Discover Hemhofen

Hemhofen Palace, Franconian customs and a long-established farm festival offer different ways to explore the town during a stay. The Baroque palace complex adds a cultural and historical highlight, while Kerwas festivals and carp season draw attention to Franconian traditions. The local character comes through most clearly when these themes are combined with a festival programme or an activity.

The history of the palace and Franconian traditions

Hemhofen Palace is a Baroque palace complex completed in 1724. Kerwas festivals are among Hemhofen’s Franconian traditions, as is carp season. They represent two different aspects of local customs: festival traditions and a seasonal connection to carp. If you would like to plan your trip around a Kerwas festival, check the specific event dates in advance.

A farm festival offering different perspectives

The long-established farm festival at Landgut Schloß Hemhofen attracts several thousand visitors each year. The 2025 programme included guided tours of the fields and the palace, a vintage tractor parade, market stalls and organic food. Adults were offered informative guided tours, while children could pull vegetables straight out of the ground themselves. The programme thus combined insights into the fields and palace with market activities and experiences for different age groups. If the farm festival is relevant to your trip, check the dates and the programme for the year in question in advance.

A specific activity in Hemhofen

The skate park in Hemhofen is on Jahnstraße and is open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. For travellers who would like to include skating in their stay, it is a specific activity option. Check the current opening hours before your visit.

Culture and landscape in the wider Erlangen-Höchstadt destination

Looking beyond Hemhofen to the wider Erlangen-Höchstadt destination reveals further distinct cultural and nature-related themes. St. Andreas Church in Kalchreuth is home to a famous Passion altar: a winged altarpiece by Michael Wolgemut, Dürer’s teacher. A three-kilometre circular trail also leads through Kalchreuth’s cherry orchards. Information boards cover cherries, the surrounding landscape and Kalchreuth, while interactive stations focus on nature. This puts a specific work of art alongside a landscape trail with interpretive information as two distinct highlights.

In the wider Erlangen-Höchstadt destination, the Spix Museum in Höchstadt uses interactive exhibits to present the life of naturalist Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix and the history of his birthplace. A computer-controlled, light-controlled rainforest diorama features animal displays and animal sounds and is particularly recommended for children. This interactive natural history experience complements the cultural themes in Kalchreuth.

There are also different ways to experience nature near Höchstadt: the Eisvogelweg is a marked, level circular trail of about 2.6 kilometres through the Franconian pond region. The Orchideenweg is about 2.2 kilometres long and is designed as a route for vehicles and pedestrians through a cultural landscape of reed-fringed ponds, wet meadows, numerous water birds and orchids such as the common twayblade. The two trails therefore differ both in length and in the landscapes described.

Discover more destinations: Kalchreuth, Uttenreuth, Herzogenaurach, Eckental, Weisendorf, Höchstadt an der Aisch, Heroldsberg, Röttenbach.

For the wider travel overview: Erlangen-Höchstadt.