Home to Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland, which promotes itself as the world's largest Christmas store, a roughly 320,000-square-foot store founded in 1945 source
Community character
Bavarian-themed tourist city in Saginaw County settled in 1845 by conservative Lutheran immigrants from the Roßtal area of Franconia, Germany, and widely known as Michigan's Little Bavaria source
Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland
Retail store at 25 Christmas Lane that promotes itself as the world's largest Christmas store, founded in 1945 by Wally Bronner; the roughly 320,000-square-foot store sits on landscaped grounds of about 27 acres source
Zehnder's of Frankenmuth
Restaurant at 730 South Main Street seating 1,500 and known for all-you-can-eat family-style chicken dinners; built on the site of the 1856 Exchange Hotel and bought by William Zehnder Sr. in 1927, it was one of the ten largest restaurants in the United States in the 1980s source
Bavarian Inn Restaurant
Bavarian-themed restaurant at 713 South Main Street famous for family-style chicken dinners; opened as the Union House Hotel in 1888, renamed the Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn after a 1959 Bavarian-style addition, and marked by a 50-foot Glockenspiel tower added in 1967 source
Heritage Park
City of Frankenmuth park at 601 Weiss Street on the Cass River and the city's best-known park, with the Harvey E. Kern Community Pavilion, four picnic pavilions, three ball diamonds, playgrounds, a handicap-accessible canoe launch, and a 0.9-mile Riverwalk pathway source
Memorial Park
City of Frankenmuth park at 531 East Tuscola Street on the Cass River, featuring a boat launch, a half-acre fenced dog park built in 2006, and a rose garden constructed in 1965 source
