Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Augsburg, Germany

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Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 5 km
Ascend 71 m
Descend 73 m

Experience Augsburg in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in AugsburgIndividual Sights in Augsburg

Sight 1: St. Pankratius

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The Roman Catholic, listed parish church of St. Pankratius is located in Augsburg-Lechhausen, a district of Augsburg. The building is registered with the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the list of monuments in Augsburg-Lechhausen as an architectural monument under the number D-7-61-000-183.

Wikipedia: St. Pankratius (Augsburg-Lechhausen) (DE)

1839 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 2: 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. The privately owned boat rental company has a tradition dating back to the 19th century and uses the water areas of the city moat in the historic Augsburg district of Jakobervorstadt.

Wikipedia: Augsburger Kahnfahrt (DE)

840 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: St. Gallus

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St. Gallus

The church of St. Gallus, also Galluskirchlein, is a Romanesque building in Augsburg and probably the oldest still preserved Augsburg church. The church, which is also referred to as a chapel because of its smallness, is a monument that is entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: St. Gallus (Augsburg) (DE)

53 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: St. Stephan

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The monastery church of St. Stephen in Augsburg is a former convent church of the convent of St. Stephen. After its destruction 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 entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: St. Stephan (Augsburg) (DE)

469 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Leopold-Mozart-Haus

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The Leopold Mozart House Augsburg is a museum in Augsburg, Germany. It is located in a 17th-century craftsman's house where Leopold Mozart, the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was born in 1719. Since 1937, an exhibition and memorial to the history of the Mozart family in Augsburg has been set up in the house. 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 6: 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 Frauentorstraße with Thommstraße.

Wikipedia: Fischertor (Augsburg) (DE)

237 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: St. Georg

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. George was built from 1490 to 1505 as a three-aisled hall church and is considered one of the last late Gothic basilicas in Swabia. Until 1802, the church served as the collegiate church of the Augustinian monastery of St. George, which was dissolved as a result of secularization. Today, St. Georg forms a parish community with St. Maximilian and St. Simpert. As an architectural monument, the church is registered in the Bavarian List of Monuments under the number D-7-61-000-312.

Wikipedia: St. Georg (Augsburg) (DE)

297 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Wertachbrucker Tor

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The Wertachbruck Gate 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 and as an event venue.

Wikipedia: Wertachbrucker Tor (DE)

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: 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 area from this time. Once upon a time, these cast-iron fountains were represented in large numbers in Augsburg.

Wikipedia: Brunnen am Bourges-Platz (DE)

882 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 10: St. Sebastian

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Until 2008, the monastery of St. Sebastian was a Capuchin monastery in Augsburg-Oberhausen, on the right side 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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