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Come to the home of one of the greatest artists of all times, Robert Schumann. Born in Zwickau in 1810, Robert Schumann himself was a unutterably sad man. But with his music he has won the hearts of countless listeners. The Robert Schumann House and Museum is open to visitors.

Zwickau has played an outstanding role in the German automobile industry. The Motor Museum presents witnesses to 90 years of motoring history, from Horch, via Audi and DKW, to Trabant. Do you know the meaning of Audi logo? What is represented by four rings intertwined into each other?

"Go, Trabi, go" - have you seen the movie that made the legendary two-stroke model from the automobile town of Zwickau advance to become a film star? Passionately loved, occasionally mocked, driven to the last, and then sold on. The last 594cc two-cylinder, two stroke engine car came off the assembly line in 1991 and yet remained unchanged from the 1930s when it was designed and built by the pre-war DKW company. When the Berlin Wall divided Germany, the design was retained by the East German firm marketing the car as Trabant. The legend lives on. Over 30,0000 fans come to Zwickau each year to the Trabi festival. Would you like to drive a Trabi? The car is almost painfully simple. There is no distributor, radiator, fuel gauge or oil filter. Other than the two pistons and the crank there are no moving parts. The engine is of coffee-pot dimensions and sounds exactly like a percolator when it fires up. The body panels are made of resin-impregnated cotton and screwed to a galvanized steel chassis. Also known as the cardboard racer, a Trabi can accelerate to 50 miles an hour speeds in 20 seconds. None but 'legendary' Rolf Becker has made the Trabi symbol a worldwide comic image. He drove his 1985 Trabi wagon around the world, starting in 1992 and finished in 2000 in Perth, Australia.