Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Tübingen, Germany

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Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 1.2 km
Ascend 17 m
Descend 20 m

Experience Tübingen in Germany in a whole new way with our free 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.

Individual Sights in Tübingen

Sight 1: Boxenstop Auto- und Spielzeugmusem

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Boxenstop Auto- und Spielzeugmusem unbekannt / Logo

Boxenstop is a car and toy museum in Tübingen that shows the private collection of the operators Rainer and Ute Klink.

Wikipedia: Boxenstop Tübingen (DE), Website

619 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Nonnenhaus

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Nonnenhaus

The nun's house in Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) is one of the best-preserved beguinages in Germany. Presumably, in 1488 first Dominican nuns, then Beguines, the "nuns", lived in the half-timbered house. With a length of 30 meters, it is one of the largest half-timbered houses in Tübingen's old town.

Wikipedia: Nonnenhaus Tübingen (DE)

240 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Johanneskirche

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The Catholic parish church of St. John the Evangelist in Tübingen was built from 1875 to 1878 by the court architect Joseph von Egle in the neo-Gothic style.

Wikipedia: St. Johannes Evangelist (Tübingen) (DE)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Stadtmuseum Tübingen

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The Tübingen City Museum, which emerged from "Municipal Collections", is housed in a former granary that is over 500 years old at Kornhausstraße 10 in the old town of Tübingen. The museum houses a permanent exhibition on the history of the city, which gives an overview of the history of Tübingen over the last 600 years, as well as a permanent exhibition on the silhouette artist Lotte Reiniger. In addition, the museum shows several temporary exhibitions a year, each of which is accompanied by an extensive catalogue.

Wikipedia: Stadtmuseum Tübingen (DE), Website

25 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: Institut für theatrale Zukunftsforschung

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Zimmertheater Tübingen is a very small theatre in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in close neighbourhood to the Hölderlinturm, where Friedrich Hölderlin spent his last years in life and near the Neckar river. It opened in 1958 and has two rooms for an audience of 60 and 80 visitors.

Wikipedia: Zimmertheater Tübingen (EN), Website

168 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Jakobuskirche

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Jakobuskirche

The St. James' Church, also known as the Spitalkirche, in Tübingen is a Romanesque church originally dedicated to St. James, which is now used by the Tübingen Protestant St. James parish in the church district of Tübingen. Together with the neighbouring salt barn, it forms the historic centre of Tübingen's lower town, the so-called Gôgei.

Wikipedia: Jakobuskirche (Tübingen) (DE)

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