Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Neu-Ulm, Germany
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4.3 km
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-UlmSight 1: 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.
Sight 2: Zeughaus
The Ulmer Zeughaus is a former armoury on the eastern edge of the city centre of Ulm.
Sight 3: Gänsturm
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.
Sight 4: Haus der Begegnung
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.
Sight 5: Steinhaus
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.
Sight 6: Dorothea Meth-Cohn
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.
Sight 7: Kunsthalle Weishaupt
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.
Sight 8: Red Dog for Landois
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.
Sight 9: Rathaus
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.
Sight 10: Metzgerturm
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.
Sight 11: Haus der Stadtgeschichte
The House of City History-Ulm City Archives is the archive of the Baden-Württemberg city of Ulm.
Sight 12: Schwörhaus
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.
Sight 13: Neue Synagoge Ulm
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.
Sight 14: Stadthaus
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.
Sight 15: Valentinskapelle
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.
Sight 16: Anna Essinger
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.
Sight 17: Ulm Minster
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.
Sight 18: Büchsenstadel
The Büchsenstadel in Ulm is a former municipal warehouse dating back to the 15th century.
Sight 19: Theater Ulm
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.
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