Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Regensburg, Germany

The New Emmeram Gate is one of the five surviving city gates of the medieval city fortifications of Regensburg, built around 1320. The well-preserved New Emmeram Gate replaced the Old Emmeram Gate of the Arnulfinian city wall, built around 920, which was located at the southern end of the Obere Bachgasse further northeast at the rounding of the city wall between the Obermünster and the monastery of Sankt Emmeram. Until 1907, when the neighbouring Helenentor was built and the Helenenstraße was laid out, the Emmeramer Tor was an important access point for the population of Regensburg to the neighbouring farming village of Kumpfmühl to the south, where vegetables were grown and flour was produced. Without this gateway, the village of Kumpfmühl would only have been accessible to the townspeople by detours, e.g. via the Jakobstor. In the 18th century, the gate offered easy access to the then newly created parks of Fürst-Anselm-Allee.

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Johann Michael Sailer was a German Jesuit theologian and philosopher, and Bishop of Regensburg. Sailer was a major contributor to the Catholic Enlightenment.

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The Public Observatory Regensburg is an astronomical observatory located in Regensburg, Germany. Its history dates back to the year 1774 when Saint Emmeram's Abbey dedicated two towers to astronomical observations. For the most time, it served for educational purposes. Today it is run by a non-profit organization, the Verein der Freunde der Sternwarte Regensburg e.V.. The observatory is accessible for visitors on Friday evenings.

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The Dominican Church of St. Blasius with the former monastery buildings is located in the center of the western old town of Regensburg and is located on a large area that is separated from the Trinity Church by the alley Am Ölberg running from north to south. The Dominican Church is located along the Predigergasse, which runs from east to west. The entrance to the Dominican Church is located on the Albertus-Magnus-Platz in front of it, which merges into Bismarckplatz to the west. To the south, the former monastery buildings border on Ägidienplatz, which can be reached via Beraiterweg.

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The Trinity Church is a Protestant, early baroque, columnless hall church in the Ständenstraße, in the old town of Regensburg. The church was built from 1627 to 1631 according to Hanns Carl plans and was one of the first Evangelical Lutheran new church buildings in Bavaria. The church is considered the largest new church building of the then free imperial city of Regensburg. And is a popular destination of visitors because of the in the way the church tower with a view of the old town. Another attraction is the southern churchyard accessible from the church. At the churchyard, after the end of the church building forced by Bavarian occupation troops and before the start of final construction work on the southern churchyard, during the Thirty Years' War, in the course of the fighting for Regensburg at the request of the Swedish army guide Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar High Swedish officers and, at the request of some exulant families, also to some surrounding beds from Austria who had helped finance the construction of the Protestant Church. As usual, their original graves were outside the city walls and could therefore be looted by the enemy imperial-Bavarian troops.

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The Palais Löschkohl is a baroque palace, Neupfarrplatz 14, in the World Heritage zone of the old town of Regensburg. It was built between 1730 and 1733 as a princely city palace for the family of the merchant and banker Hieronymus Löschkohl. After the bankruptcy of the banker Löschkohl, his escape and his death, the building served as the residence of the extended rest of the family, who rented out many rooms of the building. From 1743 until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the estate served as the residence of the delegation of the Electorate of Saxony to the Perpetual Diet. For this reason, the building was given the name Electoral Saxon Legation. The building is listed under the file number D-3-62-000-805 as a listed architectural monument of Regensburg.

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The Jewish Community Center with Synagogue Regensburg is the new community center of the "Jewish Community of Regensburg". It was inaugurated on February 27, 2019, 80 years after the destruction of the New Synagogue and exactly 500 years after the expulsion of the Jews from the imperial city of Regensburg. It was built on the site "Am Brixener Hof 2", where the New Synagogue stood until the pogrom of November 1938 and where there was only a provisional community hall after the Second World War.

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The Roman Catholic, listed Erhardi Chapel is located in the Erhardigasse of Regensburg. It is part of the Diocese of Regensburg. The building is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments under the monument number D-3-62-000-38301.

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The House of Bavarian History: Museum, also known as the Museum of Bavarian History, in the old town of Regensburg on the southern bank of the Danube, is a museum dedicated to modern and contemporary Bavarian history. The founding director is historian and museum expert Richard Loibl. The museum was opened on 5 June 2019 after eight years of planning and construction.

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The Carmelite Church of St. Josef on the Alter Kornmarkt in the old town of Regensburg is the monastery church of the Convent of St. Joseph of Discalced Carmelites as well as the most important confessional and worship church in Regensburg. The high baroque church building with echoes of the Italian style was built between 1660 and 1673 according to the plans of a previously unknown architect. Possible authors are Carlo Lurago, Antonio Petrini or a pupil of Petrini.

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Built around 1150 at the end of the Romanesque period and baroque in the 17th century, the Niedermünster Church in Regensburg was the church of the former canonical monastery of the Imperial Abbey of Niedermünster, which was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization in Bavaria. After the transfer of the buildings to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810, the Niedermünster Church has served as a cathedral parish church since 1824.

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The former cathedral parish church of St. Ulrich in Regensburg stands a good 10 m south-east of Regensburg Cathedral on the cathedral square, which extends eastwards on its south side to the Herzogshof. St. Ulrich's Church and the exhibitions in the church are now part of the Regensburg diocesan museums.

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Regensburg Cathedral, also known as St. Peter's Cathedral, is an example of important Gothic architecture within the German state of Bavaria. It is a landmark for the city of Regensburg, Germany, and the seat of the Catholic Diocese of Regensburg.

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The Collegiate Church of St. Johann in Regensburg is the spiritual centre of the Collegiate Monastery of St. Johann, founded in 1127. It is dedicated to St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist. The church is located in the immediate vicinity of St. Peter's Cathedral at Krauterermarkt 5. It is located between the Cathedral Square to the south and the Bishop's Court to the north. The collegiate church has had an eventful history over the centuries. The originally Ottonian building had to be demolished in favor of a western extension of Regensburg Cathedral. Thus, a Gothic building was built on the site of today's church, which underwent a radical baroque redesign in the 1760s. After a fire in 1887, the church was rebuilt in neo-baroque forms.

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The Art Collections of the Diocese of Regensburg are an organization of the Diocese of Regensburg, based in Regensburg. They look after the artistic treasures owned by the diocese and operate the two diocesan museums, the cathedral treasury and the St. Ulrich Museum.

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The Stone Bridge in Regensburg, Germany, is a 12th-century bridge across the Danube linking the Old Town with Stadtamhof. For more than 800 years, until the 1930s, it was the city's only bridge across the river. It is a masterwork of medieval construction and an emblem of the city.

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Three buildings built at different times can be distinguished at the medieval Old Town Hall of Regensburg am Rathausplatz: in the south the Reichssaal building with an bay window, followed by the portal building with a staircase and gate passage and east of the passage the oldest town hall building in the style of a patrician house with the Town Hall. In this oldest building is the seat with reception hall of the Lord Mayor and other rooms for associated offices and for the registry office. The remaining offices of the city administration and also the citizens' office are located in the New Town Hall on the roof square, about 500 m east away.

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The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Leonhard, located in the western old town of Regensburg, was assigned to the former Knights of St. John and is now a subsidiary church of the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The three-nave building, which is Romanesque at its core, is considered to be the oldest hall church in Bavaria and is dedicated to St. Leonard of Limoges.

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The Stadtpark Regensburg west of the old town of Regensburg on the Platz der Einheit in front of the Jakobstor is the oldest and, at over eight hectares, also the largest of the inner-city parks in Regensburg.

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The Catholic parish church Herz Marien with its adjoining community center is located at Rilkestrasse 17 in the western quarter of Regensburg.

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