Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Erfurt, Germany

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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Cyriak chapel in Erfurt is a so -called diaspora chapel by the architect Otto Bartning. Built in 1950, it belongs to the serial church sequence program of the Bartning-Notkirchen. It stands in the southwest of Erfurt in the Cyriac settlement and is a church of the Evangelical preacher community.

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The Deutsches Gartenbaumuseum is located in Erfurt in the historic defension caserna of the Citadel Cyriaksburg on the grounds of the Erfurt horticultural exhibition Egapark. In his exhibitions and workshops, during lectures and guided tours, visitors can learn about the relationship between man and plant and environment from its beginnings to the future. The topics are assigned to two areas: work horticulture and landscaping. The commercial cultivation of foods such as apples, tomatoes and cabbage, as well as ornamental plants and trees is concerned. The area of landscaping includes the design of green areas and can pursue aesthetic, social or ecological goals.

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