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Erfurt’s Historic Center and Sacred Heritage

Erfurt’s Historic Center and Sacred Heritage

Erfurt · Germany

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Erfurt’s central squares, churches, fortification, bridges, and Jewish heritage buildings in a route that brings together the city’s public and spiritual life. You will see the open space of Domplatz, the architecture of Petersberg, richly detailed façades, and places connected with Jewish worship and history. Along the way, quieter stops such as the Maria-Magdalenen-Kapelle and Mikwe add intimate detail to the larger civic landmarks. Take this walk to experience how Erfurt’s history is expressed through streets, buildings, and gathering places.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Domplatz

    Domplatz

    A medieval market became Erfurt’s great public stage, from trade and justice to revolution and opera.

  2. Petersberg Citadel

    Petersberg Citadel

    A seventeenth-century citadel built to keep Erfurt obedient, then repeatedly claimed by Europe's rival powers.

  3. St. Severi Church

    St. Severi Church

    St. Severi church, a Christian place of worship in Erfurt

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Erfurt Cathedral

    Erfurt Cathedral

    A Gothic cathedral built over nine centuries, with Luther, a disaster, and the world’s largest medieval bell.

  6. Maria-Magdalenen-Kapelle

    Maria-Magdalenen-Kapelle

    A cemetery chapel that became a theatre, and now holds four hundred and twenty urns.

  7. Haus zum Breiten Herd

    Haus zum Breiten Herd

    A Renaissance merchant house where five senses, a soldier, and Napoleon meet on one façade.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 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.

  • 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.