Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Regensburg, Germany

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

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Theobald Schrems was the founder of the Musikgymnasium der Regensburger Domspatzen, a musical gymnasium for the boys' choir Regensburger Domspatzen at the Regensburg Cathedral.

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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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