Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Wiesbaden, Germany

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 6.2 km
Ascend 142 m
Descend 146 m

Explore Wiesbaden 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 Wiesbaden

Sight 1: Sankt Mauritius

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Sankt Mauritius Benjamin Dahlhoff / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

The St. Mauritius Church is a Catholic church located at Abeggstraße 37 in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Wikipedia: St. Mauritius (Wiesbaden) (DE), Website

913 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Kurpark

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The Kurpark, German for "Spa Park", is a public park in the centre of Wiesbaden, Germany, stretching from the Wilhelmstraße to the southern borders of the district of Sonneberg and lying immediately behind the Kurhaus convention center. It was created in 1852 as an English landscape park and includes a lake where boats can be rented, and a 6 metres (20 ft) tall fountain. It has been described as the most beautiful park in Wiesbaden.

Wikipedia: Kurpark, Wiesbaden (EN)

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Kurhaus Wiesbaden

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The Kurhaus is the spa house in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, Germany. It serves as the city's convention centre, and the social center of the spa town. In addition to a large and a smaller hall, it houses a restaurant and the Wiesbaden Casino, or Spielbank, which is notable for allowing the "highest roulette stakes in Germany", and where Fyodor Dostoyevsky was said to have received the inspiration for his novel The Gambler.

Wikipedia: Kurhaus, Wiesbaden (EN), Website

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Alte Kolonnade

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Alte Kolonnade Wolfgang Pehlemann Wiesbaden Germany / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

With a length of 129 m, the Kurhaus Colonnade in Wiesbaden is the longest columned hall in Europe. It was built in 1826/27 by Heinrich Jacob Zengerle.

Wikipedia: Kurhauskolonnaden (Wiesbaden) (DE)

416 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Bowling Green

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The Bowling Green is a park in the Hessian state capital of Wiesbaden.

Wikipedia: Bowling Green, Wiesbaden (EN)

394 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Schillerdenkmal

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The Schiller Monument in Wiesbaden was erected in 1905 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death, the statue and its accompanying figure were created by the well-known Berlin sculptor Joseph Uphues.

Wikipedia: Schillerdenkmal (Wiesbaden) (DE)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Warmer Damm

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The Warmer Damm is a public park in the centre of Wiesbaden, Germany, stretching from the Wilhelmstraße to the southern borders of the Kurpark and lying immediately in front of the Hessian State Theater. It was created between 1860 and 1861 as an English landscape park and includes a pond.

Wikipedia: Warmer Damm (EN)

248 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Salzbachkanal

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Salzbachkanal

The Salzbach is a right and northeastern tributary of the Rhine that is just under 6 km long, together with its left upper course Rambach, about 15 km long. It drains the area from the main ridge of the Taunus in the north down through the city centre of Wiesbaden to the mouth of the knee of the Upper Rhine on the southern edge of the city.

Wikipedia: Salzbachkanal (DE)

243 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Marktkirche

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Marktkirche is the main Protestant church in Wiesbaden, the state capital of Hesse, Germany. The neo-Gothic church on the central Schlossplatz was designed by Carl Boos and built between 1853 and 1862. At the time it was the largest brick building of the Duchy of Nassau. It is also called Nassauer Landesdom.

Wikipedia: Marktkirche, Wiesbaden (EN), Website

301 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Stadtschloss Wiesbaden

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Wiesbaden City Palace is a neo-classical building in the center of Wiesbaden, Germany. It was completed in 1841 as the principal city residence of the Dukes of Nassau. The palace has several wings, 145 rooms, and is architecturally integrated with a group of ancillary buildings constructed both before and after it was built. With ornate towers, gables and a slate roof laid in herringbone patterns, the three-story complex lends charm and its name to the central square of Wiesbaden: Palace Square.

Wikipedia: Wiesbaden City Palace (EN)

445 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Gedenkstätte Alte Synagoge

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The Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Wiesbaden, colloquially also known as the Michelsberg Memorial or Remembrance by Name in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, is a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Wiesbaden during the Nazi era.

Wikipedia: Namentliches Gedenken (DE)

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Römertor

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Römertor Die Autorenschaft wurde nicht in einer maschinell lesbaren Form angegeben. Es wird Ygrek als Autor angenommen (basierend auf den Rechteinhaber-Angaben). / CC BY 2.5

The Heidenmauer is the most famous Roman monument in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, the Roman Aquae Mattiacorum. It was built around 370 AD under Emperor Valentinian I, making it the oldest surviving building in the city. The purpose of this defensive wall cannot be clearly determined to this day, just as the dating cannot be narrowed down more precisely than generally to the late phase of Roman Wiesbaden.

Wikipedia: Römertor (Wiesbaden) (DE)

43 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Heidenmauer

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Heidenmauer Die Autorenschaft wurde nicht in einer maschinell lesbaren Form angegeben. Es wird Ygrek als Autor angenommen (basierend auf den Rechteinhaber-Angaben). / CC BY 2.5

The Heidenmauer is the most famous Roman monument in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, the Roman Aquae Mattiacorum. It was built around 370 AD under Emperor Valentinian I, making it the oldest surviving building in the city. The purpose of this defensive wall cannot be clearly determined to this day, just as the dating cannot be narrowed down more precisely than generally to the late phase of Roman Wiesbaden.

Wikipedia: Heidenmauer (Wiesbaden) (DE)

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme

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Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme Oliver Abels (SBT) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme, originally called Kaiser-Friedrich-Bad, is a historic thermal bath in Wiesbaden, Germany, which was built between 1910 and 1913 by the architect A. O. Pauly in Art Nouveau style. The bath is fed by the Adlerquelle, Wiesbaden's second largest thermal spring after the Kochbrunnen. Its water has a temperature of 64.6 °C.

Wikipedia: Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme (DE)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Schwarzer Bock

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Schwarzer Bock

The Hotel Schwarzer Bock, officially Radisson Blu Schwarzer Bock Hotel, Wiesbaden, is a hotel in Wiesbaden. It operates under the umbrella brand Radisson Blu from the Radisson Hotel Group.

Wikipedia: Schwarzer Bock (Wiesbaden) (DE)

270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Hotel Nassauer Hof

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Nassauer Hof is a luxury five-star superior hotel in Wiesbaden, Germany, and member of the international association The Leading Hotels of the World as well as the German association Selektion Deutscher Luxushotels. The property was built in 1813 and is situated across from the Wiesbaden Kurhaus and at the end of Wiesbaden's luxury shopping avenue Wilhelmstrasse.

Wikipedia: Hotel Nassauer Hof (EN), Website

336 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Kochbrunnen

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The Kochbrunnen in Wiesbaden is the most famous hot spring in city. It is a sodium chloride hot spring. Its name refers to the water temperature of about 66 °C.

Wikipedia: Kochbrunnen (EN)

322 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Bergkirche

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Bergkirche No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Rosenbaum assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Bergkirche is one of four main Protestant churches in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, Germany. It was completed in 1879 in Gothic Revival based on a design by Johannes Otzen. The church is focused on having the altar and pulpit close to the congregation, following Luther's concept of a universal priesthood. It also serves as a concert venue for church music.

Wikipedia: Bergkirche, Wiesbaden (EN), Website

801 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 19: Mausoleum für Pauline von Nassau

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Pauline of Württemberg may refer to several different members of Württemberg royalty:Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800–1873), daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and third wife of King William I of Württemberg Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810–1856), daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and second wife of William, Duke of Nassau Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877–1965), daughter of William II of Württemberg and wife of William Frederick, Prince of Wied

Wikipedia: Pauline of Württemberg (EN)

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