Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Baden-Baden, Germany
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2.9 km
65 m
Explore Baden-Baden 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 Baden-BadenSight 1: Russian Orthodox Church of The Transfiguration of Our Lord
The Russian Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord is a Russian Orthodox church in Baden-Baden, Germany. It is located on Lichtentaler Straße, between Bertholdplatz and the tunnel entrance, and has a gilded onion dome.
Sight 2: Gönneranlage
The Gönneranlage in Baden-Baden is a park located directly on the Oos in the area of Lichtentaler Allee. It was donated by the German-American coffee king Hermann Sielcken, named after the Lord Mayor of Baden-Baden Albert Gönner, designed by Max Laeuger and laid out between 1909 and 1912.
Sight 3: Stadtmuseum
Since autumn 2004, the Baden-Baden City Museum has been housed in the so-called Alleehaus in Lichtentaler Allee. It presents the history of the city from its Roman beginnings to the present day.
Sight 4: Museum Frieder Burda
The Museum Frieder Burda is an art museum in Baden-Baden, Germany, designed by architect Richard Meier and opened in October 2004. The private collector's museum is adjacent to the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in Lichtentaler Allee. In addition to works of classical modernism and contemporary art from the collection of the builder and benefactor Frieder Burda, special exhibitions are regularly shown.
Sight 5: Staatliche Kunsthalle
As an internationally renowned exhibition institute, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in Baden-Baden is one of the oldest cultural institutions in the city and the region. Since its opening in 1909 as an exhibition hall of the Free Artists' Association Baden e.V., it has been a showcase for classical, modern and contemporary art. Today, it is supported by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts. Since May 2020, Çağla Ilk and Misal Adnan Yıldız – succeeding Johan Holten – have been the director of the Kunsthalle as a duo.
Sight 6: Theater Baden-Baden
Theater Baden-Baden at Goetheplatz(Götheplatz in German) is the city theater of Baden-Baden in the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Sight 7: Goldenes Kreuz
The Goldenes Kreuz is a historicist residential and commercial building at Lichtentaler Straße 13 in Baden-Baden, Germany. It was built between 1891 and 1893 according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Vittali (1859–1920). The five-storey, neo-baroque street façade is designed entirely in white sandstone from the Murg valley. Columns and pavements at the entrances on the ground floor are decorated with Swedish granite. The façades in the courtyard are faced with brick, windows and door frames are made of white Murg Valley sandstone.
Sight 8: Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres east of the Rhine, the border with France, and forty kilometres north-east of Strasbourg, France.
Sight 9: Fabergé-Museum
The Fabergé Museum is a privately owned museum located in the German spa city of Baden-Baden, dedicated to items made by the Russian jewellery firm Fabergé. It was opened by Russian art collector Alexander Ivanov on 9 May 2009. It is owned by the private limited company Fabergé Museum GmbH, which was originally co-founded by Alexander Ivanov and Konstantin Goloshchapov in January 2008.
Sight 10: Römische Badruinen
The Roman bath ruins in the old town of Baden-Baden, remains of ancient thermal baths in the town of Aquae, are located below the market square and at the Friedrichsbad.
Sight 11: Friedrichsbad
The Friedrichsbad is a spa in the city of Baden-Baden in Germany. The Neo-renaissance spa building was completed in 1877.
Sight 12: Rathaus
The Jesuitenkolleg Baden-Baden was a Jesuit school in Baden-Baden, Germany. The building now serves as the city's town hall.
Sight 13: Stiftskirche
The collegiate church in Baden-Baden is the burial place of the Margraves of Baden. The church and parish belong to the Catholic pastoral care unit Baden-Baden in the deanery of Baden-Baden of the Archdiocese of Freiburg.
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