Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Bamberg, Germany

The Altenburg is a castle that sits on the tallest of the seven hills of Bamberg, southern Germany, overlooking the town. It is located in Upper Franconia, a region in the state of Bavaria, and dates back to at least 1109.

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St. Jakob is one of the oldest churches in Bamberg and is located just a few meters above the Domberg on the Jakobsberg, one of Bamberg's seven hills.

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The Bamberg rose garden is a baroque garden behind the new residence.

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The Neue Residenz is a multi-winged listed building on Domplatz in Bamberg, Upper Franconia. From 1604 it was the bishop's residence of the prince-bishops of Bamberg and replaced the old court on the other side of the square in this function. Today, the sandstone complex houses the Bamberg State Library and State Gallery. From the rose garden of the New Residence you have a view of St. Michael's Church and the rooftops of the bourgeois city.

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The Domberg is the historic center of Bamberg and is characterized by some historically significant buildings, especially the Romanesque Bamberg Cathedral. The cathedral square is historically significant, because in this area stood the Babenburg, from which the city of Bamberg developed.

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Bamberg Cathedral is a church in Bamberg, Germany, completed in the 13th century. The cathedral is under the administration of the Archdiocese of Bamberg and is the seat of the its archbishop. Since 1993, the cathedral has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Town of Bamberg".

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The Dominican monastery Bamberg is a former Dominican monastery with a church in Bamberg. Today the state building authority is located in the monastery wing, the church is used as the auditorium of the University of Bamberg.

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The former hospital church of St. Elisabeth or Elisabethenkapelle is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Upper Franconian city of Bamberg.

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Klein-Venedig is the name of a former fishing settlement in Bamberg.

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The Natural History Museum in Bamberg displays exhibits on natural history in historic rooms. In addition, there are rooms for changing exhibitions.

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The Maximiliansbrunnen is on the Maximiliansplatz in Bamberg. The fountain has its name from King Maximilian I. Joseph (Bavaria) and was created by Ferdinand von Miller in 1888. The casting of the statues took place in 1880.

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St. Martin's Church in Bamberg is a Catholic parish church dedicated to St. Martin in the center of the city.

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The Ludwig Foundation for Art and International Understanding was founded in 1982 by the married couple Peter and Irene Ludwig, née Monheim. After the death of Peter Ludwig in 1996, the foundation was transformed into the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation by his widow Irene Ludwig a year later. The foundation's headquarters are located in the couple's former home in Aachen.

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Bamberg is a town in Upper Franconia district in Bavaria, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg had 79,000 inhabitants in 2022. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby Babenberch castle. Cited as one of Germany's most beautiful towns, with medieval streets and buildings, the old town of Bamberg has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

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The Upper Parish or Church of Our Lady is a Gothic Roman Catholic parish church in Bamberg, Germany. It belongs to the pastoral care area of Bamberg West in the deanery of Bamberg of the Archdiocese of Bamberg.

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The Apfelweibla is a brass doorknob depicting an elderly woman in Bamberg's old town.

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St. Stephen's Church in Bamberg's Old Town is the only Protestant church to have been consecrated by a pope. He performed the consecration at Easter 1020 in the presence of Henry II and Kunigunde, whom he had crowned imperial couple in Rome six years earlier. It was the first papal visit north of the Alps in almost 200 years.

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The Böttingerhaus, sometimes also known as the Prellshaus, is a city palace located on the Judenstraße in the mountain town of Bamberg. It is one of the most important bourgeois buildings of the Baroque period in southern Germany.

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Klosterbräu Bamberg is the oldest brewery in Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Germany. It is located in the so-called Mühlenviertel near the river Regnitz. The annual output is about 4,000 hectoliters.

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The Villa Dessauer is a mansion in Bamberg, Germany, which is used as an art gallery by the local City Council.

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