Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Stuttgart, Germany
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6.9 km
195 m
Experience Stuttgart 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 StuttgartIndividual Sights in StuttgartSight 1: Carl Benz Center
The Carl Benz Center is an event center opened in 2006 in the Neckarpark in Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart). The investor in the 75-million-euro project is Rudolf Häussler. The Carl Benz Center offers around 20,000 square metres of usable space, of which VfB Stuttgart alone uses 4,000.
Sight 2: Schweinemuseum
The pig museum in Stuttgart is a privately managed museum that deals with the art and cultural history of the pig.
Sight 3: Gaisburger Kirche
The Gaisburg Church is a Protestant church in the Gaisburg district of Stuttgart-Ost. It was built from 1911 to 1913 by the architect Martin Elsaesser as a reinforced concrete structure in a mixture of late Art Nouveau, Neoclassicism and Neo-Baroque. It is considered one of the most beautiful churches in Stuttgart.
Sight 4: Lukaskirche
The Protestant Lukaskirche is located in Ostheim, a district in Stuttgart's East district. The building is registered as an architectural monument with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. The parish merged with the Lutherhaus parish in 2005 and with the Gaisburg parish in 2018. The new parish of Stuttgart-Ost belongs to the Stuttgart church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg.
Sight 5: Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien und der Dobrudscha
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The Museum of Local History of the Germans from Bessarabia and Dobruja is a local history museum of the Bessarabian Germans and the Dobruja Germans in Stuttgart. It was founded there in 1952 as a local history museum of the Bessarabian Germans and has functioned since the annexation of the Landsmannschaft der Dobrudscha- und Bulgariendeutschen 2009 also as a museum for this group of people.
Wikipedia: Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien und der Dobrudscha (DE), Website
Sight 6: Gertrud Fuld
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 7: Staatsgalerie
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The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is an art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, it opened in 1843. In 1984, the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.
Sight 8: Draped Reclining Woman
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Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 is a bronze sculpture by British artist Henry Moore, with a series of six castings made by Hermann Noack in Berlin.
Sight 9: Schicksals-Brunnen
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The Schicksalsbrunnen is a fountain in the Upper Palace Garden in Stuttgart, Germany. It was designed in 1914 by the sculptor Karl Donndorf (1870–1941) in Art Nouveau style and is considered one of the most important fountains of this style in Germany.
Sight 10: Schillerdenkmal
The Schiller monument in front of the Great House of the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart was designed by the Stuttgart sculptor Adolf von Donndorf, executed in marble by Richard Schönfeld and erected in 1913. The statue shows an idealized Schiller image, according to Donndorf's intention "the immortal Schiller, [...] descending from Olympus with the golden Leyer."
Sight 11: Eberhardsgruppe
The Eberhardsgruppe is a monument in the Upper Palace Garden of Stuttgart. It shows Prince Eberhard I lying on the lap of a subject.
Sight 12: Ferdinand-Leitner-Steg
The Ferdinand-Leitner-Steg is a pedestrian bridge in Stuttgart that crosses the nine-lane Schillerstraße and connects the Schlossgarten with the Upper Schlossgarten. Its southern end is in the Upper Palace Garden near the Schauspielhaus. Its northern end forks into a footbridge to the walkway through the castle garden and a footbridge to the walkway towards the main station.
Sight 13: Carl-Zeiss-Planetarium
The Carl-Zeiss Planetarium Stuttgart is located in the middle castle garden in Stuttgart. In addition to the actual planetarium, the Stuttgart planetarium also operates the Welzheim observatory.
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