Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Neu-Ulm, Germany

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 4.3 km
Ascend 54 m
Descend 43 m

Explore Neu-Ulm 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 Neu-Ulm

Sight 1: Heinrich Leopold Bissinger

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Heinrich Leopold Bissinger

The stumbling blocks in Neu-Ulm are listed in the list of stumbling blocks in Neu-Ulm. You are part of the Europe -wide project "Stumbling Stones" by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig. These are decentralized memorials that are said to remind you of the fate of those people who lived in Neu-Ulm and were deported by the National Socialists and were murdered in concentration camps and extermination camps.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Neu-Ulm (DE)

715 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 2: Zeughaus

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Zeughaus Schloessermagazin / CC-by-sa 3.0

The Ulmer Zeughaus is a former armoury on the eastern edge of the city centre of Ulm.

Wikipedia: Zeughaus (Ulm) (DE)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Gänsturm

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The 37.5 m high Gänsturm in Ulm is a preserved city gate in the east of the medieval city fortifications not far from the Danube. Its name derives from the fact that geese used to be driven through the gate onto the goose meadows.

Wikipedia: Gänsturm (Ulm) (DE)

527 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Haus der Begegnung

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The Holy Trinity Church was founded by the Dominicans in Ulm. The church building was largely destroyed during World War II and was a ruin for decades. The reconstruction took place with a change of use. Since 1984, the building has been used as a meeting place for the Evangelical Church of Ulm.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Ulm) (DE), Website

125 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Steinhaus

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St. Nicholas' Chapel and Steinhaus at Neue Straße 102, formerly Schelergasse 11, are the oldest surviving buildings in Ulm. At least parts of the building fabric date back to the Romanesque era, the Hohenstaufen period.

Wikipedia: Nikolauskapelle und Steinhaus (DE), Url

139 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Dorothea Meth-Cohn

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Dorothea Meth-Cohn Christian Michelides / CC BY-SA 4.0

The stumbling blocks in Ulm are listed in the list of stumbling blocks in Ulm. They are part of the "stumbling blocks" of the artist Gunter Demnig's Europe. These are decentralized memorials that are said to remind you of the fate of those people who lived in Ulm and deported them by the National Socialists and were murdered in concentration camps and extermination camps, among other things, or forced to escape from their homeland.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Ulm (DE), Website

63 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Kunsthalle Weishaupt

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Kunsthalle Weishaupt is an art gallery located in Ulm, in Baden-Würtemberg, Germany. It houses a private collection of modern art. The Kunsthalle Weishaupt was founded in 2007.

Wikipedia: Kunsthalle Weishaupt (EN), Website

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Red Dog for Landois

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Red Dog for Landois dmax3270 / CC BY-SA 2.0

Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.

Wikipedia: Keith Haring (EN), Website

91 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Rathaus

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The Ulm town hall is one of the outstanding monuments of the city of Ulm, not least because of the facade wall paintings and an astronomical clock. Its complex building history - it consists of three different components - began in the 14th century. His current appearance essentially goes back to the early Renaissance.

Wikipedia: Rathaus (Ulm) (DE)

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Metzgerturm

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The Metzgerturm in Ulm is a city gate of the medieval city fortifications on the Danube, which is still preserved today. The square brick tower with pointed arch gates was built around 1340 as an outlet from the Swabian city fortifications to the Stadtmetzig, the city's slaughterhouse, in front of it. The upper floor with projecting round arches is closed by a steep hipped roof.

Wikipedia: Metzgerturm (Ulm) (DE)

291 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Haus der Stadtgeschichte

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The House of City History-Ulm City Archives is the archive of the Baden-Württemberg city of Ulm.

Wikipedia: Haus der Stadtgeschichte – Stadtarchiv Ulm (DE)

55 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Schwörhaus

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The Schwörhaus in Ulm is a representative building built at the beginning of the 17th century. After several destructions and reconstruction, it is now used by the Ulm City Archives as the House of Ulm City History. From his balcony, the Lord Mayor of Ulm gives an annual public account on Oath Monday.

Wikipedia: Schwörhaus (Ulm) (DE)

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Neue Synagoge Ulm

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The IRGW Community Center at Weinhof is the official name of the community center of the Orthodox Jewish Community of Ulm. The builder and owner of the community center at the Weinhof is the Israelite Religious Community of Württemberg (IRGW), based in Stuttgart.

Wikipedia: IRGW-Gemeindezentrum Ulm (DE)

220 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Stadthaus

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Stadthaus Peter Berger / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Stadthaus Ulm is in the centre of Ulm (Germany), located on the Münsterplatz. Primarily, the building is used to present exhibitions of photography and modern and contemporary art. A lecture hall is used for a variety of events, activities, and workshops, including a festival of modern music. It houses the city's tourist information centre and other public services on the ground floor. A permanent exhibition of the archaeology and history of the Münsterplatz is located on the lower level.

Wikipedia: Stadthaus Ulm (EN)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Valentinskapelle

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The Münsterplatz is located in the centre of the southern German city of Ulm in front of the eponymous cathedral. The square is lined with many commercial buildings, most of which were built after the Second World War. In addition, the square is dominated by the Stadthaus, built between 1991 and 1993, which with its white façade and modern architecture is a clear contrast to Ulm Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Münsterplatz (Ulm) (DE)

181 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Anna Essinger

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Anna Essinger was a German Jewish educator. At the age of 20, she went to finish her education in the United States, where she encountered Quakers and was greatly influenced by their attitudes, adopting them for her own. In 1919, she returned to Germany on a Quaker war relief mission and was asked by her sister, who had founded a children's home, to help establish a school with it. She and her family founded a boarding school, the Landschulheim Herrlingen in 1926, with Anna Essinger as headmistress. In 1933, with the Nazi threat looming and the permission of all the parents, she moved the school and its 66 children, mostly Jewish, to safety in England, re-establishing it as the Bunce Court School. During the war, Essinger established a reception camp for 10,000 German children sent to England on the Kindertransports, taking some of them into the school. After the war, her school took many child survivors of Nazi concentration camps. By the time Essinger closed Bunce Court in 1948, she had taught and cared for over 900 children, most of whom called her Tante ("Aunt") Anna, or TA, for short. She remained in close contact with her former pupils for the rest of her life.

Wikipedia: Anna Essinger (EN)

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Ulm Minster

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Ulm Minster is a Lutheran church located in Ulm, State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It is currently the tallest church in the world. The church is the fifth-tallest structure built before the 20th century, with a steeple measuring 161.53 metres.

Wikipedia: Ulm Minster (EN), Website

342 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Büchsenstadel

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The Büchsenstadel in Ulm is a former municipal warehouse dating back to the 15th century.

Wikipedia: Büchsenstadel (DE), Website

663 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 19: Theater Ulm

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Theater Ulm is the municipal theater in the Baden-Württemberg city of Ulm in Germany. Founded in 1641, it is the oldest municipal theater in Germany. Today, it operates distinct ensembles for opera/operetta, acting, and ballet. Until 2006, it operated as Ulmer Theater.

Wikipedia: Theater Ulm (EN), Website

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