Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Constance, Germany

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Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 3.3 km
Ascend 43 m
Descend 33 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 Constance

Sight 1: Bodensee-Naturmuseum

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The Lake Constance Natural History Museum is the natural history museum of the city of Konstanz and is located in the building of the Sea-Life-Center near the Swiss border. The focus of the museum's exhibitions is on the geological development and nature of Lake Constance.

Wikipedia: Bodensee-Naturmuseum (DE)

610 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: BSB Konstanz

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BSB Konstanz unbekannt / Logo

Reederei Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe GmbH (BSB) is a 100% subsidiary of Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH. The company's headquarters are in Konstanz in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg. With its fleet, the company operates regular scheduled services as well as excursion trips throughout Lake Constance. It is also a provider of event and charter trips.

Wikipedia: Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe (DE)

251 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Imperia

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Imperia is a statue at the entrance of the harbour of Konstanz, Germany, commemorating the Council of Constance that took place there between 1414 and 1418. The concrete statue is 9 metres (30 ft) high, weighs 18 tonnes, and stands on a pedestal that rotates around its axis once every four minutes. It was created by Peter Lenk and clandestinely erected in 1993. The erection of the statue caused controversy, but it was on the private property of a rail company that did not object to its presence. Eventually, it became a widely-known landmark of Konstanz.

Wikipedia: Imperia (statue) (EN)

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Konzil

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The Council Building is a landmark in Constance on the shores of Lake Constance. The three-storey, massive stone building with a hipped roof was built from 1388 onwards as a warehouse for travelling and local traders and served as a transshipment point for trade goods at the port of Constance for almost 500 years. During the Council of Constance from 1414 to 1418, the conclave for the election of Pope Martin V took place in 1417 in this spacious building. It is considered to be the largest preserved medieval secular building in southern Germany and has been used as a restaurant, ballroom and congress centre since 1912.

Wikipedia: Konzilgebäude Konstanz (DE), Website

406 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Synagoge Konstanz

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Synagoge Konstanz Autor/-in unbekanntUnknown author / CC BY-SA 3.0

The synagogue in Konstanz, the county seat of the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, was built in 1882/1883 and destroyed during the November pogroms of 1938. This first synagogue was located in Sigismundstraße. A new building was inaugurated in 2019.

Wikipedia: Synagoge (Konstanz) (DE)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Dreifaltigkeitskirche

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Dreifaltigkeitskirche

The Holy Trinity Church is a church building in Konstanz on Lake Constance. Since it was built in the late 13th century for the local monastery of the Augustinian hermits, it is also called the Augustinian Church. Until the dissolution of the monastery in 1802, it functioned as a monastery church and, from the 17th century, additionally as a garrison church, then as a hospital church, an Old Catholic church (1873–1904), a Roman Catholic parish church and today an ecumenical "city church". Due to its harmonious combination of simple Gothic mendicant architecture, late Gothic frescoes and baroque picture and stucco decoration, it is one of the most important sacred monuments in the city and one of the sights of Constance.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Konstanz) (DE)

540 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 7: Lutherkirche

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The Lutherkirche is a church building of the Evangelical Church in Constance on Lake Constance. It stands outside the historic old town, on the eastern edge of the paradise area developed after removal of the city wall. The church is surrounded by Lutherplatz, at the transition from the upper arbor to the lower arbor. It is aligned in the western northwest east south of the direction.

Wikipedia: Lutherkirche (Konstanz) (DE)

516 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: Erna Recha Rosenthal

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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)

586 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 9: Georg Elser

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Georg Elser Weißkunig / CC BY-SA 4.0

Johann Georg Elser was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. Elser constructed and placed a bomb near the platform from which Hitler was to deliver a speech. It did not kill Hitler, who left earlier than expected, but it did kill 8 people and injured 62 others. Elser was held as a prisoner for more than five years until he was executed at Dachau concentration camp less than a month before the surrender of Nazi Germany.

Wikipedia: Georg Elser (EN)

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