Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Regensburg, Germany

Weichs Castle is a listed building at Schlossgasse 11 a in the Weichs district of the city of Regensburg, Bavaria. The complex is listed under the file number D-3-62-000-1318 as a listed architectural monument of Regensburg. It is also listed as a ground monument under the file number D-3-6938-0055 in the Bavaria Atlas as "archaeological findings in the area of the former castle of Weichs, previously a medieval castle".

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The Österreicher Stadel in Regensburg, Donaulände No. 6, is located on the southern bank of the Danube (Marc-Aurel-Ufer), 300 m east of the inner-city Danube crossing Eisernen Brücke. in the 17th century Originally built as a brewery, the building was later used in various ways as a salt barn, warehouse, warehouse and museum depot. The building is located a good 100 m east of the Museum of Bavarian History, which opened in 2019, and also serves as a depot for this museum.

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The House of Bavarian History: Museum, also: Museum of Bavarian History, in the old town of Regensburg on the southern bank of the Danube is a museum about new and recent Bavarian history. The founding director is historian and museum expert Richard Loibl. The museum opened on 5 June 2019 after eight years of planning and construction.

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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.

Wikipedia: Erhardikapelle (Regensburg) (DE)

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 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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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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Porta Praetoria is the name given in Regensburg to the visibly preserved remains of the north gate of the former Roman legionary camp Castra Regina, which was built in the 2nd century AD.

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The collegiate church of St. Johann in Regensburg is the spiritual centre of the collegiate monastery of St. Johann, founded in 1127. It is dedicated to St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist. The church is located in the immediate vicinity of St. Peter's Cathedral at Krauterermarkt 5. It is located between the Cathedral Square in the south and the Bishop's Court in the north. The collegiate church has had an eventful history over the centuries. The originally Ottonian building had to be demolished in favor of a westward extension of Regensburg Cathedral. Thus, on the site of today's church, a Gothic building was built, which underwent a radical Baroque redesign in the 1760s. After a fire in 1887, the church was rebuilt in neo-baroque forms.

Wikipedia: Stiftskirche St. Johann (Regensburg) (DE)

The municipal salt barn east of the Stone Bridge in the old town of Regensburg was built between 1616 and 1620 and thus complemented the older and smaller Amberg barn west of the bridge. The municipal salt barn was built for the storage of rock salt or table salt. The salt was transported by horse-drawn so-called salt trains across the Salzach and the Inn and finally on the Danube from the salt deposits and salt works in the wider area of Passau, to Regensburg and unloaded here with cranes.

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The Stone Bridge in Regensburg, Germany, is a 12th-century bridge across the Danube linking the Old Town with Stadtamhof. For more than 800 years, until the 1930s, it was the city's only bridge across the river. It is a masterwork of medieval construction and an emblem of the city.

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The bridge tower in the old town of Regensburg marks the southern end of the Stone Bridge crossing the Danube. It was built as one of several gate towers at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century during the construction of the medieval city fortifications of Regensburg. The bridge tower is the only one of the former three towers on the Stone Bridge to have been preserved.

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The Goliathhaus is an imposing, crenellated, early Gothic, former house in 1220/30 in the old town of Regensburg. The house is located in the north-south direction between the streets of Goliathstrasse in the north and Watmarkt in the south. The northern facade is the well -known showront of the Goliathhaus and shows a painting of the struggle between David and Goliath, which has been renewed several times since 1573, in the last version of the painter Franz Rinner from 1900. The former front of the Goliathhaus is the southern Front, which is based on the Watmarkt rising terrain has one floor less. Accordingly, old home briefs always call the building "Haus am Watmarkt". The house tower in the west takes the whole depth of the house complex. The residential building of the Goliathhaus joins the tower to the east, which formed a structural unit with the neighboring steering house until the end of the 18th century. Both house castles were built by the regional patrician families in Regensburg, suspected as built, on the foundations of the northern Roman wall of the Castra Regina legion camp. The Goliathhaus offers its impressive northern Schaufront with the Goliath painting all the visitors who come across the stone bridge and use the Brückstraße, which is slightly rising inland, to reach the city center.

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In the medieval Old Town Hall of Regensburg on the Rathausplatz, three buildings can be distinguished from different times: in the south the Reichssaal building with bay window, followed by the portal building with staircase and gateway and east of the passage the oldest town hall building in the style of a patrician house with the town hall tower. This oldest building houses the seat with the reception hall of the Lord Mayor and other rooms for associated offices and for the registry office. The remaining offices of the city administration and also the citizens' office are located in the New Town Hall on Dachauplatz, about 500 m to the east.

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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 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 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.

Wikipedia: Stiftspfarrkirche St. Kassian (Regensburg) (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Jüdisches Gemeindezentrum mit Synagoge Regensburg (DE)

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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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 Justitiabrunnen is a baroque fountain in the centre of the historic old town of Regensburg. It was created in 1656 by the sculptor Leoprand Hilmer in the course of the construction of the city's new water supply.

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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 Roman Catholic branch church of St. Ägidien, located on the Ägidienplatz in the old town of Regensburg, which is named after it, is a former church of the Teutonic Order and as such was assigned to the Teutonic Order Commandery of St. Ägid. Today, St. Ägidien is a subsidiary church of the parish of St. Emmeram. The church, dedicated to St. Egidius, is a three-aisled staggered hall in the Gothic style.

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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 Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie (KOG) is an art collection of works by German artists from the former German eastern territories and the German settlement areas in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Until reunification, works by artists from the GDR were also collected. The seat in Regensburg is also to be seen in connection with the city's patronage of the interests of the Sudeten Germans.

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The Regensburg City Park west of the old town of Regensburg on the Platz der Einheit in front of the Jakobstor is the oldest and, with over eight hectares, also the largest of the inner-city parks in Regensburg.

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A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.

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