The Toy street starts in Erfurt in Thuringia, it leads over the Thuringian Forest in the Coburg country by the Upper Mainland, continue through the Franconian Switzerland to Nuremberg and finally after Schwabach in Middle Franconia.
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Many small museums with toys can be admired along the route. An experience for children and collectors alike.
Well-known toy manufacturers such. B. Schildkröt dolls, PIKO, Rolly Toys, Engel dolls, EBO plush toys, Zapf Creation, Hermann Spielwaren, Playmobil etc. have their headquarters and often also a factory outlet on Toys Street.
preparation
The German Toy Road will probably be driven through with a car, mobile home or motorcycle. The individual sections should be put together according to personal taste and make sure that time is planned for sightseeing. The cities along the route also support this with special tourist offers, e.g. through mobile home parking spaces or city tours.
getting there
You can get on and off at any point and drive on the road in sections.
Drive
By Thuringia
- Erfurt - Capital of the state Thuringia
- Waltershausen - Tenneberg Castle with a doll collection
- Bad Tabarz - Märchenwiese with the Struwwelpeter monument and the company Kellner Steckfiguren with factory outlet
- Ohrdruf - Ehrenstein Castle, collection of rocking horses and mask making
- Arnstadt - Castle museum doll collection Mon plaisir From the 18th century
- Oberweißbach - Memorial museum in the birth house of the pedagogue Friedrich Froebel
- Sachsenbrunn - Marble museum in an old marble mill
- Lauscha - with marble museum and glass Christmas tree decorations
- Steinach -
- Schalkau -
- Sonneberg - German Toy Museum, Beethoventraße 10, toys from antiquity to the present
- Rauenstein - with Schildkröt dolls, Reitgasse 10
By the Coburg country
- Neustadt near Coburg - Museum of the German toy industry with a collection of costume dolls
- Rödental -
- Coburg - Doll Museum, Rückertstraße 2-3, every second Sunday of the month consultation hours for the doll doctor
- Tambach - in the Coburg country with wildlife park and hunting and fishing museum
in the Upper Mainland
- Michelau in Upper Franconia in the main valley
- German basket museum, Bismarckstraße 4, 96247 Michelau i.OFr., Tel. 49 (0) 9571 83548, from April 1 to October 31: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., from November 1 to March 31: from Tuesday until Thursday from 10.00-16.30, Friday 10.00-12.00, adults € 2.50, children € 1.50.
Through the Franconian Switzerland
- Muggendorf in the valley of the Wiesent
- Muggendorf model railway museum, Bayreuther Straße 23, 91346 Wiesenttal / Muggendorf, Tel. 49 (0) 9196/2630, open every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., adults € 2.50, children € 1.00, on over 100 m² historical Toy trains, in the outdoor area an LGB garden railway system and museum shop.
- Gößweinstein - Franconian Toy Museum, toys from the 1960s
In Middle Franconia
- Fuerth -
- Zirndorf - Playmobil Funpark, municipal museum with tin toys and local stories from the Thirty Years' War
- Nuremberg
- Toy museum, Karlstraße 13-15 (U1 (Lorenzkirche stop), Bus 36 (Weintraubengasse stop)) Telephone: 0911/2313164 E-Mail: [email protected], opening times: Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. 6:00 p.m. (open daily during the Christmas market and toy fair) Admission: adults € 5.00, reduced € 2.50 (group prices, family tickets, admission included in the day ticket for municipal museums). Nuremberg is one of the centers of the German toy industry. The museum shows wooden and tin toys, dolls and dollhouses, model trains and modern toys
- Schwabach - Stadtmuseum, Museumstrasse, 2000 exhibits of toys and model trains from the Fleischmann company
