Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Bautzen - Budyšin, Germany

The Protschenberg (German) or Hrodźiško is a hill in Bautzen in the state of Saxony, eastern Germany.

Wikipedia: Protschenberg (EN)

The Alte Wasserkunst, Sorbian, is a building in Bautzen that used to serve the city's water supply.

Wikipedia: Alte Wasserkunst (Bautzen) (DE), Website

The Peace Bridge in Bautzen is one of the larger stone arch bridges in Saxony and, along with the A 4 motorway bridge and the bridge of the Westtangente, one of the three most important connections for road traffic in the city crossing the Spree. The four basket arches, which are placed on massive pillars and abutments, span the deeply incised and steep-walled Spree valley at a height of over 20 metres over a length of 181 metres.

Wikipedia: Friedensbrücke (Bautzen) (DE)

The Lauenturm, Sorbian, is part of the city fortifications of the city of Bautzen. It is located on the southern edge of the old town, on the western side of the Innere Lauenstraße, which leads from the Friedensbrücke to the town hall. The tower got its name from the heraldic animal of the Kingdom of Bohemia, a lion. If you left Bautzen in the direction of Bohemia, you had to cross the Lauentor.

Wikipedia: Lauenturm (DE)

The town hall of Bautzen is located between the main market and the meat market in the middle of Bautzen's old town. The construction of the first permanent council seat on this site goes back to a decree of the Bohemian King Ottokar I Přemysl, which allowed Bautzen to build "a particularly stately stone house" here.

Wikipedia: Rathaus Bautzen (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of St Peter, Bautzen (EN), Website, Website

The cathedral chapter or Bautzen cathedral monastery was the governing body of the cathedral of St. Petri in Bautzen in administrative and liturgical matters.

Wikipedia: Domstift Bautzen (DE), Website

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

Wikipedia: Mönchskirche (Bautzen) (DE)

St. Michael's Church in Bautzen is located near the Old Waterworks on the southwest arch of the rocky spur above the Spree, on which Bautzen's old town was built. The square between the church, the waterworks and the inner and outer city walls is known as the Wendischer Kirchhof, as St. Michael's Church has served as a place of worship since the 17th century, mainly for the Protestant Sorbs of the Bautzen area.

Wikipedia: Michaeliskirche (Bautzen) (DE)

The Monks' Bastion, Sorbian, is one of the seven bastion towers of the city fortifications of Bautzen. It was built around 1324 as a rectangular tower.

Wikipedia: Mönchsbastei (DE)

The Mühltor, Sorbian, is a historic city gate in Bautzen and is considered the smallest of the medieval gates of the city. It is the only access to the city from the west side and was built after the Hussite sieges in 1429 and 1431. It was probably intended as a gateway for future defenses of the western section of the city wall.

Wikipedia: Mühltor (Bautzen) (DE)

The Mühlbastei, 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 is a work created in 1840 by the sculptor Ernst Rietschel. The group of figures originally attached to the north wall of the first court theatre in Dresden with the title "Allegory of Tragedy" can now be seen at the Burgtheater on the Ortenburg in Bautzen.

Wikipedia: Rietschelgiebel (DE)

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

Wikipedia: Matthiasturm (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 Court Judge's House in Bautzen was built in 1649 as part of the Ortenburg Castle.

Wikipedia: Hofrichterhaus (Bautzen) (DE)

The Bautzen hammer mill was built in 1493 by the city of Bautzen on the Spree as a wire mill, i.e. for the production of wire via wire drawing benches. In 1740, the mill was expanded to include an iron hammer mill. Today it is located north of the old town on the border with the district of Seidau and is at the same time a mill, oil mill and mustard mill.

Wikipedia: Hammermühle (Bautzen) (DE), Website

The Nicolaiturm (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)

Mikławšk je Roma-Katolski kěrchow in Budyské starý měsće, kotryž wobsteji wot lěta 1455. Nadnadjje so w rozwaliinje něhdyšeje Mikławskéje cyrkwje a jeje wokolinje před Mikławské wro při sewjernej kromje stareho města, high above Sprjev a njedaloko Budyskeho hrodu. The circus itself bě so in Třicećilětná wójnje při woblěhowanj Budyšina přez sakske wojsko w lěće 1620 zničiła. Wot lěta 1745 wužiwa so tež ruina sama jako pohrjebnišćo. On Mikławšek steja from the summer of 1852 a small drip for empty wječory a pohrjebne kemše.

Wikipedia: Mikławšk (Budyšin) (HSB), Website, Url

The St. Nicholas Church, Upper Sorbian Mikławska cyrkej, in Bautzen is today essentially a ruin of a sacred building in front of the city's historic St. Nicholas Gate. It was built at the beginning of the 15th century. A small chapel is integrated into the church ruins.

Wikipedia: St.-Nikolai-Kirche (Bautzen) (DE)

The Gerberbastei, Sorbian, is part of the historic fortifications in the old town of Bautzen. It secured the section between the Nicolai Tower and the Schülerturm on the north side of the city and protected the crossing 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 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 the medieval city fortifications of Bautzen. 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 adjoining Wendish Gate, which no longer exists.

Wikipedia: Wendischer Turm (DE)

The Reichenturm (Upper Sorbian: Bohata wěža) is a building of the former city fortifications of Bautzen. It is located on the eastern edge of the old town, forms the end of Reichenstraße and stands on the Kornmarkt, opposite the Liebfrauenkirche. It is open from April to October.

Wikipedia: Reichenturm (DE)

The listed Electoral Saxon postal milestone in Bautzen is one of the postal milestones that were erected in the Electorate of Saxony in the first half of the 18th century by the Land and Border Commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner on behalf of the Elector of Saxony Friedrich August I. It is an incomplete whole mile column. It is located on the corner of Kornmarkt/Rosenstraße, not far from the Reichenturm in the district town of Bautzen.

Wikipedia: Kursächsische Postmeilensäule Bautzen (DE)

The Church of Our Lady in Bautzen is a Catholic church that is largely used by Sorbian-speaking parishioners and belongs to the cathedral parish of St. Peter. It is located outside the former inner city wall, east of the Reichenturm on the historic Salzmarkt.

Wikipedia: Liebfrauenkirche (Bautzen) (DE), Website

The Serbski dom is an administrative building on Postplatz 2 in Bautzen, Saxony, Germany. It is the cultural and political center of the Sorbian people. It was built between 1947 and 1956. It is the seat of Domowina and the Foundation for the Sorbian People.

Wikipedia: Serbski dom (EN)