Schwabach

Schwabach is a town in Middle Franconia.

Understand

Town Hall and Beautiful Fountain in König Square. Town Church Clock Tower in the background

The town is famous for its goldsmith crafts, in particular gold leaf work.

Local information

• Schwabach Town Council website

Get in

By road

North A6, with two exits off the autobahn.

By rail

• 1 Schwabach station. 20 minutes south of Nuremberg on  S2   
• 2 Limbach halt. 

Get around

By bike

Bikeshare

Schwabach is part of the VAG Rad scheme. Bikes can be rented via the app for €0.10 starting fee plus €0.10 per minute. You can return the bike at any of the fixed stations throughout Schwabach, Fürth, Nuremberg and Erlangen or in the "Flex Zone" in central Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen.

See

• 1 Town Hall (Rathaus), Königsplatz 1. With gold leaf roof. (updated Jan 2016)
• 2 St John & St Martin Town Church (Stadtkirche St. Johannes und St. Martin). (updated Jan 2016)
• 3 Beautiful Fountain (Schöner Brunnen). (updated Jan 2016)
• 4 Town Museum (Stadtmuseum), Museumsstraße, ☏ +49 9122 833933. Exhibits from the town's past. Also in display one of the world famous Fabergé eggs. (updated Jan 2016)
• 5 Synagogue, Synagogengasse 10a, ☏ +49 911 770577, fuehrungen@juedisches-museum.org. Now a Jewish museum showing wall paintings from the late Baroque period. (updated Jan 2016)
• 6 Haq Yol Mosque, Glockengießergasse 6. (updated Jan 2016)

Events==

• Citizens' Festival (July)
• innkeeper's festival
• Summer Night Festival of the Volunteer Fire Department (June/July)
• Legend Festival (1st weekend in May, Heidenberg)
• Linden Festival of the KG "Die Schwabanesen"
• Christmas market
• carnival parade through Schwabach
• Spring FestivalKirchweih (“Kärwa”) (September)
• Ortung, an art exhibition that has been held every two years since 1999
• Schwabach Sportsnight
• Golden Night
• LesArt/Literaturtage Schwabach
• International Puppet Theater Festival

Buy

Hüttlinger Shopping Arcade from Rathausgasse

• 1 Das Hüttlinger, Königsplatz 21. A shopping arcade on the grounds of the former company Johann Leonhard Hüttlinger at Rathausgasse. After the initiative of private investors the building complex was extensively renovated and reopened in 2007 as a shopping and catering centre. (updated Jan 2016)

Sleep

• 1 Holiday Inn Express Schwabach, Wendelsteiner Straße 4, ☏ +49 9122 1880880. Good quality rooms, standard HI Express furnishings. Good free buffet breakfast.