Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Giessen, Germany
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2.2 km
32 m
Experience Giessen in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in GiessenSight 1: Mathematikum
The Mathematikum is a science museum, located in Gießen, Germany, which offers a huge variety of mathematical hands-on exhibits. It was founded by Albrecht Beutelspacher, a German mathematician.
Sight 2: Liebigmuseum
The Liebig Museum is a natural science museum founded in 1920 in Giessen, Germany, dedicated to the chemist Justus Liebig. The building was originally built as a guard house in a barracks and expanded by Liebig. It shows the working conditions and the tools of that time in the former Chemical Institute, where Liebig lived and researched during his time as a professor at the University of Giessen from 1824 to 1852.
Sight 3: Johanneskirche
The St. John's Church is the largest Protestant church in Giessen in the central Hessian district of Giessen and, with a height of 72 meters, has the highest church tower of all Giessen churches. It was built in 1893 in a historicist mixed style of Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance. The building is a Hessian cultural monument and characterises the cityscape.
Sight 4: Die drei Schwätzer
The Three Chatterers are a bronze sculpture created by Karl-Henning Seemann in the central Hessian city of Giessen. They are located in the inner-city pedestrian zone at the junction of Plockstraße and Seltersweg.
Sight 5: Gießener Schlammbeiser
Giessen, spelled Gießen in German, is a town in the German state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 university students.
Sight 6: Gießkannenmuseum
The Watering Can Museum is a museum for watering cans and other irrigation instruments in the central Hessian city of Giessen. It was launched in 2011 in the run-up to the State Garden Show Giessen 2014 as a hands-on project for the citizens, according to the motto of the preparatory phase "The gardener's first duty: Giessen!"
Sight 7: Botanischer Garten
The Botanischer Garten Gießen, more formally the Botanischer Garten der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, is a historic botanical garden maintained by the University of Giessen. It is the oldest botanical garden in Germany still at its original site, with an entrance at Senckenbergstraße 6, Gießen, Hesse, Germany. It is open daily without charge.
Sight 8: Altes Schloss
The Old Castle, also known as the Landgrave's Castle, is located in the centre of the university town of Giessen in Hesse. The building, which was built in the 14th century, borders the Botanical Garden on its northeast and southeast sides, the Kanzleiberg on the southwest side and the Brandplatz on the northwest side.
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