Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Radebeul, Germany
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8.7 km
428 m
Explore Radebeul 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 RadebeulSight 1: Blechburg
The Blechburg is a now ruinous, former observation tower with a lookout bastion at the northern end of the Jägerberg on Wahnsdorfer Flur in the town of Radebeul in Saxony. The ruin stands in the middle of a forest that has emerged in recent decades on the edge of the slope at about 235 m above sea level above the Villa Jägerberg at Augustusweg 110, which belongs to the district of Oberlößnitz. The villa at the foot of the cliff stands at 170 m, and the road is at 158 m above sea level.
Sight 2: Bilzburg
The Jägerberg is a former vineyard plot in the Oberlößnitz district of Saxon Radebeul, in Augustusweg 110, the vineyard areas above Wahnsdorf belonged to the vineyard name. In 1895 the Jägerberg became part of the Bilzanatorium, and Eduard Bilz also lived there privately. The property is located in the historic vineyard landscape of the Radebeul vineyard landscape and in the Lößnitz landscape protection area, it is a "unique country office, [...] in terms of building history, artistically and landscape -shaped as a monument preservation area Haus Jägerberg".
Sight 3: Mäuseturm
The Mouse Tower, also known as the Bilz Tower, is a now collapsed observation tower on the edge of the slope above Lössnitz Castle in Radebeul, Saxony, where it forms the border with Oberlößnitz. The vantage point – from the edge of the slope – was already completely overgrown in 2008.
Sight 4: Haus in der Sonne
The Haus in der Sonne, formerly also Friedrichsburg and Bergschlösschen, is a vineyard house built in 1770 in the Oberlößnitz district of the Saxon town of Radebeul. The country estate, which has been a listed building since 1939, is located at Weinbergstraße 44, within the Radebeul Historic Vineyard Landscape Conservation Area.
Sight 5: Haus Steinbach
Haus Steinbach, also known as Liège's House, is a winery estate in the Oberlößnitz district of Radebeul, at Bennostraße 41. The property, which has been a listed building since at least 1973, consists of an older winegrower's house along with two outbuildings and a somewhat younger country house-like villa in a park with old trees, plus a vineyard. The property is located on an old vineyard plot below the Lößnitz steep slopes, immediately west of Haus Sorgenfrei. In the Dehio Handbook of 1996, Haus Steinbach has its own paragraph.
Sight 6: 4 Jahreszeiten
The Fontainenplatz, the square-like extension with the roundabout in the Dr.-Schmincke-Allee, is located in the Serkowitz district of the Saxon city of Radebeul. It was laid out between 1890 and 1892 by Moritz Ziller, the older brother of the two Ziller brothers, as an ornamental square, provided with a fountain and decorated with four life-size figures from the Ernst March company, the Four Seasons. Since the 2000s, the term has been used again, but is not officially dedicated as a street address.
Sight 7: Spitzhaus
The Spitzhaus is a former pleasure house in the Saxon town of Radebeul. The building, which can be seen from afar, is located on the slope edge of the Elbe valley basin above the Hoflößnitz in the Oberlößnitz district.
Sight 8: Birkenhof
The Birkenhof, a villa estate on a former vineyard plot in Oberlößnitz, is located at Spitzhausstraße 28 in the Saxon town of Radebeul, only separated from the Spitzhaus by a bend in the road. The building, which was built in 1910, and the property were extensively redesigned in the 1920s by the Chemnitz architect and building councillor Friedrich Wagner-Poltrock.
Sight 9: Bismarckturm Radebeul
The Bismarck Tower in Radebeul is one of about 145 Bismarck towers still in existence in Germany in honour of Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898). The Radebeul Tower was designed by Wilhelm Kreis as an individual design, built by master builder Alfred Große from Kötzschenbroda and inaugurated on 2 September 1907. It has a height of 18 meters.
Sight 10: Spitzhaustreppe
The Spitzhaus staircase is located in the city of Radebeul in Saxony. It connects the Winery Hoflößnitz to the Spitzhaus and the Bismarckturm respectively. The ascent, including the bivalve pavilion at the upper end, is protected from monument. The stairs are located in the historical vineyard landscape of Radebeul and are part of the monument conservation area and the listed vineyard landscape of the Hoflößnitz.
Sight 11: Berg- und Lusthaus Hoflößnitz
The Berg- und Lusthaus Hoflößnitz in Radebeul-Oberlößnitz is the main building of the former Electoral and Royal Saxon, now municipal winery Hoflößnitz.
Sight 12: Landesbühnen Sachsen
The Landesbühnen Sachsen GmbH is Germany's second largest travelling theatre with its headquarters in Radebeul near Dresden. Since 1 October 2011, its artistic director has been Manuel Schöbel,
Sight 13: Kirche Christus König
The Church of Christ the King is located at Borstraße 11 in the Niederlößnitz district of the Saxon city of Radebeul. The Catholic church is an extraordinary building with an equilateral triangular plan and glass walls. The church, designed by the architects Günter Behnisch and Gerald Staib, was consecrated on 25 November 2001.
Sight 14: Friedenskirche
The Friedenskirche zu Radebeul, formerly the Church of Kötzschenbroda, is an Evangelical Lutheran church on the Anger of Altkötzschenbroda in Radebeul-West, Saxony. On 27 August 1645, the armistice of Kötzschenbroda between the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I and the Swedish general Lennart Torstensson was concluded in the adjoining rectory under the host of Pastor Augustin Prescher, which ended the Thirty Years' War for Saxony. In 2012, the Saxon State Agency for Civic Education awarded the church together with the Großenhain Karl Preusker Library as Political Places in Saxony.
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