14 Sights in Ingolstadt, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Ingolstadt, 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 14 sights are available in Ingolstadt, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Ingolstadt1. Ingolstadt City Museum
The Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt is located in the Kavalier Hepp, a fortress of the 19th century. It shows the historical and cultural development of the Ingolstadt area from early history to modern times. A separate section is dedicated to the history of crafts and industry. The Toy Museum and the "Museum" component of the Memorial to the Victims of National Socialism and the Dead of the World Wars are integrated into the Contemporary History Department. In addition to the Ingolstadt City Museum, the Farm Equipment Museum and the Marieluise Fleißer House are also integrated into the city history centre.
2. Klosterkirche St. Johann im Gnadenthal
The Church of St. Johann im Gnadenthal is a convent church of the Franciscan nuns in Ingolstadt, Germany. It belongs to the Gnadenthal Monastery of Ingolstadt, which was founded in 1276. The single-nave building with turret was built in 1487 in the late Gothic style, probably under the direction of a master builder named Mörsheimer. From about 1605 onwards, the baroque extension to the west took place. Most recently, the portal was also changed in the Baroque style around 1697/98.
3. Bayerisches Armeemuseum
The Bayerisches Armeemuseum is the Military History Museum of Bavaria. It was founded in 1879 in Munich and is located in Ingolstadt since 1972. The main collection is housed in the New Castle, the permanent exhibition about the First World War in Reduit Tilly opened in 1994 and the Armeemuseum incorporated the Bayerisches Polizeimuseum in the Turm Triva in 2012. Today, part of the former Munich Museum building is the central building of the new Bayerische Staatskanzlei.
4. Franziskanerkirche
The Franciscan Church of the Assumption in Ingolstadt is an early Gothic three -aisled flat basilica. It was the monastery church of the Franciscan monastery in Ingolstadt, which was a Capuchin monastery from 2006 to March 2023. The church has a length of 71.70 meters, is 20.65 meters wide and 28.60 meters high. Like numerous other churches of the Franciscans in the order of the beggar, it does not have a church tower, but only has a small roof rider.
5. Herzogskasten
The Herzogskasten in Ingolstadt, also known as the Old Palace, is a Gothic secular building from the 13th century and now houses the city library. The complex is listed under the file number D-1-61-000-156 as a listed architectural monument of Ingolstadt. It is also listed as a ground monument under the file number D-1-7234-0544 in the Bavaria Atlas as "underground foundations of predecessor buildings of the so-called ducal box of the Middle Ages".
6. Taschenturm
The Taschenturm, more rarely also Taschentorturm, is a side gate of the Ingolstadt city wall. It was built in 1390 as part of the expansion of the city, which took place in the second half of the 14th century. The name of the five-storey building probably goes back to the use of roof pockets for the gable roof, which extends between the stepped gables.
7. Neues Schloss
The New Castle in Ingolstadt is one of the most important Gothic secular buildings of the 15th Century in Bavaria. The builders were Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Duke George the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut, both of the Wittelsbach dynasty. The neighboring Old Castle, a medieval fortress from the 13th Century, is today called Herzogkasten.
8. Hohe Schule
The Hohe Schule is a secular building from the 15th century in the old town of Ingolstadt. The multi-storey building with a high gable roof has a north gable with a turret divided by cantilevers. Over the years, the building has been used for various facilities and has undergone several slight structural changes.
9. Liebfrauenmunster
The Cathedral of Our Lady or Liebfrauenmünster is a Catholic parish church in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. The corner position of the two unfinished towers of the late Gothic hall church of the 15th century is striking. The name Münster does not refer to its function as a monastery church, but to its size.
Wikipedia: Münster Zur Schönen Unserer Lieben Frau (DE), Website
10. Museum für konkrete Kunst
The Museum of Comfortable Art in Ingolstadt presents the variety of concrete art since its beginnings in alternating exhibitions on around 800 m² of exhibition space. In addition, it is dedicated to selected aspects of the design, which in the 20th century was often closely linked to concrete art.
11. Kreuztor
The Kreuztor, built in 1385, is the western gateway to the medieval city center of Ingolstadt. The tower's name is derived from the leper house belonging to the Church of the Holy Cross, which stood to the west of the city walls until its destruction in the Schmalkaldic War in 1546.
12. St. Anton
St. Anton is a Roman Catholic parish church near Ingolstadt Central Station, which was first completed in 1917 and destroyed by an aerial bomb in 1945. The new St. Anton Church has stood on the same site as the old St. Anton Church since 1947.
13. Kocatepe-Moschee
DİTİB's Kocatepe Mosque and Cultural Centre in Ingolstadt was opened on 18 May 2008 in Manisa Street in the northwest of Ingolstadt. The construction costs amounted to a total of 5.5 million euros. It is the largest mosque in Bavaria.
14. Museum Mobile
The Audi Museum Mobile is an Audi AG's Auto Museum in Ingolstadt, which deals with the history of the company and its predecessors. At the same time as the Audi Forum Ingolstadt, the Audi Museum Mobile was opened on December 15, 2000.
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