Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Paderborn, Germany
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3.2 km
44 m
Experience Paderborn in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in PaderbornSight 1: Synagoge Paderborn
The Jewish Community of Paderborn is a religious community in Paderborn that has existed since the Middle Ages. She is a member of the State Association of Jewish Communities of Westphalia-Lippe.
Sight 2: Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche 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 monuments of Paderborn.
Sight 3: Franziskanerkirche
The Franciscan Monastery Paderborn is a Franciscan monastery founded in 1658 in Westernstraße in Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia. 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. Before that, there was a monastery of the same order on the Kamp from 1232 to the 16th century, which perished as a result of the Reformation.
Sight 4: 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
Sight 5: Marktkirche
The former Jesuit and university church, Sankt Franz Xaver, also known as the "Market Church", is located in the centre of Paderborn, near the town hall square and right next to the Theodorianum grammar school, which uses the church for Catholic school services on Thursdays. In addition, the Marktkirche, along with the Gaukirche zum heiligen Ulrich and the Busdorf church "Sankt Petrus und Andreas", is the parish church of the Paderborn inner city parish "Sankt Liborius", founded in 1998.
Sight 6: Ella Feldmeier
The list of stumbling stones in Paderborn contains all stumbling stones that were laid in Paderborn as part of the project of the same name by Gunter Demnig. They are intended to commemorate victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Paderborn.
Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Paderborn (DE), Website
Sight 7: Mutter Pauline von Mallinckrodt
Pauline Von Mallinckrodt, SCC was a German Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Sisters of Christian Charity. Born into an aristocratic household as the daughter of a Lutheran father and Catholic mother, from her adolescence she began to tend to the blind and sick. This venture expanded into what became a religious congregation which spread at a rapid pace; she herself traveled to a range of places to oversee its growth and development.
Sight 8: Busdorfkirche
The Busdorf Church is a church in Paderborn, Germany, which was 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 in the course of the city's expansion.
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