Editing Herborn, Hesse (section)

==Culture and sightseeing==

===Museums===
* Museum Herborn in der Hohen Schule (Herborn Museum in the "High School")
* Heimatmuseum Herborn-Seelbach (local history)
* Heimat- und Industriemuseum Burg (local history and industry)
* Heimatstube Hörbach (local history)

===Buildings===

====Town hall====
[[File:Herborn.jpg|thumb|Town hall with arms frieze]]
This was built in the 16th century and built anew after a fire in the 17th century. Particularly worthy of note is the [[frieze]] around the building showing local family [[Coat of arms|coats of arms]].

====Other buildings====
* [[Evangelical Church in Germany|Evangelical]] historic town church dating back to at least 1219, even earlier, with many interesting building styles and features like a gothic choir with net-vault, romanic window, renaissance style in the main nave etc. 
* Many [[Timber framing|half-timbered]] houses dating from the 15th (oldest house: built in 1445) to 18th century. 
* Market fountain from 1730
* ''Paulshof'' the printing works from Corvin
* The "High School" (with the local history museum) founded 1584, remodelled in 1645
* Town wall with many preserved towers (Dill Tower, Speck Tower, [[Witch Tower]], Burgher Tower, Hain Tower and Leonhards Tower) and gates like the Stone Gate (oldest entrance of the town dating back to the city privileges of 1251)
* [[Herborn Castle]], the stately home (''[[Schloss]]'', inhabited castle).

===Parks===
The constituent community of Uckersdorf has a widely known attraction with its bird park. You find more information on the web-site

http://www.vogelpark-herborn.de

===Natural monuments===
The Old Town is not the only attraction in Herborn. The surrounding countryside features the low mountains of the [[Westerwald]] range.

===Regular events===
* Sommerfest (summer festival), last Saturday each July
* Rock in the city park (Saturday before Whitsun)
* Martinimarkt (market), November
* Ponyfest in Herborn/Schönbach (May/June)
* Strawberry Sunday (first Sunday in July)
* wine festival (Friday to Sunday, first weekend every July)

===Holiday roads===
Herborn lies on the ''Deutsche Fachwerkstraße'', featuring many places with many half-timbered houses, and on the ''Solmser Straße'', a scenic road leading through many historic and artistically important places in Hesse.