Visitor information
open Tue – Sun, 10 am – 6 pm, free of charge
- Good Friday, 2 April 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- Holy Saturday, 3 April 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- Easter Sunday, 4 April 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- Easter Monday, 5 April 2021: closed
- Labour Day, 1 May 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- Ascension Day, 13 May 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- Whit Monday, 24 May 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- German Unification Day, 3 October 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- Reformation Day, 31 October 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- Christmas Eve, 24 December 2021: closed
- Christmas Day, 25 December 2021: closed
- Boxing Day, 26 December 2021: 10 am – 6 pm
- New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2021: closed
- New Year’s Day, 1 January 2022: closed
Registration for groups through the permanent exhibition and / or the special exhibition.
Erinnerungsort Topf & Söhne
The Topf & Sons Place of Remembrance is located at Sorbenweg 7, 99099 Erfurt.
… by public transport
The best way to reach the Topf & Sons Place of Remembrance from the main station is to take bus no. 9 in the direction of Daberstedt. Get off at the next stop (Spielbergtor). Head south from the bus stop and turn left onto Nonnenrain. You are now heading straight for the grounds of the Place of Remembrance. The walk from the bus stop takes about four minutes.
The nearest tram stop is Robert-Koch-Straße, which is one stop past the main station on tram line nos. 3 and 4. Head south from the tram stop and turn left onto Holbeinstraße, cross Clara-Zetkin-Straße and continue to the next intersection. There turn left onto Wilhelm-Busch-Straße and take your second right onto Nonnenrain. You are now heading straight for the grounds of the Place of Remembrance. The walk from the tram stop to the Place of Remembrance takes about fifteen minutes.
… on foot
You can also reach the Place of Remembrance from the main station on foot. Leave the station through the side exit marked “Bahnhofstraße” and turn left onto Bahnhofstraße. After you have crossed the railway crossover, you will be facing the stairway up to the Stadtpark. Do not climb the steps but turn left onto the footpath leading around the Stadtpark (parallel to the tracks). After a few metres, the path curves towards the right and you are on Windthorststraße. Take the next left onto Nonnenrain. Continue along Nonnenrain for about ten minutes, crossing Clara-Zetkin-Straße and Wilhelm-Busch-Straße. After you cross Wilhelm-Busch-Straße, you will be heading straight for the grounds of the Place of Remembrance. The walk from the main station takes about fifteen minutes.
… by car
The Place of Remembrance is located on Route B7 in the direction of Weimar.
Barrier-free access at the back of the house.
There are also parking lots.
Tourism for All
The Topf & Sons Place of Remembrance has been certified by the “Tourism for All” labelling system for accessible offers. The “Tourism für Alle” system is recognized throughout the Federal Republic of Germany. The necessary visitor information was compiled by trained evaluators and rated according to clearly defined quality criteria. The detailed verified information on the offer can be viewed here.
To ensure the safety of all our visitors and staff, we request that you observe the following regulations:
Please use the hand sanitizer dispensers in the entrance area. All visitors are required to wear protective face coverings. In keeping with the “Thuringian Ordinance of 18 August 2020 on the Continuous Adaptation of the Measures Required to Contain the Spread of the Sars-CoV-2 Coronavirus”, the Topf & Sons Place of Remembrance is obligated to record the contact details of every visitor / every family for the purpose of contact tracing. The information is kept for four weeks and then destroyed in accordance with data protection regulations.
If you feel unwell or have had contact to anyone with Covid-19 within the past 14 days, we request that you refrain from visiting in the interest of general infection prevention.