Culture Regensburg

1 culture

1.1 museums , exhibitions
1.2 theaters
1.3 music
1.4 film , cinema
1.5 buildings
1.6 recreation
1.7 memorial sites
1.8 events
1.9 nightlife

culture
museums , exhibitions

altogether regensburg home 20 museums. among prominent museums instance regensburg museum of history shows history, culture , arts of regensburg , eastern bavaria stone age present. there imperial diet museum (reichstagsmuseum) in old town hall describing life during holy roman empire. main attractions original torture chamber , reichssaal, rooms occupied imperial diet 1663 1806. kepler memorial house (keplergedächtnishaus) illustrates life of famous astronomer , mathematician johannes kepler. municipal art gallery leerer beutel offers art collections, film events , cultural festivals. on last years, city added several outdoor museums cultural landscape, so-called document sites. these give overview on specific topics such roman, jewish , bavarian history.

besides, there diocese museums (bistumsmuseen) of regensburg , branch of bavarian national museum located in st. emmeram s abbey, contains princely treasure chamber of family thurn , taxis. domschatzmuseum church treasures, monstrances , tapestries displayed in st. peter s cathedral. other museums kunstforum ostdeutsche galerie, naturkundemuseum ostbayern, reptile zoo, regensburg museum of danube shipping (donau-schiffahrts-museum), public observatory regensburg watch museum (uhrenmuseum), golf museum, post museum , dinoraeum. celebrate centenary, state of bavaria open museum of bavarian history in regensburg in may, 2018. besides, there guided tours in of historical monuments of regensburg, organized tourist tours through city available in several languages.

theaters

inside regensburg theater

the regensburg theater @ bismarckplatz 200 years old , important theater of city. operas, operettas, musicals , ballets shown. in summer, open-air performances carried out well. theater @ bismarckplatz oldest , largest one, regensburg theater has 4 other stages programmes complement each other: in neuhaussaal of theater @ bismarckplatz, concerts philharmonic orchestra regensburg take place. velodrom theater presents musicals , plays. in haidplatz theater literary , modern plays performed, whereas turmtheater @ goliathplatz shows modern plays well, cabarets, musicals , plays children.

music

regensburg home famous regensburger domspatzen. since 2003 there regensburger schlossfestspiele in inner courtyard of st. emmeram s abbey every july, sponsored princely family of thurn und taxis. meanwhile, attracting musicians elton john, david garrett, tom jones or plácido domingo. modern music styles, jazz, presented every summer during bavarian jazz weekend. on old town, on hundred bands, combos , soloists performing. in 2015, house of music opened, giving home skilled musicians , education.

film , cinema

the international short film season hosted annually in regensburg. non-profit event , takes place every march, being 1 of important of type in germany. aside, there several cinemas, such cinemaxx, largest 1 showing blockbusters , arthouse films, , smaller independent cinemas such garbo, ostentor kino , regina filmtheater. regensburg has 2 open air cinemas well.

buildings

the old town of regensburg 1,500 listed buildings offers huge cultural diversity roman modern times.

recreation

the old town of regensburg surrounded green belt. numerous inner-city parks city park (stadtpark), herzogspark, dörnbergpark, villapark or university s botanical garden source recreation , leisure.

memorial sites

the city of regensburg erected several memorials combat racism, intolerance towards minorities , other forms of contempt human dignity:

memorial victims of holocaust
memorial victims of euthanasy
memorial concentration camp , war prisoners
memorial violence against women

a specific in regensburg so-called stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) in honor of deported jews during nazism.

events

twice year takes place regensburg dult, city s volksfest, bavaria s fourth largest. bürgerfest (citizen celebration) in old town every 2 years, attracting on 100,000 visitors. every second weekend in july, knights , other medieval people come @ regensburg spectaculum, medieval market, on stone bridge. every december, there several christmas markets on city.

nightlife

with on 500 bars, restaurants, clubs , other locations merely in inner city, regensburg provides rich , diverse nightlife due young population.