Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Schweinfurt, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 2.4 km
Ascend 39 m
Descend 39 m

Explore Schweinfurt 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 Schweinfurt

Sight 1: St. Salvator

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St. Salvator, also known as St. Salvatorkirche, formerly Frauenkirche, is a Protestant church in Schweinfurt, Germany. The church is the only major baroque building in the city.

Wikipedia: St. Salvator (Schweinfurt) (DE), Url

237 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Naturkundliches Museum

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Naturkundliches Museum

The Natural History Museum in Schweinfurt is located in the Harmonie museum building on the banks of the Main.

Wikipedia: Naturkundliches Museum (Schweinfurt) (DE)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Museum Georg Schäfer

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The Museum Georg Schäfer is a German art museum in Schweinfurt, Bavaria. Based on the private art collection of German industrialist Georg Schäfer (1896–1975), the museum primarily collects 19th-century paintings by artists from German-speaking countries.

Wikipedia: Museum Georg Schäfer (EN)

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Altes Rathaus

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The old town hall of the city of Schweinfurt is located on the market (main market) in the old town and is a listed building. It is considered a brilliant performance of the profane German Renaissance and is one of the most important Renaissance buildings in southern Germany.

Wikipedia: Altes Rathaus (Schweinfurt) (DE)

302 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: St. Johannis

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St. Johannis in Schweinfurt was the main church of the former imperial city of Schweinfurt and is now an Evangelical Lutheran parish church, located at the seat of the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery of Schweinfurt.

Wikipedia: St. Johannis (Schweinfurt) (DE)

157 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Museum Gunnar-Wester-Haus

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The Gunnar Wester House in Schweinfurt is a museum that exhibits the Graf Luxburg Collection – objects of firemaking and lighting – and the Fritz Glöckle Icon Collection – Russian icons from the 16th to 19th centuries. Gunnar Wester was a Swedish consul and chairman of the board of directors of SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH in Schweinfurt, Germany.

Wikipedia: Gunnar-Wester-Haus (DE)

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Apostelhaus

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The Apostle's House, also known as the Twelve Apostles' House, is a residential and commercial building in Schweinfurt, Germany, dating back to the 17th century.

Wikipedia: Apostelhaus (Schweinfurt) (DE)

74 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Zeughaus

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The Zeughaus is a 16th-century building in Schweinfurt, Germany. It was an arsenal and warehouse of the imperial city of Schweinfurt.

Wikipedia: Zeughaus (Schweinfurt) (DE)

498 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Heilig-Geist-Kirche

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Heilig-Geist-Kirche Dr. Volkmar Rudolf|Tilman2007; shifted/cropped by Rabanus Flavus / CC BY 3.0

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Schweinfurt is the Roman Catholic parish church of the parish of the same name, which was built in 2017.

Wikipedia: Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Schweinfurt) (DE)

705 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 10: Gustav-Adolf-Kirche

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The Gustav Adolf Memorial Church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Schweinfurt, Germany. It is named after the Protestant King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden. It was built in the course of the city's expansion in the 1920s.

Wikipedia: Gustav-Adolf-Gedächtniskirche (Schweinfurt) (DE), Url

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