This is a nice and lively brewery pub. The beer is served in tiny glasses, but not to worry: empty ones are contantly replaced, until you cover your glass with your beermat to signal you've had enough.
They also serve nice local food.
During daytime they do guided tours of the brewery itself, but you'd need to arrange that beforehand (and you need at least 15 people).
Calwer Straße 31, just across from the shopping mall 'Calwer Passage,' in a pedestrian area in the city centre;
tel: 0711-2224944-12;
www.calwereck.de;
S-Bahn: Stadtmitte, then take the Rotebühlplatz/Calwer Straße exit
If you are going to see the Bauhaus exhibition in the V&A, here's your chance to see the real thing: built in 1927, every architect of the time, from Le Corbusier to Mies van der Rohe, built a house in this model estate.
Pure and undiluted modernism, nothing for the faint hearted Poundsbury-lovers, called a national eye-sore and an 'Arab village' by the Nazis, who wanted to demolish it. It survived, but because they are still inhabited, you can only walk around the houses. Still, a must-see for anyone interested in modern(ist) architecture!
www.weissenhofsiedlung.de - excellent website, contains map, history, details etc.
Opening times: Tue-Sat 10-2, Sun 10-3
Bus no. 43 to 'Killesberg Messe,' get out at stop 'Kunstakademie'
U7 (underground) to final stop 'Killesberg Messe'
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