Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Erfurt, Germany

The Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church is a church in the Brühlervorstadt of Erfurt, Germany. It serves as a place of worship for the Erfurt congregation of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) and belongs to the church district of Saxony-Thuringia.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Erfurt) (DE), Website

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.

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Erfurt Charterhouse is a former charterhouse, or Carthusian monastery, in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. It was founded in the 1370s: building works began in 1372 and the monastery was accepted into the Carthusian Order in 1374. Work started on the church in 1375.

Wikipedia: Erfurt Charterhouse (EN)

The New Synagogue is the synagogue of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. It is located on Juri-Gagarin-Ring and is the only (used) synagogue in Thuringia and one of only two synagogues built in GDR times. It serves as a prayer room for the Jewish Community of Thuringia, which has around 850 members. In addition to it, there are the old and the small synagogue in Erfurt, both of which are no longer used for church services.

Wikipedia: Neue Synagoge (Erfurt) (DE)

The Neuwerkskirche at the edge of the historical part of the city of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, is a Roman Catholic church building dating from the 15th century. Today, it is a branch church of the Catholic parish of St Lawrence's Church.

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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 Roman Catholic fountain church is located in the old town of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. It is used by the Erfurt Augustinian Convent and belongs to the Erfurt Deanery of the Diocese of Erfurt.

Wikipedia: Brunnenkirche (Erfurt) (DE)

The Minerva Fountain is a fountain on the cathedral square in Erfurt, Germany.

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The Erthal Obelisk is an 18-metre-high obelisk on Erfurt's cathedral square. It was erected around 1777 on the occasion of the first visit of the Archbishop of Mainz and Lord of Erfurt, Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, making it one of the oldest monuments in Erfurt. The construction costs amounted to 1120 thalers, of which 858 were raised by the citizens in a collection. The work of an unsurviving master builder is made of Wandersleber sandstone and has a square granite base with a laurel-wreathed effigy, name, coat of arms and initials, orders and decorations. In earlier times, a dedication in the stone explained that the "loyal subjects of this city had built this monument to the best father of the land"in eternal memory".

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The Thuringian satirical theatre and cabaret Die Arche e.V. was founded in Erfurt in 1979. The venue is the Erfurt Theater Waidspeicher, a former warehouse for woad dyer's woad.

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The Magdalenkapelle is a small, profaned church building in the old town of Erfurt. It belongs to the cathedral community and was originally a cemetery chapel. Today it is used as a columbarium.

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The Predigerkirche is a Lutheran church in Erfurt, central Germany. It is a monastic church to the Dominican friary, Predigerkloster, adjacent to the church. The name of the Preachers' Church derives from the designation of the Dominicans as "Preacher Brothers". The Predigerkirche was originally built by the Dominican Order in the 13th century, when the mystic Meister Eckhart was prior here. The original building was modified in 1340–50, and the bell tower was built between 1447 and 1488. The church became Protestant after the Reformation. Around 1806, the Predigerkirche was used as a prisoner-of-war camp, which led to damage to the interior and the equipment. Repairs were made around 1826.

Wikipedia: Predigerkirche, Erfurt (EN), Website

The House of Fatherland in Erfurt, the state capital of Thuringia, is located at government road 72. The European Information Center and service rooms of the Thuringian State Chancellery are housed in the Haus Vaterland, the former Weimar Resthems in Erfurt. The building is a protected monument.

Wikipedia: Haus Vaterland (Erfurt) (DE)

The Hirschgarten is a partially park-like green space in the old town of Erfurt. It was the city's first public green space. Today it is a "park duo" consisting of the historic Hirschgarten from the 18th century and a part adjoining it to the west, which was designed on demolition site in the years 2007 to 2009.

Wikipedia: Hirschgarten (Erfurt) (DE)

The Electoral Mainz Lieutenancy is a baroque, three-storey four-wing complex around an inner courtyard from the 16th to 18th centuries. It is located on the corner of Regierungsstrasse and Meister-Eckehart-Straße in the centre of Erfurt.

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The Neue Mühle is a technical museum located on the Schlösserbrücke in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. It is located on a tributary of the small river Gera, which operates the mill's hydroelectric power plant. It contains a flour mill with an undershot Zuppinger water wheel and is the last working mill of what used to be 60 in the city. It has borne its name as the "New Mill" since its reconstruction after the fire of 1735. Particularly interesting is the preserved flow of material over all floors by means of the belt bucket elevator. In addition to a grinding mill, there are also historic roller mills, several plan classifiers and a mill brake elevator.

Wikipedia: Neue Mühle (Erfurt) (DE)

St Lawrence's Church in the city of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, is a Roman Catholic parish church dating from around 1300. The Gothic hall church is located on the northern edge of Anger square and at the beginning of the Schlösserstraße in the centre of the historical part of Erfurt.

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The Reglerkirche is a church building in the historical centre of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany. It serves a Lutheran parish as a place of worship and is one of the larger churches in the city's old part. In times of East Germany, it was considered a centre of church music in Erfurt.

Wikipedia: Reglerkirche (EN)

The Topf & Sons memorial is a place of remembrance with an exhibition and adjoining rooms for educational work in the former administration building of the company J. A. Topf and Sons in Erfurt, which supplied part of the technical equipment for the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and other concentration camps.

Wikipedia: Erinnerungsort Topf & Söhne (DE), Website