31 Sights in Wiesbaden, Germany (with Map and Images)
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List of cities in Germany Sightseeing Tours in Wiesbaden1. Ringkirche
The ring church is a Protestant church in Wiesbaden, which the architect and master builder Johannes Otzen built from 1892 to 1894 in a neo -Romanesque style. Its twin storm forms the western end of the broad axis of the Rheinstraße. The ring church was the first Protestant church in Germany, which was built according to the so -called Wiesbaden program, a church building program that was based on Martin Luther's demands for a "priesthood of all believers". The result is a functional central building, which until the end of the First World War became a model for numerous Protestant church buildings in Germany. To date, the directional building from the Wilhelminian period has mainly been able to preserve its original shape.
Wikipedia: Ringkirche (Wiesbaden) (DE), Website, Architect Wikipedia
2. Goethewarte
The Goethewarte is a historic, listed observation tower in the northeastern villa area above the city center of Wiesbaden. It was built in 1932 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe according to plans by the government architect Eberhard Finsterwalder on the Geisberg north of the city and inaugurated on 13 November 1932. The initiator of the construction was the Verschönerungsverein der Stadt Wiesbaden, which was able to win the industrialist Wilhelm von Opel as a donor.
3. Stadtschloss Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden City Palace is a neo-classical building in the center of Wiesbaden, Germany. It was completed in 1841 as the principal city residence of the Dukes of Nassau. The palace has several wings, 145 rooms, and is architecturally integrated with a group of ancillary buildings constructed both before and after it was built. With ornate towers, gables and a slate roof laid in herringbone patterns, the three-story complex lends charm and its name to the central square of Wiesbaden: Palace Square.
4. Schlosspark
The Schlosspark Biebrich is a park at Schloss Biebrich in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Hesse, Germany. First designed as a French formal garden, it was expanded changed to an English landscape garden and expanded 1817 to 1823, the last project of Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell. The public park extends north of the building in the valley of the Mosbach creek for around 1,200 m and is 250 m wide. It is the venue for the annual horse show Internationales Pfingstturnier Wiesbaden.
5. Römertor
The Heidenmauer is the most famous Roman monument in the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden, the Roman Aquae Mattiacorum. According to previous opinion, it was built around 370 AD under Emperor Valentinian I, making it the oldest surviving building in the city. The purpose of this defensive wall cannot be clearly determined to this day, just as the dating cannot be narrowed down more precisely than generally in the late phase of Roman Wiesbaden.
6. Kurpark
The Kurpark, German for "Spa Park", is a public park in the centre of Wiesbaden, Germany, stretching from the Wilhelmstraße to the southern borders of the district of Sonneberg and lying immediately behind the Kurhaus convention center. It was created in 1852 as an English landscape park and includes a lake where boats can be rented, and a 6 metres (20 ft) tall fountain. It has been described as the most beautiful park in Wiesbaden.
7. Kurhaus Wiesbaden
The Kurhaus is the spa house in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, Germany. It serves as the city's convention centre, and the social center of the spa town. In addition to a large and a smaller hall, it houses a restaurant and the Wiesbaden Casino, or Spielbank, which is notable for allowing the "highest roulette stakes in Germany", and where Fyodor Dostoyevsky was said to have received the inspiration for his novel The Gambler.
8. St. Augustine’s of Canterbury
The Church of St Augustine of Canterbury, commonly known as The English church at Wiesbaden, is a Hessian heritage-listed Anglican parish church located at Frankfurter Strasse 3 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Built in 1865 and named in honour of St Augustine of Canterbury, it was designed in the Gothic Revival style by city engineer Theodor Goetz. The church remains historically, socially, and architecturally significant.
Wikipedia: Church of St Augustine of Canterbury, Wiesbaden (EN), Website
9. Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth in Wiesbaden
The Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth in Wiesbaden is the only Russian Orthodox church in Wiesbaden, Germany, and is located on Neroberg. Besides the Russian church there is a parsonage and a Russian cemetery, which is the largest in Europe. St. Elizabeth's Church and its parishioners belong to the Diocese of Germany in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
10. Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof
Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Wiesbaden, the state capital of the German state of Hesse. It is a terminal station at the southern edge of the city centre and is used by more than 40,000 travelers each day, so it is the second largest station in Hesse after Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station.
11. Bergkirche
The Bergkirche is one of four main Protestant churches in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, Germany. It was completed in 1879 in Gothic Revival based on a design by Johannes Otzen. The church is focused on having the altar and pulpit close to the congregation, following Luther's concept of a universal priesthood. It also serves as a concert venue for church music.
Wikipedia: Bergkirche, Wiesbaden (EN), Website, Architect Wikipedia
12. Hotel Nassauer Hof
Nassauer Hof is a luxury five-star superior hotel in Wiesbaden, Germany, and member of the international association The Leading Hotels of the World as well as the German association Selektion Deutscher Luxushotels. The property was built in 1813 and is situated across from the Wiesbaden Kurhaus and at the end of Wiesbaden's luxury shopping avenue Wilhelmstrasse.
13. Dreifaltigkeitskirche
The Roman Catholic Trinity Church in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, is a neo-Romanesque church built between 1910 and 1912 by Ludwig Becker. Together with the other large inner-city churches, it forms a unique testimony to historicist architecture. Due to its location on a hill, its 38 m high west and 65 m high choir flank towers are visible from afar.
14. Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme
The Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme, originally called Kaiser-Friedrich-Bad, is a historic thermal bath in Wiesbaden, which was built in the years 1910 to 1913 by the architect A. O. Pauly in the forms of Art Nouveau. The bath is fed by the Adlerquelle, Wiesbaden's second largest thermal spring after the Kochbrunnen. Their water has a temperature of 64.6 °C.
15. Salzbachkanal
The Salzbach is a right and northeastern tributary of the Rhine about 6 km long, together with its left upper reaches Rambach, about 15 km long. It drains the area from the Taunushauptkamm in the north down via the inner city of Wiesbaden to its confluence with the knee of the Upper Rhine on the southern edge of the city.
16. Marktkirche
Marktkirche is the main Protestant church in Wiesbaden, the state capital of Hesse, Germany. The neo-Gothic church on the central Schlossplatz was designed by Carl Boos and built between 1853 and 1862. At the time it was the largest brick building of the Duchy of Nassau. It is also called Nassauer Landesdom.
17. Sankt Bonifatius
St. Boniface Church is located in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, and is the main Catholic church in the city. It is dedicated to St. Boniface. This neo-Gothic three-nave church, built by Philip Hoffman between 1844 and 1849, dominates Luisenplatz's classical complex with its two 68-meter-high towers.
18. Lutherkirche
The Lutherkirche is one of four main Protestant churches in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, Germany. It was built between 1908 and 1910 in Jugendstil and in accordance with the Wiesbadener Programm, to a design by Friedrich Pützer. With two organs and good acoustics, it is also a concert venue.
19. Warmer Damm
The Warmer Damm is a public park in the centre of Wiesbaden, Germany, stretching from the Wilhelmstraße to the southern borders of the Kurpark and lying immediately in front of the Hessian State Theater. It was created between 1860 and 1861 as an English landscape park and includes a pond.
20. Erbprinzenpalais
The Erbprinzenpalais on Wilhelmstraße in Wiesbaden is a classicist building with a dominant central gable built by Christian Zais between 1813 and 1817 for the Hereditary Prince of the Nassau dukes. After an eventful history, it is now home to the IHK Wiesbaden, founded in 1865.
21. Wuth'sche Brauerei
The Wuth'sche Brewery in Wiesbaden is part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main Wiesbaden. The striking building served as a brewery, distillery and accommodation for asylum seekers. After the renovation in 2000, a private academy for marketing and communication moved in.
22. Biebrich Palace
Biebrich Palace is a Baroque residence (Schloss) in the borough of Biebrich in the city of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. Built in 1702 by Prince Georg August Samuel of Nassau-Idstein, it served as the ducal residence for the independent Duchy of Nassau from 1816 until 1866.
23. Knoblauchkönig
Waldemar Reichhard, also spelled Reichard, called "Knoblauchkönig" or just "Knobloch", was a German opera singer and Wiesbaden original. It got its nickname because of the abundant consumption of garlic, which made it an olfactory conspicuousness from afar.
24. Hessische Staatskanzlei
Hessische Staatskanzlei is located in Mitte, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. The former Grand Hotel Rose is the seat of the government of the State of Hesse. The Acting Head of the Hessian State Chancellery has been Axel Wintermeyer since August 31, 2010.
25. Gedenkstätte Alte Synagoge
The Memorial to the Murdered Wiesbaden Jews, colloquially also known as the Michelsberg Memorial or Name Commemoration in the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden is a memorial for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Wiesbaden during the Nazi era.
26. Leichtweißhöhle
The Leichtweißhöhle is a cave in Wiesbaden's Nerotal. Its name is due to the poacher Heinrich Anton Leichtweiß, who used the cave as a shelter from 1789 to 1791. Forestry workers discovered the cave and light white due to rising smoke.
27. Schillerdenkmal
The Schiller monument in Wiesbaden was erected in 1905 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death, the statue and its accompanying figure were created by the well-known Berlin sculptor Joseph Uphues.
28. Museum Wiesbaden
The Museum Wiesbaden is a two-branch museum of art and natural history in the Hessian capital of Wiesbaden, Germany. It is one of the three Hessian State museums, in addition to the museums in Kassel and Darmstadt.
29. Neroberg
Neroberg is a hill in Wiesbaden in Hesse, Germany. It offers a panoramic view of the city and is therefore a tourist destination, reached by the historic Nerobergbahn, a funicular railway from the Nerotalanlagen.
30. Hauptkirche
The main church is the oldest of the five Protestant churches in the Biebrich district of Wiesbaden. It is located at the north end of the Biebricher Palace Park in the center of the former village of Mosbach.
31. Bierstadter Warte
The Bierstadter Warte is a watchtower built in 1473 by Count Johann II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1419–1480) on the Bierstadter Höhe in Wiesbaden-Bierstadt, which served to observe the area around Mainz.
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