Tour around the Goslar ramparts

You leave the market square to the right of the town hall and come to the Schuhhof, the older Goslar market with half-timbered houses from the 16th and 17th centuries and the former shoemakers' guild house with its arcades. To the right above the Schuhhof you will reach the city library, a patrician house from 1526 with very beautiful carvings around the entrance portal, including a lion bleeker to ward off evil. Directly opposite rise the high towers of the Market Church St. Cosmas and Damian, the main parish church built in the 12th century. From the north tower, you get a fantastic panoramic view over Goslar. Opposite the church towers you will find the Brusttuch Hotel, a patrician house from the early 16th century with carved ducat men and butter hen. From here, you cross the street and stand in front of the former Bakers' Guild House. The coat of arms stone shows the Goslar eagle and the Gebildbrote. The path leads up the Bergstraße to the left of the house. At the Worthsatenwinkel, large bourgeois houses from the early 16th century testify to bourgeois prosperity to the left. Following the Bergstraße, you arrive at the former "Zur Börse" hotel, a half-timbered house from 1573 with beautiful Renaissance carvings and motto boards. To the right of it is the Stammhaus of the Siemens family from 1693. Its carvings and leaded windows show Baroque style. Along the long front of the Siemens house, you follow the street to Forststraße, at the corner of which stands an old miners' house from the 15th century, today an exhibition object on the former life of simple people. (Viewable as part of a city tour). Through Forststraße, you reach a Gothic chamber, Frankenbergerstr. 11, a stone building from around 1500 with Dälentor and Baroque annexes. The street leads directly to the Frankenberger Square, with an old fountain and the Small Holy Cross, one of the old bourgeois hospitals from 1394 with today’s Baroque facade. To the right of the hospital, the path goes under the gate to the Frankenberger Church St. Peter and Paul from the 12th century with a Baroque tower cap. To the right of the passage to the church is a Late Gothic portal to a former monastery site, today a retirement home. The street "Am Beek" takes you left into Peterstraße, where numerous former miners' houses from the 15th to 17th centuries line the cobblestones. A few meters further, the path used to pass right through the Klaustor out of the city. Today, the Klaus Chapel from the 12th century still stands here; formerly the gate chapel, from 1537 the chapel of the miners. The shoemaker's workshop on the left was formerly the miners' hospital. Appropriately, one of ten ore chunks, symbolic of the city’s connection to mining, was placed here. (From April 1st to October 15th, you can take the path behind the Klaus Chapel through the Pfalzgarten). A bit further down Bergstraße, the path leads right behind the Hotel "Gosequell" to the Upper Water Hole, the entry point of the Gose through the city fortifications. To the right then a bridge leads into the palace district, and on the right side is a row of beautiful half-timbered houses from different centuries. To the left, passing distinctive slate-covered houses typical of Goslar, you come to the Imperial Palace, a Romanesque palace building with St. Ulrich Chapel, which was restored and richly painted inside in the 19th century. Opposite the palace, today only the cathedral porch with the imperial chair testifies to the great collegiate church St. Simon and Judas, built in the 11th century and demolished in the 19th century. Today, the outlines of the almost 80-meter-long church are marked in the parking lot. At the upper end of the parking lot, you cross Wallstraße and come to Thomasstraße with Thomas Wall, where the defensive structures of city walls, inner moat, rampart, outer moat, and field wall are still very clearly visible. At the end of the wall stands the Zwinger, a defensive tower from 1517, which today houses a museum of medieval weapons and torture devices. Over the wall, it continues to the St. Anne House, a hospital foundation from 1488 with a remarkable chapel insertion. Some meters back, the path leads through the green ramparts past the city wall with Kegelworth Tower to the Lower Water Hole, where a fortified defensive structure secured the Gose's exit point. Following the course of the city wall, you reach the Breite Tor with today only the inner gate, flanking towers, and mercenary barracks. Circling the inner gate, you pass the thick Rissling Tower and turn left into a narrow path that runs along the former defensive moat beside the railway line. The tracks are crossed over a bridge, and on the left, you arrive at the Bismarck Monument with a view over Goslar from the north. Crossing Bismarckstraße, you reach the ruins of the collegiate church St. Georg destroyed in 1527 with the foundations from the 11th century. West of the ruins, the path goes down to the railway line and over a bridge down to the former Rosentor, one of the great city gates dismantled in the 19th century. The Hotel Achtermann has incorporated parts of this fortification into the hotel building. To the right, the city wall with walkway is still visible. Behind it, you find the worthwhile Neuwerk Church, a former monastery church from the 12th century still preserved purely Romanesque, with a medieval herb garden on the south side.

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