Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Augsburg, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 3.3 km
Ascend 45 m
Descend 47 m

Explore Augsburg 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.

Activities in AugsburgIndividual Sights in Augsburg

Sight 1: Augsburger Kahnfahrt

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Augsburger Kahnfahrt Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH, Fotograf: Christine Pemsl / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

The Augsburger Kahnfahrt is a leisure facility with a restaurant and beer garden in Augsburg, Germany. The privately owned boat rental company has a tradition dating back to the 19th century and uses the water surfaces of the city moat in Augsburg's historic Jakobervorstadt district.

Wikipedia: Augsburger Kahnfahrt (DE), Website

839 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: St. Gallus

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The Church of St. Gallus, also known as the Gallus Church, is a Romanesque building in Augsburg and probably the oldest surviving church in Augsburg. The church, which is also known as a chapel because of its small size, is an architectural monument that is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: St. Gallus (Augsburg) (DE)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Benediktinerabtei St. Stephan

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The monastery church of St. Stephen in Augsburg is a former ladies' collegiate church and today's Benedictine collegiate church. After being destroyed in the Second World War, it was rebuilt in a simplified form until 1966. As an architectural monument in the district of Bleich and Pfärrle, the church, which belongs to the monastery of St. Stephen, is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: St. Stephan (Augsburg) (DE), Website

498 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Leopold-Mozart-Haus

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The Leopold Mozart House Augsburg is a museum in Augsburg, Germany. It is housed in a 17th-century craftsman's house where Leopold Mozart, the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was born in 1719. Since 1937, the house has housed an exhibition and memorial on the history of the Mozart family in Augsburg. Until 2018, the museum was called "Mozarthaus Augsburg". After a renovation, it reopened in 2020 under a new name and with a completely new permanent exhibition. The building is three-storey and has a curved gable. In the 19th century, the house underwent changes. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Leopold-Mozart-Haus Augsburg (DE), Website

270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Fischertor

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The Fischertor is a city gate of the former ring wall of Augsburg and is located in the northwest of the old town. Today it connects the Frauentorstrasse with Thommstrasse.

Wikipedia: Fischertor (Augsburg) (DE)

237 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: St. Georg

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. George is located in the north of Augsburg's old town, in the Lower Town in the Georgs and Kreuzviertel. It is the former collegiate church of the Augustinian monastery of St. George, which was dissolved during the secularization period.

Wikipedia: St. Georg (Augsburg) (DE)

297 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Wertachbrucker Tor

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The Wertachbrucker Tor is located on the edge of Augsburg's old town and used to be part of the medieval city wall as a passageway. Today, it serves primarily as a representative building for the carpenters' guild as well as a venue for events.

Wikipedia: Wertachbrucker Tor (DE)

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Trinkbrunnen Senkelbach

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The fountain on Bourges-Platz in Augsburg was built around 1900 and is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments. It is one of the last public drinking water fountains in the city from this time. Once upon a time, these cast-iron fountains were numerous in Augsburg.

Wikipedia: Brunnen am Bourges-Platz (DE)

883 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 9: St. Sebastian

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Until 2008, the monastery of St. Sebastian was a Capuchin monastery in Augsburg-Oberhausen on the right bank of the Wertach. It is surrounded on three sides by the factory premises of the mechanical engineering company MAN, and on the fourth side it borders Sebastianstraße.

Wikipedia: Kloster St. Sebastian (Augsburg) (DE)

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