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Bamberg Sacred Places Walk

Bamberg Sacred Places Walk

Bamberg · Germany

12 stops6.8 km1 h 22 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Bamberg with your attention on places shaped for worship, prayer and religious life. You will pause at a monastery, churches of different scales and traditions, a wayside shrine, and places connected with parish and religious communities. The changing forms of these sacred places make the route worthwhile, from prominent churches to quieter devotional settings.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 12. The rest are in the app.

  1. Michelsberg monastery

    Michelsberg monastery

    Michelsberg monastery is a place of worship and tourism attraction in Bamberg, Germany.

  2. Sankt Getreu

    Sankt Getreu

    A former Benedictine church where a baroque interior carries a broken eighteenth-century bell story.

  3. St. Jacob's Collegiate Church

    St. Jacob's Collegiate Church

    St. Jacob's Collegiate Church is a Christian church in Bamberg, Germany.

  4. 6 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Maternkapelle

    Maternkapelle

    A small Roman Catholic chapel whose recorded beginnings reach back to the early eleventh century.

  6. Karmelitenkloster

    Karmelitenkloster

    A medieval women’s foundation turned Carmelite church, barracks, school, and homes.

  7. Häckermarter

    Häckermarter

    A stone Christian wayside shrine whose surviving record leaves its maker and date unknown.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 6 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

6 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 12 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.