Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Landshut, Germany

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Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 3.1 km
Ascend 157 m
Descend 152 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: 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)

461 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: 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

662 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: Burg Trausnitz

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

Wikipedia: Trausnitz Castle (EN)

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: 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)

1009 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 5: 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)

686 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 6: 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)

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