Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Stuttgart, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 6.5 km
Ascend 82 m
Descend 206 m

Explore Stuttgart 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 Stuttgart

Sight 1: Bismarckturm Stuttgart

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The Bismarck Tower is an observation tower built as a Bismarck monument in the Am Bismarckturm district of Stuttgart-Nord, Germany. It is located on the highest point in Stuttgart-Nord, the Gähkopf, and offers a good view of the Stuttgart city area as well as distant views in all directions.

Wikipedia: Bismarckturm (Stuttgart) (DE), Website

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Theodor-Heuss-Haus

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The Theodor Heuss House is the name given to the last residence of the first Federal President Theodor Heuss (1884–1963) on Stuttgart's Killesberg. The building is located at Feuerbacher Weg 46, in the Feuerbacher Heide. Since 1995 it has been owned by the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, which uses the house as a museum and event venue.

Wikipedia: Theodor-Heuss-Haus (DE), Website

912 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 3: Gruhe

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Gruhe

A Ruhstein, also known as Ruhestein, Ruhbank, Grubstock, Gruhe, Gruhbank, Krugstatt or Gruegstatt as well as Raststein, is a single or multi-unit bench that was used in earlier times for resting porters. While there were originally comparable devices made of wood, the resting benches that have survived to this day are made of stone. As witnesses of earlier forms of transport and old traffic routes, many resting benches are now classified as small or field monuments.

Wikipedia: Ruhstein (DE)

1184 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 4: Höhenpark Killesberg

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Höhenpark Killesberg Pjt56 --- If you use the picture outside Wikipedia I would appreciate a short e-mail to pjt56@gmx.net or a message on my discussion page / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Killesbergpark is an urban public park of half a square kilometre in Stuttgart, Germany. It is just north of the state capital, where Killesberg is a quarter of the borough of Stuttgart-Nord (North).

Wikipedia: Killesbergpark (EN)

1131 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 5: Weißenhofmuseum

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Weißenhofmuseum Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Weissenhof Museum in Stuttgart is a museum for the history of architecture opened in 2006. It is located in a semi-detached house designed by the architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in the Weissenhof estate.

Wikipedia: Weissenhofmuseum (DE), Website

1281 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 6: Zeichen der Erinnerung

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Zeichen der Erinnerung

The memorial "Sign of Memory" at the Nordbahnhof Stuttgart is reminiscent of this place under the rule of the National Socialist regime between 1941 and 1944 more than 2600 Jews from Stuttgart, Württemberg and Hohenzollern "to the East", that is, to their murder , were deported. Almost all of these people were then murdered in the Shoah (Nazi Jews.) Until 1945.

Wikipedia: Gedenkstätte „Zeichen der Erinnerung“ am Nordbahnhof Stuttgart (DE)

1083 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 7: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde am Löwentor

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The Museum at the Lion's Gate, often abbreviated to the Lion's Gate Museum, is a museum of paleontology and geology. It is part of the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, which also includes the Museum Schloss Rosenstein and several branch offices. The Museum am Löwentor is located in the north of Stuttgart on the edge of Rosenstein Park and has about 110,000 visitors a year.

Wikipedia: Museum am Löwentor (DE), Website

453 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Gate of Hope

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Gate of Hope Pjt56 --- If you use the picture outside Wikipedia I would appreciate a short e-mail to pjt56@gmx.net or a message on my discussion page / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Gate of Hope in Stuttgart is an architectural sculpture by the American conceptual artist Dan Graham, a gate designed as a regular tetrahedron made of stainless steel profiles and one-way mirrors. It is located at the end of the Łódź footbridge, which leads from Rosenstein Park to Leibfried's Garden.

Wikipedia: Gate of Hope (DE)

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