Caused by its central position the administrative district has Kulmbach interest in the Fichtelgebirge in the east, in the Frankenwald in the north and in Franconian Switzerland in the south and the west as well as the Obermaintal. Briefly behind Kulmbach the confluence of both source flows is the red Main and the white Main to the Main, the Frankish river par excellence.

The city Kulmbach is promoted with pleasure as a secret capital of the beer. Indeed, some of the biggest breweries of Bavaria and Germany are resident in Kulmbach. Beer is for Franconia and especially also for the administrative district Kulmbach an important branch of industry. As a sequence of the beer many guests come from all over the world to Franconia to refresh themselves in the barley juice. Beside the beer the administrative district has to offer Kulmbach, however, one more huge number of places of interest. With the castle Plassenburg which sits high enthroned about the city Kulmbach the German pewter figure museum, with the Dampflockmuseum (steam-train-museum) in the Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, the Bavarian brewery museum or simply a magnificent scenery with greenbelt recreation areas and bath lakes like the Trebgaster bath lake or the Kieswäsch at Mainleus something is present for every taste. The administrative district Kulmbach places with its economic infrastructure on a healthy mixture of large-scale industry and middle class (Mittelstand) and has gone with it for many years very well. The administrative district Kulmbach connects successfully urbanity and country idyl.