Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Göttingen, Germany

Göttingen Observatory is a German astronomical observatory located in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Accouchierhaus or maternity hospital is the name given to a forerunner of today's maternity hospitals that was built in the 18th century.

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Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian adaptation and a French translation.

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Friedrich Wöhler FRS(For) HonFRSE was a German chemist known for his work in both organic and inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. He was the first to prepare several inorganic compounds, including silane and silicon nitride.

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St. Michael is the oldest Catholic church in Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is located in the historic inner city, is the parish church of the Sankt Michael parish in the Deanery of Göttingen of the Hildesheim diocese and at the same time Catholic City Church in Göttingen.

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The black bear in Göttingen is a half-timbered house from the Renaissance period. The house name was first mentioned in 1592; The traditional restaurant for the Black Bear has existed since 1637. The address in the old town is short street 12.

Wikipedia: Schwarzer Bär (Göttingen) (DE)

The St. Nicholas Church in the old town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony is a Gothic hall church with Romanesque origins. Since 1822, it has been the property of the Georg-August-University as a university church and is subordinate to the respective dean of the Faculty of Theology.

Wikipedia: St. Nikolai (Göttingen) (DE)

Kunsthaus Göttingen is an exhibition space in Göttingen, Germany. Its focus is on contemporary art for works on paper, photography, and new media with an international emphasis. The Kunsthaus is part of KuQua.

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The Odilienmühle is a watermill on the western edge of the old town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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The Bismarck House in Göttingen is the last surviving tower of the city's outer medieval fortification ring. It got its name because Otto von Bismarck, who later became Chancellor of the German Empire, lived here for about five months in 1833 during his time as a student in Göttingen. The tower now houses a small museum.

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The synagogue in Bodenfelde, a community in the district of Northeim in Lower Saxony, was located at Mühlenstraße 24 in Bodenfelde on a courtyard plot and has been located at Angerstraße 14 in the city of Göttingen since 2008.

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The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Marien in Göttingen is one of seven churches in Göttingen's city centre.

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The St. John's Church in the old town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony is a three-nave Gothic hall church from the 14th century. With its towers visible from afar, it is one of the city's landmarks. Its patron saint is John the Baptist.

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The Old Town Hall in Göttingen was built in several phases from 1270 onwards and was the seat of the council and administration of the city of Göttingen until 1978. It stands on the west side of the market square in the middle of the old town. Today it is used for representative purposes, for events and exhibitions.

Wikipedia: Altes Rathaus (Göttingen) (DE)

The Gänseliesel is a fountain which was erected in 1901 in front of the medieval town hall of Göttingen, Germany. Although rather small in size, the fountain is the best-known landmark of the city. Today, it is an essential part of graduation celebrations, for every student who finishes a doctorate at the University of Göttingen has to climb the fountain and kiss the statue of the goose girl.

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The Vierkirchenblick in Hanover is a location in front of the Marktkirche, from which visitors can see the four church towers of the main Evangelical Lutheran churches of the capital of Lower Saxony. The location at Hanns-Lilje-Platz, at the corner of Kramerstraße and Knochenhauerstraße, is marked by a stone cross in the pavement. From here, in addition to the tower of the market church, the towers of the Aegidienkirche, the Kreuzkirche and the Neustadt church built in Calenberg's Neustadt can be seen. The symmetrical cross is part of a circle of cobblestones of different colors, over which the red thread passes.

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The auditorium of the University of Göttingen was inaugurated in 1837 on the occasion of the first centenary of the University of Göttingen as an auditorium in the classical style, on behalf of King Wilhelm IV of Great Britain and Hanover on what was then the Neuer Markt, today Wilhelmsplatz.

Wikipedia: Aula der Georg-August-Universität (DE)

The Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of St. Albani is a three-nave Gothic hall church in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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