Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Osnabrück, Germany
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6.4 km
76 m
Explore Osnabrück 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 OsnabrückSight 1: Ledenhof
The Ledenhof is a historic building in the city of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. During the medieval period it was the city residence of the noble von Leden family. Having initially been an extensive courtly building complex, today only the seven-storey Steinwerk building and the great hall with stair tower remain. Since 2002 the Ledenhof has been the main office of the Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung.
Sight 2: Grüner Jäger
The Grüner Jäger is one of the oldest pubs in Osnabrück. In addition, the oldest regulars' table in Germany has been meeting there since 1894.
Sight 3: St. Katharinen
St. Catherine's Church, also known as the St. Katharinenkirche in German, is a late Gothic hall Evangelical church in the old town of Osnabrück, Germany. Its tower, which can be seen from afar and has shaped the cityscape for centuries, is 103 metres (338 ft) high.
Sight 4: Bergkirche
The Osnabrück Mountain Church is located in the Westerberg district. It was consecrated in 1893 as the first Protestant Reformed church in Osnabrück.
Sight 5: Bucksturm
The Bucksturm is a listed historical structure in Osnabrück, Germany.
Sight 6: Bürgergehorsam
The Bürgergehorsam is a historic fortified tower in Osnabrück, Germany.
Sight 7: Haus Tenge
Haus Tenge is a listed neoclassical residential and commercial building with stonework in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony, Germany). Until 2018, steel entrepreneur Jürgen Großmann ran the gourmet restaurant "la vie" there, which was most recently awarded three Michelin stars. Since 2021, it has been used by the Leysieffer confectionery.
Sight 8: Fritz-Wolf-Denkmal
Works of Art and Monuments in Osnabrück lists panorama-free sculptures, objects and monuments in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. These include monuments that commemorate a specific person or event, as well as fountains, sculptures, memorial stones and plaques in public spaces.
Sight 9: Löwenpudel (Nachbildung)
The Lion Poodle is a statue in front of St. Peter's Cathedral in the city of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. It depicts a lion sitting on a man-sized pedestal that resembles a poodle. Severely damaged by the weather, a replica created by the sculptor Lukas Memken (1860–1934) has stood on the pedestal since 1925. The former stone is in the city's cultural history museum, although this was probably not the original either.
Sight 10: Hexengang
The Hexengang or Klapperhagen is a narrow alley at the cathedral in Osnabrück, Germany. It leads from the Great Cathedral Freedom between the Small Church and the Cathedral. On the last stretch towards the Hase, there is a building above the alley, so that it ends from a small portal on the street Conrad-Bäumer-Weg. Due to the high walls that surround the alley, the corridor looks very dark and oppressive.
Sight 11: Dom Sankt Peter
St. Peter's Cathedral in Osnabrück, Germany is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück. The cathedral is a late Romanesque building and dominates the city's skyline.
Wikipedia: St. Peter's Cathedral, Osnabrück (EN), Heritage Website
Sight 12: Forum am Dom - Domschatzkammer und Diözesanmuseum
The Cathedral Treasury and Diocesan Museum is the museum of the Diocese of Osnabrück. The museum is located right next to St. Peter's Cathedral.
Sight 13: Haus Berghoff
The Große Strasse 43 building in Osnabrück is a listed house. After its builder it is also called Haus Berghoff.
Sight 14: Fountain Of Wishes
The Fountain of Wishes is a bronze sculpture of a urinating policeman in Osnabrück, Germany. He is often called the Peeing Policeman or Osnabrück's Manneken Pis. The bronze figure stands in the city centre in the river Hase at the Çanakkale Bridge, named after Osnabrück's twin city. Opposite on Schillerstraße is the Haarmannsbrunnen.
Sight 15: Haarmannsbrunnen
The Haarmannsbrunnen is a monument to miners in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony). The fountain from 1909 is one of the oldest workers' monuments in Germany. It bears the name of its founder, the steelworks director and senator August Haarmann. During the operation of the monument, the water flowing out pours over the bronze figure and flows into the fountain built below in front of it.
Sight 16: Herz-Jesu Kirche
The Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic church in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Sight 17: Ebert-Erzberger-Rathenau-Denkmal
The Ebert-Erzberger-Rathenau Memorial is a memorial designed by Justus Haarmann in the city of Osnabrück, Germany. It was erected in honour of the leading politicians of the Weimar Republic, Friedrich Ebert, Matthias Erzberger and Walther Rathenau of the Osnabrück chapter of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold. The memorial, located between today's Erich-Maria-Remarque-Ring and Herrenteichswall, is a newly built copy of the original memorial, which was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933.
Sight 18: ehemaliger Hannoverscher Bahnhof
Hannoversche Bahnhof is the former main railway station of the city of Osnabrück, Germany. The station on today's Wittekindstraße went into operation on 22 November 1855 with the Hanoverian Western Railway in the direction of Löhne. Until the closure of passenger traffic in 1895, the Hanover station was the most important station in the city of Osnabrück. Due to the intersection with the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway a few hundred metres east of Hanover station, the new Osnabrück Hauptbahnhof was built there. Freight traffic continued until the completion of the central freight transshipment station in the Fledder district in 1913. The station building served as an administration building for Deutsche Bahn until 2004, but has since been sold.
Sight 19: Dr. Ernst Jacobson
Stolpersteine in Osnabrück are special paving stones in the pavements that are intended to commemorate the victims of the National Socialist dictatorship in Osnabrück.
Sight 20: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche
The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Cross is located in Schinkel, a district of the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. The parish belongs to the diocese of Osnabrück.
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