Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Constance, Germany
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3.5 km
51 m
Explore Constance 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.
Activities in ConstanceIndividual Sights in ConstanceSight 1: Johann Messmer
The list of Stolpersteine in Konstanz lists the stumbling stones laid by the artist Gunter Demnig in the city of Konstanz. By April 2023, 269 stumbling stones had been laid in Konstanz.
Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Konstanz (DE), Website
Sight 2: Bruder-Klaus-Kirche
The Brother Klaus Church is a Catholic religious building in the Petershausen district of Konstanz on Lake Constance. It is part of the pastoral care unit Konstanz-Petershausen.
Sight 3: Herosépark
The Herosé Park is located in the Petershausen district of Konstanz between the Seerhein, Am Rheinufer and Reichenaustraße. To the west, next to the park, was the eponymous textile printing company Herosé until the year 2000, at the east end of the park is the Villa Rheinburg, behind it are the Municipal Children's House on the Rhine and Indoor Swimming Pool of the City of Konstanz.
Sight 4: Bernhard Goldlust
A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.
Sight 5: Schottenkapelle
The Schottenkapelle St. Jakob is a Catholic former cemetery chapel from 1589 on the edge of the Schottenplatz and near the Alexander von Humboldt-Gymnasium in Constance. The building is listed.
Sight 6: Triumphbogen / Laubebrunnen
The Konstanz Arc de Triomphe is a fountain in Constance, Germany, designed and executed by the sculptor Peter Lenk. It was built in 1992 on the median strip of the main thoroughfare "Untere Laube", the most important transit route to Switzerland at that time. The fountain satirizes the traffic situation.
Sight 7: Stephanskirche
St. Stephen's Church, also known as St. Stephen's Church, is a former collegiate and parish church in the old town of Constance, Germany. It is a three-nave basilica with a side tower next to the transition from the nave to the choir. St. Stephen's Church is considered to be the oldest church founded in Constance. Today it belongs to the Catholic pastoral care unit Konstanz-Altstadt.
Sight 8: Städtische Wessenberg Galerie
The Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie is an art museum in Konstanz on Lake Constance.
Sight 9: Münster Unserer Lieben Frau
Book Ticket*Konstanz Minster or Konstanz Cathedral is a historical building in Konstanz, southern Germany, the proto-cathedral of the former Roman Catholic diocese of Konstanz.
Sight 10: Alt-katholische Christuskirche
The Christuskirche St. Konrad is a baroque church building in the old town of Konstanz on Lake Constance, between the cathedral and the city theatre, facing Konzilstraße. The church has been used by the Old Catholic community since 1904. The name Christuskirche, but without the addition of St. Konrad, is given to the Protestant church in Konstanz-Wollmatingen.
Sight 11: Theater Konstanz
Stadttheater Konstanz is a theatre in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, whose history dates from 1607. The theatre operates three venues, Municipal Theatre (Stadttheater), Workshop (Werkstatt) and Hall of Mirrors (Spiegelhalle).
Sight 12: Petershausen Abbey
Petershausen Abbey was a Benedictine imperial abbey at Petershausen, now a district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Sight 13: Archäologisches Landesmuseum
The Archaeological State Museum of Baden-Württemberg (ALM) looks after the state archaeology of Baden-Württemberg by preserving, researching and presenting archaeological finds from the state. Together with the House of History Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, it is one of only two historically oriented museums with a responsibility for the entire state of Baden-Württemberg. Its legal form is that of a state enterprise. The exhibition area – including that of the branch museums – is 8,717 m².
Wikipedia: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg (DE), Website
Sight 14: St. Gebhardskirche
St. Gebhard is a Roman Catholic church built in 1929/30 in Konstanz on Lake Constance. Since 2002, the parish has belonged to the Konstanz-Petershausen pastoral care unit in the Konstanz deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg.
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