Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Heidelberg, Germany

The Carl Bosch Museum Heidelberg is a technology museum that shows the life and work of the Heidelberg Nobel Prize winner Carl Bosch (1874–1940) and was founded in 1998 on more than 300 m² and two outdoor areas. The building in Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, where the museum is located, once served as an apartment for Bosch's chauffeurs and as a garage for Bosch's automobiles. Carl Bosch's residence was the Villa Bosch, a few hundred meters from the garage building.

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Electoral Palatinate Museum Heidelberg houses the art and cultural history collections of the city of Heidelberg.

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The former Hotel Badischer Hof was opened in 1780. With its central location on Heidelberg Main Street 113, it was long considered the most prestigious house on the square. Among his illustrative guests were King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

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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.

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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".

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The Heidelberg Marstall, built from Neckar valley sandstone, is one of the oldest surviving buildings from the early modern period in Heidelberg. The building now known as the Marstall was originally called the Armoury, while the Marstall to the south was located in a building that is now destroyed.

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The Heuscheuer (hay barn) is a former warehouse in Heidelberg, Germany. Today, the building serves as the university's lecture hall.

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The Heidelberg Bridge Monkey dates back to the 15th century. It was a stone statue sitting in the tower of the Old Bridge, which was located opposite Heidelberg’s Old Town. The purpose of the tower was to instill fear and respect in anyone arriving in the town, while the monkey represented mockery. The statue was destroyed with the tower during the Nine Years' War.

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The Mittermaierhaus is a baroque town house in Heidelberg, Germany. It is located at Karlstraße 8 below Heidelberg Castle.

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The Hirschgasse is one of the oldest and most famous inns in Heidelberg. It gained significance above all as a long-standing timpani pub for the local beating student fraternities.

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The Bismarck Column Heidelberg is a listed observation tower built in Heidelberg in 1903. The Bismarck Tower is located on the southern slope of the Heiligenberg above the Philosopher's Path.

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