12 Sights in Eichstätt, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Eichstätt, 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 Eichstätt. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Eichstätt1. Alte Stadtmauer
This page lists the monuments in the Upper Bavarian town of Eichstätt. This table is a partial list of the List of monuments in Bavaria. The basis is the Bavarian List of Monuments, which was first compiled on the basis of the Bavarian Monument Protection Act of 1 October 1973 and has since been managed by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. The following information does not replace the legally binding information of the monument protection authority.
2. Willibaldsburg
The Willibaldsburg is a spur castle, built around the year 1353, in Eichstätt in Upper Bavaria. Until the middle of the 18th century, it was the representative castle and seat of Eichstätt's prince-bishops.
3. Figurenfeld im Hessental
The Figurenfeld is a sculpture field located on a meadow on a slope near Eichstätt. It consists of 78 mostly larger-than-life figures by the sculptor and painter Alois Wünsche-Mitterecker (1903–1975). The artist wanted to create a "monumentum perpetuum", a memorial for eternity, a warning against war, in which there are no victors and vanquished. The erection of the figures lasted from 1958 until the artist's death in 1975. The field of pieces is unfinished. Since 1976, the field of figures has been a listed building.
4. Erlöserkirche
The Church of the Redeemer in Eichstätt is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the district and university town of the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt and in the Evangelical Lutheran deanery of Pappenheim.
5. Ehemalige Fürstbischöfliche Residenz
The Eichstätt Residence, the former seat of the Eichstätt prince-bishops on the Residenzplatz in Eichstätt, is a three-winged palace building of the Baroque period. Particularly noteworthy are the representative staircase with an artistically forged iron banister and a ceiling fresco by Johann Michael Franz, which shows the fall of the Phaethon, as well as the Hall of Mirrors, which is also adorned with mythological scenes as a ceiling painting in glue colours by the same artist.
6. Dom Mariä Himmelfahrt
Eichstätt Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Willibald and St. Salvator is the 11th-century cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Eichstätt and is located in the city of Eichstätt, in the state of Bavaria, in Southern Germany.
7. Bastionsgarten
The Bastion Garden in Eichstätt is a botanical garden on the blacksmith's bastion of the Willibaldsburg and serves as an information garden about the former Hortus Eystettensis of Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1561–1612) and the plant world as it was depicted in copper engravings in the plant book first published in 1613, also called Hortus Eystettensis.
8. Hl. Kreuz
The Holy Cross Church in Wintershof, a district of the town of Eichstätt in the Upper Bavarian district of the same name, was built in 1955 by Josef Elfinger with the inclusion of the already existing tower. The church is registered under the file number D-1-76-123-352 in the Bavarian List of Monuments.
9. Cobenzl Schlösschen
The Cobenzlschlösschen is a late Baroque pleasure palace in Eichstätt in the district of Eichstätt in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The complex also includes a garden pavilion and a small park. The castle is located at Ingolstädter Straße 32 and is registered as an architectural monument under the identification number D-1-76-123-88.
10. Waisenhaus
The former orphanage in Eichstätt from the 16th century was expanded by Maurizio Pedetti and Giovanni Dominico Barbieri and converted into the Institute of Psychology and Journalism of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt by the Diocesan Cultivation Office Eichstätt under the direction of Karljosef Schattner. The baroque building is registered under the file number D-1-76-123-172 in the Bavarian List of Monuments.
11. Willibaldsbrunnen
The Willibaldsbrunnen is a fountain in the middle of the market square in Eichstätt. It was built in 1695 by Jakob Engel. The figure of St. Willibald, to whom the fountain is dedicated, was created by Hans Krumpper.
12. Marienbrunnen
The Marienbrunnen is a fountain at the south-eastern end of the Residenzplatz in Eichstätt. In the middle of the fountain rises the statue of Mary. The fountain was built between 1777 and 1780. The Italian Baroque master builder Maurizio Pedetti was in charge. The fountain was commissioned by the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, Raymund Anton von Strasoldo, and the city.
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