Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Bautzen - Budyšin, Germany

The Mill Bastion, Sorbian, is one of the seven bastion towers of the city fortifications of Bautzen. The four-storey round tower was built around 1468 and got its name from the Ratsmühle, which was later built below the tower on the Spree.

Wikipedia: Mühlbastei (DE)

The Rietschel gable was created in 1840 by the sculptor Ernst Rietschel. The group of figures originally mounted on the north wall of the first court theatre in Dresden with the title "Allegory of Tragedy" can now be seen at the Burgtheater auf der Ortenburg in Bautzen.

Wikipedia: Rietschelgiebel (DE)

The Sorbian Museum, Upper Sorbian: Serbski muzej, German: Sorbisches Museum, is hosted in the salthouse of the Ortenburg, Bautzen. It houses approximately 35.000 inventarized objects making it the most important museum of Sorbian culture and history.

Wikipedia: Sorbian Museum (EN), Website

The Matthias Tower, Upper Sorbian Maćijowa wěža, is a gate tower in Bautzen and the main entrance to Ortenburg Castle.

Wikipedia: Matthiasturm (DE)

The monks' church, Sorbian Mniša cyrkej, is a former monastery church of the Franciscans in the old town of Bautzen.

Wikipedia: Mönchskirche (Bautzen) (DE)

The cathedral pencil, Upper Sorbian Tachantstwo, is a horseshoe -shaped baroque assembly with a courtyard in Bautzen in the district of the same name in Saxony. It was the bishop's office and residence of the diocese of Meißen until 1980 and is used as an archive, library and as a cathedral treasure chamber of the St. Petri cathedral in Bautzen.

Wikipedia: Domstift Bautzen (DE), Website

St. Peter's Cathedral is an interdenominational church in Bautzen, Germany. It is among the oldest and largest simultaneum churches in Germany. Located in the heart of the city's "Old Town", the church and the square it is situated within is a major tourist attraction.

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The Nicolai Tower, Sorbian, is a gate tower and part of the northern city fortifications of the city of Bautzen. It is located directly at the Nicolai cemetery with its Nicolai church ruins.

Wikipedia: Nicolaiturm (Bautzen) (DE)

The St. Nicholas Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery in the old town of Bautzen, which has existed since 1455. It is located in the ruins of the former Uhyster Church and its surroundings in front of the Mückaer Tor on the northern edge of the old town, high above the Spree and not far from Bautzen Castle. The church itself was destroyed during the siege of Bautzen by the Saxon army in 1620 during the Thirty Years' War. Since 1745, the ruins themselves have also been used as a cemetery. Since 1852, there has been a small chapel in the St. Nicholas Cemetery for dreary evenings and funeral services.

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The Tanner's Bastion, Sorbian, is part of the historic fortifications in the old town of Bautzen. It secured the section between the Nicolai and Schülerturm on the north side of the city and protected the passage of the Via Regia over the Spree and the paths into the city, as well as the Zwinger behind the inner city wall.

Wikipedia: Gerberbastei (DE)

The Schülerturm, Sorbian, or the Schülertor in Bautzen, is a gate tower on the northern edge of Bautzen's old town. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Schülerturm (DE)

The Wendish Tower, Sorbian, is part of Bautzen's medieval city fortifications. It is located on the northeastern edge of the old town and is now structurally connected to Gottfried Semper's Old Barracks. For centuries, the Via Regia ran through the adjacent Wendish Gate, which no longer exists.

Wikipedia: Wendischer Turm (DE)