26 Sights in Ulm, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Ulm, Germany! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Ulm. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Ulm1. Red Dog for Landois
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.
2. 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.
3. Adolf Frenkel
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.
4. Die Klarissen in Söflingen
The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare, originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis, are members of an enclosed order of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church. The Poor Clares were the second Franciscan branch of the order to be established. Founded by Clare of Assisi and Francis of Assisi on Palm Sunday in the year 1212, they were organized after the Order of Friars Minor, and before the Third Order. As of 2011, there were over 20,000 Poor Clare nuns in over 75 countries throughout the world. They follow several different observances and are organized into federations.
5. Islamische Gemeinschaft Millî Görüş
The Islamic Community Millî Görüş e.V. is a registered association based in Cologne since 1995. It emerged from the Islamist Millî Görüş movement in Turkey and is one of the largest Sunni Islamic communities in Germany. The IGMG is a member of the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany, which in turn is a founding member of the Coordination Council of Muslims.
Wikipedia: Islamische Gemeinschaft Millî Görüş (DE), Website
6. Anna Essinger
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.
7. HfG-Archiv Ulm
The Ulm School of Design was a college of design based in Ulm, Germany. It was founded in 1953 by Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill, the latter being first rector of the school and a former student at the Bauhaus. The HfG quickly gained international recognition by emphasizing the holistic, multidisciplinary context of design beyond the Bauhaus approach of integrating art, craft and technology. The subjects of sociology, psychology, politics, economics, philosophy and systems-thinking were integrated with aesthetics and technology. During HfG operations from 1953–1968, progressive approaches to the design process were implemented within the departments of Product Design, Visual Communication, Industrialized Building, Information and Filmmaking.
8. Martin-Luther-Kirche
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.
9. Pauluskirche
The Pauluskirche in Ulm was built as an evangelical garrison church from 1908 to 1910 north of the old cemetery on Frauenstrasse according to plans by the architect Theodor Fischer. It is the parish church of the Ulm Paulusgemeinde. Due to the good acoustics, it is considered 'the' concert church in the wide area.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Rathaus
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.
13. Maria Holl
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.
14. Betty Bissinger
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.
15. Basilika St. Martin
Wiblingen Abbey was a former Benedictine abbey which was later used as barracks. Today its buildings house several departments of the medical faculty of the University of Ulm. The former abbey is located south of the confluence of the rivers Danube and Iller, south of the city of Ulm in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Administratively, the former independent village of Wiblingen now belongs to the city of Ulm. The abbey is part of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route.
16. 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.
17. Neue Synagoge Ulm
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.
18. Haus der Begegnung
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.
19. Stadthaus
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.
20. 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.
21. St. Maria Suso
St. Maria Suso is a Roman Catholic church consecrated in 1956 on Mähringer Weg in Ulm in the district of Eselsberg. It belongs to the pastoral care unit of 18 Suso parishes in the Ehingen-Ulm deanery of the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
22. Metzgerturm
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.
23. Steinhaus
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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Peter-und-Paul-Kirche
The Protestant parish church of St. Peter and Paul is located in Jungingen, a district of Ulm. The parish belongs to the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. The building is registered as an architectural monument with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.
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