Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Regensburg, Germany

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 5.1 km
Ascend 62 m
Descend 58 m

Explore Regensburg 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.

Activities in RegensburgIndividual Sights in Regensburg

Sight 1: Österreicher Stadel

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The Österreicher Stadel in Regensburg, Donaulände No. 6, is located on the southern bank of the Danube (Marc-Aurel-Ufer), 300 m east of the inner-city Danube crossing Eisernen Brücke. Originally built as a brewery, the building was later used in various ways as a salt barn, warehouse, warehouse and museum depot. The building is located a good 100 m east of the Museum of Bavarian History, which opened in 2019, and also serves as a depot for this museum.

Wikipedia: Österreicher Stadel (Regensburg) (DE)

312 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Ruthof

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The Regensburg Museum of Danube Shipping is a maritime museum of river shipping on the river Danube and other rivers, situated in the city of Regensburg in Germany. It also contains art collections on that topic, along with material on boatmen's work and training. Its main exhibits are the steam tugboat Ruthof / Érsekcsanád and the diesel tug Freudenau.

Wikipedia: Regensburg Museum of Danube Shipping (EN), Website

251 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Salzstadel

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The urban Salzstadel east of the stone bridge in the old town of Regensburg was built in 1616 to 1620, adding the older and smaller Amberg Stadel west of the bridge. The municipal Salzstadel was built to store rock salt or dining salt. The salt was transported to Regensburg with so -called salt trains pulled by horses over the Salzach and the Inn and most recently on the Danube by the salt deposits and salts in the wider area from Passau and unloaded here with cranes.

Wikipedia: Salzstadel (Regensburg) (DE)

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Sankt Johann

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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.

Wikipedia: Stiftskirche St. Johann (Regensburg) (DE)

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Steinerne Brücke

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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.

Wikipedia: Stone Bridge (Regensburg) (EN)

449 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: document Kepler

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The Kepler Memorial House in Regensburg is the house where the astronomer Johannes Kepler died. In the autumn of 1630, Kepler took up residence in the house, which had been owned by the merchant Hillebrand Hilli since 1622. Kepler died here on November 15, 1630.

Wikipedia: Keplergedächtnishaus (DE), Website

216 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Justitiabrunnen

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The Justitiabrunnen is a magnificent baroque fountain in the centre of the historic old town of Regensburg. It was created in 1656 by the sculptor Leoprand Hilmer as part of the construction of the city's water supply.

Wikipedia: Justitiabrunnen (Regensburg) (DE)

321 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: St. Oswald

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The Church of St. Oswald is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the western part of Regensburg on the south bank of the Danube. The construction of the collegiate church dates back to the time around 1290, when a Carmelite monastery was built there, but it was abandoned again in 1367 when the Carmelites migrated to Straubing.

Wikipedia: St. Oswald (Regensburg) (DE), Website

505 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Herz Jesu

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The Catholic parish church Herz Jesu is located at Kreuzgasse 20 in the Westnerwacht in the old town of Regensburg.

Wikipedia: Herz Jesu (Regensburg) (DE)

290 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: St. Leonhard

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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.

Wikipedia: St. Leonhard (Regensburg) (DE)

440 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Herzogspark

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Herzogspark is a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) municipal park, with small botanical garden, located on the banks of the Danube at the western edge of the old city, at Hundsumkehr Strasse, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany.

Wikipedia: Herzogspark (EN)

450 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie

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The Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie (KOG) is an art collection of works by German artists from the former German eastern territories and the German settlement areas in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Until reunification, works by artists from the GDR were also collected. The seat in Regensburg is also to be seen in connection with the city's patronage for the interests of the Sudeten Germans.

Wikipedia: Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie (DE), Website

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Eckzeichen

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Otto Herbert Hajek was a German abstract painter, graphic artist and sculptor. His architecture-related estate and his photo archive are housed in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering.

Wikipedia: Otto Herbert Hajek (DE)

791 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 14: Sankt Fidelis

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The Monastery of St. Fidelis is a former Capuchin monastery in Regensburg, Uhlandstraße 10. Its preserved buildings are listed as historical monuments.

Wikipedia: Kloster Sankt Fidelis (DE)

422 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Herz Marien

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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.

Wikipedia: Herz Marien (Regensburg) (DE)

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