Town Hall Square, Regensburg – Iron Footbridge (Regensburg) loop from Regensburg-Prüfening
Town Hall Square, Regensburg – Iron Footbridge (Regensburg) loop from Regensburg-Prüfening
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Town Hall Square, Regensburg – Iron Footbridge (Regensburg) loop from Regensburg-Prüfening
02:22
9.22km
40m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: May 11, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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3.10 km
Town Hall Square, Regensburg
Highlight • Historical Site
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3.25 km
Baumburger Tower
Highlight • Historical Site
Anyone who visits Regensburg for the first time notices them immediately and is fascinated by the many towers. When you live in Regensburg, you no longer consciously notice them all - at least not the smaller ones. No city north of the Alps has as many medieval towers as Regensburg. Up to 60 towers are said to have shaped the skyline of Regensburg in the Middle Ages. There are supposed to be 20 left today. The so-called gender towers or patrician towers were status symbols of the upper class, which largely consisted of merchant families. The towers, including the house chapel, were attached to their family home. The 20-50 meter high towers were intended to represent the social status of the family: the higher, the more 'important'. One of these towers is the Baumburgerturm. If you turn from Goliathstrasse to the Watmarkt you go straight to it. It stands there magnificently and red, the second highest tower in Regensburg, with its early Gothic windows. On the 1st floor you can see a beautiful loggia - probably the merchants used to display their goods here in a clearly visible manner. You can really imagine it when you stand in front of it. The seven-story tower was built by the Ingolstetter patrician family around 1270, based on the Italian model. Italian because the Regensburg merchants presided over the German long-distance trade merchants in Venice in the Middle Ages for over 100 years - so they imitated the tower-building competition of their Italian colleagues in Regensburg. Instead of merchant's goods hanging out of the window, hammering and metalworking were later carried out in the Baumburgerturm: from the middle of the 18th century, various families of plumbers were based in the tower. There is now an institution downstairs on the ground floor: the 'Dampfnudel Uli' (Am Watmarkt 4). Uli Deutzer has been making his famous steamed dumplings in the Baumburgerturm for over 40 years. This was once the house chapel of the Baumburger family, who lived in the 28 meter high tower in the 14th century and gave it its name.
Text / Source: Online magazine for Regensburg
regensburgnow.de/baumburgerturm
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3.32 km
Goliath House — David and Goliath mural
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If you look closely, you will discover a tiny frog added as a caricature of a snooty official in the 19th century.
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3.46 km
Kramgasse (Regensburg Old Town)
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3.50 km
Regensburg Cathedral (Cathedral of St. Peter)
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5.11 km
Arnulf's Square
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(Https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulfsplatz_%28Regensburg%29)
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6.16 km
Stone Bridge (Steinerne Brücke), Regensburg
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6.86 km
Iron Footbridge (Regensburg)
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9.22 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
5.15 km
2.67 km
1.18 km
106 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
7.03 km
1.47 km
663 m
< 100 m
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