The Priesterhäuser have their origins in the 13th century and are among the oldest residential buildings in Germany still existing today.
The museum of local history and culture of the municipality of Zwickau was opened in 2003 and offers — through its permanent and changing temporary exhibitions — multifaceted and exciting insights in the city's past. Especially worth seeing are the carefully restored parlors, chambers and kitchens vividly showing the everyday life of its former inhabitants back in the late Middle Ages.