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Erfurt History and Monuments Walk

Erfurt History and Monuments Walk

Erfurt · Germany

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Erfurt’s history by pausing at churches, a theatre, a bridge, an archaeological site, a synagogue, a townhall and a castle. The route brings together religious, civic, Jewish, theatrical and defensive monuments without reducing the city’s story to a single period. At each stop, take time to notice how the building or remains represent a different part of Erfurt’s past.

The walk

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

  1. Kaufmannskirche

    Kaufmannskirche

    A merchants’ church with a disputed medieval beginning, Luther’s sermon, and a remarkable Renaissance interior.

  2. Kaisersaal

    Kaisersaal

    A theatre turned congress hall, where Napoleon, the SPD, and Erfurt’s postwar politics left their mark.

  3. Ägidienkirche

    Ägidienkirche

    A Gothic bridgehead church that became a warehouse, then the world’s oldest Methodist church in use.

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

    Krämerbrücke

    A medieval trade route turned into Europe’s longest bridge lined continuously with houses.

  6. Erfurt Mikveh

    Erfurt Mikveh

    A medieval Jewish ritual bath, buried, forgotten, and rediscovered beside the Gera.

  7. Old Synagogue

    Old Synagogue

    A nine-century synagogue whose hidden history survived because later owners forgot what it was.

  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.