Sights in Regensburg

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The historic city center of the former imperial city of Regensburg is well preserved and has 1,500 listed buildings. 984 of these buildings form the ensemble Altstadt von Regensburg with Stadtamhof in the historic core of the city , which was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2006. Today's visitors to Regensburg can see that the buildings in the old town remained practically intact during the air raids and bombings in World War II, with the exception of a few total losses.

Danube panorama with stone bridge and cathedral

Little known, however, is the fact that the building stock was severely threatened in the post-war period , as the old town of Regensburg was overpopulated in the first two decades after the war and was not held in high esteem. The reasons were, on the one hand, the very poor state of construction of the buildings, the unreasonable living conditions and a lack of concepts and financing options for renovation measures. This led to emigration to the outskirts or the surrounding communities and to an unfavorable social structure of the residents. At that time, moving to newly built high-rise buildings was considered desirable and it seemed appropriate, as it had already begun shortly before the war, to tear down buildings that had survived the Second World War undamaged. In keeping with the spirit of the times , new buildings and wide aisles for car traffic seemed to be necessary and such projects were also planned in Regensburg . An example is the plan of a four-lane east-west Danube parallel with the demolition of the Danube front houses on Keplerstrasse and Ostengasse and the intersection with a north-south road axis on the Danube market. These route plans are still recognizable today, for example, at the abrupt end of the four-lane Clermont-Ferrand-Allee in the west and on the, from today's perspective, incomprehensible, eight-lane Bavarian Forest Road in the north of the city.

The old town of Regensburg escaped this fate primarily because of the weak economic situation of the city at that time, because the demolition was not economically worthwhile. The late onset of the post-war upswing in Regensburg at the end of the sixties turned out to be a stroke of luck for the old town. In the population and in the magistrate, the mood had turned in favor of the preservation of the historical building fabric. The old town owes its uniqueness today to the restoration work that began in the early 1970s and continues to this day. This was supported in particular by the possibility of special depreciation for the renovation of listed buildings.

View of the center of Regensburg from the tower of the Dreieinigkeitskirche

Middle old town

Salzstadel and city gate, viewed from the stone bridge

The old town side of Regensburg facing the Danube is characterized by the stone bridge . The stone bridge with the bridge gate was built from 1135 to 1146. The medieval architectural wonder became the model for many other bridge constructions, including the Charles Bridge in Prague. Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa set out here in May 1189 with a large force for the 3rd crusade . The only surviving of the original three bridge gates now houses the bridge gate museum. It informs about the bridge and the Danube navigation; Upstream of the Danube, it is connected to the Amberger Stadel from 1487, which today houses a student residence. Down the Danube, the Brückor borders the historic Salzstadel . From the Salzstadel further down the Danube lies the historic Wurstkuchl . The earlier dangerous Danube vortex in this area, which drew people down, has now largely been defused through regulation. A little further down the Danube is the Danube Shipping Museum .

At the Amberger Stadel further up the Danube you come to the fish market (the fish market fountain, popularly also called Rolandbrunnen, dates from the 17th century) and to Keplerstraße with the Kepler memorial house and the patrician house of the Runtinger house as well as the evangelical church of St. Oswald . At the corner of Weisse-Lamm-Gasse / Weisse-Hahnen-Gasse 2 is the former, noble 18th century inn zum white Lamm . The blind composer and pianist Maria Theresia Paradis stayed here as early as 1783 during her three-year European tour, in 1786 Goethe and 1790 Mozart ; another guest was Haydn . Here in his room Goethe wrote the sentence "... in the city church stands against church and pen against pen". "You have something big ... that inspires awe." The building dates from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century and was remodeled in 1721 and 1896. The classicistic facade decoration dates from 1795. The remains of the Roman Porta Praetoria can be seen under the flying buttresses , which were integrated into the complex of the bishop's court .

Former Dompropstei, 1802–1810 residence of the Prince Primate von Dalberg, 1809 Napoleon's overnight accommodation
Government of the Upper Palatinate in the former outer palace

The nearby cathedral square to the south is dominated by the Regensburg Cathedral and the former cathedral parish church of St. Ulrich , which today houses part of the diocesan museum. The cathedral square ends in the west with a patrician castle , the Heuporthaus , which is well worth seeing . Opposite on the corner of Domplatz and Residenzstraße is the former Dompropstei , which was designed in 1800 by the princely building director Joseph Sorg for the then cathedral provost Joseph Carl Ignaz Graf von Lerchenfeld from several previous buildings. From 1802–1810 this building served as the residence for the Prince-Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg and in 1809 was Napoleon's overnight accommodation .

In the east the Domplatz ends with the flying buttress of the Roman tower . If you go through it you come to the old grain market . The square goes back to the Herzogspfalz, which used to be here. The Herzogshof next to the Roman tower still bears witness to this time. In the north of the square is the Niedermünster monastery church with the monastery school, in the south the collegiate church of the Old Chapel , in the east the Carmelite Church of St. Joseph .

The western part of the Domplatz in front of the main entrance portal of the cathedral merges to the north into the Krauterermarkt. Here are the collegiate church of St. Johann , the Adler pharmacy, one of the oldest pharmacies in Regensburg, and the Adlerbrunnen, which was built in 1551 and later revised several times. The gardeners from the east part of Regensburg used to offer sauerkraut here, and until around the year 2000 the radi farmers from Weichs traditionally offered their well-known Regensburg radi . At Krauterermarkt No. 3 is the address of the Bischofshof, the former residence of the bishops, which is now used as a hotel and restaurant with beer garden.

Via Residenzstrasse you come from Krauterermarkt to Neupfarrplatz , where the Jewish quarter with a synagogue was located in the Middle Ages. In the middle of the square is the Protestant Neupfarrkirche ; The Regensburg Christmas Market takes place on this square during Advent . To the south-east of the square is Kassiansplatz with the Stiftspfarrkirche St. Kassian . East of Neupfarrplatz to Maximilianstrasse is the pedestrian zone with numerous department stores and shops. The central shopping street is the Königsstraße. As a straight boulevard, Maximilianstrasse falls outside the framework of the old town, which is otherwise characterized by winding alleys. The street was built with the reconstruction after the bombardment of the city by Napoleonic troops in 1809. The end of the axis was formed for a few years by the Kepler monument , which had to be moved after the construction of the main station . In 2003 the previously busy shopping street was converted into a traffic-calmed zone.

Memorial plaque to the imprisonment of the apostle-like Saint Methodius , Slav apostle and first Archbishop of Moravia and Pannonia , in Regensburg at the old chapel.

The Jewish Community Center is located at the Brixener Hof. The Regensburg synagogue was inaugurated here in 1912, but it was destroyed during the Reichspogromnacht in 1938. In 1971 the new community hall was built according to plans by Bert and Isabell Ruf, which serves as a synagogue and event hall. South of the Neupfarrplatz is the Obermünsterplatz with the ruins of the Obermünster monastery church . To the southwest of Neupfarrplatz you come to Emmeramsplatz with the important St. Emmeram monastery church . The monastery itself was transformed into today's St. Emmeram Castle, which contains several museums. The historic Helenentor is located to the west of the castle on Helenenstrasse .

The government of the Upper Palatinate is also located on Emmeramsplatz . The building originally belonged to the monastery area and from 1792 to 1812 housed the court of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis . The royal building director Joseph Sorg gave it its current appearance . The classical large ballroom dates from 1792. At Emmeramsplatz 1 are the exhibition rooms of the Diocesan Museum . The Altdorferhaus , in which Albrecht Altdorfer lived from 1513 until his death in 1538, is on the corner of Oberen Bachgasse and Augustinergasse . The corner house from the 13th / 14th Century with tower and baroque statue of Mary was redesigned in 1720. The traditional Johann Schwarzer bakery , which was founded in Cham in 1895 and relocated to Regensburg in 1900, has been located there since 1917 and whose black croissants have developed into a typical Bavarian specialty. The spiced caraway roll named after the company founder is still handcrafted according to a secret recipe and can now be found in numerous Bavarian beer gardens and inns. At the house at Obere Bachgasse 15, which is now a shop, you can see the remains of the former Kreuzkapelle im Bach with a preserved arched portal from 1180. In the north-west of the Neupfarrplatz are the picturesque old town streets TÄNDERGasse and Kramgasse, which not only have many antique shops but also a private golf museum. Coming from Neupfarrplatz, you will find the second oldest pharmacy in Germany, the Engel Apotheke , at the beginning of TÄNDERGasse .

The area to the west and north of the Neupfarrplatz was the former merchant town, here are numerous former patrician palaces. On Watmarkt 4 stands Baumburger Tower , a 28 meter high seven-storey gender tower from the mid-13th century with arched arcades and three-part early Gothic windows Group. The Goliathhaus , a patrician castle with a monumental wall painting, is located on Goliathstrasse . The highest medieval residential tower north of the Alps, the Golden Tower, is located on Wahlenstrasse . The name of the street is derived from the French merchants who did their business here. The street was already called inter Latinos in the Middle Ages . Another patrician house in the southwest of the street is the Kastenmayerhaus , which is also equipped with a tower .

The Gravenreuther Haus is located in the Gasse Hinter der Grieb at numbers 8–12 . Today a café and the meeting place of the University of Regensburg are housed here. The patrician castle with two towers and a beautiful inner courtyard belonged to Konrad Gravenreuther from Regensburg in 1381. Further to the north are the Kohlenmarkt, Rathausplatz and Haidplatz, which are now a pedestrian zone. The Haidplatz considered the most beautiful square of the city and is a traditional event center.

The Old Town Hall with the Reichstag Museum is located on Rathausplatz . On Zieroldsplatz the carbon market is since 1978 the monument of Don Juan de Austria , a cast of the monument of Andrea Calamech in Messina from the year 1572. The fountain of living of Günther wall man on the carbon market was set 1985th There is a private clock museum on Ludwigstrasse, which leads to Arnulfsplatz . From Neupfarrplatz the Gesandersstraße leads to Bismarckplatz . The name of the street is derived from the ambassadors who were in the city during the Diet. The Zandt patrician palace, with the Pangratz chapel, and the Ingolstetter house, which together housed a snuff factory until 1999, are located in the street . Today a museum (document snuff factory) and various restaurants are located in these buildings. The Zandt family held the ducal mayor's office from 1289 to 1359 . The Ingolstetter house was the seat of the Mainz legation in the 18th century. Also in the street is the Evangelical Trinity Church , which the city's Protestant council as the builder had built during the Thirty Years' War from 1627 to 1631. This makes the church one of the first new Evangelical Lutheran church buildings in Bavaria. After the war, the ambassadorial cemetery was built in their churchyard during the perennial diet . This cemetery of the Protestant ambassadors with 20 large Baroque grave monuments is the only one of the former old town cemeteries in Regensburg that has remained unchanged. To the south of it on the Aegidienplatz stands the former Teutonic Order Church of St. Aegidien with old and new Commandery. The Dominican Church of St. Blasius is located on Albertus-Magnus-Platz , to which extensive monastery buildings are connected.

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Panorama from the west with cathedral

Eastern old town

On Dachauplatz the monument is to the victims of Nazism . The cathedral preacher Johann Maier was executed here in the last days of the war . In the car park at Dachauplatz, a 60 m long section of the Roman wall can still be seen, as well as a remnant of the Roman wall north of Ernst-Reuter-Platz, which ran here together with the medieval city wall and the associated Zwingermauer. To the east of the Dachauplatz is the profaned Minoritenkirche and the historical museum of the city as well as the new town hall from 1938. In the Bertoldstraße there is the Städtische Galerie Leerer Beutel in a historical grain store . The Rococo Maria-Schnee chapel from 1750 is located in Prinzenweg. The eastern end of the old town is formed by the Ostentor and the Villapark with the royal villa .

Western old town

Arnulfsplatz

At Arnulfsplatz is the so-called Velodrom (built by Simon Oberdorfer at the time ), today a venue for the Regensburg Theater and its city theater. The Dominican Church of the Holy Cross is located on Nonnenplatz . Another church is St. Leonhard . The Schottenkirche St. Jakob with the world-famous Schottenportal is located southeast of the classicistic Bismarckplatz . The Jakobstor in the west of the old town, built around 1300, was formerly part of a large gate system with a gate tower and a bridge gate system to overcome the city moat, of which the two semicircular flanking towers have been preserved today. At the Platz der Einheit there is a late Gothic path pillar from 1459. The Herzogspark with the Württemberg Palace , which today houses the Eastern Bavaria Natural History Museum, forms the western edge of the old town . The Prebrunntor offers a good view of the city and the Danube from its gate tower.

Avenue belt

The old town is surrounded on the land side by a belt of avenues , which has been named Fürst-Anselm-Allee since 1779 in honor of its initiator and founder, Prince Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis . The avenue is bordered by the Herzogspark to the west and by the Villapark to the east. The park of Thurn und Taxis Palace borders the avenue to the south. Originally in a double row of trees around the medieval city ​​wall , the avenue was a gift from the princely house to the city of Regensburg.

In the east the green belt begins with the Villapark . The main buildings there are the royal villa on the banks of the Danube and the neighboring Ostentor .

The further path leads to the center of the alley belt past the princely St. Emmeram Castle . The corresponding part of the avenue near the main station is generally referred to as Fürstenallee , the eastern part as Ostenallee and the western part as Prebrunnallee . The Peterskirchlein is also close to the main train station . Also in this part of the alley belt is an obelisk, which was erected in memory of the founder of the avenue at the suggestion of Carl Theodor von Dalberg based on designs by Emanuel Herigoyen in 1806. There is also the Kepler Monument , a classicistic round temple that is reminiscent of the astronomer Johannes Kepler , who was temporarily based in Regensburg . At the confluence of Fröhlichen-Türken-Straße with St. Petersweg, parts of the city moat can still be seen near the former Peterstor . From there the path leads past the princely castle towards Dörnbergpark and Stadtpark in the west of the old town. The Herzogspark at the Natural History Museum in Prebrunnstraße forms the western end of the alley belt.

Adjacent areas

The peculiar Max Buchhauser Garden with its grotesque sculptures is located on Frankenstrasse . Popular walking areas are the Winzerer Heights with a good view of the city and the possibility of continuing to hike to the popular beer garden in Adlersberg . Other popular excursion areas in the city are the hiking areas from Keilberg, the Burgweintinger Forest, and the Max-Schultze-Steig on the western bank of the Danube.

Stadtamhof

Villa Lauser

Upper and Lower Wöhrd

  • Villa Lauser in Lieblstrasse 2 on Oberen Wöhrd: The classicist villa was built in 1795 by Thurn und Taxis building director Joseph Sorg for the financier Georg Friedrich von Dittmer. In 1830 the princely chief justice officer Johann Baptist Liebl acquired the facility (hence the name Lieblstrasse). From 1903 the house belonged to the Lauser family of manufacturers, hence the name Villa Lauser. The villa was then used in a very varied way: as a brothel, stable and restaurant. In 1993 it was bought by Baron von Poltenbach from the community of heirs of the Lauser family. The palace consists of a series of lounges with a ballroom and dining room. The ground floor used to be the kitchen, pantries and servants' rooms. It is currently privately owned.
Sermon column on Fürst-Anselm-Allee

Monuments

  • Kepler Monument: It was built in 1808; it goes back to an idea by Emanuel Herigoyen. The bust of the astronomer comes from Friedrich Döll and the base relief from Johann Heinrich Dannecker. The monument is located on Fürst-Anselm-Allee near the train station. The Kepler bust there is a copy, the original is in the Kepler Gedächtnishaus in Regensburg.
  • Statue of Baron Heinrich Carl von Gleichen : It was executed in 1807 according to Herigoyen's design and shows a sphinx holding a sun wheel in its paws in Masonic symbolism. Location: Fürst-Anselm-Allee at Thurn und Taxis Castle.
  • The statue of Bishop Johann Michael Sailer (by M. Widmann, 1868), whose original location was Emmeramsplatz, was supposed to be melted down during World War II, but this did not happen. After the war it stood for many years on Fürst-Anselm-Allee near the train station and was then put back in its original location.
  • Further west on Fürst-Anselm-Allee is the monument to Count von Schlitz-Görtz, erected in 1824 according to plans by Leo von Klenze, with a bust based on Ludwig Schwanthaler's designs.
  • Medieval statues: the sermon column, early 14th century, whose figures represent the resurrection and judgment of the world and which probably marks a sermon place in connection with the Schottenkloster, which was located there until the middle of the 16th century, and the path column in front of the Jakobstor from 1459, which shows the four Shows apostles and a crucifixion scene.
  • Simple sandstone monument in the style of the Empire for Franz Xaver Gruber (1765–1814): Gruber was the first mayor after the city fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria and made a name for himself in building the city administration and in rebuilding the southern part of the city after the Napoleonic destruction Course of the battle near Regensburg . Location: Ostenallee near D. Martin Luther-Strasse
  • Friedrich von Zoller , royal Bavarian lieutenant general († 1821): The monument is the first iron art casting in Regensburg. Location: Ostenallee , near the indoor swimming pool
  • Equestrian statue of Ludwig I: The monument was erected in 1902 based on a design by F. von Miller and erected on Domplatz. In August 1936, at the instigation of the National Socialist Lord Mayor Otto Schottenheim , the monument was removed and re-erected in the grounds of Bahnhofsallee. The reasons given were aesthetic and traffic-related reasons. The monument stood at the new location for over 70 years and was only put back in its original location in 2010 after the restoration.

South of the Danube

Closer surroundings

See also

→ List of architectural monuments in Regensburg