Straubing Old Town Entrance – Ducal Castle Straubing 🏰 loop from Basilika St. Jakob

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Lower Bavaria

Straubing Old Town Entrance – Ducal Castle Straubing 🏰 loop from Basilika St. Jakob

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Straubing Old Town Entrance – Ducal Castle Straubing 🏰 loop from Basilika St. Jakob

01:41

6.56km

30m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 20, 2026

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400 m

Straubing City Model

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Good food in a real Bavarian Straubing inn, inexpensive, regional German cuisine

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Eagle Monument on the Danube River Wall, Straubing

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Fortifications are characteristic of a city. After the founding of the new town by Duke Ludwig I in 1218, it was secured, initially only with wooden palisades, ditches and earthen ramparts, but soon with stone walls, gates and towers. The city walls were necessary for the defense of the castle peace, the security of trade and the role as a sovereign base. The citizens had to pay taxes for the construction and maintenance of the city walls and were obliged to do military service, such as wall guards.

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straubing.de/entdecken-erleben/wissens-und-sehenswertes/geschichtsweg/2953.Stadtbefestigung.html

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1.52 km

Straubing Old Town Entrance

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For more than 1200 years, the part of town that we call the old town of Straubing was an important central location on the Danube. On the site of a Celtic settlement, the Romans built forts and an extensive camp village of considerable importance on the eastern Raetian Danube Limes.

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altstadtfreunde-straubing.de/die-altstadt/die-altstadt-nicht-mehr-im-abseits.html

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1.60 km

View of the Agnes-Bernauer Bridge

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1.69 km

Salzstadel and the Straubing City Library

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The historic Salzstadel with the city library is located on the Danube bridge.

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1.74 km

Ducal Castle Straubing 🏰

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This castle was built in 1356
Its knight's hall is one of the largest and best preserved medieval ballrooms in Germany.
The Agnes Bernauer Festival is performed in the courtyard every 4 years.

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