Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Regensburg, Germany

The listed Catholic parish church of St. Cecilia is located at Reichsstraße 12 in the eastern quarter of Regensburg.

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The medieval east gate, built from 1284 onwards, at the eastern end of today's Ostengasse closes the old town of Regensburg and opens the arterial road to the west, today's Adolf-Schmetzer-Straße. The Osttor Tower was one of six gate towers of the former city fortifications and was built to protect the then so-called "Ostenvorstadt". The gate was built over the arterial road leading east to Vienna and was thus the city gate through which the respective emperor coming from Vienna on the Danube entered the city. The five-storey Gothic, representative tower building was erected by members of the Regensburg Cathedral Workshop, according to stonemason's marks found, and is one of the best-preserved Gothic city gate towers in Germany.

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The so-called St. Peter's Church is located at D.-Martin-Luther-Straße 24 in the green spaces near Regensburg Central Station. The small church, built in 1806 as the cemetery church of St. Peter of the Catholic cemetery of the Lower Town, is now a Bulgarian Orthodox church.

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The Kepler Monument is a monument in memory of Johannes Kepler, which was erected in Regensburg in 1808 and now stands in the green belt of Fürst-Anselm-Allee.

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The Jewish Community Center with Synagogue Regensburg is the new community center of the "Jewish Community Regensburg". It was inaugurated on February 27, 2019, 80 years after the destruction of the New Synagogue and exactly 500 years after the expulsion of the Jews from the imperial city of Regensburg. It was built on the property "Am Brixener Hof 2", on which the New Synagogue stood until the pogrom of November 1938 and on which there was only a provisional community hall after the Second World War.

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The Franciscan Monastery of St. Salvator Regensburg is a former Franciscan monastery in Regensburg in the Diocese of Regensburg.

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The Roman Catholic, listed Erhardi Chapel is located in the Erhardigasse of Regensburg. It is assigned to the Diocese of Regensburg. The building is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments under the monument number D-3-62-000-38301.

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The Carmelite Church of St. Joseph on the Alter Kornmarkt in the old town of Regensburg is the monastery church of the convent of St. Joseph of the Discalced Carmelites as well as the most important confession and worship church in Regensburg. The High Baroque church building with echoes of the Italian style was built between 1660 and 1673 according to the plans of a hitherto unknown architect. Carlo Lurago, Antonio Petrini or a student of Petrini are possible authors.

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The Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lady also Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lady to the Ancient Chapel or Alten Kapelle It is the oldest Catholic place of worship in Bavaria and one of the most important churches in the city of Regensburg, in the south of Germany.

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The Niedermünster Church in Regensburg, built around 1150 at the end of the Romanesque period and Baroque in the 17th century, was the church of the former canoness monastery of the Imperial Abbey of Niedermünster, which was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization in Bavaria. After the transfer of the buildings to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810, the Niedermünster Church has served as a cathedral parish church since 1824.

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The Roman Tower in the old town of Regensburg dominates the cityscape at the Alter Kornmarkt with its massive block shape. The Romanesque residential tower belonged to the ducal palatinate and was connected to the neighbouring ducal court to the south by a walkable candle arch, which was removed in 1855 and reattached in 1937/40 in a simple form.

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The former cathedral parish church of St. Ulrich in Regensburg stands at a distance of a good 10 m southeast of Regensburg Cathedral on the cathedral square, which extends eastwards on its south side to the Herzogshof. The St. Ulrich's Church and the exhibitions in the church are now part of the Regensburg Diocesan Museums.

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Regensburg Cathedral, also known as St. Peter's Cathedral, is an example of important Gothic architecture within the German state of Bavaria. It is a landmark for the city of Regensburg, Germany, and the seat of the Catholic Diocese of Regensburg.

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The Catholic chapel Maria Läng is a baroque hall building with a groin vault from 1675. The chapel is an old house chapel on the ground floor of a former canon's courtyard. It houses a figure of the Virgin Mary, which is supposed to represent St. Mary in her true length.

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The collegiate parish church of St. Kassian in Regensburg is the second oldest church in the city after the collegiate church of the Old Chapel and is one of the earliest documented church buildings in Bavaria. The listed church has a rich architectural history and was subject to drastic changes in different eras. Today, the Rococo style dominates in the interior and on the north façade. The church has been pastorally cared for by the Abbey of Our Lady of the Old Chapel since 1225. The collegiate parish of St. Kassian is today the smallest parish in the diocese of Regensburg with only about 65 Catholics.

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The Neupfarrkirche is a Protestant parish church on Neupfarrplatz in the old town of Regensburg. The construction of the church, originally planned as a Catholic pilgrimage church, began after the destruction of the Jewish quarter in 1519. The high income from the pilgrimage, which was initially stormy, was to be used to finance the construction of a large Catholic pilgrimage church. When it later became apparent with the decline in pilgrimage that the financing of the Catholic church building was no longer secured due to a lack of income, the construction of the church was stopped. The financing of the provisional completion of the church was negotiated between the two parties involved or interested parties and then taken over by the imperial city of Regensburg, which wanted to use the church as a new Protestant church after the introduction of the Reformation.

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The Palais Löschenkohl is a baroque palace, Neupfarrplatz 14, in the World Heritage zone of the old town of Regensburg. It was built from 1730 to 1733 as a princely city palace for the family of the merchant and banker Hieronymus Löschkohl. After the bankruptcy of the banker Löschkohl, his escape and his death, the building served as the residence of the extended remaining family, who rented out many rooms in the building. From 1743 until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the estate served as the residence of the delegation of the Electorate of Saxony to the Perpetual Reichstag. For this reason, the building was given the name Electoral Saxon Legation. The building is listed as a listed monument of Regensburg under the file number D-3-62-000-805.

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The Golden Tower at Wahlenstraße 14, in the old town of Regensburg, is one of the family towers that were built by rich patrician families in the Middle Ages as status symbols. It was built around 1250, but was only used to a limited extent as a residential tower in the 18th century. The tower was the highest house tower north of the Alps and became a landmark of Regensburg along with St. Peter's Cathedral and Steinerner Brücke.

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The listed Bruderhauskirche St. Ignaz, the former Protestant hospital church, is located at Emmeramsplatz 12 in the old town of Regensburg. The church was built in 1622 from a predecessor chapel of St. Ignatius, which was created in 1444 after the foundation of the Bruderhaus Foundation for impoverished craftsmen.

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St. Emmeram is a church building in Regensburg, begun around 780. The church was the main church of the monastery of St. Emmeram, which was elevated to a princely abbey in 1731. After secularization, the abbey church was made a parish church of the city of Regensburg and elevated to a basilica minor by Pope Paul VI on March 5, 1964 with the apostolic letter Terra sacra.

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The Church of St. Rupert is a church building, the former Roman Catholic parish church of the Imperial Abbey of St. Emmeram, on Emmeramsplatz in Regensburg, Germany. It is dedicated to St. Rupert of Salzburg.

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St. Emmeram Castle, also known as Thurn and Taxis Castle, is a castle of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis in Regensburg, Germany. The current castle was built by construction work at the end of the 19th century. In addition to new buildings, existing buildings of the former St. Emmeram monastery were also renovated. During secularization, the monastery buildings came into the possession of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis in 1803/1812. The castle is registered in the list of monuments in Regensburg-Zentrum and listed as an architectural monument under the file number D-3-62-000-351. "Archaeological findings and finds in the area of the former Benedictine abbey of St. Emmeram, today Thurn and Taxis Castle, from the early Middle Ages to modern times" are also listed as a ground monument under the file number D-3-6938-0820.

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Johann Michael Sailer was a German Jesuit theologian and philosopher, and Bishop of Regensburg. Sailer was a major contributor to the Catholic Enlightenment.

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The Trinity Church is a Protestant, early baroque, columnless hall church in the Ständenstraße, in the old town of Regensburg. The church was built from 1627 to 1631 according to Hanns Carl plans and was one of the first Evangelical Lutheran new church buildings in Bavaria. The church is considered the largest new church building of the then free imperial city of Regensburg. And is a popular destination of visitors because of the in the way the church tower with a view of the old town. Another attraction is the southern churchyard accessible from the church. At the churchyard, after the end of the church building forced by Bavarian occupation troops and before the start of final construction work on the southern churchyard, during the Thirty Years' War, in the course of the fighting for Regensburg at the request of the Swedish army guide Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar High Swedish officers and, at the request of some exulant families, also to some surrounding beds from Austria who had helped finance the construction of the Protestant Church. As usual, their original graves were outside the city walls and could therefore be looted by the enemy imperial-Bavarian troops.

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The Dominican Church of St. Blasius with the former monastery buildings is located in the center of the western old town of Regensburg and is located on a large area that is separated from the Trinity Church by the alley Am Ölberg, which runs from north to south. The Dominican Church is located along the Predigergasse, which runs from east to west. The entrance to the Dominican Church is located on Albertus-Magnus-Platz in front of it, which merges into Bismarckplatz to the west. To the south, the former monastery buildings border on Ägidienplatz, which can be reached via Beraiterweg.

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The Public Observatory Regensburg is an astronomical observatory located in Regensburg, Germany. Its history dates back to the year 1774 when Saint Emmeram's Abbey dedicated two towers to astronomical observations. For the most time, it served for educational purposes. Today it is run by a non-profit organization, the Verein der Freunde der Sternwarte Regensburg e.V.. The observatory is accessible for visitors on Friday evenings.

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The New Emmeram Gate is one of the five surviving city gates of the medieval city fortifications of Regensburg, built around 1320. The well-preserved New Emmeram Gate replaced the Old Emmeram Gate of the Arnulfine City Wall built around 920, which was located at the southern end of the Obere Bachgasse further northeast at the curve of the city wall between Obermünster and Sankt Emmeram Monastery. Until 1907, when the neighbouring Helenentor was built and Helenenstraße was laid out, the Emmeramer Tor was an important access point for the population of Regensburg to the neighbouring farming village of Kumpfmühl, where vegetables were grown and flour was produced. Without this gateway, the village of Kumpfmühl would only have been accessible to the townspeople in a roundabout way, e.g. via the Jakobstor. In the 18th century, the gate offered easy access to the then newly created parks of Fürst-Anselm-Allee.

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The Dörnbergpark is a 7.4-hectare park, a little west of St. Emmeram Castle and the Helenentor, the exit from the old town of Regensburg. This important monument of 19th-century garden art is also only a little south of Bismarckplatz.

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The St. Theresia building, in the district of Kumpfmühl, whose tower is considered the landmark of the village, is a former monastery church of the Discalced Carmelites and former side church of the Wolfgang Church in the parish of St. Wolfgang. The complex and the associated former monastery and seminary building are located on the corner of Kumpfmühler Straße and Gutenbergstraße in the Kumpfmühl district of Regensburg.

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