Sonneberg

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.

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.

• 🌍 German Toy Museum (Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum), Beethovenstraße 10, ☏ +49 3675 702856, fax: +49 3675 742817, info@spielzeugmuseum-sonneberg.de. Tu-Su public holidays 09:00 to 17:00. €4, reduced €2, families €8.50. .

• 🌍 Restaurant – Café Kesselhaus, Cuno Hoffmeister Straße 5, ☏ +49 3675 4263502, kesselhaus.sonneberg@web.de. 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. 
• 🌍 Restaurant Rhodos, Bettelheckerstr. 82, 96515 Sonneberg, ☏ +49 3675 703189, info@restaurantrhodos.net. W–M 11:30 – 14:30 17:30 – 00:00, Tu closed. Greek cuisine. 
• 🌍 Gaststätte Hasenhütt, Steinweg 16, ☏ +49 3675 4697385, fax: +49 3675 401945, mail@hasenhuett.de. M W–F 17:00 – 23:00 Sa 17:00 – 00:00, Su 17:00 – 22:00, closed on Tu. 
• 🌍 Försterquelle, Kirchstraße 14, ☏ +49 3675 703291, fax: +49 3675 425441, info@foersterquelle.de. German cuisine, large selection of various schnitzel and steak dishes, reasonable prices. 
• 🌍 Alter Fritz, Erholungsstraße 2, ☏ +49 3675 743264. Tu – Su 11:00 – 23:00, closed on Mondays. 
• 🌍 Gaststätte "Zum Tiegela", Ortsstraße 42, ☏ +49 3675 745192, zumtiegela@gmail.com. Good traditional, Thuringian cuisine. 

• 🌍 Hotel Schöne Aussicht, Schöne Aussicht 24, ☏ +49 3675 804040, fax: +49 3675 804041, info@hotelschoeneaussicht.de. Restaurant and beer garden available. Single from €54, double from €76, family room from €115. 

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