Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Regensburg, Germany

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. in the 17th century 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.

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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.

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The House of Bavarian History: Museum, also: Museum of Bavarian History, in the old town of Regensburg on the southern bank of the Danube is a museum about new and recent Bavarian history. The founding director is historian and museum expert Richard Loibl. The museum opened on 5 June 2019 after eight years of planning and construction.

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The All Saints' Chapel is a small building at the cloister of the Regensburg Cathedral and served as the mausoleum of the client Bishop Hartwig II of Spanheim. He was the first bishop of Regensburg to no longer buried himself in the Sankt Emmeram monastery. The chapel is dated around the middle of the 12th century because Bishop Hartwig died in 1164.

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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 in the south and the Bishop's Court in 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 westward extension of Regensburg Cathedral. Thus, on the site of today's church, a Gothic building was built, 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 with its headquarters in Regensburg. They look after the artistic treasures that are in the possession of the diocese and operate the two diocesan museums, the Cathedral Treasury and the Museum of St. Ulrich.

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Porta Praetoria is the name given in Regensburg to the visibly preserved remains of the north gate of the former Roman legionary camp Castra Regina, which was built in the 2nd century AD.

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The municipal salt barn east of the Stone Bridge in the old town of Regensburg was built between 1616 and 1620 and thus complemented the older and smaller Amberg barn west of the bridge. The municipal salt barn was built for the storage of rock salt or table salt. The salt was transported by horse-drawn so-called salt trains across the Salzach and the Inn and finally on the Danube from the salt deposits and salt works in the wider area of Passau, to Regensburg and unloaded here with cranes.

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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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The bridge tower in the old town of Regensburg marks the southern end of the Stone Bridge crossing the Danube. It was built as one of several gate towers at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century during the construction of the medieval city fortifications of Regensburg. The bridge tower is the only one of the former three towers on the Stone Bridge to have been preserved.

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The Goliathhaus is an imposing, crenellated, early Gothic, former house in 1220/30 in the old town of Regensburg. The house is located in the north-south direction between the streets of Goliathstrasse in the north and Watmarkt in the south. The northern facade is the well -known showront of the Goliathhaus and shows a painting of the struggle between David and Goliath, which has been renewed several times since 1573, in the last version of the painter Franz Rinner from 1900. The former front of the Goliathhaus is the southern Front, which is based on the Watmarkt rising terrain has one floor less. Accordingly, old home briefs always call the building "Haus am Watmarkt". The house tower in the west takes the whole depth of the house complex. The residential building of the Goliathhaus joins the tower to the east, which formed a structural unit with the neighboring steering house until the end of the 18th century. Both house castles were built by the regional patrician families in Regensburg, suspected as built, on the foundations of the northern Roman wall of the Castra Regina legion camp. The Goliathhaus offers its impressive northern Schaufront with the Goliath painting all the visitors who come across the stone bridge and use the Brückstraße, which is slightly rising inland, to reach the city center.

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The Baumburger Turm in the street Watmarkt 4 in the old town of Regensburg is one of the family towers that were built by rich patrician families in the Middle Ages as status symbols. The Baumburg Tower, which has been preserved unchanged, is considered the most beautiful of the 20 family towers preserved in Regensburg and is a tourist attraction.

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In the medieval Old Town Hall of Regensburg on the Rathausplatz, three buildings can be distinguished from different times: in the south the Reichssaal building with bay window, followed by the portal building with staircase and gateway and east of the passage the oldest town hall building in the style of a patrician house with the town hall tower. This oldest building houses the seat with the 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 Dachauplatz, about 500 m to the east.

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The Kepler Memorial House in Regensburg is the death house of the astronomer Johannes Kepler. 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 15 November 1630.

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

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

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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, which runs 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 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 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 Roman Catholic branch church of St. Ägidien, located on the Ägidienplatz in the old town of Regensburg, which is named after it, is a former church of the Teutonic Order and as such was assigned to the Teutonic Order Commandery of St. Ägid. Today, St. Ägidien is a subsidiary church of the parish of St. Emmeram. The church, dedicated to St. Egidius, is a three-aisled staggered hall in the Gothic style.

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The Dörnbergpark is a 7.4-hectare park, a little west of St. Emmeram Castle and the Helenentor, the exit from the old town of Regensburg. This important monument of 19th-century garden art is also only a little south of Bismarckplatz.

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A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.

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The Scots Monastery is the former Benedictine Abbey of St James (Jakobskirche) in Regensburg, Germany. It was founded in the 11th century by Irish missionaries and for most of its history was in the hands of first Irish, then Scottish monks. In Middle Latin, Scotti meant Gaels, not differentiating Ireland from Scotland, so that the term Schottenstift dates from the Irish period. The full official name of the actual church, the most prominent building within the abbey complex, is Die irische Benediktinerklosterkirche St. Jakob und St. Gertrud.

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The Velodrom is a venue of the Theater Regensburg and is located on Simon-Oberndorfer-Platz at the beginning of the Westnerwacht in Regensburg. The word Velodrom comes from Velodrome, the French word for cycle racing track.

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The Catholic parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is located at Kreuzgasse 20 in the Westnerwacht in the old town of Regensburg.

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The Roman Catholic church of the Dominican convent of the Holy Cross in Regensburg, called Holy Cross Church, is the monastery church of the oldest still existing and never abolished women's monastery of this order in Germany. In its present form, it is characterized by a uniformly designed theological program. Since 1233, the monastery has had its uninterrupted seat at the address Am Judenstein 10 in Regensburg. There are only a few monasteries in Germany dating back to the Middle Ages that have never been destroyed, never abolished or transplanted. With the restorations for the anniversary of its 750th anniversary, the monastery can be described as a "jewel of Bavarian Rococo".

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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's Commendation and is now a branch church of the parish of the Heart of Jesus. The Romanesque, three-nave building is considered the oldest hall church in Bavaria and is dedicated to St. Leonhard of Limoges.

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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.

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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 of the interests of the Sudeten Germans.

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

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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.

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

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