Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Paderborn, Germany

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 4.8 km
Ascend 64 m
Descend 70 m

Explore Paderborn 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 Paderborn

Sight 1: Herz-Jesu-Kirche

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The Herz-Jesu Church in Paderborn is a neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church building in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Paderborn, which was built in 1897/1898. It is registered under No. 6 in the list of Paderborn monuments.

Wikipedia: Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Paderborn) (DE), Website

383 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Franziskanerkirche

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The Franciscan Monastery of Paderborn is a Franciscan monastery founded in 1658 in Westernstraße in Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Until the merger of the German Franciscan Provinces into the German Franciscan Province of St. Elisabeth in 2010, it belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross. From 1232 to the 16th century, there was a monastery of the same order on the Kamp, which disappeared as a result of the Reformation.

Wikipedia: Franziskanerkloster Paderborn (DE)

590 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Marktkirche

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The former Jesuit and university church, St. Francis Xavier, also known as the "Market Church", is located in the city center of Paderborn, near the town hall square and right next to the Gymnasium Theodorianum, which uses the church for Catholic school services on Thursdays. In addition, the market church is the parish church of Paderborn's inner city parish "Sankt Liborius", which was founded in 1998, along with the Gaukirche zum heiligen Ulrich and the Busdorf church "Sankt Petrus und Andreas".

Wikipedia: Marktkirche (Paderborn) (DE), Website

289 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Gymnasium Theodorianum

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Gymnasium Theodorianum

The Gymnasium Theodorianum is a grammar school situated in the historic centre of Paderborn, Germany. Succeeding in the tradition of the cathedral school founded in 799, it is among the ten oldest schools in the world. It continues in the ideals of Renaissance humanism, with Latin taught as the primary foreign language and Ancient Greek offered as an additional subject. The school has produced several leading German political, scientific, religious and military figures. It is known locally simply as the “Theo”.

Wikipedia: Gymnasium Theodorianum (EN), Website, Instagram, Youtube

237 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Rathaus

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The historic town hall of Paderborn is one of the landmarks of the city of Paderborn next to the high cathedral. It was built in 1613–1620 by Hermann Baumhauer as an outstanding example of the Weser Renaissance for Appeal Fürstbischof Dietrich von Fürstenberg's city council, including a previous building from 1473. The construction shows the principles of the Renaissance particularly concise in Germany: clear disposition of the components, emphasis on the surface, linear-sharp windows that act as individual elements and not be included in a large overall movement, as later in the baroque. In the design of the ground floor cads, even the Italian models from Florence are clearly visible.

Wikipedia: Rathaus Paderborn (DE)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Gaukirche Sankt Ulrich

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The Gaukirche, also Gokirche, Gokerken or Latin: ecclesia rurens, parish church of St. Ulrich, is a Roman Catholic church in Paderborn, Germany, built around 1170/80 and owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The church is located on the market or cathedral square of the episcopal city opposite the High Cathedral of Paderborn.

Wikipedia: Gaukirche St. Ulrich (Paderborn) (DE)

387 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Abdinghofkirche

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The Abdinghof monastery of Sankt Peter and Paul is a former abbey of the Benedictine in Paderborn, consisting of its foundation by the Bishop Meinwerk von Paderborn, born in the Dutch Renkum in 1015 until his secularization on March 25, 1803. However, new archaeological findings are close to the conclusion that the Abdinghof monastery was only built in the late 11th century. If this applies, Bishop Meinwerk may not have laid the foundation stone of the monastery.

Wikipedia: Abdinghofkloster (DE), Website

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Alexiuskapelle

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The Alexius Chapel in Paderborn is a baroque brick building based on the Flemish model. It is located in Paderborn's city centre at the Abdinghof and thus in the immediate vicinity of both the Abdinghof Church and the cathedral.

Wikipedia: Alexiuskapelle (Paderborn) (DE)

174 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Hoher Dom St. Maria, St. Liborius & St. Kilian

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Paderborn Cathedral is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn. It is located in the city centre of Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Mary, Saint Kilian and Saint Liborius. The official German name is Hoher Dom Ss. Maria, Liborius und Kilian.

Wikipedia: Paderborn Cathedral (EN)

93 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Dreihasenfenster

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The three hares is a circular motif appearing in sacred sites from East Asia, the Middle East and to the churches of Devon, England, and historical synagogues in Europe. It is used as an architectural ornament, a religious symbol, and in other modern works of art or a logo for adornment, jewelry, and a coat of arms on an escutcheon. It is viewed as a puzzle, a topology problem or a visual challenge, and has been rendered as sculpture, drawing, and painting.

Wikipedia: Three hares (EN), Website

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Museum in der Kaiserpfalz

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The LWL Museum in the Kaiserpfalz is located in the East Westphalian city of Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral. It presents finds from Carolingian, Ottonian and Saxon times. It is located where the foundations of the 8th century Paderborn were found in construction in 1964 during construction work and a later complex from the period of Henry II. They are part of today's building fabric and can still be seen very well in the museum's masonry. In 1964 the Karls of the Great was also found right next to the today's museum. The outline of this facility can only be recognized by the reconstructed foundations. The Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe is the sponsor of the State Museum. The building belongs to the metropolitan chapter and is rented out in rent to the museum's carrier.

Wikipedia: Museum in der Kaiserpfalz (DE), Website, Url

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: St. Michael

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St. Michael's Monastery is a monastery in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The monastery church is a listed building. In 2012, the Order of the Augustinian Choir Women handed over the Gymnasium St. Michael and the Realschule St. Michael to the sponsorship of the Archdiocese of Paderborn. The preserved façade of the monastery church is considered an important testimony to the Flemish Baroque.

Wikipedia: Michaelskloster (Paderborn) (DE)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Adam- und Eva-Haus

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The Adam and Eve House, Hathumarstraße 7, is one of the oldest and most richly decorated half-timbered houses in Paderborn. It is also considered to be the oldest surviving town house in Paderstadt and housed Paderborn's "Museum of City History" from 1977 to March 2015.

Wikipedia: Adam-und-Eva-Haus (DE)

318 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Kapuzinerkirche

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The Liborianum is an educational institution in Paderborn and has had an eventful history. It has served different purposes over the centuries; For over 200 years it was a Capuchin monastery. It takes its name from St. Liborius, the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

Wikipedia: Liborianum (DE)

328 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Busdorfkirche

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The Busdorf Church is a church in Paderborn, Germany, modeled after the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Busdorf Abbey was a collegiate monastery founded in Paderborn in 1036. The monastery and church were originally located outside the city, but were incorporated into it in the 11th/12th century as part of the city's expansion.

Wikipedia: Busdorfkirche (DE)

955 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 16: St. Heinrich

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St. Heinrich Daniel Brockpähler / CC BY 3.0

St. Heinrich is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Heinrich in Paderborn.

Wikipedia: St. Heinrich (Paderborn) (DE), Website

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