Regensburg Green - Avenues, Parks, Fountains and the Danube

Art and Nature - Regensburg and its Avenue Belt  

Where once massive fortifications marked the city limits, today avenues and parks stretch around the old town. Created around 1800, they still allow Regensburg residents to take leisurely walks in a relaxed atmosphere. Between bushes and trees, you get charming glimpses of the old town from an unusual perspective. And you discover hidden works of art and monuments. Art and nature: pure romance!

City on the river - Regensburg and the Danube

Regensburg and the Danube - they belonged together from the very beginning. Because of its location on the river, the city was founded by the Romans as a military base, and it has lived from the river for centuries: merchants, boatmen and fishermen shaped the picture. A variety of tales have survived to this day. People traveled downstream on the Danube to distant lands. But "abroad" was also the opposite bank. There lay Stadtamhof, an independent and, for the people of Regensburg, foreign town. "You don't get married across the Danube!" was the saying. Today, of course, it is quite different... 

All wet or what?! - Water in the city. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

Clean water of the best quality and available everywhere in the city at all times - we take this for granted today, but it wasn't always like this. On this refreshingly different tour, immerse yourself in the very different meanings of water in the city in the past and today. History doesn't have to be dry! Water was not only used for drinking, cooking, washing and extinguishing fires: magnificent fountains were used for representation, mills were operated in the Danube and floods shaped the city.

We also try to take a look into the future: Is the water now regularly up to our necks? Or will we soon have to count every drop? How can the city be cooled down in times of climate change?

Urban climate - an interactive knowledge tour

"The climate" - we hear and read about it every day. Our thoughts quickly turn to heat, water and weather in general. These are of course important issues for a city, its inhabitants and its guests. But isn't "climate" more complex than that? It is also about life in a city, the public space, the social climate.
The interactive knowledge tour takes us to places in Regensburg's old town, some of which we know very well, and to places that we often simply walk past. We look at their history, explore what we learn here about different facets of "climate", how the city and people (can) deal with it and what experts say about it.
Especially in an urban space like Regensburg, where so much of the original building fabric has been preserved, it is worth taking a look to see whether we can learn something today from the historic buildings and decisions made back then.
Participants in the guided tour are allowed to join in and think. The tours are suitable for adults and families with children aged 10 and over.