29 Sights in Göttingen, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Göttingen, 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 29 sights are available in Göttingen, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Göttingen1. Eulenturm
The Owl Tower is a viewpoint in the Göttingen Forest east of the built-up area of the city of Göttingen in the Oststadt district. It stands above the Schillerwiese on the lower slope of the Hainberg on a ridge between the valleys Molkengrund in the north and Lange Nacht in the south. The round tower built into the slope with a viewing platform made of limestone and sandstone blocks has a height of about 4 meters at the front. The ground-level entrance to the tower at the front was walled up for safety reasons. The Owl Tower was built at the end of the 19th century by the Göttingen Beautification Association (GVV) as part of the development of the Hainberg into a recreation area in the style of a public garden.
2. Göttinger 7
The Göttingen Seven were a group of seven liberal professors at University of Göttingen. In 1837, they protested against the annullment of the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover by its new ruler, King Ernest Augustus, and refused to swear an oath to the king. The company of seven was led by historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, who himself was one of the key advocates of the previous constitution. The other six were the Germanist brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, jurist Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht, historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus, physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and theologian and orientalist Heinrich Georg August Ewald.
3. Vierkirchenblick
The Vierkirchenblick in Hanover is a location in front of the Marktkirche, from which visitors can see the four church towers of the main Evangelical Lutheran churches of the capital of Lower Saxony. The location at Hanns-Lilje-Platz, at the corner of Kramerstraße and Knochenhauerstraße, is marked by a stone cross in the pavement. From here, in addition to the tower of the market church, the towers of the Aegidienkirche, the Kreuzkirche and the Neustadt church built in Calenberg's Neustadt can be seen. The symmetrical cross is part of a circle of cobblestones of different colors, over which the red thread passes.
4. Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of atomic recoil and nuclear isomerism, and pioneered rubidium–strontium dating. In 1938, Hahn, Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn alone, was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Nuclear fission was the basis for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
5. Biodiversitätsmuseum
The Zoological Museum of the University of Göttingen was part of the University of Göttingen, emerged from the Natural History Museum of the University of Göttingen and housed the publicly accessible part of an extensive research collection of taxidermy and skeletons. The museum was part of the Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology. It was located in the former zoological institute of the university at Berliner Straße 28, near the Göttingen train station.
6. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
7. St. Pankratius
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Pankratius is located in Esebeck, which, together with Elliehausen, forms a village in the university town of Göttingen in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. The parish of Esebeck merged with the parish of Elliehausen to form the St. Martini parish of Elliehausen-Esebeck. They belong to the church district of Göttingen in the district of Hildesheim-Göttingen of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.
8. Max Born
Max Born was a German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. Born was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
9. St. James's Church
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Jacobi in the old town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony is a three-nave Gothic hall church built between 1361 and 1433. The patron saint of the church is James the Elder. With a height of 72 metres, the tower of the church is the tallest building in Göttingen's old town. The Gothic winged altar from 1402, which is located in the choir of the church, is of national importance.
10. Goose Girl Well
The Gänseliesel is a fountain which was erected in 1901 in front of the medieval town hall of Göttingen, Germany. Although rather small in size, the fountain is the best-known landmark of the city. Today, it is an essential part of graduation celebrations, for every student who finishes a doctorate at the University of Göttingen has to climb the fountain and kiss the statue of the goose girl.
11. Portal des ehemaligen Universitätsreitstalls
The University Riding Stable of the University of Göttingen was a baroque building complex built between 1734 and 1736 in the city centre of Göttingen and consisted of an indoor riding arena with stables and an open-air riding arena. The building was the first completed new building for the university, which was founded in 1734 and ceremoniously inaugurated in 1737.
12. Königspfalz Grona
The Palatinate of Grona was a royal palace in the area of today's city of Göttingen and one of the roots of today's district of Grone, but lies in the neighboring district of Weststadt. It was first mentioned in a document in 915 as Grona Castle, is the place of death of Emperor Henry II (1024) and was completely demolished by the citizens of Göttingen in 1387.
13. Städtisches Museum
The Städtische Museum Göttingen is a collection of history and cultural history and, with around 150,000 objects, documents the cultural-historical development of the city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony and the surrounding area of Göttingen from the first settlement to the foundation of the Georg August University to the present.
14. Bismarck Cottage
The Bismarck House in Göttingen is the last surviving tower of the city's outer medieval fortification ring. It got its name because Otto von Bismarck, who later became Chancellor of the German Empire, lived here for about five months in 1833 during his time as a student in Göttingen. The tower now houses a small museum.
15. Old Town Hall
The Old Town Hall in Göttingen was built in several phases from 1270 onwards and was the seat of the council and administration of the city of Göttingen until 1978. It stands on the west side of the market square in the middle of the old town. Today it is used for representative purposes, for events and exhibitions.
16. Wöhler Monument
Friedrich Wöhler FRS(For) HonFRSE was a German chemist known for his work in both organic and inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. He was the first to prepare several inorganic compounds, including silane and silicon nitride.
17. Richard Zsigmondy
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters. The crater Zsigmondy on the Moon is named in his honour.
18. Universitätsaula
The auditorium of the University of Göttingen was inaugurated in 1837 on the occasion of the first centenary of the University of Göttingen as an auditorium in the classical style, on behalf of King Wilhelm IV of Great Britain and Hanover on what was then the Neuer Markt, today Wilhelmsplatz.
19. Bismarckstein
The Bismarckstein in the city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony is a Bismarck monument near the Klausberg. The memorial was inaugurated in 1903 in honour of the former Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and is also jokingly referred to as the "elephant toilet" because of its grotesque shape.
20. St. Nikolai
The St. Nicholas Church in the old town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony is a Gothic hall church with Romanesque origins. Since 1822, it has been the property of the Georg-August-University as a university church and is subordinate to the respective dean of the Faculty of Theology.
21. St. Michael's Church
St. Michael is the oldest Catholic church in Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is located in the historic inner city, is the parish church of the Sankt Michael parish in the Deanery of Göttingen of the Hildesheim diocese and at the same time Catholic City Church in Göttingen.
22. St. Paul
St. Paulus is a neo-baroque Catholic parish church in Göttingen, Germany. It is located in the lower eastern quarter on Wilhelm-Weber-Straße. Her parish belongs to the deanery of Göttingen in the Diocese of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony (Germany).
23. Schwarzer Bär
The black bear in Göttingen is a half-timbered house from the Renaissance period. The house name was first mentioned in 1592; The traditional restaurant for the Black Bear has existed since 1637. The address in the old town is short street 12.
24. Adolf Windaus
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.
25. Gottfried August Bürger-Denkmal
Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian adaptation and a French translation.
26. Saint John's Church
The St. John's Church in the old town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony is a three-nave Gothic hall church from the 14th century. With its towers visible from afar, it is one of the city's landmarks. Its patron saint is John the Baptist.
27. Bodenfelder Synagoge
The synagogue in Bodenfelde, a community in the district of Northeim in Lower Saxony, was located at Mühlenstraße 24 in Bodenfelde on a courtyard plot and has been located at Angerstraße 14 in the city of Göttingen since 2008.
28. Rieswarte
The Rieswarte or Nikolausberger Warte is located northeast of the Nikolausberg district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the ruin of a watchtower of the outer ring of the medieval Göttingen Landwehr.
29. Kunsthaus Göttingen
Kunsthaus Göttingen is an exhibition space in Göttingen, Germany. Its focus is on contemporary art for works on paper, photography, and new media with an international emphasis. The Kunsthaus is part of KuQua.
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