h_da Erasmus+ Staff Week: Darmstadt City Walk in Darmstadt

Game Type: custom

City: Darmstadt

A self-guided city walk for guests of the h_da Erasmus+ International Staff Week: nine stops through the centre of Darmstadt and up to Mathildenhöhe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. At every stop, the story of the place waits for you as text and as an audio guide, in English, German or Turkish. The walk begins at the palace from which Darmstadt was ruled for centuries, and at the museum inside it. It passes the White Tower and the Hessian State Museum, crosses the city's oldest park, and visits a congress centre named after a chemical element and a bronze cast from a dialect comedy. It ends on the hill where artists set out to redesign everyday life. Feeling confident afterwards? Test yourself with nine riddles about the stops.

Tour Route Stops (9 Locations)

  1. Residenzschloss Darmstadt — The former ducal residence at the market square, now museum and university
  2. Schlossmuseum Darmstadt — Court collections of the Hesse-Darmstadt house inside the Residenzschloss
  3. Weißer Turm — The whitewashed medieval tower left over from the old city wall
  4. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt — Universal museum where Messel fossils, Jugendstil and Block Beuys share a roof
  5. Herrngarten — Darmstadt's oldest public park, open to everyone since 1801
  6. Darmstadtium - Science and Congress Center — Glass science and congress centre built over the medieval city wall
  7. Datterichbrunnen — Bronze figures from a Darmstadt dialect comedy, and you are meant to move them
  8. Vortex Garten — A small private art garden on Mathildenhöhe where water turns into a vortex
  9. Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt — UNESCO World Heritage hill of the Artists' Colony, crowned by the Wedding Tower

No app download needed. Open CitySeek in your browser, check in using GPS at the locations to solve riddles, and earn coins for local rewards!

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