Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Landshut, Germany

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Number of sights 13 sights
Distance 5.1 km
Ascend 191 m
Descend 199 m

Explore Landshut 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.

Individual Sights in Landshut

Sight 1: St. Margaret

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Margaret in Landshut-Achdorf is a neo-baroque church building that was built between 1910 and 1912 according to the plans of the Regensburg architect Heinrich Hauberrisser. It replaced the old Gothic church as the parish church of the originally rural Achdorf.

Wikipedia: St. Margaret (Landshut) (DE)

686 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Burgfriedenstein

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In Germany, Burgfriedensäulen are former boundary signs that were erected as boundary stones at certain points in the terrain around a city or castle. The spatial scope of a castle trench was determined by the stones.

Wikipedia: Burgfriedensäule (EN)

956 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 3: Herzog Ludwig der Reiche

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The monument to Duke Ludwig the Rich is a bronze statue in the Lower Bavarian town of Landshut.

Wikipedia: Denkmal für Herzog Ludwig den Reichen (DE)

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Theklakapelle

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The Thekla Chapel is a church in the parish of St. Martin in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany.

Wikipedia: Theklakapelle (Landshut) (DE)

123 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Burghauser Tor

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Landshut is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also the seat of the surrounding district and has a population of more than 75,000. Landshut is the largest city in Lower Bavaria, followed by Passau and Straubing, and Eastern Bavaria's second after Regensburg.

Wikipedia: Landshut (EN)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Jugendherberge Landshut

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The Ottonianum is a former citizen palace and boarding school building in Landshut in Lower Bavaria. Today the city's youth hostel is housed in the building.

Wikipedia: Ottonianum (Landshut) (DE)

424 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Burg Trausnitz

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Trausnitz Castle is a medieval castle situated in Landshut, Bavaria in Germany.

Wikipedia: Trausnitz Castle (EN)

662 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: Königmuseum im Hofberg

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Königmuseum im Hofberg Toni Ott / CC-by-sa 3.0

The Koenigmuseum is a museum of sculptures in Landshut, Germany. It houses the work and collections of the sculptor Fritz Koenig (1924–2017), which he donated to the Fritz and Maria Koenig Foundation in 1993.

Wikipedia: Koenigmuseum (DE), Website

461 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Jesuitenkirche Sankt Ignatius

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Jesuitenkirche Sankt Ignatius Klaus Graf / CC BY 3.0

The former Jesuit monastery church of St. Ignatius is located at the upper end of Landshut's Neustadt street. It literally forms the end of the new town towards the Hofberg. Attached to it is the former Jesuit college in Landshut. The towerless church is a subsidiary church of the parish of St. Martin and counts both as an architectural monument of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and as a protected cultural asset according to the Hague Convention. The patron saint of the church is St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.

Wikipedia: St. Ignatius (Landshut) (DE)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Kriegerdenkmal

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The war memorial of the city of Landshut "Deutsche Eiche" was erected in memory of the soldiers who died in the First World War. It is located in the middle of Landshut's Neustadt at the intersection of Steckengasse in the direction of the old town and Barfüßergasse in the direction of the Freyung district.

Wikipedia: Kriegerdenkmal (Landshut) (DE)

426 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: St. Jodok

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St. Jodok, also known as Jodokskirche, is the second oldest parish church in Landshut after the parish church of St. Martin. Along with St. Martin's Church and the Church of the Holy Spirit, it is one of the three large Gothic brick churches in Landshut's old town. Begun in the High Gothic period, the building, like several other churches in Landshut, was completed in the second half of the 15th century, i.e. during the late Gothic period. Most of the current furnishings date back to the neo-Gothic period in the 19th century.

Wikipedia: St. Jodok (Landshut) (DE)

531 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Das Kleine Theater

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Kleines theater – Kammerspiele Landshut is a theatre in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany.

Wikipedia: Kleines theater – Kammerspiele Landshut (EN), Website

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Heilig Geist

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Heilig Geist kandschwar / CC BY 3.0

The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit in Landshut's Old Town is a subsidiary church of the parish of St. Martin. It is owned by the city of Landshut. The three-nave, late Gothic hall church was built between 1407 and 1461 according to the plans of Hans von Burghausen. Since the completion of a major renovation project in 1998, it has been used as a venue for exhibitions of the museums of the city of Landshut, but has not been profaned. The patron saint is celebrated annually with a mass on Whit Monday. Otherwise, there are no services in the Church of the Holy Spirit.

Wikipedia: Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Landshut) (DE)

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