Overview

• About 6,000 sites in roughly 2,300 municipalities will welcome visitors, with organizers calling it Germany’s largest cultural outreach event and the national contribution to the European Heritage Days.
• Admission is largely free, though many tours and special accesses have limited places and require advance registration.
• Gera’s opening festivities include a fest mile, stage program and more than 50 accessible locations, among them the former SED district headquarters and the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum.
• Local offerings span timed tours of Würzburg’s Mozartareal at 11:00, 12:30, 14:00 and 15:30, plus rare access to venues in North Rhine-Westphalia such as a Duisburg Masonic lodge and the JVA Attendorn grounds.
• The theme “Wert-voll: unbezahlbar oder unersetzlich?” frames guided visits, exhibitions and hands-on demonstrations like blacksmithing and hand spinning at Erding’s Bauernhausmuseum.