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Ingolstadt (German: [ˈɪŋɡɔlˌʃtat] ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: [ˈɪŋl̩ʃtɔːd]) is an independent city [a] on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142,308 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2023). [3] Around half a million people live in the metropolitan area.
- Audi Forum
- Museum Mobile
- Audi Factory Tour
- Asamkirche
- Liebfrauenmünster
- Klenzepark
- Bayerisches Armeemuseum
- Kreuztor
- Bayerisches Polizeimuseum
- Altes Rathaus
One of Germany’s leading carmakers has an big visitor complex next to its factory to the north of Ingolstadt. This is where you can embark on a factory tour or retrace the story of the brand at the Museum Mobile. But there’s more to the Audi Forum, like “Audi Young and Fun”, a multimedia adventure trail for kids with play areas and driving simulato...
In a stylish steel and glass building completed in 2000 is a museum documenting the history of the brand, and the companies like Wanderer, DKW and Horch that would eventually merge with Audi. A lift carries you up to the 3rd floor where you start the tour in 1899, slowly coming to the present day across two levels. The museum has more than 100 cars...
Register in advance and you’ll be treated to a privileged look at the work that goes into each Audi. There’s a menu of different visits available. If you’re pushed for time you take a “Compact Factory Tour” to see the high-tech welding robots in action, and watch the moment the engine floor is attached to the car chassis. But if you want to leave n...
The celebrated Late Baroque architects the Asam brothers designed this beautiful church in the 1730s. While the mouldings, window pediments and scrolls on the facade on Neubaustraße are Baroque, the theatrical interior is Rococo. Taking up almost all the ceiling is a 490-square-metre painting of the Incarnation of the Lord. The altar is from 1760 a...
One of the things that strikes you about the Church of Our Lady is that its two western towers have two different heights. That’s because neither was ever completed. The southern tower is at 69 metres while the northern one is 62, and both have been capped with newer Baroque domes. They testify to the troubled construction of this church, which was...
Up to the early 90s this space on the right bank of the Danube had been used for industrial storage. But the area was revitalised and a park was laid out for the Bayerische Landesgartschau (Bavarian State Garden Show) in 1992. The park has large lawns, wooded areas, a little waterway, a small lake and a waterside promenade next to the Danube. But t...
Bavaria’s army museum is almost 140 years old, making it Germany’s oldest military museum, and moved to Ingolstadt from Munich in 1972. The main collection is in the Neues Schloss on the left bank on the Danube, while the First World War exhibition is in Reduit Tilly in the Klenzepark. In the Neues Schloss you’ll come across the flag hall, which ha...
Dating to 1385, Kreuztor is one of two of Ingolstadt’s four city gates still standing from the second Medieval ring of fortifications. With seven towers, this brick and limestone construction defended the western approach to Ingolstadt, and takes its name from the Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz (Church of the Holy Cross), which once ran a leper house be...
A department of the army museum, the police exhibition is in the Klenzepark’s Triva Tower and assembled objects going back to the Bavarian Revolution of 1918-19. Some of the engaging themes covered by the museum include the stormy days following the First World War, border security during the Cold War and the famed protests that took place in the 1...
Ingolstadt’s old town hall is a compound of four different houses going back to the 1300s. In the 1880s these were reworked into the uniform Neo-Renaissance style we see today. On the north side of the main facade is a handsome curved gable containing the clock, while the south side has the avant-corps with a stone relief and a balustraded balcony....
Ingolstadt, city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies along the Danube and Schutter rivers, southwest of Regensburg. First mentioned in 806 as a crown estate, villa Ingoldestat, it was chartered in 1250 and became a ducal seat in 1392.
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Ingolstadt, the university city and shopping destination on the Danube, boasts a delightful blend of tradition and history. At the same time, it is modern, urban and vibrant, wowing visitors with the Audi Forum, a world of automotive discovery that is not just for petrol heads.
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- Liebfrauenmünster. The late Gothic cathedral, unfinished due to lack of funds, dominates the cityscape, and can be seen particularly clearly from the city’s “Pfeifturm” tower.
- Asam-Kirche Maria de Victoria. Truly a jewel of the Rococo period from 1732 to 1736. The phenomenal ceiling fresco by Cosmas Damian Asam, in a church hall that measures just ten metres in height, and which is designed as a hall building, is unique.
- Alte Anatomie. The magnificent late Baroque building, complete with beautiful garden, is home to the Museum of Medical History. The highly informative and permanent exhibition documents the history of medicine from antiquity to the present.
- Audi Forum Ingolstadt. All things cars: new car collection, factory tour, the Audi museum mobile with around a hundred motorbikes and cars, as well as restaurants, cinema and concert event.
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Walk along the path named Donaulände, go left at Brückenkopf and follow the road back to where you started your daytrip. If you want to visit a historic jewel of a town, look no further than Ingolstadt in the heart of Bavaria. We bet you'll see the town in a very different light after this trip!
