Weiden i.d.OPf. – City history, the Goldsteig Trail and the thermal baths

Weiden i.d.OPf. combines insights into local history and music with access to the Goldsteig long-distance hiking trail and swimming and sauna facilities. This offers families and other travellers a varied range of options: you can focus on culture, plan a hike or spend time in the thermal baths and sauna world.

Art, city history and Max Reger

The Old Schoolhouse is home to the Weiden City Museum and the Max Reger Collection; the gallery in the Old Schoolhouse is next to them in the same building. It hosts temporary exhibitions by local artists. Visitors looking to include a range of cultural interests in their visit will find both changing art exhibitions and displays on the city’s history, as well as a collection dedicated to Max Reger.

The City Museum focuses on the everyday lives of earlier generations. Detailed displays cover traditional crafts, city life and social structures. This makes a visit especially interesting for anyone who wants to learn not only about individual objects, but also about the lives and work behind the city’s history. The Max Reger Room features handwritten scores, personal belongings and documents from the composer’s youth in Weiden. Music lovers can thus explore the town’s history from a perspective of their own.

The Old Town Hall as a place of city history

For many centuries, the Old Town Hall was a centre of political and social life in Weiden. Theatre and dance events were also held there, shaping the city’s cultural life. Today, the Tourist Information Office and an information point with numerous brochures about the Upper Palatinate Forest low mountain range are located in the town hall. If you want to plan your stay beyond individual sights, you can find ideas there to help you explore the region further.

Hiking on the Goldsteig Trail

Weiden is also a starting point for active days: the Goldsteig long-distance hiking trail can be reached from Weiden via access routes 6A and 6B. The two access routes can be combined into a Goldsteig loop. This gives you a specific way to include access to the long-distance trail in your holiday plans. If you are interested in this hiking option, you can consider linking the two routes into a loop; no information about route length or walking time is implied.

Swimming, sports and sauna

The Weiden thermal baths and sauna world bring together swimming, relaxation, sauna sessions and sports activities. The facilities cater to families, wellness enthusiasts and active visitors. Depending on what you have in mind for the day, you can focus on swimming, sports or a break in the sauna. The sauna world includes a Finnish sauna as well as tropical, bio and eucalyptus saunas. The range of sauna types gives wellness enthusiasts specific options to choose from, without limiting a visit to just one kind of relaxation.

When choosing a holiday apartment in Weiden, you can consider which side of the city you want to shape your stay around: city history and music, a hike on the Goldsteig Trail, or swimming and sauna. These experiences offer different kinds of holiday activities, without requiring you to limit your trip to just one of them.

Discover more places

For more ideas of places to visit, you can also explore Waldthurn, Leuchtenberg, Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz, Störnstein, Tännesberg, Windischeschenbach, Schirmitz and Pleystein.

For the broader travel overview: Neustadt an der Waldnaab.