31 Sights in Magdeburg, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Magdeburg, Germany! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Magdeburg. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Magdeburg1. Cathedral of Magdeburg
Magdeburg Cathedral, officially called the Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Catherine, is a Protestant cathedral in Germany and the oldest Gothic cathedral in the country. It is the proto-cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg. Today it is the principal church of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany. The south steeple is 99.25 m tall, the north tower 100.98 m, making it one of the tallest cathedrals in eastern Germany. The cathedral is likewise the landmark of Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, and is also home to the grave of Emperor Otto I the Great and his first wife Edith.
2. Konzerthalle Georg Philipp Telemann
Das Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen ist eine Klosteranlage in der Magdeburger Altstadt. Das Gebäudeensemble zählt zu den bedeutendsten romanischen Anlagen in Deutschland. Heute werden die Gebäude als städtisches Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen genutzt. Es befindet sich in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Magdeburger Dom und dem Stadtzentrum.
3. Sankt Johannis
The St. Johannis Church in Magdeburg is a former church building in the Altstadt district with the address Johannisbergstraße 1. It was dedicated to John the Evangelist until it was profaned. Since 1999, it has been used as a ballroom and concert hall for the city of Magdeburg. From January to June 2014, it served as a meeting venue for the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt.
4. Magdeburger Reiter
The Magdeburg Horseman is an equestrian statue that was made around 1240 in the younger Magdeburg workshop. It is an early life-size circular equestrian statue of medieval sculpture and is one of the first-class works of European art history. Two virgins complete it to form a group of figures. The three statues consist of several blocks of fine-grained sandstone. There is a copy on the Alter Markt, the original can be seen in the Kaiser-Otto-Saal in the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg.
5. Wallonerkirche
The Walloon Church, also known as Sankt-Augustini-Kirche, is a Protestant church in the Old Town district of Magdeburg. The church and the attached community centre are used by both the Evangelical Lutheran Old Town congregation and the Evangelical Reformed congregation of Magdeburg. Since 2004, the Protestant student community has also been using church premises. The Walloon Church is one of the few historic churches in Magdeburg's old town that are still preserved and used for church purposes, along with the cathedral, St. Sebastian and St. Peter's.
6. Kettenschleppdampfer Gustav Zeuner
The chain tug Gustav Zeuner was built in 1894 as the first chain tug steamer of the second generation in the Übigau shipyard near Dresden. The ship is the only almost completely preserved relic of chain shipping on the Elbe. The ship was in use on the Elbe from 1895 to 1931 and is now a museum ship in the commercial port of Magdeburg. It is named after the German engineer Gustav Zeuner.
7. Rotehornpark
Rotehornpark, also known as Rotehorn City Park, is the largest city park in the city of Magdeburg with an area of 200 hectares. The park is located on an island in the Elbe and is part of the Saxony-Anhalt Garden Dreams network.
8. Hubbrücke
The Magdeburg lift bridge is a lift bridge that spans the Elbe in Magdeburg at river kilometre 325.47. It was built in 1848 as a single-track railway bridge and can now be used as a pedestrian bridge. It is one of the oldest and largest lift bridges in Germany and is a listed building.
9. Sankt Norbert
St. Norbert is the Catholic church in the Magdeburg district of Buckau at Karl-Schmidt-Straße No. 5. The church, named after St. Norbert of Xanten, belongs to the cathedral parish of St. Sebastian of the Diocese of Magdeburg.
10. Sankt Mechthild
Sankt Mechthild, named after Blessed Mechthild of Magdeburg, is the Roman Catholic church in the Neustädter Feld district of Magdeburg. It belongs to the parish of St. John Bosco with its seat at St. Agnes, in the Magdeburg deanery of the Diocese of Magdeburg.
11. Albinmüller-Turm
The Albinmüller Tower is an observation tower in Rotehornpark in Magdeburg and is one of the city's landmarks. The observation tower helps shape the Magdeburg city skyline and is located near the Elbe on the Elbe island of Werder next to the Magdeburg City Hall. With its elegance and functionality, the tower is an important example of the New Building of the 1920s.
12. Käthe Kollwitz
The Käthe Kollwitz Monument is a bronze sculpture created by the sculptor Gustav Seitz in the years 1956–58. It was erected in 1961 in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg on Kollwitzplatz and honors the artist Käthe Kollwitz, who lived there from 1891 until the destruction of her home in the bombing war in 1943. (Location coordinates).
13. Technikmuseum
The Magdeburg Museum of Technology is one of nine museums in Magdeburg. The collection is presented in the former steel construction hall of the heavy machinery combine "Ernst Thälmann", Dodendorfer Straße 65 in the Magdeburg district of Leipziger Straße.
14. villa p. - Figurenspielsammlung Mitteldeutschland
The villa p. is a listed half-timbered villa in the Magdeburg district of Buckau, which houses the puppet theatre collection of the Magdeburg Puppet Theatre. It is located at Porsestraße 13 in 39104 Magdeburg.
15. Lokschuppen Alte Neustadt
The Lokschuppen Alte Neustadt in Magdeburg is a listed historic locomotive shed, which is located in the district of Alte Neustadt on the property Hafenstraße 9a. It is one of the oldest surviving rectangular locomotive sheds in Germany.
16. Sankt Agnes
Sankt Agnes is the Catholic church in the Neue Neustadt district of Magdeburg. The church, which is designated as an architectural monument, is the seat of the parish of St. John Bosco, and belongs to the Magdeburg deanery of the Diocese of Magdeburg.
17. Sankt Sophie
The Protestant church of Sankt Sophie stands on the eastern outskirts of Randau, a district of the Magdeburg district of Randau-Calenberge, probably dedicated to Saint Sophia of Rome. It is a plaster building, provided with classicist structures.
18. Kozlowski-Denkmal
The Kozlowski Monument is a monument erected in honor of Theodor Kozlowski in Magdeburg. The monument, designed as an obelisk, is located on the eastern bank of the River Elbe on the street Kleiner Werder in the Magdeburg district of Werder.
19. Museumsdepot Sudenburg
The Sudenburg Museum Depot is a collection of historic tram vehicles in the Magdeburg district of Sudenburg. It is located in a former depot of the Magdeburg tram directly at the Ambrosiusplatz stop. It is managed by the Association of Interest Group for Historic Local Transport & Trams at the MVB e.V. (IGNah) on behalf of the Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe (MVB).
20. Großsteingrab Pfahlberg
The Pfahlberg is a megalithic grave in the city of Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This grave site was located near the Große Sülze and Kleine Sülze streams in the Magdeburg district of Sülzegrund.
21. Sankt Adalbert
Sankt Adalbert is the Catholic church in the Magdeburg district of Reform. It is the only church in the Diocese of Magdeburg that is named after St. Adalbert of Magdeburg, the first bishop of the Diocese of Magdeburg. The church belongs to the parish of St. Sebastian in the deanery of Magdeburg.
22. Sohlener Mühle
The Sohlener Mühle was an overshot water mill in the district of Sohlen in the village of Beyendorf-Sohlen, which today belongs to Magdeburg. The four-sided mill farmstead located on the Sülze is a listed building, but is no longer in use as a mill.
23. Märchenbrunnen
The fairytale fountain on Neustädter Platz was built in a central location in the Neustädter See residential area in Magdeburg as a fountain according to the design of Annedore and Wolfgang Policek and inaugurated on 23 May 1982.
24. Sankt Johann der Täufer
St. John the Baptist is a Protestant church in the old core of the Magdeburg district of Klein Ottersleben, directly opposite the local manor, which can probably be traced back to a medieval predecessor complex.
25. Gesellschaftshaus
The Gesellschaftshaus am Klosterbergegarten is an event building in Magdeburg on the edge of the Klosterbergegarten, built according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Among other things, it is the headquarters of the Centre for Telemann Care and Research.
26. Kathedrale Sankt Sebastian
The Cathedral of St. Sebastian in Magdeburg is the Roman Catholic provost's church of the city of Magdeburg and cathedral church of the Diocese of Magdeburg. It is part of the Romanesque Road. The patron saint of the church is Sebastian.
27. Sankt-Josef-Kirche
St. Josef is the Catholic church in the Magdeburg district of Neu Olvenstedt. It belongs to the parish of St. John Bosco with its seat at the St. Agnes Church, in the Magdeburg deanery of the Diocese of Magdeburg. The church is dedicated to St. Joseph, who has been honored by the Catholic Church since 1955 as Joseph the Worker with a day of remembrance on May 1st.
28. Festung Mark
The Mark Fortress, formerly known as the Mark Barracks, is a former "defensive barracks" of the Magdeburg Fortress. Today it is used as a centre for cultural events in Magdeburg. The building is now a listed building. Due to the few preserved defence barracks in Germany, the Mark Fortress has a supra-regional significance for the history of military construction in the 19th century.
29. Glockenturm Sankt Stephanus
The St. Stephen's Church is a Protestant church in the Magdeburg district of Westerhüsen with a building and community history dating back to the Romanesque period. After destruction in the Second World War, only the church tower remains today. However, it continues to serve as a summer church for the parish of St. Stephen, which uses the parish hall on the grounds in case of unfavorable weather. The parish belongs to the parish of Magdeburg-Southeast of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany.
30. Sankt Georg
The Protestant St. George's Church stands in the centre of the village of Calenberge, which belongs to the Magdeburg district of Randau-Calenberge. St. George is, among other things, the patron saint of farmers.
31. St. Maria Hilf
The St. Mary Help Church, officially called the Church of Mary Help of Christians, is the Catholic church in the Magdeburg district of Ottersleben. The church, named after the Marian title Mary, Help of Christians, is the parish church of the parish of St. Maria, in the Magdeburg deanery of the Diocese of Magdeburg.
Wikipedia: Sankt-Maria-Hilf-Kirche (Magdeburg) (DE), Website
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