10 Sights in Giessen, Germany (with Map and Images)

Giessen, spelled Gießen in German, is a town in the German state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 university students.

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The St. John's Church is the largest Protestant church in Giessen in the central Hessian district of Giessen and, with a height of 72 meters, has the highest church tower of all Giessen churches. It was built in 1893 in a historicist mixed style of Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance. The building is a Hessian cultural monument and characterises the cityscape.

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The Old Castle, also known as the Landgrave's Castle, is located in the centre of the university town of Giessen in Hesse. The building, which was built in the 14th century, borders the Botanical Garden on its northeast and southeast sides, the Kanzleiberg on the southwest side and the Brandplatz on the northwest side.

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The chapel in the old cemetery in Gießen Cemetery is a two -storey hall building from 1623 to 1625 with a strictly symmetrical half -timbered floor on the old cemetery. It was built by the city architect Johannes Ebel zum Hirsch in the Renaissance style. The 1840 dilapidated roof was renewed by Hugo von Ritgen, who opened the building around a half -timbered floor with a crested roof in the style of historicism and designed the slim roof rider in 1862. In addition to the city church tower, the chapel is the oldest surviving sacral building in the core city. Today it houses the Luther community, founded in 1927. The entire cemetery, including the cemetery chapel, including interior, is under monument protection.

Wikipedia: Kapelle auf dem Alten Friedhof (Gießen) (DE), Website

The Liebig Museum is a natural science museum founded in 1920 in Giessen, Germany, dedicated to the chemist Justus Liebig. The building was originally built as a guard house in a barracks and expanded by Liebig. It shows the working conditions and the tools of that time in the former Chemical Institute, where Liebig lived and researched during his time as a professor at the University of Giessen from 1824 to 1852.

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The Lahn window Hessen is a water information center on the Lahn in Gießen operated by the regional council (RP) Gießen. The partly underground building offers insight into the river through large glass panes, but also into the fish climbing at the Klinkel’s mill. With a little patience, visitors can watch fish and other animal species how they pass the Mühlgraben on their hikes to spawning spaces and food sources. As an environmental pedagogical extra -curricular learning location, but also for families, interested groups or individual visitors, the Lahn window, which is popular with the audience, shows the variety of residents in local waters. The building is unique in Hesse and was planned for role models in Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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The Bismarck Tower in Giessen is a 15-metre-high observation tower on the Hardt-Höhe near the Upper Hardthof. The architect was the university building councillor A. Becker. The tower, which cost about 12,000 marks, was built from July 1905 to July 1906 from local lungstone. Above the entrance is the inscription BISMARCK, above it an eagle relief by the sculptor Augusto Varnesi. An inscription is carved on the inside of the entrance platform:

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The Three Chatterers are a bronze sculpture created by Karl-Henning Seemann in the central Hessian city of Giessen. They are located in the inner-city pedestrian zone at the junction of Plockstraße and Seltersweg.

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The Watering Can Museum is a museum for watering cans and other irrigation instruments in the central Hessian city of Giessen. It was launched in 2011 in the run-up to the State Garden Show Giessen 2014 as a hands-on project for the citizens, according to the motto of the preparatory phase "The gardener's first duty: Giessen!"

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The Botanischer Garten Gießen, more formally the Botanischer Garten der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, is a historic botanical garden maintained by the University of Giessen. It is the oldest botanical garden in Germany still at its original site, with an entrance at Senckenbergstraße 6, Gießen, Hesse, Germany. It is open daily without charge.

Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten Gießen (EN), Website