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Botanischer Garten der Stadt Hof

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The Botanischer Garten der Stadt Hof is a municipal botanical garden located in the Theresienstein park, at Alte Plauener Strasse 16, Hof, Bavaria, Germany. It is open daily in the warmer months without charge. The garden started sometime before 1929 as a municipal garden for teaching students, and from 1929 to 1932 was developed as a botanical garden by city gardener Rudolf Hutschenreiter. During World War II, it was used primarily for vegetables. Reconstruction began after the war, to new designs created by gardener Herrmann Fuchs from 1958 to 1998. The garden is divided into two major areas: a geometrical Rosarium, and a landscaped garden with alpine garden, Jura Mountains collection, lily pond, shade area, medicinal herb garden, heathers, succulents, and expansive perennials plantings. Plantings include both local species and varieties from around the world.

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Hof, Bavaria
Hof, Bavaria

Hof (German pronunciation: [hoːf]) is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech border and the forested Fichtel Mountains and Franconian Forest upland regions. The town has 47,296 inhabitants, the surrounding district an additional 95,000.The town of Hof is enclosed by, but does not belong to the Bavarian district of Hof; it is nonetheless the district's administrative seat. The town's most important work of art, the Hofer altar, dates from about 1465 and is exhibited in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich today. The Heidenreich organ in the parish church of St. Michaelis, completed in 1834, is considered one of Bavaria's finest. Hof is known for two local "delicacies", namely Schnitz, a kind of hotpot, and sausages boiled in a portable, coal-fired brass cauldron, which are sold in the streets by the sausage man (Wärschtlamo in the local dialect). There is also a particularly strong beer (Schlappenbier), which is available only on the first Monday after Trinity Sunday (Schlappentag). This tradition dates back to the establishment of the town militia which forced all shooters to take part in a special shooting training each year. To avoid penalties, a lot of shooters rushed out to the training area in the morning of the last possible day, without even enough time to get dressed and thus still wearing their clogs (German: Schlappen). The Hof Theatre (Theater Hof) is a multi-purpose theatre whose construction was completed in 1994. It serves as an opera house and drama theatre, and hosts the city's ballet company and a youth theatre. The Hofer Symphoniker, Hof's symphony orchestra, plays as opera orchestra at the theatre and gives concerts at the Freiheitshalle Hof.

Tauperlitz

Tauperlitz and Neutauperlitz are two merged former districts, now in the municipality of Döhlau in the district of Hof. The original settlement grew up along an old roadway, and is first mentioned in 1348 in a letter of foundation by Friedrich von Hohenlohe, bishop of Bamberg.The motte-and-bailey castle of Tauperlitz (Turmhügelburg Tauperlitz), not far from the Southern Regnitz river, is significant in terms of settlement history. In the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach there was a manor here that formed part of the Vogtländische Ritterschaft (an association of knightly estates in the Vogtland) and was endowed with the legal right of direct access to the higher courts (Schriftsässigkeit). The Erlöserkirche ("Church of the Redeemer") belongs to the Evangelical-Lutheran Deanery of Hof.Local noble families like the Uttenhofen, the Rabensteiner zu Döhlau and the Waldenfels were based here. The Rabensteiner occupied Tauperlitz farm in 1398, and Ernst von Waldenfels occupied Tauperlitz Manor from 1790. There remain traces of these families in the form of two stone crosses and a stable house. A memorial stone in the park commemorates the writer, actress and film director Thea von Harbou, who was born in Tauperlitz. Her works include the novel Metropolis, the inspiration for Fritz Lang's eponymous film, as well as many screenplays.The district road HO 5 connects Tauperlitz with Hof and Kautendorf. The Tauperlitzer Seefest takes place every year at the local lake, the Tauperlitzer See (also known as the Quellitzer See).