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Krämerbrücke 10, Erfurt
Furniture restorer Christian Wetzel has run this antiques shop at Krämerbrücke 10 since 1997, dealing in Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces. Alongside jewellery, antique linens and lighting, the owners also buy in select older pieces.
Best for Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and period antiques
Anger 28, Erfurt
This Erfurt bookshop on the Anger marked its ninetieth year in 2025, a fixture for the city's readers across generations. Its shelves span new fiction, regional titles and children's books, backed by a full programme of readings and events.
Best for Books, regional titles and author events
Klausenerstraße, Erfurt
Porcelain artist Claudia Bock hand-forms and paints tableware and giftware at her Erfurt studio on Klausenerstraße. Each cup, plate and ornament is made in limited numbers, often with fine painted detail.
Best for Hand-painted porcelain and gifts
Krämerbrücke, Erfurt
Eberts roasts single-origin coffee from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and beyond using a slow drum method, from its Erfurt and Gotha shops. Der Feinschmecker ranked it among Germany's 500 best cafes and roasteries in 2025.
Best for Eberts roasts single-origin coffee from Ethiopia, Kenya
Eberts opened its Genusshandlung in Erfurt's old town in 2010, adding a dedicated Kaffeeroesterei in Gotha in 2017. The roastery uses a gentle drum-roasting method, running beans for up to twenty minutes at lower temperatures - a slower process the company says draws out fuller aroma while avoiding the harsher compounds that faster, industrial roasting can leave behind. Green coffee comes from Colombia, Ethiopia, Brazil, Uganda, Kenya, El Salvador, Guatemala and Bolivia, with the roastery highlighting a berry-toned Ethiopian Arabica, a chocolate-leaning Kenyan highland lot, and a Ugandan espresso blend as its standing single origins. Some of the range carries organic (BIO) certification. In 2025, the food magazine Der Feinschmecker included Eberts among Germany's 500 best cafes and roasteries, a national ranking that put the small two-town operation alongside far larger city roasters. Beyond the roasted coffee, the Erfurt shop's shelves carry regional Thuringian delicacies - oils, preserves, and spirits chosen from small producers - pairing the roastery's own beans with a wider selection of local specialty goods.
Fischmarkt / Schlösserstraße, Erfurt
This Erfurt specialty roastery near the Fischmarkt sources green beans and roasts them in small batches for its own café and retail bags. Single-origin lots and espresso blends are cupped and dialled in on site.
Best for Small-batch single-origin coffee near Erfurt Fischmarkt
Krämerbrücke, Erfurt
Erfurter Blau hand-dyes silk, wool, linen and cotton fabrics with woad, and sells scarves, cloth, watercolours and pastels from its Krämerbrücke workshop. Marlu Müller-Ortloff and Gregor Sauer took over from Rosanna Minelli at the end of 2025.
Best for Woad-dyed silk and linen, scarves and artist pigments on Erfurt's Krämerbrücke
Rosanna Minelli ran the woad-dyeing workshop Erfurter Blau from the Krämerbrücke, Erfurt's historic merchant bridge. Erfurt's medieval prosperity was built substantially on woad — the plant that yields natural blue dye — which was cultivated across the Thuringian Basin from roughly the 9th through the 19th century; the city's old town still carries visible traces of that legacy.
Under Minelli, the workshop sourced woad leaves from Rose Saatzucht Erfurt's Demeter-certified organic cultivation at the city's edge, extracted the dye, and hand-dyed silk and wool scarves and cotton home textiles in the resulting blue. She collaborated with regional artisans and international designers, and ran dyeing workshops both in Erfurt and further afield in the Harz region, teaching the woad process and natural-material coloring directly.
The workshop continued under Marlu Müller-Ortloff and Gregor Sauer, who took over from Minelli at the end of 2025. Its own team page identifies Minelli as founder and the two successors as owners. The current shop sells woad-dyed scarves and cloth, watercolours and pastels at Krämerbrücke 2, Erfurt. Its contact page invites visitors; it advises calling ahead when travelling from outside Erfurt because dyeing work can cause additional closures.
Krämerbrücke, Erfurt
Founded by chocolatier Alex Kühn, this bean-to-bar manufactory presses tablets, truffles and nougat spreads from naturally sourced cacao, its illustrated packaging drawn by Kühn himself. The Krämerbrücke shop and neighbouring Eiskrämer add hand-churned ice cream and drinking chocolate to the range.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate, pralines and hand-churned ice cream
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This Erfurt goldsmith's workshop designs and forges jewellery by hand, from wedding rings to one-off pieces made to order. Repairs and remodelling of older jewellery are part of the everyday bench work.
Best for Hand-forged jewellery and repairs
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The Glaser family has worked precious metals in Erfurt since 1810, and the current studio designs and hand-makes rings, necklaces and commissions to order. Under the Uli Glaser Design name it pairs traditional goldsmithing with contemporary forms.
Best for Hand-made and bespoke jewellery
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Loopkeramik is an Erfurt studio producing wheel-thrown and hand-built tableware in muted glazes for everyday use. Mugs, bowls and vases are made in small runs and sold directly from the atelier.
Best for Wheel-thrown mugs, bowls, and vases in muted glazes from an Erfurt studio
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Weighing out loose-leaf black, green, oolong, herbal, fruit and rooibos teas from Anger 1-3 in central Erfurt since 1999, Teehaus Erfurt offers expert consultation and custom tea blending, sourced under fair-trade and sustainable-cultivation standards.
Best for Expert consultation and custom tea blending, sourced under fair-trade and sustainable-cultivation standards
Teehaus Erfurt has run from Anger 1-3, in the heart of Erfurt's city center, since 1999, built around the idea that tea works as a point of connection rather than just a drink to get through the day. The shop weighs out loose-leaf blends across black, green, oolong, herbal, fruit and rooibos categories - Masala Chai and a Fancy Sencha among the named lines - plus wellness and sleep-focused blends such as Schlummertrunk, alongside the pots, infusers and other accessories needed to brew them properly. What sets the shop apart from a straightforward retail counter is its consultation and custom-blending service: staff described as tea experts work with customers to build a mixture suited to their own taste rather than sending them out with a fixed house blend, treating tea selection as closer to a fitting than a purchase. The business sources under fair-trade and sustainable-cultivation commitments, a standing policy across its range rather than a claim tied to individual specialty lots. Between the walk-in shop, mail orders by phone or email, and the custom-blend counsel, Teehaus Erfurt runs less like a packaged-goods retailer and more like a neighborhood tea advisor that happens to also stock the shelves.
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The Töpfermühle combines a working ceramics studio with a supply shop for potters, stocking clays, glazes and tools. Its own handmade tableware and decorative pieces are fired and sold on the premises in Erfurt.
Best for Handmade ceramics and pottery supplies
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