23 Sights in Bautzen - Budyšin, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Bautzen - Budyšin, Germany! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Bautzen - Budyšin. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Bautzen - Budyšin1. Gedenkstätte Bautzen
The Bautzen Memorial, Upper Sorbian Wopomnišćo Budyšin, is a place of remembrance for the victims of the two prisons Bautzen I and Bautzen II. Since 1993, it has been located in the building of the former special prison Bautzen II ("Stasi prison"), in the Bautzen district of Nordostring. The memorial is the work of the Saxon Memorials Foundation for the Remembrance of the Victims of Political Tyranny.
2. Reichenturm
The Reichenturm (Upper Sorbian: Bohata wěža) is a building of the former city fortifications of Bautzen. It is located on the eastern edge of the old town, forms the end of Reichenstraße and stands on the Kornmarkt, opposite the Liebfrauenkirche. It is open from April to October.
3. Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater Bautzen
The German-Sorbian People's Theatre, Sorbian Němsko-serbske ludowe dźiwadło, in Bautzen is the only professional bicultural theatre in Germany. It is an important institution of Sorbian, German and German-Sorbian culture.
4. Maria-und-Martha-Kirche
The Maria and Martha Church, Upper Sorbian Cyrkej Marje a Marty, is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Petri in Bautzen. It is the largest exclusively Protestant church in the city, as St. Peter's Cathedral is used for both Protestant and Catholic services. The church is located outside the outer city wall in the city expansion area, which was created between 1870 and the First World War.
5. Nicolaikirche
The St. Nicholas Church, Upper Sorbian Mikławska cyrkej, in Bautzen is today essentially a ruin of a sacred building in front of the city's historic St. Nicholas Gate. It was built at the beginning of the 15th century. A small chapel is integrated into the church ruins.
6. Rathaus Bautzen
The town hall of Bautzen is located between the main market and the meat market in the middle of Bautzen's old town. The construction of the first permanent council seat on this site goes back to a decree of the Bohemian King Ottokar I Přemysl, which allowed Bautzen to build "a particularly stately stone house" here.
7. Friedensbrücke
The Peace Bridge in Bautzen is one of the larger stone arch bridges in Saxony and, along with the A 4 motorway bridge and the bridge of the Westtangente, one of the three most important connections for road traffic in the city crossing the Spree. The four basket arches, which are placed on massive pillars and abutments, span the deeply incised and steep-walled Spree valley at a height of over 20 metres over a length of 181 metres.
8. St. Michael Church
St. Michael's Church in Bautzen is located near the Old Waterworks on the southwest arch of the rocky spur above the Spree, on which Bautzen's old town was built. The square between the church, the waterworks and the inner and outer city walls is known as the Wendischer Kirchhof, as St. Michael's Church has served as a place of worship since the 17th century, mainly for the Protestant Sorbs of the Bautzen area.
9. Lauenturm
The Lauenturm, Sorbian, is part of the city fortifications of the city of Bautzen. It is located on the southern edge of the old town, on the western side of the Innere Lauenstraße, which leads from the Friedensbrücke to the town hall. The tower got its name from the heraldic animal of the Kingdom of Bohemia, a lion. If you left Bautzen in the direction of Bohemia, you had to cross the Lauentor.
10. Unserer Lieben Frauen
The Church of Our Lady in Bautzen is a Catholic church that is largely used by Sorbian-speaking parishioners and belongs to the cathedral parish of St. Peter. It is located outside the former inner city wall, east of the Reichenturm on the historic Salzmarkt.
11. Serbski dom - Haus der Sorben
The Serbski dom is an administrative building on Postplatz 2 in Bautzen, Saxony, Germany. It is the cultural and political center of the Sorbian people. It was built between 1947 and 1956. It is the seat of Domowina and the Foundation for the Sorbian People.
12. Cathedral of St Peter
St. Peter's Cathedral is an interdenominational church in Bautzen, Germany. It is among the oldest and largest simultaneum churches in Germany. Located in the heart of the city's "Old Town", the church and the square it is situated within is a major tourist attraction.
Wikipedia: Cathedral of St Peter, Bautzen (EN), Website, Website
13. Sternwarte Bautzen
The "Johannes Franz" school observatory in Bautzen is one of the largest and oldest school observatories in Germany. In many sources, it is described as the oldest German school observatory; in the meantime, it had a relatively high scientific significance for such a company.
14. Neue Wasserkunst
The Neue Wasserkunst, Sorbian Nowa wodarnja, in Bautzen is, like the Alte Wasserkunst, a former water supply facility for the city, which is located on a rocky plateau above the valley of the Spree. The building, which is still preserved today and was rebuilt in 1721, is located in the south of the old town at the entrance from the Spree valley to the Neutor on Lauenstraße.
15. Mühltor
The Mühltor, Sorbian, is a historic city gate in Bautzen and is considered the smallest of the medieval gates of the city. It is the only access to the city from the west side and was built after the Hussite sieges in 1429 and 1431. It was probably intended as a gateway for future defenses of the western section of the city wall.
16. Mühlbastei
The Mühlbastei, Sorbian, is one of the seven bastion towers of the city fortifications of Bautzen. The four-storey round tower was built around 1468 and got its name from the Ratsmühle, which was later built below the tower on the Spree.
17. Wendischer Turm
The Wendish Tower, Sorbian, is part of the medieval city fortifications of Bautzen. It is located on the northeastern edge of the old town and is now structurally connected to Gottfried Semper's Old Barracks. For centuries, the Via Regia ran through the adjoining Wendish Gate, which no longer exists.
18. Gerberbastei
The Gerberbastei, Sorbian, is part of the historic fortifications in the old town of Bautzen. It secured the section between the Nicolai Tower and the Schülerturm on the north side of the city and protected the crossing of the Via Regia over the Spree and the paths into the city as well as the Zwinger behind the inner city wall.
19. Hammermühle
The Bautzen hammer mill was built in 1493 by the city of Bautzen on the Spree as a wire mill, i.e. for the production of wire via wire drawing benches. In 1740, the mill was expanded to include an iron hammer mill. Today it is located north of the old town on the border with the district of Seidau and is at the same time a mill, oil mill and mustard mill.
20. Taucherfriedhof
Tuchorski Kěrchow is the highlights of the Pohrjebnišćo w Budyšinje. Nadeńdź with Wuchodnje Old Města W Měšćanski Dawjeluchodny wobkruh Mjez Lubian Dróh in the south and Menkowská to Sewjer.
21. Nicolaifriedhof
Mikławšk je Roma-Katolski kěrchow in Budyské starý měsće, kotryž wobsteji wot lěta 1455. Nadnadjje so w rozwaliinje něhdyšeje Mikławskéje cyrkwje a jeje wokolinje před Mikławské wro při sewjernej kromje stareho města, high above Sprjev a njedaloko Budyskeho hrodu. The circus itself bě so in Třicećilětná wójnje při woblěhowanj Budyšina přez sakske wojsko w lěće 1620 zničiła. Wot lěta 1745 wužiwa so tež ruina sama jako pohrjebnišćo. On Mikławšek steja from the summer of 1852 a small drip for empty wječory a pohrjebne kemše.
22. Chorberg
Tchór is 267.2 meters high in the eastern hill of the Slšenské Boršće and the highest in the Budyské Měšćanský teritorij. On the hill of Tchórja namakatej so měrjenska stacija 49 královsko-sakskeje triangulacije z lěta 1865 and the monument při smjertnym porode lěta 1945 murdered židov žonam.
23. Evangelische Brüdergemeine Kleinwelka
The prayer hall of the Moravian Brethren is a place of worship of the Moravian Church in the Kleinwelka district of the city of Bautzen in the district of Bautzen in Saxon Upper Lusatia. The building was built in 1758 in the course of the establishment of the Kleinwelka colony and is also a listed building as an individual part of the monument ensemble.
Wikipedia: Betsaal der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine (Kleinwelka) (DE)
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