Tour through the Goslar lower town

Passing to the left past the town hall, you will see a series of beautiful half-timbered houses from the Gothic and Renaissance periods with carved decorations, including the former guild house of the felt hat makers, now the restaurant "Die Butterhanne," where you turn left. The path leads you directly to the former tannery mill from 1544, whose water wheel still turns today. Inside, you will find the most beautiful tin figure museum in northern Germany. After descending a few steps to the left and crossing the bridge over the Gose (called Abzucht within the old town), you reach the museum bank. In front of the Goslar Museum, which forms a visitor unit with the tin figure museum and the stamping mill of the old tannery, stands a bronze model of the old town, providing you with a good overview. Following the waterway, right at the next bridge, there is a Gothic stone building from 1514, a former collegiate curia with contemporary decorations, which today belongs to the museum. You cross the bridge and turn right to follow the Abzucht eastward. Behind the next bridge on the right bank, you see an old wooden mill race that was used earlier. Following the Abzucht, you arrive at Moritz-von-Sachsen-Platz, in the middle of which stands the famous field marshal with his horse, who was born in Goslar at the end of the 17th century. On the right, you cross the stone bridge, and your view falls on Renaissance half-timbered houses with carved sunrose ornaments; on the right, the Troll Monk; in the middle, a former settlement of a lay brotherhood caring for plague victims and the poor. On the left is a memorial stone for Goslar Jews who were forcibly quartered in a house that once stood at this place before their deportation. Following Glockengießerstraße, you reach on the left the St. Anne House, a hospital founded in 1488 for elderly maidservants with an impressive chapel installation. The path continues along the city wall to the left to a small wooden bridge which you cross to reach the "Runenhaus," the former guild house of the cloth makers, dyers, and fullers from the 16th century, with rune-like master marks on the sill beam. From here, you follow the waterway, which at the end of the street leaves the old town through the Lower Water Hole, a fortified opening under the city wall. On the left, you reach the Jewish cemetery, whose area contains graves from the 17th to the 20th century (viewing as part of a city tour). From here, the towers of the Breite Gate, once the mightiest gate fortress complex in Germany with the Werderhof, the former mercenary barracks, and the fortification towers of the former city gate, are already visible. The path leads through the city gate into Breite Straße with numerous half-timbered houses from the Baroque period. Along the street, you find to the left the Ulrich Garden with the pigeon tower. A few meters further, the St. Stephen's Church invites exploration, a Baroque church from the early 18th century, whose Romanesque predecessor burned down in a major city fire in 1728. Circling the church, you go right up Kornstraße. On the left, you find the Freemasons' lodge house with a Baroque door. Further on, you reach on the left the Dohmplatz with the former patrician courtyard of the von Schwiecheldt family, a Renaissance building from 1577 with additional buildings, today a senior residence and hotel. After a few meters, the tour ends again at the market square.

Tourist Information Goslar
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Tel. 05321 78060
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