Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Erfurt, Germany
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4.7 km
49 m
Explore Erfurt 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.
Individual Sights in ErfurtSight 1: Thomaskirche
St Thomas' Church in the city of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, is a United Protestant parish church. It was built in Gothic Revival style in a park on Schillerstraße in the Löbervorstadt district in 1900–1902 to replace the Old St Thomas' Church, which had become too small. It has the second-highest steeple in the city at 72 metres (236 ft) and houses a Gothic altar retable from 1445, which is one of Erfurt's four valuable carved altars.
Sight 2: DenkNadel
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.
Sight 3: Pförtchenbrücke
The Pförtchenbrücke is a road bridge that spans the flood ditch of the Gera in Erfurt. The building, which has been a listed building since 1981, is described as the most beautiful bridge in Erfurt.
Sight 4: Hohenzollernbrücke
The Hohenzollern Bridge is a road bridge that spans the flood ditch of the Gera River in Erfurt. It is the only bridge in the city with artistic sculptural decoration. It is a listed building.
Sight 5: Luisenpark
Dreienbrunnenpark is a park in the south of Erfurt, Germany.
Sight 6: Cyriakkapelle
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.
Sight 7: Zitadelle Cyriaksburg
The Citadelle Cyriaksburg in the southwest of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt is an originally urban, later Swedish, Kurmainz and Prussian city fortress from the 17th to 19th centuries. It is located on the 265 -meter high Cyriaksberg, in the middle of the Eferturt egapark.
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