Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ulm, Germany

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Number of sights 24 sights
Distance 5.6 km
Ascend 59 m
Descend 70 m

Experience Ulm 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.

Individual Sights in Ulm

Sight 1: Büchsenstadel

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

Wikipedia: Büchsenstadel (DE), Website

342 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Ulm Minster

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Ulm Minster is a Lutheran church located in Ulm, State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It is 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

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Anna Essinger

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Anna Essinger was a German Jewish educator. At the age of 20, she went to finish her education in the United States, where she encountered Quakers and was greatly influenced by their attitudes, adopting them for her own. In 1919, she returned to Germany on a Quaker war relief mission and was asked by her sister, who had founded a children's home, to help establish a school with it. She and her family founded a boarding school, the Landschulheim Herrlingen in 1926, with Anna Essinger as headmistress. In 1933, with the Nazi threat looming and the permission of all the parents, she moved the school and its 66 children, mostly Jewish, to safety in England, re-establishing it as the Bunce Court School. During the war, Essinger established a reception camp for 10,000 German children sent to England on the Kindertransports, taking some of them into the school. After the war, her school took many child survivors of Nazi concentration camps. By the time Essinger closed Bunce Court in 1948, she had taught and cared for over 900 children, most of whom called her Tante ("Aunt") Anna, or TA, for short. She remained in close contact with her former pupils for the rest of her life.

Wikipedia: Anna Essinger (EN)

181 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Valentinskapelle

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The Münsterplatz is located in the center of the southern German city of Ulm in front of the eponymous Münster. 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 the Ulm Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Münsterplatz (Ulm) (DE)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Stadthaus

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Stadthaus Peter Berger / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Stadthaus Ulm is in the centre of Ulm (Germany), located on the Münsterplatz. Primarily, the building is used to present exhibitions of photography and modern and contemporary art. A lecture hall is used for a variety of events, activities, and workshops, including a festival of modern music. It houses the city's tourist information centre and other public services on the ground floor. A permanent exhibition of the archaeology and history of the Münsterplatz is located on the lower level.

Wikipedia: Stadthaus Ulm (EN)

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Maria Holl

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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 did not confess, and was released after almost a year.

Wikipedia: Maria Holl (Hexenprozess) (DE)

95 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Neue Synagoge Ulm

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

Wikipedia: IRGW-Gemeindezentrum Ulm (DE)

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Schwörhaus

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The Schwörhaus in Ulm is an imperial city representative building built at the beginning of the 17th century. After several destructions and reconstructions, it is now used by the Ulm City Archive as the House of Ulm's City History. From his balcony, the mayor of Ulm gives an annual public account on Oath Monday.

Wikipedia: Schwörhaus (Ulm) (DE)

55 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Haus der Stadtgeschichte

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The Haus der Stadtgeschichte – Stadtarchiv Ulm is the archive of the Baden-Württemberg city of Ulm.

Wikipedia: Haus der Stadtgeschichte – Stadtarchiv Ulm (DE)

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Schiefes Haus

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The Leaning House is a late Gothic half-timbered house in Ulm, which has an inclination of 9 to 10°.

Wikipedia: Schiefes Haus Ulm (DE), Website

186 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Metzgerturm

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The Butcher's Tower in Ulm is a city gate of the medieval city fortifications on the Danube that is still preserved today. The square brick tower with pointed arch gates was built around 1340 as an outlet of the Swabian city fortifications to the Stadtmetzig in front of it, the town's slaughterhouse. The upper floor with projecting round arches is closed off by a steep hipped roof.

Wikipedia: Metzgerturm (Ulm) (DE)

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Rathaus

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Ulm Town Hall is one of the outstanding architectural monuments of the city of Ulm, not least because of the façade murals and an astronomical clock. Its complex architectural history – it consists of three different components – began in the 14th century. Its current appearance essentially dates back to the early Renaissance.

Wikipedia: Rathaus (Ulm) (DE)

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Agathe Streicher

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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.

Wikipedia: Agatha Streicher (EN)

54 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Kunsthalle Weishaupt

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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.

Wikipedia: Kunsthalle Weishaupt (EN), Website

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Red Dog for Landois

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Red Dog for Landois dmax3270 / CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

Wikipedia: Keith Haring (EN), Website

113 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Museum Ulm

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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

322 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Pauline Strauß

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Pauline Strauß

The list of stumbling stones in Neu-Ulm lists the stumbling stones that have existed in Neu-Ulm so far. They are part of the Europe-wide project "Stolpersteine" by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig. These are decentralised memorials that are intended to commemorate the fate of those people who lived in Neu-Ulm and were deported by the National Socialists and murdered in concentration camps and extermination camps, among other places.

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

344 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Haus der Begegnung

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

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Ulm) (DE), Website

125 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Steinhaus

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St. Nicholas' Chapel and Steinhaus at Neue Straße 102, formerly Schelergasse 11, are the oldest surviving buildings in Ulm. At least parts of the building fabric date back to the Romanesque era, the Swabian period.

Wikipedia: Nikolauskapelle und Steinhaus (DE), Url

486 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 20: Gänsturm

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The 37.5 m high goose tower in Ulm is a preserved city gate in the east of medieval city fortifications near the Danube. His name stems because the gate used to go to the goose meadows.

Wikipedia: Gänsturm (Ulm) (DE)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 21: Zeughaus

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Zeughaus Schloessermagazin / CC-by-sa 3.0

The Ulmer Zeughaus is a former armoury on the eastern edge of the city centre of Ulm.

Wikipedia: Zeughaus (Ulm) (DE)

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Seelturm

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Seelturm Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Seelturm, sometimes also called Zundeltorturm or Zundeltortürmchen, is a tower in Ulm, Germany.

Wikipedia: Seelturm (DE)

308 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: August Nathan

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August Nathan Christian Michelides / CC BY-SA 4.0

The list of Stumbling Stones in Ulm lists the Stumbling Stones that have existed in Ulm so far. They are part of the Europe-wide project "Stolpersteine" by the artist Gunter Demnig. These are decentralised memorials that are intended to commemorate the fate of those people who lived in Ulm and were deported by the National Socialists and murdered in concentration camps and extermination camps, among other places, or forced to flee their homeland.

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

1551 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 24: Fort Friedrichsau (Werk XLI)

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Fort Friedrichsau (Werk XLI)

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)

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