Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Heilbronn, Germany
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5.4 km
68 m
Experience Heilbronn 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 HeilbronnSight 1: Villa Racher
The Villa Racher at Villmatstraße 17 in Heilbronn was built in expressionist style and is a listed building.
Sight 2: Theater Heilbronn
Theater Heilbronn is a theatre in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Sight 3: Mondbrunnen
The list of fountains in Heilbronn lists the fountains in the city of Heilbronn that are important and worth seeing because of their architecture or history. The list does not claim to be exhaustive and only takes into account fountains in the core city without the incorporated districts. Other art and cultural monuments or artistically designed objects in the cityscape are listed in the list of buildings, monuments or sculptures in Heilbronn.
Sight 4: Zehender am Markt
The Zehender House is a baroque secular building at Marktplatz 12 in Heilbronn. The building is a listed cultural monument.
Sight 5: Kilianskirche
Kilian's Church on Kaiserstraße in Heilbronn is a Gothic hall church constructed from Heilbronner sandstone, whose origin dates back to the 11th century. Its western tower, constructed by Hans Schweiner, is one of the first major Renaissance buildings to be built north of the Alps. Inside the church there is an altar by Hans Seyffer from 1498, which is regarded as a masterpiece of sculpture from the Late German Gothic period. Some of the stained glass is by Charles Crodel. The Monument Foundation of Baden-Württemberg appointed the church as monument of the month in December 2016.
Sight 6: Komödiantenbrunnen
The New City Fountain is a fountain designed by the sculptor Eberhard Linke in 1996 on Kiliansplatz in Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg.
Sight 7: Siebenröhrenbrunnen
The Siebenröhrenbrunnen is a listed fountain in Kirchbrunnenstraße in Heilbronn. The fountain probably contained the spring that gave the city of Heilbronn its name and was moved and redesigned several times in the course of its history.
Sight 8: St. Peter und Paul
The Teutonic Order Minster in the Deutschhof in Heilbronn is a Catholic church built by the Teutonic Order, whose origins date back to the 13th century and which dates back to an older predecessor building.
Wikipedia: Deutschordensmünster St. Peter und Paul (Heilbronn) (DE)
Sight 9: Käthchenhaus
The Käthchenhaus is a private secular building of the 14th century at Marktplatz 1 in Heilbronn. The house with the striking bay window on the corner of Kaiserstraße got its current name in the 19th century from the then popular play Das Käthchen von Heilbronn.
Sight 10: Rathaus
The town hall in Heilbronn is located in the centre of the historic centre of Heilbronn. Its main building is the main part of the Old Town Hall, which was rebuilt after its destruction in the Second World War. A four-winged, modern building complex is attached to it, which encloses the ruins of the old city archive from the 18th century, which have been converted into a hall of honour.
Sight 11: Rathaus Ehrenhalle
The Hall of Honour in Heilbronn made of Heilbronn sandstone is located in the inner courtyard of the Heilbronn town hall. The memorial with Hiroshima mosaic by Karl Knappe, erected in the ruins of the Old City Archive, commemorates the dead of the Second World War and the victims of the Third Reich and is one of numerous important buildings in Heilbronn.
Sight 12: Hagenbucher
experimenta is a science center in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg. The learning and adventure world is housed in the former Hagenbucher warehouse building and a new building on the Kraneninsel that opened in March 2019. It is intended to make science and technology understandable for people of all ages. experimenta consists of the "Worlds of Discovery" exhibition area, the "Worlds of Experience" with a Science Dome, observatory and experimental theater, and the "Researcher Worlds" in the existing building with eight laboratories, an experimental kitchen, the North Württemberg Student Research Center, and the Maker Space.
Sight 13: Ehemaliges Postamt
The Old Post Office in Heilbronn, Bahnhofstraße 22, was built in 1906 and was the largest post office in the region at the time. It is a cultural monument under monument protection.
Sight 14: Schießhaus
The Schießhaus is a rococo building in Heilbronn. The building, which was built around 1770, takes its name from its original use as a shooting house, and it was also the hall building of the Heilbronn horse market, which was founded at the same time. The building has always been owned by the city of Heilbronn and has already served a wide variety of purposes.
Sight 15: SEH - Eisenbahnmuseum
The South German Railway Museum is a railway museum at Heilbronn in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany. It was founded in 1998.
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