Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Überlingen, Germany

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Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 2.4 km
Ascend 86 m
Descend 18 m

Explore Überlingen in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Überlingen

Sight 1: Bodenseereiter

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Bodenseereiter

The Bodenseereiter fountain is a work of art by the sculptor Peter Lenk in Überlingen on Lake Constance. The fountain was erected in 1999 and is best known as a caricature and grotesque monument to the local poet Martin Walser.

Wikipedia: Bodenseereiter (DE)

244 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Münster St. Nikolaus

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The Minster of St. Nicholas is the parish church of Überlingen on Lake Constance. The five-nave basilica was built between 1350 and 1576 in the late Gothic style. The furnishings of the largest late Gothic church building on Lake Constance include a carved altar by Jörg Zürn, a masterpiece of German Mannerism (1613–1616). The cathedral towers over the historic old town of Überlingen, especially due to the high north tower. The semicircular square north of the church was a cemetery before 1530. To the south of the church stands the city's late Gothic town hall, built in 1494, which already shows influences from the Italian Renaissance.

Wikipedia: St. Nikolaus (Überlingen) (DE)

361 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Franziskanerkirche zur unbefleckten Empfängnis

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Franziskanerkirche zur unbefleckten Empfängnis

The Franciscan Church of the Immaculate Conception is an originally Gothic, later baroque former monastery church of the Franciscan convent in Überlingen. Like many other mendicant churches, it does not have a church tower, but only a small baroque turret. The church is located between Spitalgasse and Franziskanerstraße next to the Franciscan Gate in the old town. After the Minster of St. Nicholas, to whose parish it also belongs, it is the second largest church in the city.

Wikipedia: Franziskanerkirche (Überlingen) (DE)

347 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Staedtisches Museum

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Staedtisches Museum Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Reichlin-von-Meldegg-Haus in Überlingen is a former patrician house above the old town of Überlingen, furnished with elements of the late Gothic and Florentine early Renaissance. It is considered one of the oldest Renaissance buildings in Germany and is one of the city's most important cultural monuments and sights. Since 1913, the cityscape-defining building has housed the municipal museum, which is one of the oldest and largest cultural history museums in the Lake Constance region.

Wikipedia: Reichlin-von-Meldegg-Haus (DE), Website

1411 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 5: Wasserschloss Burgberg

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Wasserschloss Burgberg

Burgberg Castle is a moated castle on the Burgberg in the northeast of the town of Überlingen in the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The listed castle largely dates back to the last third of the 17th century, but sits on the site of an older moated castle dating back to 1374. It is privately owned and not open to the public.

Wikipedia: Wasserschloss Burgberg (DE)

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