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Erfurt Sacred Places Walk

Erfurt Sacred Places Walk

Erfurt · Germany

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow a sequence of synagogues, churches, and a tomb in Erfurt, with each stop offering a different setting for reflection and remembrance. The walk brings together Jewish and Christian places of worship, from the Kleine Synagoge and Neue Synagoge to churches associated with Erfurt’s religious history. It is worth taking for the opportunity to encounter sacred places side by side and consider how worship, burial, and remembrance are expressed across the city.

The walk

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

  1. Kleine Synagoge

    Kleine Synagoge

    A synagogue that became a home, survived by changing use, and returned as a Jewish cultural centre.

  2. St. Lorenz Church

    St. Lorenz Church

    A Gothic parish church with a Romanesque beginning and a remarkable role in Erfurt’s peaceful revolution.

  3. St. Wigbert's Church

    St. Wigbert's Church

    A late-Gothic church that spent centuries switching between parish, garrison, court, and monastery.

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

    Barfüßerkirche

    A Franciscan church turned war ruin, parish, museum, and surviving Gothic choir.

  6. Maria-Magdalenen-Kapelle

    Maria-Magdalenen-Kapelle

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

  7. Augustinian Monastery, Erfurt

    Augustinian Monastery, Erfurt

    A former Augustinian monastery where Luther lived, Reformation began, and war left its deepest mark.

  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

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  • 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.