Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Erfurt, Germany

St Martin's Church in the west of the historical centre of the city of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, is a Roman Catholic church building. Today, it is a subsidiary church of the Catholic parish of St Lawrence's.

Wikipedia: St Martin's Church, Erfurt (EN)

The Brühl Garden is a small park in the old town of Erfurt. It is located in Brühl in the southwestern city centre.

Wikipedia: Brühler Garten (DE)

The monument to the unknown Wehrmacht deserter and to the victims of Nazi military justice in front of the Bastion Philipp of the Petersberg Citadel was inaugurated on 1 September 1995.

Wikipedia: Deserteurdenkmal (Erfurt) (DE)

The Haus zum Breiten Herd is a Renaissance town house located on the northern edge of the fish market in the old town of Erfurt. It is one of the most magnificent and well-known Renaissance buildings in the city.

Wikipedia: Haus zum Breiten Herd (DE)

The Kunsthalle Erfurt is located in Erfurt's old town, at the fish market in the Haus zum Roten Ochsen. This is also the seat of the Erfurter Kunstverein.

Wikipedia: Kunsthalle Erfurt (DE)

The Roman is a statue in the form of a Roman warrior at the fish market in Erfurt, directly opposite the Erfurt town hall. The statue depicts a Roman warrior armed from head to toe with the insignia of the Roman Republic, holding the city flag of Erfurt in his right hand.

Wikipedia: Römer (Erfurt) (DE)

The Erfurt Town Hall is located at the fish market in Erfurt. The main building was built in the 1870s in neo-Gothic style.

Wikipedia: Rathaus (Erfurt) (DE)

The Small Synagogue is a former synagogue in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in the old town directly on the Gera River behind the town hall and has been used as a cultural centre since 1993.

Wikipedia: Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) (DE)

The Collegium Maius was the main building of the Old University of Erfurt, which existed from 1392 to 1816. After the destruction of the old building in 1945, a new building built in the old style from 1998 onwards is located in Michaelisstraße in the centre of Erfurt's old town, in the so-called "Latin Quarter". The old building housed the rectorate, lecture halls and the university's Great Banquet Hall. In 2011, the Regional Church Office of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany, which was formed by merger in 2009, moved into the new Collegium Maius.

Wikipedia: Collegium Maius (Erfurt) (DE)

St Michael's Church in the historical centre of the city of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, is a Gothic church building. It belongs to the Evangelische Stadtmission Erfurt and is the university church of the University of Erfurt.

Wikipedia: St Michael's Church, Erfurt (EN)

Isatis tinctoria, also called woad, dyer's-weed, or glastum, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae with a documented history of use as a blue dye and medicinal plant. Its genus name, Isatis, derives from the ancient Greek word for the plant, ἰσάτις. It is occasionally known as Asp of Jerusalem. Woad is also the name of a blue dye produced from the leaves of the plant. Woad is native to the steppe and desert zones of the Caucasus, Central Asia to Eastern Siberia and Western Asia but is now also found in South-Eastern and Central Europe and western North America.

Wikipedia: Isatis tinctoria (EN)

The Krämerbrücke is a medieval arch bridge in the city of Erfurt, in Thuringia, central Germany, which is lined with half-timbered shops and houses on both sides of a cobblestone street. It is one of the few remaining bridges in the world that have inhabited buildings. It has been continuously inhabited for over 500 years, longer than any other bridge in Europe. The stone, pedestrian bridge, which dates from 1325, is one of the oldest secular structures in Erfurt. It spans the Breitstrom, a branch of Gera River, and connects two town squares – Benediktsplatz and Wenigemarkt.

Wikipedia: Krämerbrücke (EN)

The Erfurt Mikveh is a Jewish ritual bath of medieval origin in the old town of Erfurt an der Gera in the area of the Krämerbrücke. It is part of the Erfurt Network for Jewish Life.

Wikipedia: Mikwe (Erfurt) (DE), Heritage Website

The Schottenkirche in the historical part of the city of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, is a Roman Catholic church building dating back to the 12th century. The Romanesque basilica belonged to a former Celtic monastery of St James. Today, it is a subsidiary church of the Catholic parish of St Lawrence's Church.

Wikipedia: Schottenkirche, Erfurt (EN)

The Kaisersaal is a traditional cultural and congress centre in the old town of Erfurt. In 1808, the Erfurt Congress of Princes of Emperor Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I took place here, and in 1891 the Erfurt Party Congress of the SPD took place here. On 12 April 1946, Communists and Social Democrats held a joint conference in the Kaisersaal to pass the "Resolution on the Merger of the KPD and SPD to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)" at the local level. The Kaisersaal is located in a listed ensemble at Futterstraße 15/16.

Wikipedia: Kaisersaal (Erfurt) (DE), Website

The Kaufmannskirche is a church building in the historical centre of the city of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany. It is located at the north end of Erfurt's Anger square and has been Lutheran since 1521.

Wikipedia: Kaufmannskirche (EN), Website

The Luther Monument is a monument in honor of the reformer Martin Luther in front of the merchant's church of St. Gregor on the Anger in the center of the city of Erfurt in Thuringia.

Wikipedia: Lutherdenkmal (Erfurt) (DE)

The Haus zum Stockfisch is an important Renaissance town house located at Johannesstraße 169 in the old town of Erfurt. It was acquired by the city at the beginning of the 20th century and has been used as a museum ever since, and since 1974 it has been the seat of the city museum.

Wikipedia: Haus zum Stockfisch (DE)

The Great Hospital was the hospital of the medieval city of Erfurt. It is located in the eastern extension of the old town between the inner and outer Krämpfertor on today's Yuri Gagarin Ring.

Wikipedia: Großes Hospital (DE)

A memorial pin is used in Erfurt to commemorate Jews from Erfurt who were deported and murdered during the Nazi era, similar to Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine. The Denknadel project was developed by the Erfurt Remembrance Working Group 1933–1945 and, after a competition in 2007, decided in favour of the design by Sophie Hollmann. Since then, nine thinking pins have been installed in the city of Erfurt.

Wikipedia: Denknadel (DE), Website