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The Heidelberg Marstall, built from Neckar valley sandstone, is one of the oldest surviving buildings from the early modern period in Heidelberg. The building now known as the Marstall was originally called the Armoury, while the Marstall to the south was located in a building that is now destroyed.
The Church of the Holy Spirit is the largest church in Heidelberg, Germany. The church, located in the marketplace in the old town center, was constructed between 1398 and 1515 in the Romanesque and Gothic styles. It receives 1–3 million guests annually, making it among the most visited churches in Germany.
The Karl Theodor Bridge, commonly known as the Old Bridge, is an arch bridge in Heidelberg that crosses the Neckar river. It connects the Old City with the eastern part of the Neuenheim district of the city on the opposite bank. The current bridge, made of Neckar sandstone and the ninth built on the site, was constructed in 1788 by Elector Charles Theodore, and is one of the best-known landmarks and tourist destinations in Heidelberg.
4. Königreichssaal
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination. As of 2023, the group reported approximately 8.6 million members involved in evangelism, with around 20.5 million attending the annual Memorial of Christ's death. The denomination is directed by a group of elders known as the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, which establishes all doctrines. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the destruction of the present world system at Armageddon is imminent, and the establishment of God's kingdom over earth is the only solution to all of humanity's problems. The group emerged in the United States from the Bible Student movement founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell, who also co-founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society in 1881 to organize and print the movement's publications. A leadership dispute after Russell's death resulted in several groups breaking away, with Joseph Franklin Rutherford retaining control of the Watch Tower Society and its properties. Rutherford made significant organizational and doctrinal changes, including adoption of the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931 to distinguish the group from other Bible Student groups and symbolize a break with the legacy of Russell's traditions.
5. Jesuitenkirche
The Jesuit Church is the largest and most important church in Heidelberg next to the Church of the Holy Spirit and forms the architectural focus of the former Jesuit quarter in the old town in the immediate vicinity of the University Square. Today it is the main church of the Roman Catholic Holy Spirit parish in Heidelberg's old town. The church was built between 1712 and 1759 in the Baroque style, the neo-baroque tower was added between 1868 and 1872. The church, which is not osteten as usual, but faces south, is a "building that is as remarkable as it is unusual".
6. Schlösschen
The castle goes back to a smaller late medieval aristocratic residence in Handschuhsheim. The listed building has been rebuilt many times and has a chequered ownership history. The oldest part of the building is the striking stair tower from the early 17th century. The building has been owned by the city of Heidelberg since the First World War and is now used for cultural purposes. The new building on the site of the former orangery of the castle was named after the painter Carl Rottmann, who was born in Handschuhsheim and whose grandfather once owned the property.
7. Obere Burg
The Upper Castle, also known as the Old Castle or Castle in the Mountains, is an abandoned hilltop castle on the northwest slope of the Königstuhl above Heidelberg Castle. Like Heidelberg Castle, the complex on today's Klingenteichstraße, which no longer exists, already existed in the Middle Ages. It was demonstrably destroyed on 25 April 1537 by a lightning strike and an accompanying explosion due to stored black powder stocks. The base and foundation walls of the former hilltop castle are now mainly built over by the whey cure.
8. Heidenloch
The Heidenloch is a 55 meter deep historical shaft with a diameter between three and four meters on Heidelberg Heiligenberg. It is located a few meters west of the lookout tower on the street zum Heiligenberg. The shaft has been a frequently described attraction since the early modern period. For a long time he was overpowered and barred by a vault. In 1936 the shaft was opened and researched for the first time by employees of the Kurpfälzische Museum. In 1987 a shelter was built over the exposed shaft.
9. Schlossgarten
The Hortus Palatinus, or Garden of the Palatinate, was a Baroque garden attached to Heidelberg Castle, Germany. The garden was commissioned by Frederick V, Elector Palatine in 1614 for his new wife, Elizabeth Stuart, and became famous across Europe during the 17th century for the landscaping and horticultural techniques involved in its design. At the time it was known as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World', and has since been termed 'Germany's greatest Renaissance garden.'
10. Carl Bosch Museum
The Carl Bosch Museum Heidelberg is a technology museum that shows the life and work of the Heidelberg Nobel Prize winner Carl Bosch (1874–1940) and was founded in 1998 on more than 300 m² and two outdoor areas. The building in Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, where the museum is located, once served as an apartment for Bosch's chauffeurs and as a garage for Bosch's automobiles. Carl Bosch's residence was the Villa Bosch, a few hundred meters from the garage building.
11. Krematorium
After Gotha in 1878 and at the same time as Hamburg, Heidelberg also received a crematorium in 1891 at the Heidelberg Mountain Cemetery. From the outset, however, it was planned not only for the needs of Heidelberg, but for the whole of southwestern Germany. The establishment of a crematorium was accompanied by strong religious-ecclesiastical concerns, so that, significantly, an ancient form of construction was used here, at which time cremation was common.
12. Helmstätter Herrenhaus
The Helmstätter Herrenhaus is a historic building in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim, Germany. The listed building, which is now used as a restaurant, dates back to the baronial estate of the village, whose property was linked to the neighbouring Tiefburg. After the destruction of the wars of the 17th century, the lords of Helmstatt abandoned the castle as a residence and instead built the manor house around 1700 on the site of an abandoned manor.
13. Chapel
The Chapel in the southern part of Heidelberg is a listed former church building. It is located on the corner of Römerstrasse and Rheinstrasse in the area of a former housing estate of the US Army, which is called Mark Twain Village. It was built in 1951 according to plans by the Mannheim architect Emil Serini as a non-denominational place of worship for members and affiliates of the American armed forces.
14. Erlöserkirche
The Church of the Redeemer is a church in Heidelberg's Old Town, which was built in 1723/24 as a convent church of the "White Nuns" (Dominican nuns). After the dissolution of the monastery, it was used for various purposes and is now the parish church of the Old Catholic community. Apart from the Jesuit Church, it is the only surviving of the originally numerous monastery churches in Heidelberg's old town.
15. Heidelberger Brückenaffe
The Heidelberg Bridge Monkey dates back to the 15th century. It was a stone statue sitting in the tower of the Old Bridge, which was located opposite Heidelberg’s Old Town. The purpose of the tower was to instill fear and respect in anyone arriving in the town, while the monkey represented mockery. The statue was destroyed with the tower during the Nine Years' War.
16. Gaisbergturm
The Gaisberg Tower in Heidelberg is an architectural monument that stands at the transition of the small plateau of the 375.6 m above sea level Gaisberg to the northwest slope. Designed by the architect Fritz Seitz, the observation tower was built in 1876 by the Heidelberger Schloss- und Altertumsverein e. V. The lighthouse of Alexandria probably served as a model.
17. Gaisberg
Gaisberg (Heidelberg) is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the 17th century, Matthäus Merian (1593–1650) depicted the Gaisberg as almost completely treeless. Today it is mostly covered in dense deciduous forest and rises above the western part of Heidelberg's old town and the adjoining western town on the edge of the Upper Rhine plain.
18. St. Johannes
St. Johannes is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Rohrbach district of Heidelberg, Germany. It was built between 1963 and 1965 and dedicated to the Apostle and Evangelist John. Today, the parish of St. John, together with the parishes of St. Paul (Boxberg-Emmertsgrund) and St. Peter (Kirchheim), forms the pastoral care unit Heidelberg-Süd.
19. Friedrichsbau
The Friedrichsbau, syn. Fridericianum, is a historic building at Hauptstrasse 47/49 in Heidelberg. The castle-like three-wing property was built in 1863 for use by the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Old Anatomy. Today it houses the Psychological Institute of the University of Heidelberg.
20. Stephanskloster
St. Stephen's Monastery on the 375.5 m above sea level Michelsberg in Heidelberg is a monastery founded there in the 11th century alongside St. Michael's Monastery as the second branch of Lorsch Monastery, of which only the remains of its foundations have been preserved today. The Michelsberg is located to the south of the Heiligenberg.
21. Botanischer Garten
The Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg, also known as the Botanischer Garten Heidelberg, is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Heidelberg. It is located at Im Neuenheimer Feld 340, New Campus, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; portions are open to the public daily except Saturday without charge.
Wikipedia: Botanical Garden of the University of Heidelberg (EN), Url Official
22. St. Vitus
St. Vitus is the Catholic parish church in Heidelberg-Glschuhsheim. It is the oldest church in Heidelberg and one of the oldest churches in the region, whose use is continuously evident. The saint of the name is the Vitus (Veit), an early Christian martyr and one of the Fourteen emergency workers.
23. Heiligenbergturm
The Heiligenberg Tower in Heidelberg is a 16.5 m high observation tower, which stands on the right bank of the Neckar opposite the old town of Heidelberg on the edge of the former St. Stephen's Monastery on the Michelsberg, 375.5 m above sea level, a pre-summit of the 439.9 m high Heiligenberg.
24. Providenzkirche
The Church of Providence is a Protestant church on the Hauptstrasse of the old town of Heidelberg. Until the union of the Protestant Church in Baden in 1821, this was the Lutheran church of central Heidelberg, while the Church of the Holy Spirit was the meeting place of the Calvinist church.
25. Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen
The Haus zum Riesen is a baroque palace on the Hauptstrasse in Heidelberg, built in 1707/8. The building is named for a statue with decorates the façade. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, it has been used by Heidelberg University and several prominent academics have worked in it.
26. Stauwehr Wieblingen
The Wieblingen weir is a weir on the Neckar near Heidelberg. It is part of the Schwabenheim barrage, as well as the Schwabenheim lock at the lower end of the Wieblingen side canal and the Schwabenheim and Wieblingen power plants. It was built between 1922 and 1925 and is a listed building.
27. St. Bartholomäus
The new parish church of St. Bartholomew is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Wieblingen district of Heidelberg, Germany. It was built between 1955 and 1956 because the old St. Bartholomew's Church had become too small. It is a listed building and was rebuilt from 2018 to 2020.
Wikipedia: Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus (Heidelberg-Wieblingen) (DE)
28. Hoffnungskirche
The Hoffnungskirche in Heidelberg is a Baptist church and was built in 1963. It has borne its name since 1988. Initially, the congregation was served from Mannheim and became independent in 1968. The municipality also includes the branches in Allemühl, Mauer and Moosbrunn.
29. Völkerkundemuseum
The Museum of Ethnology of the J. and E. von Portheim Foundation in Heidelberg houses collections on religion, art and everyday life from the regions of Asia, Africa and Oceania. The art and culture of these regions are presented in changing special exhibitions.
30. Deutsches Apotheken-Museum
The German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg is a German museum dedicated to the history of pharmacy. It has extensive collections, the exhibits of which cover the entire German-speaking world from antiquity to the 21st century. It is located in Heidelberg Castle.
31. Villa Bosch
The Villa Bosch is a converted former upper-middle-class residential building in Heidelberg, Schloß-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, which has been a listed building for a long time and was also entered into the list of particularly worthy monuments in 1997.
32. Rohrbacher Schlößchen
The Rohrbach Castle, popularly called Rohrbacher Schlösschen or Old Schlösschen, is located in the middle of the Heidelberg district of Rohrbach. It is located there in a park on the site of the Thorax Clinic Heidelberg on today's Parkstrasse.
33. Studentenmuseum mit Karzer
The last student prison in the history of Heidelberg was located at Augustinergasse 24 and served as a prison for students of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Today, it is part of the Museum of History of the University of Heidelberg.
34. Sammlung Prinzhorn
The Prinzhorn Collection is a German collection of art made by mental health patients, housed at the Heidelberg University Hospital. The collection comprises over 20,000 works, including works by Emma Hauck, Agnes Richter and August Natterer.
35. Kongresshaus Stadthalle Heidelberg
The Stadthalle Heidelberg is a congress and cultural centre located in the old town of Heidelberg on the banks of the Neckar. It was built between 1901 and 1903 according to the plans of the architects Jakob Henkenhaf and Friedrich Ebert.
36. Sankt Paul
St. Paul's Church in the Heidelberg district of Boxberg was built between 1970 and 1972 as a Roman Catholic parish church for the two southern mountain districts of Heidelberg, Boxberg and Emmertsgrund. The church is a listed building.
37. Institutsgebäude
The former Hotel Badischer Hof was opened in 1780. With its central location on Heidelberg Main Street 113, it was long considered the most prestigious house on the square. Among his illustrative guests were King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
38. Friedenskirche
The Friedenskirche is a Protestant church in the Heidelberg district of Handschuhsheim, which was built between 1908 and 1910 according to plans by Hermann Behaghel and is considered one of the highlights of his work.
39. St. Albert
St. Albert is the Catholic parish church in the Bergheim district of Heidelberg, Germany. It was built between 1933 and 1935 according to plans by Franz Sales Kuhn and is dedicated to St. Albertus Magnus.
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