Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Stuttgart, Germany

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 9.2 km
Ascend 225 m
Descend 190 m

Experience Stuttgart in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Stuttgart

Sight 1: Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien und der Dobrudscha

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Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien und der Dobrudscha Claudia Schneider, Bessarabiendeutscher Verein e.V. / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Museum of Local History of the Germans from Bessarabia and Dobruja is a local history museum of the Bessarabian Germans and the Dobruja Germans in Stuttgart. It was founded there in 1952 as a local history museum of the Bessarabian Germans and has functioned since the annexation of the Landsmannschaft der Dobrudscha- und Bulgariendeutschen 2009 also as a museum for this group of people.

Wikipedia: Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien und der Dobrudscha (DE), Website

470 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Lukaskirche

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The Protestant Lukaskirche is located in Ostheim, a district in Stuttgart's East district. The building is registered as an architectural monument with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. The parish merged with the Lutherhaus parish in 2005 and with the Gaisburg parish in 2018. The new parish of Stuttgart-Ost belongs to the Stuttgart church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg.

Wikipedia: Lukaskirche (Stuttgart-Ost) (DE)

1702 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 3: Carl-Zeiss-Planetarium

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The Carl-Zeiss Planetarium Stuttgart is located in the middle castle garden in Stuttgart. In addition to the actual planetarium, the Stuttgart planetarium also operates the Welzheim observatory.

Wikipedia: Carl-Zeiss-Planetarium Stuttgart (DE), Website

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Ruine des Neuen Lusthauses

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From the point of view of architectural history, the New Lusthaus in Stuttgart, which has not been preserved, is considered one of the most important buildings of the German late Renaissance and served as a place of courtly festivals and celebrations. In 1954, the Stuttgart chronicler and monument conservator Gustav Wais described the original building as "one of the noblest creations of the German Renaissance, which, if we still possessed it today, would be Stuttgart's main attraction". Both the history of the building and the appearance are well known due to the numerous traditions.

Wikipedia: Neues Lusthaus Stuttgart (DE)

269 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Grenadierregiment Königin Olga

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The Grenadier Regiment "Queen Olga" No. 119 was a regiment of the Württemberg Army from 1806 to 1919. The regiment bore the honorary name Queen Olga, named after the Russian Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, the wife of King Charles I.

Wikipedia: Grenadier-Regiment „Königin Olga“ (1. Württembergisches) Nr. 119 (DE)

506 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: InfoTurmStuttgart

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The Tower Forum was the name given to an exhibition in the tower of Stuttgart's main railway station, which advertised the Stuttgart 21 project and the new Wendlingen–Ulm line.

Wikipedia: Turmforum (DE), Webcam, Website

646 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 7: Ferdinand-Leitner-Steg

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The Ferdinand-Leitner-Steg is a pedestrian bridge in Stuttgart that crosses the nine-lane Schillerstraße and connects the Schlossgarten with the Upper Schlossgarten. Its southern end is in the Upper Palace Garden near the Schauspielhaus. Its northern end forks into a footbridge to the walkway through the castle garden and a footbridge to the walkway towards the main station.

Wikipedia: Ferdinand-Leitner-Steg (DE)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Eberhardsgruppe

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The Eberhardsgruppe is a monument in the Upper Palace Garden of Stuttgart. It shows Prince Eberhard I lying on the lap of a subject.

Wikipedia: Eberhardsgruppe (DE), Website

452 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Staatsgalerie

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Staatsgalerie Selbst fotografiert von user:Enslin / CC BY 2.5

The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is an art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, it opened in 1843. In 1984, the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.

Wikipedia: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (EN), Url

24 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: Draped Reclining Woman

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Draped Reclining WomanBoberger. Photo: Bengt Oberger / CC BY-SA 3.0

Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 is a bronze sculpture by British artist Henry Moore, with a series of six castings made by Hermann Noack in Berlin.

Wikipedia: Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 (EN), Website

428 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Schicksals-Brunnen

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Schicksals-Brunnen Stefan Frerichs (Stefan 13:11, 11. Mai 2008 (CEST)) / CC BY-SA 2.0 de

The Schicksalsbrunnen is a fountain in the Upper Palace Garden in Stuttgart, Germany. It was designed in 1914 by the sculptor Karl Donndorf (1870–1941) in Art Nouveau style and is considered one of the most important fountains of this style in Germany.

Wikipedia: Schicksalsbrunnen (Stuttgart) (DE), Website

705 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: Stiftskirche

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The Stiftskirche is an inner-city church in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the main church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg as well as the parish church of the evangelical (Lutheran) inner-city church district of Stuttgart.

Wikipedia: Stiftskirche, Stuttgart (EN)

48 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Fruchtkasten

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The so-called Fruchtkasten, a late Gothic stone building on Schillerplatz, is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Stuttgart. Nowadays, the house is used as a part of the Württemberg State Museum as the House of Music in the Fruchtkasten.

Wikipedia: Fruchtkasten (Stuttgart) (DE)

28 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein

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The Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein is a fairy tale by Eduard Mörike and was first published in 1853. The Swabian word Hutzel has different meanings. In the narrower sense, it refers to dried pieces of fruit, which is why fruit bread, which is said to have been invented by the title character, is also called Hutzelbrot in Swabian.

Wikipedia: Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein (DE)

219 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Kunstmuseum

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The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a contemporary and modern art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, built and opened in 2005.

Wikipedia: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (EN), Website

586 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 16: Hospitalkirche

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The Hospital Church is the third large medieval church foundation in the old town of Stuttgart and today the centre of the "Evangelical Hospital Parish of Stuttgart" within the church district of Stuttgart.

Wikipedia: Hospitalkirche (Stuttgart) (DE), Website

758 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 17: Linden-Museum

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Linden-MuseumTill Westermayer from Freiburg, Germany / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Linden Museum is an ethnological museum located in Stuttgart, Germany. The museum features cultural artifacts from around the world, including South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Islamic world from the Near East to Pakistan, China and Japan, and artifacts from North and Latin America and Oceania.

Wikipedia: Linden Museum (EN), Website

570 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 18: St. Fidelis

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St. Fidelis Church is a Catholic church in the west of Stuttgart. The gabled building is slightly elevated above street level and its main façade recedes from the street line. An outer wall with turrets and two entrance gates and a forecourt with arched walkways separate the church from the street. The three-aisled hall church without tower and transept is spanned by reinforced concrete trusses and crowned by a gable roof. Inside, the church presents itself as a simple and unadorned hall with a high, coffered wooden barrel vault, low, windowless side aisles and a light-flooded central nave with high glass windows.

Wikipedia: St. Fidelis (Stuttgart) (DE), Website

1457 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 19: St. Elisabeth

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The Catholic parish of St. Elisabeth in the west of Stuttgart in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is the largest Catholic parish in Stuttgart with about 9,500 members.

Wikipedia: St. Elisabeth (Stuttgart) (DE)

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