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Monastery church, originally a church of the Dominican monastery - main nave and choir from around 1400, southern aisle added early 16th century. Mechanical tower clock, made by Huyck Hopcoper in 1620. Facade clock, Eijsbouts.

The beautiful and intriguing remnants of what was once a double monastery dedicated to Holy Felicitas can still be seen, in the remaining hall church with a semi-circular choir. From the foundation in the 13th century the church was used by the brothers and sisters of the Benedictine monastery Germania.

The monastery of St. Burchardi (Kloster Burchardi) is a former Benedictine monastery transformed into a space for social projects, cultural offers and encounter.

The Bürgel Monastery is a former Benedictine abbey with a Romanesque church, founded in the 12th century, in 1133. The monastery was reformed in 1510 due to a decline in religious practices and poor management and was dissolved in 1526 under the influence of the Reformation. The monastery buildings were partly demolished, partly used for economic purposes, and the church partly fell into ruin. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the church was rebuilt and belongs to the local Protestant parish.

The monastery is a former Augustinian Monastery, known for its Baroque was begun in 1701. Its collegiate church of St George was built between 1711 and 1714.

The church of Kloster Sonnenkamp dates from the 13th century. It was probably built in three phases between 1219, 1227 and 1240. The buildings showed late Romanesque forms in transition to Gothic. Soon the first parts of the monastery church were completed, so that in 1236 it was consecrated to the Virgin Mary and St. John. Around 1245, the complete church was then standing.

The Kloyz of R. David Moshe Friedmann in Chortkiv is a Hasidic synagogue built between 1881 and 1885 by architect Jan Marcin Cieślikowski (1842–1927). This Romantic Historicist brick building is now a library.

The building of the kloyz was apparently built in the 1920s, when the Rebbe of Boyan, Menachem Nachum Friedman (1869-1936) settled in Chernivtsi. The Rebbe bought an existing house and erected the kloyz in the next plot of land. Thus, a structure of traditional Hasidic court, which unites Rebbe's house and his kloyz, was created in Chernivtsi. According to the memoirs by David Tal, a native of Chernivtsi, the prayer hall of the kloyz was decorated by the paintings of Zodiac signs, the symbols of the Tribes of Israel, Joseph with the sheaves, and the staff of Moses (Boris Khaimovich (Kiev, 2016), p. 48).

Klund church is a wooden church built in 1888. The architect of the church is J.W. Nordan.

Presumably, the Jewish Cemetery in Klyachanovo was established in the 19th century. According to epigraphic data, it already existed in 1840. The cemetery was used presumably until WWII, although the latest preserved gravestone date to 1930.