20 Sights in Darmstadt, Germany (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Darmstadt, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 20 sights are available in Darmstadt, Germany.

Sightseeing Tours in Darmstadt

1. Orangerie

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The Orangerie in Darmstadt, built around 1720, is a baroque palace building designed by the architect Louis Remy de la Fosse. Originally, it served as a winter shelter for citrus plants sensitive to the cold, which adorned the surrounding parkland in the summer months. The building was constructed with a one-storey hall open to the south, surrounded by single-storey rooms. The adjoining orangery park was designed under Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt by the Electoral Palatine court gardener Johann Kaspar Ehret from Heidelberg. The symmetrical Baroque grounds consist of three tiered garden parterres, wide axes with fountains and surrounding avenues. The sandstone gate of the former market palace forms the northern end.

Wikipedia: Orangerie (Darmstadt) (EN)

2. Model of Metop

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Model of Metop

Metop is a series of three polar-orbiting meteorological satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). The satellites form the space segment component of the overall EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS), which in turn is the European half of the EUMETSAT / NOAA Initial Joint Polar System (IJPS). The satellites carry a payload comprising 11 scientific instruments and two which support Cospas-Sarsat Search and Rescue services. In order to provide data continuity between Metop and NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), several instruments are carried on both fleets of satellites.

Wikipedia: MetOp (EN), Website

3. Mozartturm

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The Mozart Tower is located at Rheinstraße 111 in Darmstadt. It was built in 1936 and is a listed building. It is an air-raid shelter and anti-aircraft bunker, which was also used as an alternative control post for the civil defense. Originally, the flak tower was named after the German military aviator Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen ("Richthofenbunker"). During the Second World War, there was an anti-aircraft gun on its roof, which was used in particular to defend the main railway station and the western entrance to the city. The design of the tower corresponds to the Dietel design, a further development of the Zombeck design, which was patented in 1937.

Wikipedia: Mozartturm (Darmstadt) (DE), Url

4. Observatorium Ludwigshöhe

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Observatorium LudwigshöheKuebi = Armin Kübelbeck / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Volkssternwarte Darmstadt is a non-profit association with the aim of promoting general interest in astronomy and space travel. The association has about 200 members and regularly organizes lectures, seminars and children's events for the public, in which various topics from astronomy and space travel are discussed. In addition, there are public solar observations and observation evenings. Even under the less than optimal conditions in Darmstadt's urban area, the sky shows a large number of fascinating objects.

Wikipedia: Volkssternwarte Darmstadt (DE), Website

5. Model of Sentinel-3

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Sentinel-3 is an Earth observation heavy satellite series developed by the European Space Agency as part of the Copernicus Programme. It currently consists of 2 satellites: Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B. After initial commissioning, each satellite was handed over to EUMETSAT for the routine operations phase of the mission. Two recurrent satellites— Sentinel-3C and Sentinel-3D— will follow in approximately 2025 and 2028 respectively to ensure continuity of the Sentinel-3 mission.

Wikipedia: Sentinel-3 (EN), Website

6. Prinz-Emil-Palais

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The Prinz-Emil-Schlösschen is a small garden palace in Darmstadt-Bessungen, Germany. It was built between 1775 and 1778 by order of its first owner, Friedrich Karl von Moser, in a central location in a garden landscape built in 1772 according to the English model, today's Prince Emil Garden. Burnt down after the Second World War and the bombing of Darmstadt, it was renovated until 1950 and today serves as a neighbourhood house as a meeting place for the inhabitants of Bessung.

Wikipedia: Prinz-Emil-Schlösschen (DE)

7. Stadtkirche

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The Stadtkirche Darmstadt is the main Protestant church in Darmstadt and one of the parish churches of the city. It is also the oldest church building in the city. The lily in Darmstadt's coat of arms still refers to the original consecration of the church to the Virgin Mary. In 1526, in the course of the Reformation, the church became Evangelical Lutheran. Its current design is the result of conversions, extensions and destruction and reflects the city's history.

Wikipedia: Stadtkirche (Darmstadt) (DE), Website, Url, Heritage Website

8. Kleines Haus

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Kleines Haus Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Staatstheater Darmstadt is a theatre company and building in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, presenting opera, ballet, plays and concerts. It is funded by the state of Hesse and the city of Darmstadt. Its history began in 1711 with a court theatre building. From 1919 it was run as Landestheater Darmstadt. The present theatre was opened in 1972 when the company was named Staatstheater.

Wikipedia: Staatstheater Darmstadt (EN), Website

9. Haus der Geschichte

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Haus der Geschichte

The Hessian State Archives of Darmstadt (Hstad) is one of the departments of the Hessian State Archives and is based in Darmstadt on Karolinenplatz. It serves as a regional archive in addition to the Hessian Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden and the Hessian State Archives of Marburg. The Hessian State Archives of Darmstadt is responsible for South and parts of Central Hesse.

Wikipedia: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt (DE)

10. Model of Sentinel-6

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Model of Sentinel-6 European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo

The Sentinel-6 mission, also called Jason-Continuity of Service Mission (Jason-CS), is one of NASA, the European Space Organization (ESA), the European Organization for the Use of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) developed and operated satellite mission. Sentinel-6 consists of two identical satellites.

Wikipedia: Sentinel-6 (DE), Website

11. Jagdschloss Kranichstein

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Jagdschloss Kranichstein is a palace in Kranichstein, now part of Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. It was built north of Darmstadt from 1578 as a Jagdschloss, a hunting lodge for George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. It served also as a summer residence. In 1917, it became a museum of hunting. From 1946, it was the first location of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

Wikipedia: Jagdschloss Kranichstein (EN), Website

12. Park Rosenhöhe

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Park Rosenhöhe is a historic park located on a hill in the east of Darmstadt, Germany. Its special features include a rosarium with a rose dome on the top of the hill as well as the mausoleums and tombs of the Hessian princely house. On the edge of the park are also the buildings of the New Artists' Colony Rosenhöhe.

Wikipedia: Park Rosenhöhe (DE), Website

13. Darmstädter Residenzschloss

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Darmstädter ResidenzschlossRudolf Stricker / Attribution

The Residential Palace Darmstadt is the former residence and administrative seat of the landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt and from 1806 to 1919 of the Grand Dukes of Hesse-Darmstadt. It is located in the centre of the city of Darmstadt. The palace consists of an older Renaissance part and an 18th century Baroque part.

Wikipedia: Residential Palace Darmstadt (EN)

14. Dianaburg

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Dianaburg

The Dianaburg, formerly also Dianenburg, was a baroque hunting lodge on the territory of the village of Arheilgen, which today belongs to Darmstadt. It was built in 1765 and demolished in 1808. In its place there is now a small pavilion from 1836, which bears the same name.

Wikipedia: Dianaburg (Darmstadt) (DE)

15. Ludwigskirche

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St. Ludwig is the main Catholic church of Darmstadt. Its striking dome rises in a prominent position above the city centre at the end of the boulevard-like Wilhelminenstraße. In the vernacular, the Ludwigskirche is also known as the cheese bell or "Kääsglock".

Wikipedia: St. Ludwig (Darmstadt) (DE), Website

16. Ludwigsmonument

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The Ludwig Monument is a monument to Ludewig I, the first Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and a landmark of the city of Darmstadt. It stands on the Luisenplatz in Darmstadt, which is named after Grand Duchess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, the wife of Ludewig I.

Wikipedia: Ludwigsmonument (DE)

17. Landgraf-Philipps-Anlage

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The Landgraf-Philipps-Anlage is a small park in Darmstadt, Germany. The 200-metre-long and 40-metre-wide complex was named after Landgrave Philipp. It is bordered by the street of the same name, Landgraf-Philipps-Anlage and Fritz-Bauer-Straße.

Wikipedia: Landgraf-Philipps-Anlage (DE)

18. Liebfrauenkirche

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The Church of Our Lady in Bessungen is a Catholic church in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. Its striking church tower rises in a prominent position east of the Orangery on Klappacher Straße. The parish has about 4000 Catholics.

Wikipedia: Liebfrauenkirche (Darmstadt) (DE), Website

19. Ludwigsturm

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The Ludwigshöhe, also known as Bessung's local mountain, is a hill and a historic excursion destination in the south of Darmstadt and the location of the Ludwigsturm observation tower and the Darmstadt public observatory.

Wikipedia: Ludwigshöhe (Darmstadt) (DE)

20. Evangelische Kirche

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Evangelische KircheRudolf Stricker / Attribution

The Evangelical Church of Wixhausen is a church in Darmstadt-Wixhausen, Germany. The parish belongs to the deanery of Darmstadt in the Starkenburg provostship of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Kirche Wixhausen (DE), Website

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