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Town in Bavaria, Germany
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Neu-Ulm is a town in Bavarian Swabia. It's just across the Danube from Ulm. In many ways Neu-Ulm serves as a suburb of Ulm, but it has attractions of its own. Despite being the "new" part of Ulm, Neu-Ulm offers many historically significant buildings, churches and streets. With about 62,000 inhabitants (2023), it serves as a local centre for the Neu-Ulm Landkreis (district).
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An art, sculpture and children's museum with a collection of the works of Edwin Scharff, one of the major German sculptors of the first half of the 20th century, and the bequest of the abstract painter, Ernst Geitlinger.
A photography and film museum.
A water tower built in 1900. It is also connected to the federal fortress. It is built on one of the powder magazines and rises 47 m in height. Today the water tower is the symbol of the city of Neu-Ulm.
St. Johann Baptist
A Catholic church built in 1857, and re-built in 1927. It is an important expressionist building. Like many other buildings in the city, it is "connected" to the federal fortress: the bricks and limestone come from the broken parts of the fortress wall. It used to be the church of the local military garrison.
St. Peter's
The Lutheran church in the centre of Neu-Ulm. It was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1867, and rebuilt in 1971.
The square in front of the church, is home to the hotel "Bayerischer Hof" and its beer garden, and modern houses with shops. The square is a very lively place with a weekly market and various events such as the market for handicrafts, pottery market, and festivals. The meridian of the 10th degree of longitude runs through this square, and is marked in the northeast corner by a metal rail in the pavement.
On the western edge of downtown Neu-Ulm. It is part of a long contiguous green belt, which includes a part of the former fortress. Several water-bound paved footpaths lead through the park with its manicured lawns and large deciduous trees that are now more than a hundred years old. The Kollmannspark can be accessed via Turmstraße, Schützenstraße and the adjacent “Kollmannspark” path. Entry to the park is free and possible at any time of the day or night.
A public space for art. The sayings were submitted by citizens of Neu-Ulm. The orange-colored benches on the red asphalt with metal lamps in the design of a living room floor lamp invite you to play and linger.
Good food and beer in a pleasant setting next to the river.
"Glacis" is a term referring to early modern fortress building.
By car
There are three major road crossings of the Danube from Ulm to Neu-Ulm
Neu-Ulm is part of the Donau-Iller local transport network DING. Most buses run every 15 or 20 minutes. In the Ulm/Neu-Ulm urban area (tariff zones 10/20) the city tariff applies. Further information can be found here.
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