22 Sights in Tübingen, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Tübingen, 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 22 sights are available in Tübingen, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Tübingen1. Alte Burse / Institut für Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte
The Burse is a building in the south of Tübingen's old town, slightly elevated above the Neckar River. The original meaning of the facility can be read in detail in the article Burse. The Tübingen Burse was built between 1478 and 1482. Construction began only one year after the founding of the Eberhard Karls University. A significant part of the founding of the Tübingen Burse is due to the commitment of Eberhard im Bart's mother, Mechthild von der Pfalz. In the central beam of the entrance area of the Burse, the palm tree and Eberhard's motto are carved in the beard: "Attempto", which are still the logo of the University of Tübingen today.
2. Grablege
The Stiftskirche is a church located in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a late Gothic structure built by Peter von Koblenz in 1470. The stained glass windows were designed by Peter Hemmel of Andlau who also designed windows in Ulm, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Munich and Strasbourg. It is the central landmark of Tübingen and, along with the rest of the city, the Stiftskirche was one of the first to convert to Martin Luther's Protestant church. It maintains several "Roman Catholic" features, such as patron saints.
3. Stadtmuseum Tübingen
The Tübingen City Museum, which emerged from "Municipal Collections", is housed in a more than 500-year-old former granary at Kornhausstraße 10 in the old town of Tübingen. The museum houses a permanent exhibition on the history of the city, which gives an overview of the history of Tübingen over the last 600 years, as well as a permanent exhibition on the silhouette artist Lotte Reiniger. In addition, the museum shows several temporary exhibitions a year, each of which is accompanied by an extensive catalogue.
4. Bismarckturm Tübingen
The Bismarck Tower is a 16-metre-high observation tower in Tübingen, completed in 1907 as a Bismarck monument, which was built according to the design "Götterdämmerung" by Wilhelm Kreis by the Tübingen government architect Franz Bärtle. The 16 m high Bismarck Tower was built of tufa and coarse-grained sandstone. It is located on the Schlossberg, 1.3 km west of Hohentübingen Castle, at the end of Lichtenberger Weg. The Bismarck Tower is considered the landmark of Tübingen's Weststadt.
5. Landestheater Tübingen
Landestheater Tübingen is a theatre in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is known as 'LTT' for short, officially also 'Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen', is a cultural enterprise financed in Tübingen by public funds, donations and entrance fees. It puts on its mainly own productions, but also – partly foreign-language – guest performances. In addition to the so-called "evening game plan", it also has its own children's and youth theater division.
6. Klosterkirche
The former monastery church of the Bebenhausen monastery and today's Protestant parish church stands in Bebenhausen, a municipality of Tübingen in the district of Tübingen, of Baden-Württemberg. It belongs to the Evangelische Landeskirche in Württemberg. It is registered as a monument to the State Office for Monument Care Baden-Württemberg and was originally the church of the Cistercian Abbey of Bebenhausen.
7. Galluskirche
The Protestant parish church of St. Gallus is located in Derendingen, a part of the university town of Tübingen in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The parish belongs to the Tübingen church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. It is registered with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as an architectural monument.
8. Schloss Kressbach
Kreßbach Castle in the village of Kreßbach in the Tübingen district of Weilheim is a rectangular building with a hipped roof built in 1766/67 for the Barons of Saint-André. It has a flat entrance risalit and a front portico with Tuscan columns. The outbuildings date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. The palace garden and a rococo fountain from this period have been preserved.
9. Barbarakirche
The Evangelical Church of St. Barbara is located in Unterjesingen, a district of Tübingen in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The parish belongs to the Tübingen church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. The building is registered with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as an architectural monument.
10. St. Aegidius
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Ägidius is located in Hirschau, a district of the large district town of Tübingen in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The parish belongs to the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. The building is registered with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as an architectural monument.
11. St. Pankratius
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius is located in Bühl, a district of the university town of Tübingen in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The parish belongs to the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. The church is registered as a monument with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.
12. St. Andreas
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Andreas is located in Ammern, a former hamlet on the Ammer west of the university town of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg. The chapel belongs to the deanery of Rottenburg in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. It is registered as a monument at the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.
13. Martinskirche
The Protestant parish church of St. Martin is located in Kilchberg, a district of Tübingen in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The parish belongs to the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. The building is registered with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as an architectural monument.
14. Hölderlinturm
The Hölderlinturm is a building located in Tübingen, Germany that served as the place of residence and death in the final years of poet Friedrich Hölderlin. He lived there from May 3, 1807 until his death in 1843. The building is located on the Neckar riverfront and is one of the most popularly known sites in Tübingen.
15. Goethehäuschen
The Goethehäuschen in Tübingen is an octagonal garden house located west of the old town and Hohentübingen Castle on the ridge of the Schlossberg, which received its common name after a visit by Goethe during a walk on 7 September 1797. Goethe visited his publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta in Tübingen at the time.
16. Botanischer Garten
The Botanischer Garten der Universität Tübingen, also known as the Botanischer Garten Tübingen or the Neuer Botanischer Garten Tübingen, is a botanical garden and arboretum maintained by the University of Tübingen. It is located at Hartmeyerstrasse 123, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and open daily.
17. Jakobuskirche
The St. James' Church in Tübingen is a Romanesque church originally dedicated to St. James, which is now used by the Tübingen Protestant St. James parish in the church district of Tübingen. Together with the neighbouring salt barn, it forms the historic centre of Tübingen's lower town, the so-called Gôgei.
18. Nonnenhaus
The nunnery in Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) is one of the best-preserved beguinages in Germany. Presumably, in 1488 Dominican nuns, then beguines, the "nuns", lived in the half-timbered house. With a length of 30 metres, it is one of the largest half-timbered houses in Tübingen's old town.
19. Institut für theatrale Zukunftsforschung
Zimmertheater Tübingen is a very small theatre in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in close neighbourhood to the Hölderlinturm, where Friedrich Hölderlin spent his last years in life and near the Neckar river. It opened in 1958 and has two rooms for an audience of 60 and 80 visitors.
20. Wurmlinger Kapelle
The St. Remigius Chapel, colloquially also known as the Wurmlinger Chapel, on the Kapellenberg near Wurmlingen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Tübingen is a popular excursion and pilgrimage destination. The chapel is surrounded by the cemetery of Wurmlingen.
21. Österbergturm
The Österberg Tower is an observation and transmission tower inaugurated on 3 July 1891 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower on the Österberg in the city of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With its antenna support, it is 40 m high.
22. Ödenburg
The Ödenburg is an abandoned spur castle about halfway between Tübingen and its southwestern district of Hirschau in the Baden-Württemberg district of Tübingen. It is located on the Spitzberg spur of the Spitzberg mountain range.
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