 in 2008.

Hofwiesen park

is a park in Gera in Thuringia, the city from the western district Untermhaus separates.The park is named after its location on the mountain with the former castle Osterstein.The park has an indoor pool (Hofwiesenbad) and the stadium of friendship.For the Federal Garden Show 2007 in Gera and Ronneburg was Hofwiesenpark (next to the new landscape Ronneburg ) one of the two main exhibition areas.In view of the Federal Garden Show, the area was returned to his former park character, and hence the name Hofwiesen. In planning for the BUGA, which was awarded in 1997 in Gera, who played a crucial role as Hofwiesenpark Gera main part of the show and also western end of the green belt which stretches to the center of Ronneburg should consider. In February 2000, a Europe-wide design contest for the park at the 23rd session of the jury and 24 June 2000 the plan of the office of Dresdner landscape architect Hermann Kokenge and Christopher Knight named the winner of work. It contained the idea of ​​the layout of the park by the characteristic oval.By September 2002 the plans were further elaborated by the winning agency.Among other things provided for the design to lower parts of the parking area and break the dam on the White Elster River in several places the lines of sight from the park to allow the river water.These ideas were however abandoned due to flood concerns.

Golden Sparrow

is a film festival for children's film and television, in the Gera and from 2003 in Erfurt takes place. It opens in Gera and concludes with an awards ceremony in Erfurt.The festival takes place since 1979.For the first time in Gera 1977 a children's film festival was conducted in 1979 it received the title of National Festival "Goldener Spatz" for children's films of the GDR in cinema and television.It took up the first two years in different cities all discharged children's film festival in the GDR on.The logo of the event, the Golden Sparrow, created the graphic artist Rolf F. Mueller.Alongside the competition entries is always an information program.Since 1997 for example includes a program to help with youth films.In addition there is always a retrospective which is always a different theme.

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