Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Tübingen, Germany
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3.8 km
76 m
Explore Tübingen 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 TübingenSight 1: Landestheater Tübingen
Landestheater Tübingen is a theatre in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is known as 'LTT' for short, officially also 'Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen', is a cultural enterprise financed in Tübingen by public funds, donations and entrance fees. It puts on its mainly own productions, but also – partly foreign-language – guest performances. In addition to the so-called "evening game plan", it also has its own children's and youth theater division.
Sight 2: Hölderlinturm
The Hölderlinturm is a building located in Tübingen, Germany that served as the place of residence and death in the final years of poet Friedrich Hölderlin. He lived there from May 3, 1807 until his death in 1843. The building is located on the Neckar riverfront and is one of the most popularly known sites in Tübingen.
Sight 3: Alte Burse / Institut für Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte
The Burse is a building in the south of Tübingen's old town, slightly elevated above the Neckar River. The original meaning of the facility can be read in detail in the article Burse. The Tübingen Burse was built between 1478 and 1482. Construction began only one year after the founding of the Eberhard Karls University. A significant part of the founding of the Tübingen Burse is due to the commitment of Eberhard im Bart's mother, Mechthild von der Pfalz. In the central beam of the entrance area of the Burse, the palm tree and Eberhard's motto are carved in the beard: "Attempto", which are still the logo of the University of Tübingen today.
Sight 4: Grablege
The Stiftskirche is a church located in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a late Gothic structure built by Peter von Koblenz in 1470. The stained glass windows were designed by Peter Hemmel of Andlau who also designed windows in Ulm, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Munich and Strasbourg. It is the central landmark of Tübingen and, along with the rest of the city, the Stiftskirche was one of the first to convert to Martin Luther's Protestant church. It maintains several "Roman Catholic" features, such as patron saints.
Sight 5: Nonnenhaus
The nunnery in Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) is one of the best-preserved beguinages in Germany. Presumably, in 1488 Dominican nuns, then beguines, the "nuns", lived in the half-timbered house. With a length of 30 metres, it is one of the largest half-timbered houses in Tübingen's old town.
Sight 6: Johanneskirche
The Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Evangingen in Tübingen was built from 1875 to 1878 by the court builder Joseph von Egle in the style of neo -Gothic.
Sight 7: Stadtmuseum Tübingen
The Tübingen City Museum, which emerged from "Municipal Collections", is housed in a more than 500-year-old former granary 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.
Sight 8: Institut für theatrale Zukunftsforschung
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.
Sight 9: Jakobuskirche
The St. James' Church 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.
Sight 10: Bismarckturm Tübingen
The Bismarck Tower is a 16-metre-high observation tower in Tübingen, completed in 1907 as a Bismarck monument, which was built according to the design "Götterdämmerung" by Wilhelm Kreis by the Tübingen government architect Franz Bärtle. The 16 m high Bismarck Tower was built of tufa and coarse-grained sandstone. It is located on the Schlossberg, 1.3 km west of Hohentübingen Castle, at the end of Lichtenberger Weg. The Bismarck Tower is considered the landmark of Tübingen's Weststadt.
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