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The Heidelberg Stables, built of Neckar Valley sandstone, is one of the oldest surviving buildings from the early modern period in Heidelberg. The building, which is now called Marstall, was originally called Zeughaus, while the Marstall was located to the south in a building that has now been destroyed.
The Church of the Holy Spirit is the largest church in Heidelberg, Germany. The church, located in the marketplace in the old town center, was constructed between 1398 and 1515 in the Romanesque and Gothic styles. It receives 1–3 million guests annually, making it among the most visited churches in Germany.
The Jesuit Church is the largest and most important church in Heidelberg next to the Church of the Holy Spirit and forms the architectural focus of the former Jesuit quarter in the old town in the immediate vicinity of the University Square. Today it is the main church of the Roman Catholic Holy Spirit parish in Heidelberg's old town. The church was built between 1712 and 1759 in the Baroque style, the neo-baroque tower was added between 1868 and 1872. The church, which is not geostet as usual, but faces south, is a "building that is as remarkable as it is unusual".
The Karl Theodor Bridge, commonly known as the Old Bridge, is an arch bridge in Heidelberg that crosses the Neckar river. It connects the Old City with the eastern part of the Neuenheim district of the city on the opposite bank. The current bridge, made of Neckar sandstone and the ninth built on the site, was constructed in 1788 by Elector Charles Theodore, and is one of the best-known landmarks and tourist destinations in Heidelberg.
5. Sankt Paul
The church of St. Paul in the Heidelberg district of Boxberg was built from 1970 to 1972 as a Roman Catholic parish church for the two southern district of Heidelberg Boxberg and Emmertsgrund. The church is under monument protection.
6. Obere Burg
The Upper Castle, also known as the Old Castle or Burg zu Berge, is a hilltop castle on the northwestern slope of the Königstuhl above Heidelberg Castle. Like Heidelberg Castle, the no longer existing complex on today's Klingenteichstraße already existed in the Middle Ages. It was demonstrably largely destroyed on 25 April 1537 by a lightning strike with an accompanying explosion due to stored black powder reserves. The base area and foundation walls of the former hilltop castle are now mainly built over by the whey cure.
7. Studentenmuseum mit Karzer
The last student prison in Heidelberg's history was located at Augustinergasse 24 and served as a prison for students of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg. Today, it is attached to the Old University of Heidelberg as part of the Museum of the History of the University.
8. S-Printing Horse
With a height of 13 meters and a weight of 90 tons, the S-Printing Horse in Heidelberg is one of the largest horse sculptures in the world, designed by sculptor Jürgen Goertz. The sculptor's idea was implemented by Fröhlich Systemautomation GmbH Sondermaschinen- und Vorrichtungsbau, based in Treuchtlingen in Middle Franconia.
9. Kongresshaus Stadthalle Heidelberg
The Stadthalle Heidelberg is a congress and cultural center located in the old town of Heidelberg on the banks of the Neckar River. It was built according to the plans of the architects Jakob Henkenhaf and Friedrich Ebert in the years 1901 to 1903.
10. Villa Bosch
The Villa Bosch is a converted former upper-middle-class residential building in Heidelberg, Schloß-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, which has been a listed building for a long time and was also entered in the list of monuments worthy of special protection in 1997.
11. Ehrenfriedhof
The Heidelberg honorary cemetery is located above the western town of Heidelberg at a height of about 295 meters on the so -called ant hump above the Heidelberg mountain cemetery. From 1933 to 1935, the facility was created as a soldier's cemetery to admit more than 500 embedded people of the First World War and has an area of over 17 ha. In its extension, the courtyard of the facility on the church tower of the Christuskirche in the western town.
12. Rohrbacher Schlößchen
Rohrbach Castle, popularly known as Rohrbacher Schlösschen or Altes Schlösschen, is located in the middle of the Rohrbach district of Heidelberg. It is located there in a park on the grounds of the Thoraxklinik Heidelberg on today's Parkstraße.
13. Bahnwasserturm
The water tower on Eppelheimer Straße ensured the water supply of the former railway depot in Heidelberg and the steam locomotives that ran until the 1970s. The building is one of the few surviving monuments of the industrial culture of Heidelberg's Bahnstadt.
14. Heidenloch
The Heidenloch is a 55-metre-deep historic shaft with a diameter of between three and four metres on the Heidelberg Heiligenberg. It is located a few metres west of the observation tower on the road to Heiligenberg. The shaft has been a frequently described attraction since the early modern period. For a long time, it was walled in and barred by a vault. In 1936, the shaft was opened and explored in detail for the first time by employees of the Kurpfälzisches Museum. In 1987, a shelter was built over the exposed shaft.
15. Stauwehr Wieblingen
The Wieblingen weir is a weir on the Neckar near Heidelberg. It is part of the Schwabenheim barrage, as is the Schwabenheim lock at the lower end of the Wieblingen side canal and the Schwabenheim and Wieblingen power plants. It was built between 1922 and 1925 and is a listed building.
16. St. Vitus
St. Vitus is the Catholic parish church in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim. It is the oldest church in Heidelberg and one of the oldest churches in the region, the use of which can be traced throughout. The patron saint is St. Vitus (Veit), an early Christian martyr and one of the Fourteen Helpers in Need.
17. Schlossgarten
The Hortus Palatinus, or Garden of the Palatinate, was a Baroque garden attached to Heidelberg Castle, Germany. The garden was commissioned by Frederick V, Elector Palatine in 1614 for his new wife, Elizabeth Stuart, and became famous across Europe during the 17th century for the landscaping and horticultural techniques involved in its design. At the time it was known as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World', and has since been termed 'Germany's greatest Renaissance garden.'
18. Gaisbergturm
The Gaisberg Tower in Heidelberg is an architectural monument that stands at the transition of the small plateau of the 375.6 m above sea level Gaisberg to the northwest slope. Designed by the architect Fritz Seitz, the observation tower was built in 1876 by the Heidelberg Castle and Antiquity Association. The lighthouse of Alexandria probably served as a model.
19. Bismarcksäule
The Bismarck Column Heidelberg is a listed observation tower that was built in Heidelberg in 1903. The Bismarck Tower is located on the southern slope of the Heiligenberg above the Philosopher's Path.
20. Völkerkundemuseum
The Ethnological Museum of the J. and E. von Portheim Foundation in Heidelberg houses collections on religion, art and everyday life from the regions of Asia, Africa and Oceania. Art and culture of these regions are presented in changing special exhibitions.
21. Stephanskloster
The St. Stephen's Monastery on the 375.5 m above sea level Michelsberg in Heidelberg is a monastery founded there in the 11th century next to the Michaelskloster as the second branch of Lorsch Abbey, of which only the remains of the foundations have been preserved today. The Michelsberg is located south of the Heiligenberg.
22. Sammlung Prinzhorn
The Prinzhorn Collection is a German collection of art made by mental health patients, housed at the Heidelberg University Hospital. The collection comprises over 20,000 works, including works by Emma Hauck, Agnes Richter and August Natterer.
23. Karmeliterkloster Heidelberg
The Carmelite monastery of Heidelberg was a convent of the Carmelites, with a church and monastery building, in Heidelberg. The church, which is no longer preserved, served, among other things, as the burial place of the ruling house of the Wittelsbachs.
24. Thingstätte
The Heidelberg Thingstätte is an open-air theatre on the Heiligenberg in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was built during the Third Reich for performances and events as part of the Thingspiel movement. Until 2018, it was primarily used for unofficial Walpurgis Night celebrations. It is a protected cultural monument.
25. St. Johannes
St. Johannes is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Rohrbach district of Heidelberg. It was built between 1963 and 1965 and dedicated to the apostle and evangelist John. Today, the parish of St. Johannes, together with the parishes of St. Paul (Boxberg-Emmertsgrund) and St. Peter (Kirchheim), forms the pastoral care unit of Heidelberg-Süd.
26. Institutsgebäude
The former Hotel Badischer Hof was opened in 1780. With its central location at Heidelberger Hauptstraße 113, it was long considered the most distinguished house on the square. Among his illustrious guests was King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
27. Carl Bosch Museum
The Carl Bosch Museum Heidelberg is a technology museum that showcases the life and work of Heidelberg Nobel Prize winner Carl Bosch (1874–1940) on more than 300 m² and two outdoor areas and was founded in 1998. The building in Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, in which the museum is located, once served as a home for Bosch's chauffeurs and as a garage for Bosch's automobiles. Carl Bosch's residence was the Villa Bosch, a few hundred meters from the garage house.
28. Krematorium
After Gotha in 1878 and at the same time as Hamburg, Heidelberg also received a crematorium at the Heidelberg Mountain Cemetery in 1891. However, it was planned from the outset not only for the needs of Heidelberg, but for the whole of southwest Germany. The establishment of a crematorium was accompanied by strong religious-ecclesiastical concerns, so that significantly, an ancient building was used here, at the time of which cremation was common.
29. Schlösschen
The castle goes back to a smaller late medieval aristocratic residence in Handschuhsheim. The listed building has been rebuilt many times and has an eventful ownership history. The oldest component is the striking stair tower from the early 17th century. The building has been owned by the city of Heidelberg since the First World War and now serves cultural purposes. The new building on the site of the former orangery of the castle was named after the painter Carl Rottmann, who was born in Handschuhsheim and whose grandfather once owned the property.
30. Friedenskirche
The Friedenskirche is a Protestant church in the Heidelberg district of Handschuhsheim, which was built between 1908 and 1910 according to plans by Hermann Behaghel and is considered one of the highlights of his work.
31. Botanischer Garten
The Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg, also known as the Botanischer Garten Heidelberg, is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Heidelberg. It is located at Im Neuenheimer Feld 340, New Campus, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; portions are open to the public daily except Saturday without charge.
Wikipedia: Botanical Garden of the University of Heidelberg (EN), Url Official
32. Lochheim
Lochheim is a desert on the northwestern edge of the municipality of Sandhausen in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in the administrative district of Karlsruhe in the north of Baden-Württemberg. It lies south of the Leimbach and the Landgraben and north of the large sand dune fields on a flat, grinded sand ridge on the southern edge of the Neckar alluvial cone in the Neckar-Rhine plain. The large sand dune fields south of the Lochheim desert are located in the forest area called Pflege Schönau – in which the nature reserve "Sandhausener Düne, Pflege Schönau-Galgenbuckel" is also located – in the Hardt plains.
33. St. Bartholomäus
The new parish church of St. Bartholomew is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Heidelberg district of Wieblingen. It was built between 1955 and 1956 because the old St. Bartholomew's Church had become too small. It is a listed building and was rebuilt from 2018 to 2020.
Wikipedia: Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus (Heidelberg-Wieblingen) (DE)
34. Erlöserkirche
The Church of the Redeemer is a church in the old town of Heidelberg, which was built in 1723/24 as the convent church of the "White Nuns" (Dominican nuns). After the dissolution of the monastery, it was used for various purposes and is now the parish church of the Old Catholic community. Apart from the Jesuit Church, it is the only surviving of the originally numerous monastery churches in Heidelberg's old town.
35. Gutleuthofkapelle
The Gutleuthofkapelle or St. Laurentius chapel is a Gothic chapel from the 15th century in the Schlierbach district of Schlierbach near the southern bank of the Neckar. It is under monument protection.
36. Sankt Anna
St. Anna is a Catholic church in the old town of Heidelberg, Germany. It was built between 1714 and 1717 as a hospital church and is dedicated to St. Anne. To the east of the church is the former hospital.
37. Heidelberger Brückenaffe
The Heidelberg Bridge Monkey dates back to the 15th century. It was a stone statue sitting in the tower of the Old Bridge, which was located opposite Heidelberg’s Old Town. The purpose of the tower was to instill fear and respect in anyone arriving in the town, while the monkey represented mockery. The statue was destroyed with the tower during the Nine Years' War.
38. Helmstätter Herrenhaus
The Helmstätter Herrenhaus is a historic building in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim, Germany. The listed building, which is now used as a restaurant, goes back to the village's noble estate, whose property was linked to the neighbouring Tiefburg. After the destruction of the wars of the 17th century, the Lords of Helmstatt gave up the castle as a residence and instead built the manor house around 1700 on the site of a defunct manor.
39. Heiligenbergturm
The Heiligenberg Tower in Heidelberg is a 16.5 m high observation tower, which stands on the right bank of the Neckar opposite the old town of Heidelberg on the edge of the former St. Stephen's Monastery on the 375.5 m above sea level Michelsberg, a pre-summit of the 439.9 m above sea level high Heiligenberg.
40. St. Bonifatius
St. Bonifatius is a Catholic church in the Weststadt of Heidelberg. It is a Romanesque Revival basilica with a transept and a facade with double towers, which was designed by Ludwig Maier and built between 1899 and 1903.
41. Chapel
The Chapel in the southern part of Heidelberg is a listed former church building. It stands on the corner of Römerstraße and Rheinstraße in the area of a former housing estate of the US Army, which is called Mark Twain Village. It was built in 1951 according to plans by the Mannheim architect Emil Serini as a non-denominational place of worship for members and affiliates of the American armed forces.
42. Hoffnungskirche
The Church of Hope in Heidelberg is a church of Baptists and was built in 1963. It has had its name since 1988. The community was initially looked after from Mannheim and became self -employed in 1968. The branches also include the branches in Allerühl, Wall and Moosbrunn.
43. Gaisberg
Gaisberg (Heidelberg) is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the 17th century, Matthäus Merian (1593–1650) depicted the Gaisberg as almost completely treeless. Today it is mostly covered in dense deciduous forest and rises above the western part of Heidelberg's old town and the adjoining western town on the edge of the Upper Rhine plain.
44. Providenzkirche
The Church of Providence is a Protestant church on the Hauptstrasse of the old town of Heidelberg. Until the union of the Protestant Church in Baden in 1821, this was the Lutheran church of central Heidelberg, while the Church of the Holy Spirit was the meeting place of the Calvinist church.
45. Melanchthonkirche
The Melanchthon Church is located in Rohrbach, a district of Heidelberg in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg. The building is registered as an architectural monument with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. The parish belongs to the Heidelberg church district of the Evangelical Church in Baden.
46. Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen
The Haus zum Riesen is a baroque palace on the Hauptstrasse in Heidelberg, built in 1707/8. The building is named for a statue with decorates the façade. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, it has been used by Heidelberg University and several prominent academics have worked in it.
47. Abtei Neuburg
The Benedictine Abbey near Heidelberg, also known as the Neuburg Abbey, Neuburg and Neuburg Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery and belongs to the Beuron Congregation. The facility was built in the 12th century as a Benedictine monastery, but was already converted into a Benedictine monastery at the end of the century. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Cistercian Order also belonged to the Cistercian Order, the women's monastery was dissolved in 1562. After various spiritual and secular uses of the facility by the Palatinate Elector, there was a Jesuit and then a hospital monastery from 1709 to 1772. After secularization, the area came privately owned in 1804. In the following decades, the former abbey was always a meeting point for significant personalities of social and cultural life in the 19th century; At the beginning of the 20th century, Neuburg then gained importance as the meeting place for the Neuromantists of the George district. In 1926 the area was sold again to the Benedictine Order, which set up the abbey that still existed today.
48. Deutsches Apotheken-Museum
The German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg is a German museum dedicated to the history of pharmacy. It has extensive collections whose exhibits span the entire German-speaking world from antiquity to the 21st century. It is located in Heidelberg Castle.
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