Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Kamenz, Germany
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1.9 km
60 m
Experience Kamenz in Germany in a whole new way with our free 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.
Sight 1: Sankt-Just-Kirche
The Church of St. Just is one of the four Protestant churches in Kamenz and serves primarily as a church for burials. The wall paintings in the choir of the former pilgrim chapel, which were created around 1400, are significant in art history.
Sight 2: Klosterkirche Sankt Annen
The monastery church of St. Annen was the church of the Kamenz Franciscan convent. After the dissolution of the monastery, it was used for the Protestant worship of the Sorbian inhabitants. Since August 2011, the room has been used for church purposes, concerts and events as well as for the presentation of sacred works of art from the churches of Kamenz under the name of the Monastery Church and Sacral Museum of St. Anne. A restrained, new extension is used by the tourist information. In 2014, the "exemplary cooperation between the parish and the municipality", the "striking combination of old and new architectural language" and the "rich, at the same time nobly restrained presentation of several winged altars and precious furnishings" were honoured with the 1st prize of the Foundation for the Preservation of Ecclesiastical Monuments in Germany.
Sight 3: Lessing-Museum
The Lessing Museum Kamenz was opened in 1931 in his native town of Kamenz on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of the most important German Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. It is located in the Lessinghaus, depicts the life and work of Lessing and is a cultural memorial of national importance.
Sight 4: Rathaus Kamenz
The town hall of Kamenz in Saxony is an official building at Markt 1. It is the headquarters of the city administration and characterizes the cityscape. It is protected as a cultural monument.
Sight 5: Katechismuskirche
The Catechism Church is one of the four Protestant churches in Kamenz. Among other things, it served the Sorbian-speaking service and the catechism exam. Her defiant appearance gives the impression of a military church.
Sight 6: Sankt Marien
The Protestant main church of St. Marien in Kamenz in the district of Bautzen in Saxony is a late Gothic hall church. It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Kamenz in the regional church of Saxony and shapes the cityscape of Kamenz. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was baptized in St. Mary's in 1729 by his father, Archdeacon Johann Gottfried Lessing.
Sight 7: Eulenfelsen
The Eulenfelsen is one of several geological outcrops in the city area and on the outskirts of Kamenz, which are formed by greywackes of the Kamenz series and have been placed under protection as geological natural monuments. Further outcrops can be found on the Teufelsberg, the Gickelsberg and the Kuckucksburg. In the slope outcrop at the Eulenfelsen, the alternating bedding between granular greywackes and dense, schist varieties is particularly striking. With the ordinance of the Bautzen District Office on the establishment of the "Eulenfelsen" area natural monument of 1 December 2011, the rocks have been protected as an area natural monument since 15 February 2012.
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