Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Göttingen, Germany

St. Paul's is a neo-baroque Catholic parish church in Göttingen, Germany. It is located in the lower eastern quarter on Wilhelm-Weber-Straße. Her parish belongs to the Göttingen deanery of the Diocese of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony (Germany).

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The Deutsches Theater (DT) is a playhouse in Göttingen, Germany, opened in 1890 and is the largest theatre in the city. Its former name was Deutsches Theater in Göttingen.

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The auditorium of the Georg-August-University was inaugurated in 1837 on the occasion of the first centenary of the University of Göttingen as an auditorium in the classicist style, on behalf of King Wilhelm IV of Great Britain and Hanover on what was then Neuer Markt, today Wilhelmsplatz.

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The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Jacobi in the old town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony is a three-aisled Gothic hall church built between 1361 and 1433. The patron saint of the church is James the Elder. With a height of 72 metres, the tower of the church is the tallest building in Göttingen's old town. The Gothic winged altar from 1402, which is located in the choir of the church, is of supra-regional importance.

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The Städtisches Museum Göttingen is a collection of history and cultural history and, with around 150,000 objects, documents the cultural-historical development of the city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony and the surrounding area of Göttingen from the first settlement to the founding of the Georg-August-Universität to the present day.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.

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The Bartholomew Cemetery in Göttingen is a historic cemetery that houses the graves of some important personalities from culture and science, including Gottfried August Bürger and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

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Göttingen railway station, known in German as Bahnhof Göttingen, is an InterCityExpress stop on Germany's domestic long-distance rail network and the only passenger station of the city of Göttingen. Built in 1854 as the terminus of the Hanoverian Southern Railway, the station lies west of the medieval town centre. The station today has four platform islands each with two through tracks. In addition there is a through track for goods traffic between the station building and the platforms.

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The Zoological Museum of the University of Göttingen was part of the University of Göttingen, which emerged from the Natural History Museum of the University of Göttingen and housed the publicly accessible part of an extensive research collection of taxidermy and skeletons. The museum was part of the Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology. It was located in the former Zoological Institute of the University at Berliner Straße 28, near the Göttingen train station.

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Max Born was a German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. Born was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".

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