We take you on a tour of the most important sights and the most beautiful corners of Bruchsal. Starting with the dreamlike area of the baroque palace, the tour continues to the Amalienbrunnen in front of the district court, the imposing architecture of the prison building and
to the Belvedere in the city garden, which was built in 1756 as a prince-bishop’s shooting house. Baroque, historicism and art nouveau meet at the small chapel “Holy Sepulcher”. At the former barracks from the 18th century you will meet a contemporary witness of the famous baroque master builder Balthasar Neumann. At the end of the tour you can enjoy the fabulous view over Bruchsal’s roofs and towers from the oldest building in the city, the keep.
Note: If desired, a detour to the “Schuhmacher-Rill-Haus” can complement the tour.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 25 people
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251/5059461, touristinformation@btmv.de
Note: This tour is also available in English and French at a price of € 58 or as a costumed tour: costume surcharge € 15
This variant of the classic city tour also includes a visit to the baroque church of St. Peter. The Würzburg master builder Balthasar Neumann took over the planning and construction management, who at the behest of the Prince-Bishop Cardinal Damian Hugo von Schönborn had this imposing structure built on the former site of the cemetery. “He began to build the old St. Peters parish church based on the model of the Peters church in Rome,” says Bruchsal chronicler Thierry. A crypt was created under the church, which served as a burial place for Schönborn and the subsequent bishops of Speyer. Fortunately, the baroque church of St. Peter survived the terrible bombing of March 1, 1945 without damage and therefore still impresses its visitors today as a baroque masterpiece with the contemporary attitude to life of yesteryear.
Duration: approx. 2.5 – 3 hours
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 25 people
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251/5059461, touristinformation@btmv.de
Note: Due to church renovations, the baroque church of St. Peter is expected to be closed until June 2022.
Our tour guides get on your bus and take you on a scenic journey into the Kraichgau hill country. In addition to Bruchsal and the districts, the communities of Gondelsheim, Kraichtal, Bad Schönborn or Angelbachtal are ideal.
The tour can also be combined with the Maulbronn monastery, whether outside or inside – depending on your wishes. Bruchsal offers you the opportunity to visually perceive the scenic transition from the Kraichgau to the Rhine plain.
Duration: by arrangement
Meeting point: bus parking lane in front of the baroque palace
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251 50594-61, touristinformation @ btmv.de
Combined tour through town, church with a view of the castle
Do you remember which face graced the 50-DM note or who was named Man of the Millennium by the Washington Post?
We are talking about Johann Balthasar Neumann, one of the greatest builders of the Baroque era, gifted artist and accomplished technician.
Neumann also left lasting impressions in Bruchsal. On a guided tour, marvel at the world-famous staircase in the baroque palace, the former water reservoir, the Belvedere in the city garden and the barracks in Huttenstrasse. Another highlight is the baroque church of St. Peter, which bears Neumann’s signature.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 25 people
Price on request
Booking: Tourist Information Bruchsal, Tel. 07251/5059461, touristinformation@btmv.de
Note: Due to church renovations, the baroque church of St. Peter is expected to be closed until June 2022.
Take a trip back in time to pre-Christian times with us and let yourself be carried away into the world of sagas and legends of Bruchsal. Be vigilant, because at dusk, the specter of days gone by can be seen. Always keep your eyes and ears open during the tour.
Together we will reveal the secrets of the wild hunter and his army, the dragon from Michaelsberg, the mermaid from the Schwallenbrunnen and the fiery man with the translucent ribs. You will learn all kinds of things about occult treasure graves, nocturnal devil’s carriages and medieval atonement crosses and together the mystery of the life-giving “Kindlesbrunnen” will be revealed.
Bruchsal’s legendary “Count Kuno” and his legendary thirst are of course not neglected.
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 25 people
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251/5059461, touristinformation @ btmv.de
After the secularization, the Margravine Amalie set up one of her widow’s residences in Bruchsal from 1806 to 1832. In the castle courtyard, she talks about her life in the residence. It shows you today’s Hofkirche, formerly Simultankirche, the Amalienbrunnen, the city garden and the former moated castle, today’s Schönborngymnasium. During the tour you will also find out what is going on with her “involuntary roommate” in the castle, Count Wilderich von Walderdorff, the last Speyer prince-bishop, and why Amalie is called “Europe’s mother-in-law”.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 25 people
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251/5059461, touristinformation@btmv.de
Note: This tour can also be booked as a costumed tour: costume surcharge € 15.
For centuries women have been misjudged and disadvantaged. Thus, since the middle of the 19th century, they have made it their task to fight for equality for women. Since the 1970s, there has also been a conscious focus on women’s history, which the male gaze had too often overlooked. This is how a new way of looking at history comes into being, another bit of an approach to what was.
A tour through the city center makes women’s history visible.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: main entrance to Bruchsal train station
Groups: max 25 people
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251/5059461, touristinformation@btmv.de
Once built as a shooting house for the baroque prince-bishop Hans-Christoph von Hutten and his illustrious hunting party in the 18th century, the lovingly restored arcade house adorns today’s city garden.
During a walk from the baroque castle to the former Steinsberg, up to the Belvedere, the art historian Kiriakoula Damoulakis reports on the history of the building and its various uses, but also on the baroque hunting fun of a long time past. Enjoy one of the most beautiful views of the city and the surrounding area.
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 25 people
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251/5059461, touristinformation@btmv.de
The smallest museum in Baden-Württemberg – until someone says otherwise.
In 2013 the idea was born to set up a small museum for Count Kuno, the symbolic figure of the Bruchsal Carnival. Just one year later, the first visitors could be welcomed in the old vineyard cottage on the Andreasstaffel. On display are exhibits that are associated with Count Kuno. Find out interesting and new things from the Count and the “Brusler” carnival and get to know the history of Bruchsal from a foolish point of view.
The Great Carnival Society Bruchsal 1879 e. V. looks forward to your visit. As I said: It’s a slightly different museum; bring a sense of humor and don’t take everything that has been said at face value!
Duration: approx. 20 minutes
Meeting point: at the museum, above the Andreasstaffel
Donation is welcome
Booking: Tel .: 07251 301213, vettermann @ t -online.de
From 1722 Prince-Bishop Damian Hugo von Schönborn built his residence in Bruchsal. A highlight is the stairwell designed by the famous Würzburg master builder Balthasar Neumann. In the middle of the 18th century, Prince-Bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten furnished the palace in the Rococo style: Magnificent frescoes, wall paneling and stucco as well as furniture and paintings by important artists. After the almost complete destruction in March 1945, the main building with its ballrooms was rebuilt true to the original by 1991. With the reopening of the prince-bishop’s apartments on the first floor in spring 2017, the reconstruction will be completed. Discover Bruchsal Castle on numerous special tours from a princely point of view or from the point of view of the servants. There is also a lot on offer for children: from
Children’s birthday parties with costume tours, special offers for school classes and holiday programs – there is something for everyone!
Various special tours can be booked at:
Tel. 06221 6588815 and service @
schloss-bruchsal.de, www.schloss-bruchsal.de
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 30 people
Price: Combination ticket * (Combination ticket – castle, German Museum of Music Automatons, Municipal Museum at the current admission price.) Plus ≥ 20 people: 5.40 p. P., & lt; 20 people: 108.00 per group (from May 1st, 2017: 9.00 p.p. or 180.00 per group)
Booking: Schlosskasse Tel. 07251 742661, info@schlossbruchsal.de
Note: Guided tours in English and French at no extra charge.
Experience the almost 400-year history of self-playing musical instruments in the German Museum of Music Automatons. Orchestras, music boxes, barrel organs, sounding everyday objects such as sewing boxes and coat hooks, almost life-size automatic figurines, pianos such as the Adenauer piano, “mobile discos” and much more take visitors of all ages on a special sound journey into the world of music automatons.
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Meeting point: Museum entrance max. 30 people Combined ticket (combined ticket – castle, German music automat museum, municipal museum at the current admission price.) Plus guided tour package. For groups: Tue – Fri 35.00 Sat, Sun, public holidays: 40.00 In English and French: 50.00
Booking: Tel .: 07251 742652, dmm@landesmuseum.de
Faithful replicas of stone axes, looms, tools made of bones and wood give an idea of how diverse life must have been and how difficult it must have been for people to survive in the Stone Age. The focus of the tour through the municipal museum is on the area of ”experimental archeology”. Travel back in time a good 6,000 years
to the time of our earlier ancestors. In addition, you will find comprehensive documentation on the history of the Bruchsal area up to the present. With the reconstruction of the palace, the municipal museum was also set up with new holdings on the southern upper floor. The exhibition includes archaeological finds from the Neolithic to
Middle Ages a mineral collection, coins and medals. The focus is on the history of the penitentiary system in Bruchsal from 1848 to the first half of the 20th century, as well as documentation on the destruction of the city on March 1, 1945.
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Price: Combination ticket (Combination ticket – castle, German Museum of Music Automatons, Municipal Museum at the current admission price.)
Booking: 07251 79-253 or 07251 79-380, thomas.adam@bruchsal .de
It connects historic cities and squares in the southwest of the republic and is one of the tourist streets that run through Bruchsal. Bruchsal played a role that should not be neglected during the freedom and democracy movements in the mid-19th century. Farmer leader Joß Fritz and his Bundschuh movement or the revolutionary Friedrich Hecker worked in the region. The importance of Bruchsal at that time was primarily in the penal system. The Baden revolutionaries were among the first inmates of the new “Grand Ducal Male Penitentiary”, which practiced a modern, reform-oriented penal system with its consistent solitary confinement. Walk with us in the footsteps of the freedom movement.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 25 people
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251/5059461, touristinformation @ btmv.de
That in 1988 by the Diocesan Caritas Association Freiburg in the technical school for social pedagogy
The museum opened in 2003 was taken over by the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus Gengenbach. It uses exhibits to show the development and history of the kindergarten, the crèche, the after-school care center and the training to become an educator.
The development of the kindergarten is clearly explained, in particular using the example of the two pedagogues Friedrich Fröbel (1782 – 1852) with the “toys” and the first systematic construction kit and Maria Montessori (1870 – 1952), who helped the child to be independent through the didactic material she developed wanted to stimulate. The extensive commitment of the nuns is documented, right up to the pre-school reform of the seventies. Playground equipment and furnishings show the framework conditions of earlier times.
Duration: approx. 45 minutes
Meeting point: at the museum next to the Sancta Maria School of Social Education, Hochstraße 6, 76646 Bruchsal
People: max. 20
Price: Donation appreciated
Booking: Technical School for Social Pedagogy Sancta Maria, Tel. 07251/93250 or info @ fsp-sanctamaria.de , Homepage
The tiny house of the shoemaker family Rill, who last worked there, is the only remaining building on Klosterstrasse from the turn of the century and presents a piece of the social history of Bruchsal. It is hard to imagine that up to 12 people from the former shoemaker family Stadtmüller once lived here. The tour gives you an insight into the history of the shoemaker’s house and the development of the art of shoemaking, as well as the restoration of the house. The tour also goes into the entire building development in the “Klostergass”.
Duration: approx. 1¼ hours
Meeting point: corner of Huttenstrasse / Klostergasse
Groups: max. 20 people
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformation Bruchsal, Tel. 07251 50594-60 touristinformation @ btmv.de
The new Otto Oppenheimer memorial in Bruchsal, called “The Ship of Fools”, clearly needs to be explained. Too much stories and history are interwoven in it for the casual observer to easily decipher them. The Bruchsal journalist and author Rainer Kaufmann, who is already conducting the alternative city tour “Vergessenes Bruchsal” for the tourist information office, has dealt intensively with all the backgrounds to this memorial and offers this in a compact tour of the memorial. The tour lasts a maximum of one hour and can be booked at any time by appointment.
