23 Sights in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 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 23 sights are available in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Ludwigshafen am Rhein1. Museumsschiff Mannheim
The Mainz is a side-wheel steamer built in 1928/29 for the Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft für den Nieder- und Mittelrhein (DGNM), which was used by the Cologne-Düsseldorfer Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt in scheduled service on the Rhine. It was the thousandth ship completed by the Christof Ruthof shipyard and also the last paddle steamer built for the Cologne-Düsseldorf shipyard. The Mainz survived the Second World War as the only ship of the shipping company to be seaworthy, but was then so badly damaged in an accident on 12 June 1956 that the hull had to be rebuilt. Due to the high need for repairs and refurbishment, the Cologne-Düsseldorfer decommissioned the passenger ship after the 1980 summer season.
2. St. Sebastian (Untere Pfarrei)
St. Sebastian is the oldest Catholic parish church in the city of Mannheim and one of the three churches of the Mannheim city pastoral unit in the city center. In Electoral Palatine times it was used by the Elector as a court church and received a magnificent interior by artists such as Bibiena, Verschaffelt and Egell. The furnishings were impaired by remodeling in the 19th century and damaged during World War II. Together with the Old Town Hall, St. Sebastian's Church forms a Baroque double building erected at the beginning of the 18th century, which is the oldest preserved structure in the city.
3. Wasserturm
The water tower is a well -known landmark of Mannheim. The tower was built from 1886 to 1889 on today's Friedrichsplatz on the eastern edge of the city center after the plans of Gustav Halmhuber. The tower is 60 meters high and has a diameter of 19 meters. He was the first urban water tower of Mannheim and initially had to fulfill all the functions of drinking water supply, including the maintenance of a constant water pressure. After the construction of the higher Luzenberg water tower in 1909, it served as a reserve tank until 2000. The tower structure has been a listed building since 1987.
4. Fernmeldeturm Mannheim
The Fernmeldeturm Mannheim is a 217.8-metre-high (715 ft) concrete telecommunication tower with an observation deck in Mannheim, Germany. It was designed by the architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner and built from 1973 and 1975. It contains transmission facilities for VHF radio services, microwave communications, and omnidirectional radio services. A glassed observation deck and a revolving restaurant at a height of 120 metres allow a nice view over Mannheim and the surrounding area. The tower is a modern landmark of the city of Mannheim.
5. St.-Bonifatius-Kirche
The St. Bonifatius Church is a Catholic church in the Neckarstadt-Ost/Wohlgeben district of Mannheim. It was built between 1912 and 1914 according to the plans of Ludwig Maier. Since 1925, the parish has been looked after by the Franciscans who were built at the church in Kloster. The parish of St. Bonifatius forms the Catholic parish of Mannheim-Neckarstadt in the Archdiocese of Freiburg with the parishes of St. Bernhard, St. Nikolaus and Herz-Jesu.
Wikipedia: St.-Bonifatius-Kirche (Mannheim-Wohlgelegen) (DE)
6. Dr. Ernst_Bloch
Ernst Simon Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Thomas Müntzer, Paracelsus, and Jacob Böhme. He established friendships with György Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno. Bloch's work focuses on an optimistic teleology of the history of mankind.
7. Liebfrauen-Kirche
The Church of Liebfrauenkirche is a church in the Jungbusch district of Mannheim. It was built in the beginning of the 20th century by Johannes Schroth in a neo-Gothic style. Today it is one of the three churches of the Pastoral Guard Unit Mannheim-City and symbolises Christian-Islamic dialogue through its neighborhood to the Yavuz Sultan-Selim Mosque. It is also a location of the Youth Church of Samuel.
8. Knödelbrunnen
The dumpling fountain is the nickname of a fountain in the centre of Ludwigshafen's pedestrian zone. It is a fountain designed by the Ludwigshafen artist Ernst W. Kunz with balls piled on top of each other. The fountain was created as a result of a competition held by the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein for the artistic decoration of Bismarckstraße, which was converted into a pedestrian zone in 1977.
9. Jesuitenkirche
The Mannheim Jesuit Church is a Catholic church of historic and artistic importance in Mannheim, Germany. Church construction was begun in 1733 and completed in 1760. It was consecrated to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier. During the Second World War, the church suffered severe damage from air attacks; after the war it was rebuilt in its historical style using original parts.
10. Gedenkskulptur für die in Mannheim ermordeten Juden
The glass cube is a modern memorial in the pedestrian zone of Mannheim, which is made of glass and has the shape of a cube. The glass cube was designed as a local monument for the Jewish victims of National Socialism from Mannheim by the sculptor Jochen Kitzbihler, who lives in Freiburg in Breisgau, and built on the planks in the middle of the footpath in front of the square P2 in 2003.
11. Stauschleuse Frankenthaler Kanal
Via the canal harbour and the associated Frankenthal Canal, the town of Frankenthal (Rhineland-Palatinate) in the Upper Palatinate used to be connected to the Rhine, which flows past 4 km to the east. After extensive renovation in 2011, the filled-in old harbour basin has been a park-like recreation facility on the eastern outskirts of Frankenthal.
12. Denkmal Kriegsgefangenenlager
The Rheinwiesenlager were a group of 19 camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. Officially named Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures (PWTE), they held between one and almost two million surrendered Wehrmacht personnel from April until September 1945.
13. Schlosskirche
The Mannheim Palace Church, founded as a court chapel, was built in the 18th century and is part of the Mannheim Palace. The church served as court chapel for the prince-electors of the Electorate of the Palatinate between 1731 and 1777 and belongs to the oldest parish churches of the Old Catholic diocese in Germany.
14. Kunsthalle Mannheim
The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, built in 1907, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. Since then it has housed the city's art collections as well as temporary exhibitions – and up to 1927 those of the local Mannheimer Kunstverein as well as its administration.
15. Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche
The Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche is a Protestant church in the Rheingönheim district of Ludwigshafen, Germany. It was built in the 18th century. The tower dates back to the 13th century. It is the oldest surviving part of a church in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine.
16. Neuapostolische Kirche Moselstraße
The New Apostolic Church in the Neckarstadt-Ost district of Mannheim was built between 1929 and 1930 in the New Objectivity style according to the plans of Wilhelm Würth. It is the central church of the New Apostolic Church district of Mannheim.
17. Polnische Katholische Kirche
The hospital church, including the Bürgerhospitalkirche, is a Catholic church in Mannheim. It was built between 1786 and 1788 according to the plans of Johann Faxlunger and is one of the few buildings from the 18th century in downtown Mannheim.
18. Prinzregenten Theater
The Prinzregenten-Theater in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, in the district of Hemshof, is a privately run theater that was founded in the summer of 1977 by the actor and director Bernhard F. Dropmann with the aim of preserving the Palatinate dialect.
19. Herschelbad
The Herschelbad is a public bath in the Mannheim squares, for the construction of which the Jewish Mannheim merchant and city councillor Bernhard Herschel (1837–1905) donated part of his fortune to the city in his will in 1905.
20. Mannheimer Synagoge
The Mannheim synagogue is the successor building of earlier synagogues in Mannheim. It was built by the Jewish community between 1985 and 1987 according to the plans of Karl Schmucker with the community center in the square F 3.
21. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum
Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein, is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it forms the Rhine Neckar Area.
22. Citykirche Konkordien
The Concordia Church is a Protestant church in downtown Mannheim. It was built between 1706 and 1717 and redesigned several times over time. The church tower, the highest of the city, was built in 1893.
23. Pfarrer Wilhelm Caroli
Wilhelm Caroli, was a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Speyer and persecuted by the Nazi regime. He was severely physically abused and starved to death as a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp.
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