24 Sights in Heilbronn, Germany (with Map and Images)
Explore interesting sights in Heilbronn, 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 24 sights are available in Heilbronn, Germany.
List of cities in GermanySightseeing Tours in Heilbronn1. Widmann’sche Papiermaschinenfabrik
The Widmann'sche Papiermaschinenfabrik im Leintal in Neckargartach was a machine factory founded by Johann Jakob Widmann. Widmann had built the first continental European paper machine during the onset of industrialization and produced it in a workshop in Heilbronn until 1840, before he acquired the site in the Leine valley and built a new factory there. Remnants of a workshop building are still preserved from the plant, which continued to be used as a paper mill after Widmann's bankruptcy, converted into a pumping station around 1900 and used as such until the 1960s. In the second half of the 1990s, the complex was renovated and supplemented by a historic hammer mill. Today, the property forms the Neckargartach Historical Industrial Park.
2. Hagenbucher
experimenta is a science center in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg. The learning and adventure world is housed in the former warehouse building Hagenbucher and a new building opened in March 2019 on the Kraneninsel. It is intended to make science and technology comprehensible for people of all ages. experimenta consists of the exhibition area "Worlds of Discovery", the "Worlds of Experience" with Science Dome, Observatory and Experimental Theater as well as the "Research Worlds" in the existing building with eight laboratories, an experimental kitchen, the Student Research Center Nordwürttemberg and the Maker Space.
3. Kilianskirche
Kilian's Church on Kaiserstraße in Heilbronn is a Gothic hall church constructed from Heilbronner sandstone, whose origin dates back to the 11th century. Its western tower, constructed by Hans Schweiner, is one of the first major Renaissance buildings to be built north of the Alps. Inside the church there is an altar by Hans Seyffer from 1498, which is regarded as a masterpiece of sculpture from the Late German Gothic period. Some of the stained glass is by Charles Crodel. The Monument Foundation of Baden-Württemberg appointed the church as monument of the month in December 2016.
4. Stadtkirche (Pankratiuskirche)
The Pankratiuskirche in the Heilbronn district of Böckingen is a Protestant parish church, the oldest parts of which date back to the 13th century. The church was supplemented in 1610 by a stair tower and received its present form through a comprehensive extension under Heinrich Dolmetsch around 1900. On the northern side of the Pankratiuskirche is the Old Böckinger Cemetery, which was replaced in 1905 by a new cemetery on Heidelberger Straße, not least because of the noise of the Heilbronn marshalling yard.
5. St. Alban
The Church of St. Alban in the Heilbronn district of Kirchhausen in northern Baden-Württemberg is a Catholic parish church. Built from 1841 to 1844 in the neo-Romanesque arch style, the church is the oldest preserved church in the village, which was predominantly Catholic until the recent past due to its former affiliation to the Teutonic Order. In the course of the various renovations in 1931 and 1981, monumental ceiling paintings by Anton Glassen from Heidelberg and August Blepp were lost.
6. Rathaus
The town hall in Heilbronn is located approximately in the center of the historic center of Heilbronn. Its main building is the main part of the Old Town Hall, which was rebuilt after its destruction in the Second World War. A four-winged, modern building complex is attached to it, which encloses the ruins of the old city archive from the 18th century, which have been converted into a hall of honour.
7. Wilhelm-Waiblinger-Haus
The Wilhelm-Waiblinger-Haus is a building in Heilbronn built in 1927. In its eventful history, it already served as a youth hostel, school building, employment office and vehicle registration office. Since 1978 it has been the seat of the city and district youth ring, which currently has 65 member associations and associations. Since then it has been named after the poet Wilhelm Waiblinger.
8. Villa Wolf
Villa Wolf is a villa located at Parkstraße 33 in the Sontheim district of Heilbronn. The villa, built in 1903/04, is an example of a typical two-family house in Art Nouveau style and represents the taste of the time. It is also one of the few surviving buildings in Heilbronn that were built by citizens of the Jewish faith and "aryanized" during the National Socialist era.
9. Schießhaus
The Schießhaus is a rococo building in Heilbronn, Germany. The name Schießhaus has the building built around 1770 from its original use as a shooting house, it was also the hall building of the Heilbronn horse market, which was founded at the same time. The building has always been owned by the city of Heilbronn and has already served a wide variety of purposes.
10. Rathaus Ehrenhalle
The Hall of Honor at Heilbloom is made of Heilbloom sandstone and is located in the inner courtyard of Heilbloom City Hall. This Hiroshima mosaic monument, painted by Karl Knapp, is built on the ruins of the Old City Archives to commemorate the dead in the Second World War and the victims of the Third Reich, and is one of many important buildings in Heilbron.
11. Bürgeramt Sontheim
The former town hall at Hauptstraße 7 in Sontheim was built in 1895 as a residential building and converted into a town hall in 1905. The ground floor is divided horizontally in the style of the Neo-Renaissance and the upper floor shows country house character through the decorative exposed half-timbering. The house is a listed building.
12. Rechtsanwälte Freudrich & Krengel
The manufacturer's villa with garden house in the factory park was built in 1948/49 according to plans by the architect Ludwig Hilmar Kresse for the merchant and owner of an oil factory Kurt Scheuerle and is located in Grünewaldstraße 48/1 and Limesstraße 9/1 in the Heilbronn district of Böckingen. The building is a listed building.
13. St.-Martins-Kirche
The Catholic Church of St. Martinus in Sontheim, a district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg, is the oldest church in the place and at the same time marks the historic town center of Sontheim. The church still has a Gothic choir, the nave was replaced in 1904 by a new building in the style of neuromaniac.
14. Köpferbrunnenanlage
The Köpferbrunnenanlage in the wooded Köpfertal in the east of Heilbronn is a listed historical ensemble. Its core is formed by a chapel or hermitage with a fountain and a bandstand. In its present form, it was built by the Heilbronner Verschönerungsverein in the last decades of the 19th century.
15. Käthchenhaus
The Käthchenhaus is a private profane building of the 14th century on the market square in Heilbronn. The house with the striking bay window on the corner of Marktplatz/Kaiserstrasse received its current name in the 19th century through the then popular spectacle of the Käthchen von Heilbronn.
16. Annakreuz
The Annakreuz is a monument on the intersection of the boundaries of Hipfelhof, Leingarten and Kirchhausen on a hill west of the Rotbach with "sophisticated sculptural design in baroque forms". The listed square sandstone column is 3.20 meters high. Not far from the Annakreuz is the Annalinde.
17. Kriegerdenkmal
The war memorial in front of the Peterskirche in the Heilbronn district of Neckargartach is a memorial inaugurated in 1937 for the fallen of the First World War, which was slightly changed after the Second World War and was supplemented by the names of the fallen in 1939/45.
18. Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Cornelius und Cyprian
The Evangelical parish church of St. Cornelius and Cyprian in the Heilbronn district of Biberach was built in 1830 and goes back to a predecessor building from the 15th century, which was used after 1675 as a simultaneous church for Protestants and Catholics.
Wikipedia: Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Cornelius und Cyprian (Biberach) (DE)
19. Alter Friedhof
The Old Cemetery at the Pankratiuskirche in the Heilbronn district of Böckingen is the original burial place of the village. It was abandoned in 1905 in favor of the cemetery on Heidelberger Straße and is now used as a public park and playground.
20. Mesnerhaus
The Evangelical Peterskirche in the Heilbronn district of Neckargartach is a choir tower church from the time of the medieval fortified churches, whose Gothic tower choir has been incorporated into a Baroque church building from 1766/67.
21. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is a Protestant church in Heilbronn, Germany, located at Südstraße 118. It is the church of the Evangelical Southern Community of Heilbronn. The construction, begun in 1962, replaced an older wooden church from 1925.
22. KZ-Friedhof Heilbronn-Neckargartach
The Neckargartach concentration camp was a concentration camp of the protection relay (SS) and went down in history as a SS working camp. The camp was located on the outskirts of Heilbronn and is named after the Neckargartach district.
23. Haus der Stadtgeschichte / Otto Rettenmaier Haus
The Haus der Stadtgeschichte in Heilbronn is the seat of the Heilbronn City Archive and offers research, documentation and museums on the history of the city of Heilbronn. In its current form, the facility was opened in July 2012.
Wikipedia: Haus der Stadtgeschichte (Heilbronn) (DE), Website
24. Zehntscheune
The historic tithe barn at Schlossplatz 5 in the Heilbronn district of Kirchhausen is one of the few preserved historic outbuildings at the Teutonic Order Castle Kirchhausen. The listed building is considered a cultural monument.
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