Tourist attractions Mannheim

The entry area consists of the Rondell , the Great Tower and the Elizabeth Gate . The southeast corner is formed by the Broken Tower gutted by the French in 1693. The Gothic hall of the Well Wing contains Roman columns originally from one of ..

The Stadtische Kunsthalle museum houses 19C and 20C art. The sculpture department is particularly rich, with works by Rodin, Brancusi, Giacometti, Barlach, Nam June Paik and Richard Long. There are also important works by the French Impressionists, p..

Laid out between 1758 and 1796 by the architect Nicolas de Pigage from Lorraine, these 72-ha gardens combine the formal perspective of French gardens with the more relaxed style of the 18C, a time when natural landscapes and artificial monuments such..

Worms cathedral is a Romanesque building with two apses quartered in each case by two round towers. The west chancel, with its double tier of Rhenish dwarf galleries, is one of the finest Romanesque creations in Germany. Inside, there is a very old s..

The cathedral was founded in 1030 and remodelled at the end of the 11C. It is a Romanesque basilica with four towers and two domes. The transept is a masterpiece of harmony and balance. The chapel of the Holy Sacrament houses two 15C bas-relief s..

This massive building, built between 1733 and 1769, is considered the largest Baroque church in the Upper Rhine region. The interior, bathed in light, is covered with marble stuccowork in red and green tones. See the Silver Madonna in her Crown of L..

Housed in an old arsenal (1777-79), the Reiß Museum is divided into three sections. The Fine Arts section displays 18C sculptures and paintings, as well as Baroque and Rococo furniture and a fine collection of European earthenware and porcelain (nota..

Bathed in natural light, the rooms in the Landesmuseum fur Technik und Arbeit retrace 250 years of industrial history in southwest Germany from the 18C to the 20C. Visitors can also take a ride on a small steam train.

Destroyed in the 17C, it was rebuilt from 1700-17 in the Baroque style. The central building is flanked by two wings. Its heyday was between 1742 and 1778, when the Elector Charles-Theodor and his wife Elizabeth-Augusta spent their summers here. In 1..

Climb the hill that faces the city until you meet this path, and you will be treated to a spectacular view of Heidelberg and the castle, a scene that is bathed in flamboyant colours at sunset.

Worms was one of the most highly esteemed centres of Jewish culture in Germany. In use since the 11C, the old burial ground is studded with more than 2000 steles engraved in Hebrew. There is a beautiful view of the cathedral towers.

The museum is housed in the Baroque palace built by JA Breunig. The section devoted to the history of the electoral Palatinate contains a mould of the jawbone of prehistoric «Heidelberg Man». The German Primitives department has the Altarpiece of th..

This museum installed in the salons of a former town house displays paintings from the 15C to the 19C, including works by Rubens, Van Loo, Mignard and Knauss. Also on view are ceramics from different countries, glassware and crystal, 300 items of Fra..

The Alte Brücke , built during the late 18C, is framed on the city side by two towers dating from the fortification of Heidelberg in the Middle Ages; the west tower houses three prison cells.

This magnificent burgher's house (1592) owes its name to the bust of St George in knight's costume on the scrolled pediment. It is the only house from the end of the Renaissance to have survived the devastations of 1689-1693.

The most precious item in the prehistory collections is the famous Golden Hat of Schifferstadt. In the shape of a cone, this solid gold religious cult object dates from the 12C BC. The sumptuous collection of art and decorative arts from the 16C to t..

The building in the centre of the medieval Jewish quarter was erected in the 12C. A stairway leads to the first chamber with groined vaulting. A second semicircular staircase then descends to the level of the water-table, where the actual bath is sit..

This museum interests both young and old. Displayed in exhibition halls and the open air are an impressive number of aircraft, locomotives and cars by all the great manufacturers. Apart from a collection of model boats, the museum also possesses an e..

The construction of this Baroque palace, the largest in Germany, lasted from 1720 to 1760. It has more than 400 rooms and 2 000 windows. The paintings on the ceiling of the grand staircase and Knights' Hall are the work of Cosmas Damian Asam. A lar..

Inaugurated in 1868, the monument commemorates the Reformer's appearance befror the Diet. He is surrounded by the precursors of the Reformation, including Savonarola, and Reformist theologians, among them Melanchthon, his disciple. The Landgrave of H..