Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Heidelberg, Germany

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 8.9 km
Ascend 722 m
Descend 618 m

Explore Heidelberg 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.

Activities in HeidelbergIndividual Sights in Heidelberg

Sight 1: Obere Burg

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Obere Burg Sebastian Münster / Bild-PD-alt

The Upper Castle, also known as the Old Castle or Castle in the Mountains, is an abandoned hilltop castle on the northwest slope of the Königstuhl above Heidelberg Castle. Like Heidelberg Castle, the complex on today's Klingenteichstraße, which no longer exists, already existed in the Middle Ages. It was demonstrably destroyed on 25 April 1537 by a lightning strike and an accompanying explosion due to stored black powder stocks. The base and foundation walls of the former hilltop castle are now mainly built over by the whey cure.

Wikipedia: Obere Burg (Heidelberg) (DE)

1287 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 2: Heidelberg Castle

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Heidelberg CastlePumuckel42 (Reinhard Wolf) at de:Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

Heidelberg Castle is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps.

Wikipedia: Heidelberg Castle (EN), Website, Url Official

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Deutsches Apotheken-Museum

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The German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg is a German museum dedicated to the history of pharmacy. It has extensive collections, the exhibits of which cover the entire German-speaking world from antiquity to the 21st century. It is located in Heidelberg Castle.

Wikipedia: Deutsches Apothekenmuseum (DE), Website

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Schlossgarten

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Schlossgarten

The Hortus Palatinus, or Garden of the Palatinate, was a Baroque garden attached to Heidelberg Castle, Germany. The garden was commissioned by Frederick V, Elector Palatine in 1614 for his new wife, Elizabeth Stuart, and became famous across Europe during the 17th century for the landscaping and horticultural techniques involved in its design. At the time it was known as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World', and has since been termed 'Germany's greatest Renaissance garden.'

Wikipedia: Hortus Palatinus (EN)

820 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 5: Karlstor

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The Karlstor is a historic building in the city of Heidelberg. Since 1781, it has marked the eastern end of Heidelberg's old town.

Wikipedia: Karlstor (Heidelberg) (DE)

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Karlstor-Bahnhof

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Karlstor-Bahnhof

Heidelberg-Altstadt station is a railway station on the eastern edge of the Old Town of Heidelberg, Germany. Until 13 December 2008, Heidelberg station was called Karlstor.

Wikipedia: Bahnhof Heidelberg Altstadt (DE)

1076 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 7: Jesuitenkirche

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Jesuitenkirche Reinhard Wolf, Talstraße 13, 63128 Dietzenbach. (selbst fotografiert); User Pumuckel42 on de.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Jesuit Church is the largest and most important church in Heidelberg next to the Church of the Holy Spirit and forms the architectural focus of the former Jesuit quarter in the old town in the immediate vicinity of the University Square. Today it is the main church of the Roman Catholic Holy Spirit parish in Heidelberg's old town. The church was built between 1712 and 1759 in the Baroque style, the neo-baroque tower was added between 1868 and 1872. The church, which is not osteten as usual, but faces south, is a "building that is as remarkable as it is unusual".

Wikipedia: Jesuitenkirche (Heidelberg) (DE)

241 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Peterskirche

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St. Peter's Church is the oldest church in the old town (Altstadt) of Heidelberg, Germany. It has generally served as the university church of the University of Heidelberg since the late Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: St. Peter's Church, Heidelberg (EN), Url Official

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Anna Blum

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Anna Blum, née Helwerth, was a functionary of the Baden Women's Association and founder of women's aid institutions in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Wikipedia: Anna Blum (DE)

251 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Providenzkirche

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Providenzkirche

The Church of Providence is a Protestant church on the Hauptstrasse of the old town of Heidelberg. Until the union of the Protestant Church in Baden in 1821, this was the Lutheran church of central Heidelberg, while the Church of the Holy Spirit was the meeting place of the Calvinist church.

Wikipedia: Church of Providence, Heidelberg (EN)

353 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Friedrichsbau

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The Friedrichsbau, syn. Fridericianum, is a historic building at Hauptstrasse 47/49 in Heidelberg. The castle-like three-wing property was built in 1863 for use by the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Old Anatomy. Today it houses the Psychological Institute of the University of Heidelberg.

Wikipedia: Friedrichsbau (Heidelberg) (EN)

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen

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The Haus zum Riesen is a baroque palace on the Hauptstrasse in Heidelberg, built in 1707/8. The building is named for a statue with decorates the façade. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, it has been used by Heidelberg University and several prominent academics have worked in it.

Wikipedia: Haus zum Riesen, Heidelberg (EN)

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Sankt Anna

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St. Anna is a Catholic church in the old town of Heidelberg. It was built as a hospital church from 1714 to 1717 and was consecrated to St. Anna. The former hospital joins east to the church.

Wikipedia: St. Anna (Heidelberg) (DE)

503 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 14: Erlöserkirche

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The Church of the Redeemer is a church in Heidelberg's Old Town, which was built in 1723/24 as a convent church of the "White Nuns" (Dominican nuns). After the dissolution of the monastery, it was used for various purposes and is now the parish church of the Old Catholic community. Apart from the Jesuit Church, it is the only surviving of the originally numerous monastery churches in Heidelberg's old town.

Wikipedia: Erlöserkirche (Heidelberg) (DE)

1187 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 15: Riesenstein

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Riesenstein Felix Kick / CC-by-sa 2.0/de

The Riesenstein is a bouldering and climbing area on the slope of the Gaisberg directly above Heidelberg's old town.

Wikipedia: Riesenstein (Heidelberg) (DE)

1604 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 16: Gaisbergturm

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The Gaisberg Tower in Heidelberg is an architectural monument that stands at the transition of the small plateau of the 375.6 m above sea level Gaisberg to the northwest slope. Designed by the architect Fritz Seitz, the observation tower was built in 1876 by the Heidelberger Schloss- und Altertumsverein e. V. The lighthouse of Alexandria probably served as a model.

Wikipedia: Gaisbergturm (DE)

45 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Gaisberg

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Gaisberg

Gaisberg (Heidelberg) is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the 17th century, Matthäus Merian (1593–1650) depicted the Gaisberg as almost completely treeless. Today it is mostly covered in dense deciduous forest and rises above the western part of Heidelberg's old town and the adjoining western town on the edge of the Upper Rhine plain.

Wikipedia: Gaisberg (Heidelberg) (EN)

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