Culture
Experience culture
Waldeck-Frankenberg is part of the Grimm Homeland in North Hesse. Here, you can follow in the footsteps of the world-famous fairy-tale tellers and linguists. Many visitors and celebrities are drawn to the ‘Literary Spring’ – the Festival of Language. Germany’s oldest surviving amateur theatre festival – the Korbach Theatre Week – is also based here and brings together young actors from across the country every year.
Theatre Week Korbach
The Korbach Theatre Week is the oldest existing amateur play festival in Germany and has been organised by the district since 1949.
Museum in the monastery
The Museum im Kloster des Landkreises is housed in the north wing of the former Cistercian convent of St. Georgenberg in Frankenberg. It was opened in 1952.
Library Brehm Foundation
The Swiss Adolf Brehm has transferred his collection of valuable book editions to a foundation together with the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg.
