Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ludwigsburg, Germany
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7.4 km
113 m
Explore Ludwigsburg 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 LudwigsburgSight 1: Wasserturm Fürstenhügel
The Ludwigsburg-Fürstenhügel water tower is a 40-metre-high water tower next to the Römerhügelweg in the south of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Sight 2: MHPArena
The MHPArena is a stadium located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and home to Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart. It hosted football matches in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Euro 1988 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Besides that the 1959 European Cup Final, the replay of the 1962 European Cup Winners' Cup final, the 1988 European Cup Final and the second leg of the 1989 UEFA Cup final took place in the stadium. The stadium hosted the 1986 European Athletics Championships and the 1993 World Athletics Championships before it was redeveloped into a football-specific stadium in 2009.
Sight 3: Villa Franck - ISTW Planungsgesellschaft mbH
Franckstraße 2 and 4 in Ludwigsburg is the address of a former factory owner's villa with an outbuilding, which is now a listed building.
Sight 4: Musikhalle
The Musikhalle Ludwigsburg at Bahnhofstraße 19 in Ludwigsburg is a representative historicist hall building from the late Wilhelminian period.
Sight 5: Synagogenplatz
The synagogue in Ludwigsburg was a sacred building that existed from 1884 to 1938.
Sight 6: Dr. David Schmal
In the list of Stolpersteine in Ludwigsburg are all 96 Stolpersteine that were laid in Ludwigsburg as part of the project of the artist Gunter Demnig on a total of 13 dates. The first Ludwigsburg Stolpersteine were placed on September 27, 2008, the last so far on November 15, 2022. According to the Ludwigsburg Stumbling Stone Initiative, more are to follow in April 2024.
Sight 7: Schiller-Denkmal
The Schiller Monument in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart is the work of the Ludwigsburg sculptor Ludwig von Hofer. He created the marble statue in Carrara in 1880 and donated it to his hometown, which had it erected in the center of the triangular Schillerplatz in Ludwigsburg in 1882.
Sight 8: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg
The Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, located in Ludwigsburg, Germany, is a public institutional repository for roughly 680 state authorities within the District of Stuttgart, Germany.
Sight 9: Deutsch-Französisches Institut
The Deutsch-Französisches Institut (DFI) is an independent non-profit organization devoted to research on and documentation of contemporary Franco-German relations. The institute is funded by the German Foreign Office, the regional government of Baden-Württemberg and the town of Ludwigsburg. Projects are also funded by external partners.
Sight 10: Stadtkirche Ludwigsburg
The Stadtkirche Ludwigsburg is a Protestant church building in the city centre of Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Sight 11: Blühendes Barock
The gardens around the Residenzschloss in Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg are referred to as the blooming baroque.
Sight 12: Kriegerehrenmal 1914/18
The War Memorial 1914/18 was erected in 1924 by the city of Ludwigsburg in memory of its war dead in the so-called Cemetery of Honour of the Old Cemetery.
Sight 13: Auferstehungskirche
The Protestant Church of the Resurrection in Ludwigsburg was built in 1934 as a temporary wooden church by the Ludwigsburg architect Hermann Gabler and was initially another preaching place of the Ludwigsburg City Church. The church of the parish of the same name in the Protestant deanery of Ludwigsburg is a church building of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. Due to the influx of refugees, it had to be expanded in 1952 and thus acquired its current form.
Sight 14: Schorndorfer Torhaus
The original at least eight gatehouses of the baroque city of Ludwigsburg were part of the former city fortifications. It consisted of a wall about 6 kilometres long and up to 3.5 m high, which was equipped with gates at its entrances and exits. Each gate complex had a gatehouse connected to the city wall, which served as a guard and customs house. However, the aim was not so much to guard the city from external enemies, but rather to prevent the soldiers, some of whom had been forcibly recruited and barracked in the city, from deserting. Of these gatehouses, six still survive today; these are listed as historical monuments.
Sight 15: Amtsgericht Ludwigsburg - Insolvenz und Familiengericht
The Ludwigsburg District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction. It is one of eleven local courts in the district of the Stuttgart Regional Court.
Sight 16: Schlange
The Snake at the Crossroads is an art installation by the Dutch artist Auke de Vries in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Sight 17: Friedenskirche
The Friedenskirche is a Protestant church in Ludwigsburg in Württemberg. It was built as a garrison church by Munich architect Friedrich von Thiersch in the period from December 27, 1900 to March 31, 1903.
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