Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Meissen, Germany

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 3.1 km
Ascend 106 m
Descend 116 m

Explore Meissen 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 Meissen

Sight 1: Franziskaneum

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Franziskaneum

The Franziskaneum high school is located on the Ratsweinberg above the historic city of Meißen and can be seen from a distance.

Wikipedia: Gymnasium Franziskaneum Meißen (DE)

428 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Bahnhof Meißen

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Bahnhof MeißenDerHexer, Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

Meißen station is the largest railway station in the town of Meissen in the German state of Saxony. The station was opened in 1860 in the district of Cölln. Its entrance building, which was built in 1928, is a heritage-listed building and along with the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof it is considered an architecturally significant transport complex of the interwar period. After the ending of long-distance traffic in the 1960s, the station is now a station of the Dresden S-Bahn with only regional significance.

Wikipedia: Meißen station (EN)

333 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Karl-Richard-Hirschberg-Brücke

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The Elbe Bridge Meißen is a 256 m long railway bridge that spans the Elbe in Meissen between the district of Cölln and the Triebischvorstadt at river kilometre 81.85.

Wikipedia: Elbebrücke Meißen (Eisenbahn) (DE)

618 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: city museum meissen

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The Stadtmuseum Meißen is a museum in Meissen, Germany.

Wikipedia: Stadtmuseum Meißen (DE), Website

250 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Frauenkirche

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The Protestant Frauenkirche in the old town of Meissen is a late Gothic hall church. It belongs to the parish of St. Afra Meißen in the church district of Meißen-Großenhain of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony.

Wikipedia: Frauenkirche (Meißen) (DE)

337 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: St. Afra Kirche

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The Augustinian monastery of St. Afra in Meissen was founded in 1205 by Bishop Dietrich II of Kittlitz. In the course of the Reformation, the institution was secularized. In 1543, the first princely and state school in Saxony was founded in the buildings. Since 1991, the former monastery has also housed the Evangelical Academy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, which was founded in 1949.

Wikipedia: Kloster St. Afra (Meißen) (DE), Website

1086 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 7: Nikolaikirche

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The St. Nicholas Church, first mentioned in 1220, is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Afra community and Meissen's oldest building. With its equipment from Meißner porcelain, it has been a memory place for the Meissner victims of the First World War since 1929.

Wikipedia: Nikolaikirche (Meißen) (DE)

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