Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Ulm, Germany
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3.8 km
44 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 UlmSight 1: Gänsturm
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.
Sight 2: Zeughaus
![Zeughaus](/static/images/wikipedia/Germany_Ulm_Zeughaus.jpg)
The Ulmer Zeughaus is a former armoury on the eastern edge of the city centre of Ulm.
Sight 3: Seelturm
![Seelturm](/static/images/wikipedia/Germany_Ulm_Seelturm.jpg)
The Seelturm, sometimes also called Zundeltorturm or Zundeltortürmchen, is a tower in Ulm, Germany.
Sight 4: August Nathan
![August Nathan](/static/images/wikipedia/Germany_Ulm_Adolf-Frenkel.jpg)
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.
Sight 5: Anna Essinger
![Anna Essinger](/static/images/wikipedia/Germany_Ulm_Anna-Essinger.jpg)
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.
Sight 6: Ulm Minster
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.
Sight 7: Valentinskapelle
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.
Sight 8: Schwörhaus
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.
Sight 9: Stadthaus
![Stadthaus](/static/images/wikipedia/Germany_Ulm_Stadthaus.jpg)
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.
Sight 10: Büchsenstadel
The Büchsenstadel in Ulm is a former municipal warehouse dating back to the 15th century.
Sight 11: Museum Brot und Kunst
The Museum of 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 social historical aspects of bread making as well as the understanding of bread as a symbol of life in the Judeo-Christian world of ideas. 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 21st centuries are intended to show how deeply and multi-layered the motif of bread and grain is anchored in our culture.
Sight 12: St. Michael zu den Wengen
The Church of St. Michael zu den Wengen, also known as the Wengen Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church in the centre 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.
Sight 13: Agnes Schultheiß
Agnes Schultheiß, née Landmann, was a German educator, linguist and city councillor in Ulm.
Sight 14: Theater Ulm
Theater Ulm is the municipal theater in the Baden-Württemberg city of Ulm in Germany. Founded in 1641, it is the oldest municipal theater in Germany. Today, it operates distinct ensembles for opera/operetta, acting, and ballet. Until 2006, it operated as Ulmer Theater.
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