Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Gotha, Germany

The horseshoe-shaped garden city settlement "Am schmalen Rain" in the south of Gotha is an example of the cooperative housing of the 1920s, which was influenced by the early garden city movement. The settlement takes its name from its entrance street, which in turn was named after an old field name.

Wikipedia: Gartenstadtsiedlung „Am schmalen Rain“ (DE)

The Church Christkönig, also a Christkönigskirche to the precious blood, was the second church, next to the church of St. Bonifatius, the Roman Catholic community in Gotha, which belongs to the parish of St. Bonifatius Gotha. In 2019 it was sold to the Romanian Orthodox church.

Wikipedia: Christkönig (Gotha) (DE), Website

The Josias Friedrich Löffler State Primary School is a primary school in Gotha, Germany. The schoolhouse, which is a listed building, was built in 1892 and extended by a gymnasium in 1894. The school initially bore the name of Josias Friedrich Löffler and then served as a vocational school from 1959, then named after Käthe Kollwitz. In 1991, the building became a primary school again, which has borne Löffler's name again since 1992.

Wikipedia: Löfflerschule (DE)

Located in the castle park south of Friedenstein Castle, the Ducal Museum Gotha is a museum building in the Neo-Renaissance style from the 19th century. Since its reopening in 2013, it has been showcasing the art collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Gotha with Egyptian and Greco-Roman antiquities, Renaissance painting, East Asian art from China and Japan, and sculptures from various eras. A masterpiece of the exhibition is the Gotha Lovers, a painting from 1480.

Wikipedia: Herzogliches Museum Gotha (DE), Website

The Gotha Observatory was a duke foundation for the purpose of astronomical research. It consisted of several research sites in the city area of Gotha, including the building located on Jägerstraße, whose street facade is shown on the photo below.

Wikipedia: Sternwarte Gotha (DE)

The German Insurance Museum Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi is a museum of insurance history in Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. It is located at Bahnhofstraße 3a, in the former management building of the Gothaer Lebensversicherungsbank. It is operated on behalf of the city of Gotha by the Friends of the Insurance Museum of the same name.

Wikipedia: Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi (DE), Website

The Hofjägerhaus, also known as Villa Glenck, is a villa in Gotha, Mozartstraße 5, Germany.

Wikipedia: Hofjägerhaus (DE)

The Prinzenpalais is an early classicist villa at Mozartstraße 1 in Gotha, Germany. It was built in 1776 and is one of the earliest buildings of classicism in Germany, along with Wörlitz Castle near Dessau (1769–1773) and the Friedericianum in Kassel (1769–1785). After many years of vacancy, the ensemble, consisting of the Prince's Palace and the Kavaliershaus, was bought by AWO AJS gGmbH. While the Prince's Palace was being rebuilt and extensively restored, the Kavaliershaus and the gallery were demolished in protest. Since 6 August 2018, two side extensions with flat roofs have completed the building.

Wikipedia: Prinzenpalais (Gotha) (DE)

The state regular school "Andreas Reyher" is a regular school in Gotha. The school building of the school was built in 1900 as a community school for boys and girls. The school has always been bearing the name of the educator Andreas Reyher, who organized the Gotha school system in the 17th century, although the school's organizational form changed several times. At the moment, the building houses a state regular school and a state primary school that bears Reyher's names.

Wikipedia: Reyherschule (DE)

The Evangelical Friedrichskirche, also called Siechhofkirche, is the smallest church building in the city of Gotha. It is considered the oldest baroque central building in Thuringia.

Wikipedia: Friedrichskirche (Gotha) (DE)