Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Regensburg, Germany
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Experience Regensburg 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.
Activities in RegensburgIndividual Sights in RegensburgSight 1: Österreicher Stadel
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.
Sight 2: Donau-Schiffahrts-Museum Regensburg
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
Sight 3: Museum der Bayerischen Geschichte
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.
Sight 4: Allerheiligenkapelle
The All Saints' Chapel is a small building on the cloister of Regensburg Cathedral and served as the mausoleum of the builder Bishop Hartwig II of Spanheim. He was the first bishop of Regensburg not to be buried in the monastery of Sankt Emmeram. The chapel is dated to the middle of the 12th century, as Bishop Hartwig died in 1164.
Sight 5: Saint Peter's Cathedral
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.
Sight 6: 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 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.
Sight 7: Domschatzmuseum
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.
Sight 8: Salzstadel
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.
Sight 9: Amberger Stadel
The Amberger Stadel in the old town of Regensburg, Bavaria, was built in 1487 west of the Stone Bridge at the instigation of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria. In 1551, the salt barn was rebuilt by the imperial city of Regensburg in an enlarged form. The building at Brückstraße No. 2 is a protected architectural monument.
Sight 10: Steinerne Brücke
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.
Sight 11: Brückturm
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.
Sight 12: Goliathhaus
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.
Sight 13: Baumburger Turm
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.
Sight 14: Old Town Hall
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.
Sight 15: document Kepler
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.
Sight 16: Justitiabrunnen
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.
Sight 17: Volkssternwarte Regensburg
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.
Sight 18: Dörnbergpark
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.
Sight 19: Dominkanerkirche St. Blasius
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.
Wikipedia: Dominikanerkirche St. Blasius (Regensburg) (DE), Website
Sight 20: Scots Monastery
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.
Sight 21: Adolf Niedermaier
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'.
Sight 22: Heilig Kreuz
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".
Sight 23: Herzogspark
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.
Sight 24: Eckzeichen
Otto Herbert Hajek was a German abstract painter, graphic artist and sculptor. His architecture-related estate and his photo archive are located in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering.
Sight 25: Stadtpark
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.
Sight 26: Herz Marien
The Catholic parish church Herz Marien with adjoining community center is located at Rilkestrasse 17 in the western quarter of Regensburg.
Sight 27: Mariä Himmelfahrt
The Catholic branch and pilgrimage church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is located at Neyweg 2 in the Dechbetten district of Regensburg.
Sight 28: Kloster Prüfening
Prüfening Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on the outskirts of Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany. Since the beginning of the 19th century it has also been known as Prüfening Castle. Notably, its extant dedicatory inscription, commemorating the founding of the abbey in 1119, was created by printing and is a unique document of medieval typography.
Sight 29: Sankt Andreas
Prüfening Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on the outskirts of Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany. Since the beginning of the 19th century it has also been known as Prüfening Castle. Notably, its extant dedicatory inscription, commemorating the founding of the abbey in 1119, was created by printing and is a unique document of medieval typography.
Sight 30: Sankt Anna
The branch church of St. Anna is located at Großprüfening 33 in the Großprüfening district of Regensburg in Bavaria.
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