City tour Pausa

You start the city tour at the town hall (1), see the globe and visit the Earth's axis. Diagonally opposite, in the house Neumarkt 3a, is the Pausa Local Corner with the malt cellar (2). In 1785, the house of the so-called Upper Row was first mentioned in a fire insurance cadastre as a "Fronfeste." The location of the "Fronfeste" is suspected to be on the northwest side of today's site. The current malt cellar was used by the brewery based on the Hradschin (8) as an ice and storage room. The Pausa Local Corner is now a venue for concerts, lectures, readings, and exhibitions on various topics.

You continue your way past the town hall to the Evangelical Lutheran St. Michael's Church (4). On the way, you pass the former district court (3) with the "official bell" in the tower. St. Michael's Church was built in the neoclassical style and only received four new bronze bells in November 2014. The altar with the Pieta carved from Carrara marble is a copy of the Pieta from the cathedral of Siena. Then you turn right past the parish office (5), the cemetery with chapel (6), and again right along the Upper Ditch. Here, remnants of the old city wall (7) can be seen. The path now leads back to the church with the church square, which you cross and enter the Lower Church Street to the oldest houses of Pausa from the 17th century (9). From there, you turn right past Am Plauenschen Tor (11) and the suburb (10) to Albert Square (12).

After crossing it, you reach Paul-Scharf-Straße. You walk towards Ebersgrün past the old school (13), now Penny market, and the medical center (14) up to the old people's and nursing home "Martinsberg" (15). From here, you pass the small fountain house of the "Albertquelle" spring into Eckardts Park (16) with the small animal enclosure where donkeys, goats, and various small animals frolic. You walk back past the Günther villa, now assisted living, and the old people's and nursing home, cross Paul-Scharf-Straße, and go uphill on Rödelstraße to the train station (17). The railway line was put into operation after 11 years of construction on November 15, 1883, and the station was also opened that year. Today, we are proud to still have a stop in Pausa. You have already completed over half of the city tour and now walk along Bahnhofstraße towards the city center to Robert-Hiller-Straße. The impressive brick building right at the beginning on the right is the wire weaving mill (18). You turn right into Robert-Hiller-Straße and before the fire station house (20) turn into Beethovenstraße. At the end of this street, you will find beautiful clinker buildings (21), built around 1900. Now you go back via Zeulenrodaer Straße to the starting point at the market or town hall.

Earth's axis lid hinge grease nipple commission in Pausa e.V.: Mr. Peter Hahn, Tel. 037432 / 21594 or Pausa city administration, Tel. 037432/60320.

Registration for guided city tours by the Pausa local heritage association e.V.: k.loewe.vorsitzende@pausa-heimatverein.de or u.arnold.zweitvorsitzende@pausa-heimatverein.de

Recreational facility "outdoor pool" Pausa (24) - baby, non-swimmer, and swimmer pools, 1 m diving board and 3 m diving tower, 43-meter slide, large sunbathing lawn, accessible entrances to the pools, restaurant - opening hours: 01.06. to mid-September, Tel. 037432/20590

Bad Linda (23) and Reinhardtsquelle - former moor and mineral spa with spa house, demolished after fire in 1992. Witnesses are the rhododendron bushes in the associated park and the Reinhardtsquelle spring.

Points of interest in the districts

- Ebersgrün: church with defensive tower, carved wing altar made of linden wood, four-sided farm with gate entrance of field and rubble stones - Unterreichenau: Oertelsmühle (one of the last operational mills in the Weida valley), Zebaoth mill

- Wallengrün: Wallengrüner mill

- Ranspach: Baroque church with three bells from the 14th/15th century - Linda: ring wall complex (remains of a medieval water castle)

Thierbach: fortified church and triangulation column on the Sandberg, served for surveying in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1876