Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Erfurt, Germany

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Number of sights 11 sights
Distance 7.5 km
Ascend 137 m
Descend 147 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 Erfurt

Sight 1: Sankt Bonifatius

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The Roman Catholic, listed branch church of St. Bonifatius is in the Hochheim district of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt. It is the branch church of the parish of St. Nikolaus Erfurt-Melchendorf in the Deanery of Erfurt of the Diocese of Erfurt. It bears the patronal feast of St. Bonifatius.

Wikipedia: St. Bonifatius (Hochheim) (DE), Website

1146 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 2: Luisenpark

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Dreienbrunnenpark is a park in the south of Erfurt, Germany.

Wikipedia: Dreienbrunnenpark (DE)

515 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Hohenzollernbrücke

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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.

Wikipedia: Hohenzollernbrücke (Erfurt) (DE)

582 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Pförtchenbrücke

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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.

Wikipedia: Pförtchenbrücke (DE)

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: DenkNadel

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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.

Wikipedia: Denknadel (DE), Website

640 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 6: Kartause

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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)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Neue Synagoge

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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)

595 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: Thomaskirche

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Thomaskirche Wikswat / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: St Thomas' Church, Erfurt (EN), Website, Youtube

1608 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 9: Südpark

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With 7 hectares, the Südpark is a medium-sized park in the city of Erfurt. It is located in the historic Löbervorstadt and emerged from the Erfurt South Cemetery, which was closed in 1978. However, its area has shrunk to less than half due to buildings in the north and south, especially due to the SED district party school and buildings of the Erfurt sports centre. The park has more than 100-year-old trees and two memorials from the cemetery period.

Wikipedia: Südpark (Erfurt) (DE)

1216 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 10: Stadtpark

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The Stadtpark in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, is a public park of about 6.5 hectares. It is located south of the main train station in the Löbervorstadt district.

Wikipedia: Stadtpark (Erfurt) (DE)

902 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 11: Erinnerungsort Topf & Söhne

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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

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