Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Ulm, Germany

The stumbling blocks in Ulm are listed in the list of stumbling blocks in Ulm. They are part of the "stumbling blocks" of the artist Gunter Demnig's Europe. These are decentralized memorials that are said to remind you of the fate of those people who lived in Ulm and deported them by the National Socialists and were murdered in concentration camps and extermination camps, among other things, or forced to escape from their homeland.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Ulm (DE), Website

The Martin Luther Church in Ulm was built between 1926 and 1928 in Ulm's Weststadt as a successor to the Martinskirche (Martinsstraße), which had become too small. The architect was Theodor Veil, who, as a member of the Deutscher Werkbund, implemented contemporary stylistic features in this sacred building in an original and creative way. The church is located on the Way of St. James, the historic pilgrimage route that leads from Ulm over the Kuhberg towards Lake Constance.

Wikipedia: Martin-Luther-Kirche (Ulm) (DE), Website

The Church of St. Michael zu den Wengen, also known as the Wengen Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church in the city center of Ulm, which emerged from the historic Wengen Monastery. The epithet to the Wengen means "in the meadows". The church originally belonged to the Ulm convent of the Augustinian canons and has a long and eventful history behind it.

Wikipedia: St. Michael zu den Wengen (Ulm) (DE)

The Museum Bread and Art – Forum World Food is a knowledge museum in Ulm that presents the importance of grain, bread and culture for the development of humanity. This includes natural, technical and socio-historical aspects of bread production as well as the understanding of bread as a symbol of life in the Judeo-Christian imagination. Particular emphasis is placed on dealing with the lack of bread and food in the past and present. High-ranking works of art from the 15th to the 21st century are intended to show how deeply and multi-layered the motif of bread or grain is anchored in our culture.

Wikipedia: Museum Brot und Kunst (DE), Website

The Büchsenstadel in Ulm is a former municipal warehouse dating back to the 15th century.

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Ulm Minster is a Lutheran church located in Ulm, State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It is currently the tallest church in the world. The church is the fifth-tallest structure built before the 20th century, with a steeple measuring 161.53 metres.

Wikipedia: Ulm Minster (EN), Website

The Münsterplatz is located in the centre of the southern German city of Ulm in front of the eponymous cathedral. The square is lined with many commercial buildings, most of which were built after the Second World War. In addition, the square is dominated by the Stadthaus, built between 1991 and 1993, which with its white façade and modern architecture is a clear contrast to Ulm Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Münsterplatz (Ulm) (DE)

Agatha Streicher (1520–1581), was a German physician who lived her entire life in Ulm. She has been referred to as the first female physician in Germany.

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Maria Holl was an innkeeper and a victim of the witch hunt in Nördlingen. She was imprisoned in 1593 as an alleged witch. After 62 tortures, she still had not confessed, but she was released after almost a year.

Wikipedia: Maria Holl (Hexenprozess) (DE)

The IRGW Community Center at Weinhof is the official name of the community center of the Orthodox Jewish Community of Ulm. The builder and owner of the community center at the Weinhof is the Israelite Religious Community of Württemberg (IRGW), based in Stuttgart.

Wikipedia: IRGW-Gemeindezentrum Ulm (DE)

The Schwörhaus in Ulm is a representative building built at the beginning of the 17th century. After several destructions and reconstruction, it is now used by the Ulm City Archives as the House of Ulm City History. From his balcony, the Lord Mayor of Ulm gives an annual public account on Oath Monday.

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The Museum Ulm, founded in 1924, is a museum for art, archeology, urban and cultural history in Ulm, Germany.

Wikipedia: Museum Ulm (EN), Website

Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.

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Kunsthalle Weishaupt is an art gallery located in Ulm, in Baden-Würtemberg, Germany. It houses a private collection of modern art. The Kunsthalle Weishaupt was founded in 2007.

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The Holy Trinity Church was founded by the Dominicans in Ulm. The church building was largely destroyed during World War II and was a ruin for decades. The reconstruction took place with a change of use. Since 1984, the building has been used as a meeting place for the Evangelical Church of Ulm.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Ulm) (DE), Website

The stumbling blocks in Neu-Ulm are listed in the list of stumbling blocks in Neu-Ulm. You are part of the Europe -wide project "Stumbling Stones" by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig. These are decentralized memorials that are said to remind you of the fate of those people who lived in Neu-Ulm and were deported by the National Socialists and were murdered in concentration camps and extermination camps.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Neu-Ulm (DE)

The 37.5 m high Gänsturm in Ulm is a preserved city gate in the east of the medieval city fortifications not far from the Danube. Its name derives from the fact that geese used to be driven through the gate onto the goose meadows.

Wikipedia: Gänsturm (Ulm) (DE)

The Seelturm, sometimes also known as the Zundeltorturm or Zundeltorturmchen, is a tower in Ulm, Germany.

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St. Paul's Church in Ulm was built as a Protestant garrison church between 1908 and 1910 north of the Old Cemetery on Frauenstraße according to plans by the architect Theodor Fischer. It is the parish church of St. Paul's parish in Ulm. Due to its good acoustics, it is considered 'the' concert church in the area.

Wikipedia: Pauluskirche (Ulm) (DE)

The fortress of Ulm was one of five federal fortresses of the German Confederation around the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm. With its 9 km polygonal main circumvallation Ulm had the biggest fortress in Germany and Europe in the 19th century and it is still one of the biggest in Europe.

Wikipedia: Fortress of Ulm (EN)