Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Erlangen, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 3 km
Ascend 27 m
Descend 23 m

Explore Erlangen 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 Erlangen

Sight 1: Bahnhof Erlangen

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Bahnhof Erlangen Rolf Krahl (Rotkraut) / CC BY 4.0

Erlangen station is located on the Nuremberg–Bamberg railway in the German state of Bavaria. It is the oldest railway station of the city of Erlangen and it is the only station in the city served by long-distance trains. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station and has four platform tracks.

Wikipedia: Erlangen station (EN)

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Hugenottenkirche

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The Evangelical Reformed Church is referred to as Huguenot Church in Erlangen. It was built from 1686 to 1693 according to the plans of Johann Moritz Richter. The construction took place in the course of the design of the Erlangen Neustadt, a baroque plan city. The tower dates from 1732 to 1736. The Erlangen Church is the oldest still used church of the Huguenots outside of France. In addition, the Evangelical Reformed Church is probably the most important church building in Erlangen, the oldest building of the Erlangen Neustadt and after the Martinsbühler church the second oldest church in Erlangen. The Neustädter Church was only founded in 1703 and the original Altstadt Marienkirche was destroyed in the great fire in 1706 and only rebuilt as a trinity church in 1721. It was called a distinction from the German-reformed church to the unification of the two parishes in 1922. In 1936, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the arrival of French refugees, the parish was brought from the outside, since it was now possible to name them in the same way to rename the square in Hugenottenplatz. This was rejected by the presbytery, since the parish not only originally had French (Huguenot) parishioners, but also from the Palatinate, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Waldenser.

Wikipedia: Hugenottenkirche (Erlangen) (DE), Website

133 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Emmy Noether

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Emmy Noether

Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.

Wikipedia: Emmy Noether (EN)

42 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Stutterheimsches Palais

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The Stutterheimsche Palais is the most important baroque aristocratic palace in Erlangen. It is located on the south side of the market square and was built in 1728–1730. Today it houses the Erlangen City Library and the Kunstpalais Erlangen.

Wikipedia: Stutterheimsches Palais (DE)

2 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: Kunstpalais

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The Kunstpalais Erlangen is the successor to the Erlangen municipal gallery. This has been located in the Palais Stutterheim since 1974, which was built on behalf of 1728 to 1730 and was built for Christian Hieronymus von Stutterheim and is located in the center of the Huguenottenstadt. After two years of renovation phase, the Kunstpalais 2010 was opened with an exhibition area doubled on more than 500 m² on the ground floor and basement of the Palais Stutterheim under the founding director Claudia Emmert.

Wikipedia: Kunstpalais Erlangen (DE), Website

56 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Paulibrunnen

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The Schloßplatz in Erlangen, together with the neighbouring market square, forms today's centre of the city. Together, they are part of Erlangen's pedestrian zone and the venue for numerous markets and festivals.

Wikipedia: Schloß- und Marktplatz (Erlangen) (DE), Website

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Besoldsches Haus

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The Besoldsche Haus is a baroque aristocratic palace in Erlangen, Germany. The building at Hauptstraße 26 was built between 1733 and 1734 and is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Besoldsches Haus (DE)

106 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Gottfried Thomasius

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Gottfried Thomasius was a German Lutheran theologian. He was born in Egenhausen and he died in Erlangen.

Wikipedia: Gottfried Thomasius (EN)

24 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Johan Philipp Palm

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Johan Philipp Palm

Johann Philipp Palm or Johannes Philipp Palm was a German bookseller and a strong anti-French agitator and freedom fighter executed during the Napoleonic Wars at Napoleon's orders.

Wikipedia: Johann Philipp Palm (EN)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Schloss Erlangen

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The Schloss Erlangen is a residence in Erlangen, built between 1700 and 1704 by George William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Work was initially led by Antonio della Porta and after his death in 1702 by Gottfried von Gedeler. It was the first baroque building built from scratch in Franconia.

Wikipedia: Schloss Erlangen (EN)

178 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Gefallenendenkmal der Universität

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The palace garden in Erlangen is considered one of the first baroque gardens in Franconia. The garden, which has been open to the general public since 1849, hosts the largest garden festival in Europe every year, the Schlossgartenfest of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Wikipedia: Schlossgarten (Erlangen) (DE)

43 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Kollegienhaus

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Kollegienhaus University of Erlanngen-Nuremberg / CC BY-SA 4.0

University of Erlangen–Nuremberg is a public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. The name Friedrich–Alexander comes from the university's first founder Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and its benefactor Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

Wikipedia: University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (EN)

308 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Jakob-Herz-Stele

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Jakob-Herz-Stele

Jakob Herz was a German physician and the first Jewish professor in Bavaria.

Wikipedia: Jakob Herz (DE)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Ludwig von Döderlein

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Ludwig von Döderlein

Johann Christoph Wilhelm Ludwig Döderlein was a German philologist.

Wikipedia: Johann Christoph Wilhelm Ludwig Döderlein (EN)

49 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Lynckersches Palais

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The Lyncker Palais is a baroque noble palace in Erlangen. The building with the address Friedrichstraße 35 was built in 1748 and today houses the Singing and Music School in Erlangen. It is under monument protection.

Wikipedia: Lynckersches Palais (DE)

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Egloffsteinsches Palais

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The Egloffstein Palais is the largest baroque nobility palace in Erlangen. The building with the addresses Friedrichstraße 17 and southern Stadtmauerstrasse 28 was built in 1718 and today houses the adult education center of the city of Erlangen and the Franco-German Institute in Erlangen.

Wikipedia: Egloffsteinsches Palais (Erlangen) (DE)

176 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Neustädter Kirche

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Neustädter Kirche is one of three large downtown churches of the Baroque old town of Erlangen. Germany. The church is Lutheran. It dominates the town, together with the Reformed Hugenottenkirche and the Lutheran Altstädter Kirche.

Wikipedia: Neustädter Kirche, Erlangen (EN), Website

161 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: CVJM Erlangen e.V.

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CVJM Erlangen e.V.

The Young People's Christian Association (YMCA) is the world's largest youth organization with a total of over 64 million people reached. This organization is non-denominational Christian and in practice Evangelical-Protestant oriented.

Wikipedia: CVJM (DE), Website

297 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 19: Kunstmuseum Erlangen

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The Kunstmuseum Erlangen is a regional exhibition venue, archive and museum for contemporary art in Erlangen, Germany. It is located in the Loewenich Palace. Since July 2016, the sponsor has been the city of Erlangen.

Wikipedia: Kunstmuseum Erlangen (DE), Website

632 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 20: St. Bonifaz

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Boniface is the second oldest post-Reformation Catholic church in Erlangen after the Sacred Heart Church. The church, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Bamberg, was built in 1927/28 according to the plans of Fritz Fuchsenberger in the expressionist style and is today an important architectural monument of the 1920s.

Wikipedia: St. Bonifaz (Erlangen) (DE), Website

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