Bamberg is a university town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. The
historic city center has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.
In 2012, Bamberg hosted the Bavarian State Horticultural Show.
Bamberg is located on a north-eastern foothills of the Steigerwald near
the mouth of the Regnitz and the Main at the end of the Upper Mainland.
The city was built on seven hills, the city planners of the Middle Ages
represented Bamberg as a German Rome. The hills of the seven hill city
are the Domberg (oldest inhabited hill), the Michelsberg with the
monastery, the Kaulberg with the upper parish, the Stefansberg with St
Stephan, the Jakobsberg with St. Jakob, the Altenburg and the
undeveloped Abtsberg.
The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra are also global ambassadors for the
cultural city of Bamberg; they were founded in 1946 by former members of
the German Philharmonic in Prague and musicians from Karlovy Vary and
Silesia. The orchestra has the status of a big city, some of the
orchestra members are counted among the best musicians in their fields
in Germany; the multi-award-winning orchestra was ranked sixth in
Germany by Focus magazine. The home venue is the concert and congress
hall in Bamberg, where the symphony can be heard between the world
tours; the Bambergers are considered to be the most internationally
active German symphonists.
Since July 2003, the Bamberg Symphony
has held the title "Bavarian State Philharmonic". The rank of state
orchestra was awarded by the Bavarian state government, which also
secures the further financial future. Further information and concerts:
www.bamberger-symphoniker.de and information from wikipedia.
In terms of sport, the city's passions revolve primarily around basketball, Bamberg feels like the "current German basketball capital" (Dirk Nowitzki): The Brose Baskets Bamberg are currently collecting all the important national titles from the German champions (nine times since 2005), German Cup winners (1992, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2017) and BBL Champions Cup (2007, 2010) between the champion and the cup winner. The club also receives top marks in the fan rating (Sportbild). The home games take place in the Brose Arena. Info: brosebaskets.de.
By plane
The nearest international airports are Nuremberg Airport
(IATA: NUE), (59 km) and Frankfurt Airport (IATA: FRA), (216 km).
There is a small airfield in Bamberg for sports pilots.
By
train
Most ICE trains on the Munich-Erfurt-Berlin(-Hamburg) route
stop at Bamberg train station, which is about 700m north-east of the old
town, with the exception of the ICE Sprinter. These run every two hours
either via Halle (Saale) or Leipzig. Alternatively, you can reach
Bamberg with at least hourly regional trains, e.g. from Nuremberg,
Würzburg, Coburg and Hof. Bamberg is also the terminus of line S1 of the
Nuremberg S-Bahn.
Bamberg train station is centrally located a
few minutes' walk north-east of the old town.
By bus
Flixbus
drives to Bamberg. The Bamberg long-distance bus stop is on
Ludwigstrasse in front of the shopping center within walking distance of
the train station.
Local public transport in the metropolitan
region of Nuremberg is operated by the Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg
VGN. It is possible to use different means of transport with one ticket,
such as bus, train, S-Bahn or U-Bahn. Tickets can be purchased online or
via an app.
In the street
Bamberg is on the A73 and
Maintalautobahn A70 motorways, as well as on the Burgenstrasse, which
runs through the city. It is also indirectly connected to the A3
motorway via the B 505 federal highway. Bamberg is also connected to
federal highways 4, 22, 26 and 279.
By bicycle
Bamberg is on
the Main Cycle Path and is the starting or ending point for the Aischtal
Cycle Path. Information for travelers passing through: In Bamberg there
is a bicycle parking garage as well as parking spaces and lockers for
luggage at the tourist information.
By boat
Hundreds of river
cruise ships dock in the port of Bamberg every year. The Main-Danube
Canal begins in Bamberg and runs via Nuremberg to the Danube in Kelheim.
Mobility within Bamberg is guaranteed by a well-developed and
inexpensive city bus system. Bus line 910 runs from the bus station
(ZOB) to the old town and past the sights. Since the city center
consists almost entirely of one-way streets, it is absolutely advisable
to park your car, e.g. B. on one of the two P&R parking lots on
Heinrichsdamm or on Kronacher Straße (the P+R parking lot on Breitenau
was relocated due to the Brose settlement).
Public transport
companies (timetables). Phone: +49 (0)951 77280.
The road
conditions in the city are sometimes perceived as somewhat chaotic by
those unfamiliar with the area: A clear system of ring roads and
arterial roads is not immediately recognizable in Bamberg. Since the
center itself is quite clear, you quickly get to know the city well
after a few repeat trips.
Parts of the old town are closed to
motor vehicles, the pedestrian zone extends from the old town hall to
the market square.
There are very few parking spaces in the city
center. Also, many downtown streets are not suitable for large vehicles,
especially SUVs. There are several well-signposted multi-storey car
parks (Sundays as everywhere: free use).
The historic city center
of Bamberg, declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco, is a sight in
itself. It is therefore advisable to avoid using public transport and to
walk the distances between the sights of the center, the distances are
manageable.
In summer there is also the option of "experiencing"
the city by rickshaw, information at Funbike Bamberg.
Little
Venice or the left arm of the Regnitz can be explored in proper style by
gondola.
Chance Youth Ferry. is the connection from Mühlwörth to the
Alter Graben/Stephansberg. Cable ferry for a maximum of 15 people,
bicycles can also be taken along. It can also be used by people with
walking aids and wheelchair users. Open: April to October inclusive,
Tuesday to Sunday 10.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m., until nightfall at the
latest. Price: single trip €1, 6-18 years €0.50.
Bamberg's city center was largely unscathed by World War II, with less than 5% of its buildings suffering major damage; the rest is still in its original condition and over 1000 houses are listed buildings. Much of it is also part of the World Heritage Site
The Bamberg Cathedral on Domplatz is Bamberg's landmark. The cathedral houses the Bamberger Reiter, the stone image of an unknown man on his horse, probably Stephen I of Hungary, as well as the tomb of Emperor Heinrich II and his wife Kunigunde. The tomb of Clement II is also located in Bamberg Cathedral. Open from 9:00 a.m.
The imperial tomb for the canonized cathedral founder and founder of
the diocese Emperor Heinrich II (973 / 978 to 1024) and Empress
Kunigunde (around 980 to 1033) is the center of the cathedral. It was
created from polished Solnhofen limestone by the Würzburg sculptor
Tilman Riemenschneider (around 1460-1531, one of the most important
artists of his time) between 1499 and 1513; the relics of the imperial
couple had previously been buried in separate graves or reliquaries.
Because of the cult of relics in the Middle Ages, the tomb contains only
a lower jaw bone from the emperor and remains of clothing and a few ribs
from the empress.
The cover plate shows Henry (in official dress) and
Kunigunde, the side reliefs describe events from the life of the saints
and legends about their miracle work.
At that time, Riemenschneider
received 307 guilders for his work, making the imperial tomb his
highest-paid work. The imperial tomb has only been in its current
location at the eastern end of the central nave since 1971. Before that
it was in the middle of the nave and also in various other places.
The east choir, late Romanesque style (round arches), dedicated to Saint
George, with choir stalls from the early 14th century;
The east crypt
(below the east choir), as a three-aisled hall crypt;
Two of the
capitals and the west wall are from Heinrichsdom from the 12th century.
The tombs of Bishop Gunther von Bamberg and King Konrad III are in the
crypt. and a baptismal font;
Bamberger Reiter, one of the most
important medieval works of art in the West.
Created around 1230
as a life-size equestrian statue from 10 individual parts in "reed
sandstone" during the phase of the "younger school of sculpture"
(1225-1229) of Bamberg Cathedral by an unknown master. New
investigations (joint material) show that the figure has remained
unchanged in the place originally intended for it since its creation
(before the church was consecrated in 1237).
Modern science
interprets the rider as "Stephan of Hungary". Evidence of this is the
royal crown (the figure is therefore not an emperor, such as the diocese
founder Henry II or Constantine) and the exact direction of view in the
middle of the former Heinrichdom, the archaeologically proven imperial
burial place of Saints Heinrich and Kunigunde which the figure must have
had a reference. King Stephen I of Hungary (around 975-1024) was related
to Emperor Heinrich by marriage. The King of Hungary also had “political
asylum” in the landlord of the Bamberg diocese (1203-1237), Ekbert von
Andechs-Meran, after the regicide committed by the Bavarian Count
Palatine Otto VII von Wittelsbach on King Phillip of Swabia in the Old
Court Granted to Hungary, it was extremely popular in Bamberg and was
religiously venerated as a saint in Bamberg Cathedral until the 18th
century.
The figure was originally painted: a white horse,
possibly a dapple gray, and the rider in a purple cloak were royal
attributes. Contrary to the interpretation of the Nazis, the hair was
not blond, but dyed dark or black. Today's colorless version was created
during the purification by Ludwig I in the 19th century.
Further
information on the Bamberger Reiter: Latest studies; Wikipedia
Since
1976, the organ has replaced its decrepit predecessor, acoustically
favorable in an exposed position high up in the "swallow's nest" in the
north wall of the nave.
The first cathedral organ is believed to
have been in 1415. A first written record in 1475 for "the great work in
the Stifft Bamberg" by the organ maker Conrad Rotenburger from Nuremberg
is secured. A renewal and renovation of the entire organ case then took
place in 1609 by Frater Arnold Flander from Mainz. The year 1689 was
another phase of restoration. In 1868 a new organ was commissioned from
the Bamberg organ builder Josef Wiedemann, but it had to be rebuilt five
years later and then remained in the cathedral until 1940.
Today,
the Bamberger Dom-Musik organizes weekly organ concerts in the cathedral
from the beginning of May to the end of October on Saturdays from 12:00
p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Bishop's tomb: newly set up in the west crypt,
which has been uncovered again, according to plans by the architect
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Michelsberg Monastery
St Michael. Former
Benedictine abbey church with a Romanesque floor plan, Gothic structure
and Baroque design, one of Bamberg's landmarks.
Presumably in the
year 1015, eight years after the founding of the diocese, the
re-establishment and the start of construction of the Benedictine abbey
on the Michaelsberg, a foothill of the Steigerwald in a
landscape-dominating position still above the Domberg. In 1117 Bishop
Otto the Holy, whose tomb is in the chancel of the church, rebuilt the
abbey's predecessor, which was slightly damaged by an earthquake. The
church consecration took place in September 1121.
The abbey
already had economic importance in the 12th century as the richest
monastery in the diocese with property in 441 villages. When the
Hussites advanced on Bamberg in 1430, citizens, nobles and churchmen
from Bamberg fled to Forchheim. The remaining craftsmen, farmers and day
laborers first opened the wine cellars and then plundered town houses,
monasteries and church properties. With the Treaty of Zwernitz in
February 1430, the bishop of Bamberg and the city council prevented the
advance of the Hussites on Bamberg for a payment of 12,000 guilders.
Reforms led to renewed prosperity and further building activity. In
1610 a devastating fire destroyed all the monastery roofs and the church
nave. The new building followed immediately afterwards. In the nave,
which was newly vaulted by Lazaro Agostino, the vault painting of the
"Himmelsgarten" was created. In 1617 the church was consecrated again.
In the period from 1697 to 1743 the economy flourished again. The
members of the Dientzenhofer family made sure that the church and the
monastery complex were completely rebuilt. Today's baroque appearance
dates from this period.
From the middle of the 18th century the
monastery experienced another decline in the Seven Years' War, which
finally came to an end in the secularization with the monastery's
dissolution in 1803. Since then, the complex has housed the Bürgerspital
(retirement home) of the city of Bamberg.
Significant sights
inside the church are:
The sky garden, the vault painting of the
church nave as a herbarium with exactly 578 different medicinal and
ornamental plants (painter unknown);
The pulpit from 1751/1752 in
rococo style;
The six pillared altars at the end of the nave;
The
ten funerary monuments of the Bamberg prince bishops on the sides of the
nave;
The choir stalls from 1730 in an elaborate walnut carving;
Otto's grave from the 15th century, with a passage for pilgrims;
The
Holy Sepulcher Chapel, also known as the Dance of Death Chapel, with the
sculpted grave of Christ.
The monastery complex also includes the
baroque farm buildings around the monastery courtyard, which today
houses a garden, a café/restaurant and the brewery museum, and the
terraced gardens sloping towards the city. The monastery is also worth
mentioning as a film set for the TV series "Pastor Braun - Braun unter
sucht" with Ottfried Fischer, first broadcast in April 2007.
Due
to major static problems and ongoing security work, the interior of the
church will not be accessible for a few years. The date of a reopening
is currently (01/2022) still unknown.
Parish Church of Our Lady
Also popularly known as the "Upper Parish". The parish church of Our
Lady is the only purely Gothic church in Bamberg, designed as a
three-aisled pillar basilica with an ambulatory and is considered to be
comparable to the cathedral or the Michelsberg in its art-historical
importance for Bamberg.
The church building is the successor to a
suspected Marienkapelle from the 9th century on the steep slope of the
Kaulberg. The start of construction of the nave of today's church can be
dated to June 16, 1338, according to a building document on the eaves of
the northern aisle, the church was consecrated in 1387. The construction
of the high choir began in 1392 and was completed in 1421. The
construction of the church was completed with the tower in 1535. The
church's characteristic “ungothic” crowning of the tower was planned
from the outset as the home of the watchman who had to watch over the
city. From 1711 onwards, the interior of the church was baroque-style,
including a recessed slatted vault and the decoration of the central
naves of the nave and choir.
Sights include (among many others):
The bridal portal on the north aisle, where weddings outside the church
used to be held, with the five wise and five foolish virgins under
canopies on the sides.
The high altar from 1714 with a miraculous
image of the Mother of God from the early 14th century;
A painting
depicting the Assumption of the Virgin by Tintoretto
The ceiling
painting in the nave from the middle of the 16th century with the theme
of the Assumption of Mary;
The baptismal font with the reliefs of the
baptism of Christ;
On the west front a Mount of Olives with sandstone
figures from 1502;
The side altars in the nave and in the ambulatory;
Opening hours: Mon, Tue: 8.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.; 14.00-17.15; Wednesday:
closed; Thurs: 8.30-12.00, 16.00-18.30; Fri: 8.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.;
Access to the church is free, a small church guide can be purchased on
site. Info;
Jakobskirche
The core of the Jakobskirche is the
oldest surviving church in Bamberg, a pillared basilica with a
Romanesque interior. Construction began in 1070, architecturally
designed with two choirs based on the model of the neighboring
Heinrichsdom (the original form burned out in 1081). The consecration of
the church took place in 1109. The church of the former monastery of St.
James was originally outside the cathedral fortifications on the
pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. Further construction phases
were the renewal of the west choir around 1400 in the Gothic style, the
baroque facade in 1771 (Johann Michael Fischer, figure of St. Jakob by
Ferdinand Tietz), and from 1866-1882 a renovation and re-Romanization.
Sights inside the church are:
Neo-Gothic high altar from the 19th
century with a Madonna from 1430;
Gothic murals;
baroque crossing
vault;
Original figure of St. Kunigunde from the "lower bridge"
Opening times: daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., visits only outside of church
services;
Jakobsplatz, just a few meters to the west above the
Domberg.
St. Getreu wikipediacommons, 17th-century baroque Benedictine provost
church;
St. Getreu was founded in 1123/1124 as a women's monastery,
but was soon handed over to the nearby Benedictine monastery in
Michelsberg. In the late Middle Ages, St. Getreu developed into a double
sanctuary with chapels of St. Fides and Our Lady.
The new
construction of the nave of today's church was consecrated in 1660. In
the 18th century the existing chapels were replaced by extensions to the
new building (presbytery).
During the secularization in 1803 the
church with the provost was handed over to the hospital mission,
whereupon various parts of the equipment were sold in favor of the
insane asylum. Since then, the church has served as the house chapel of
the municipal mental hospital. After various alterations in the 18th
century, the church as a whole has remained essentially untouched with
its rich baroque furnishings and was renovated in a restoration phase
from 1987 to 2003.
Sights of the church are:
The ceiling paintings
in the presbytery;
Late Gothic figure of the Madonna in the high
altar, created around 1486 by Ulrich Huber;
various side altars,
including the "burial group" from 1503, the cross altar from 1738/39,
Passion reliefs from 1493/94; Trinity altar from 1719, Fides altar from
1720;
St.-Getreu-Straße 14/16, 5 minutes' walk west of the
Michelsberg monastery.
Due to major static problems that have
recurred, the Skt. Getreu Church will not be accessible until around
2022!
Stephen's Church with origins in 1020;
The current
church building still has its ground plan from the previous building, a
foundation of Emperor Heinrich II and his wife Kunigunde. This
Stephanskirche, as a central building in the shape of a Greek cross, was
the only church north of the Alps that was consecrated by a pope, namely
Benedict VIII, when he visited Emperor Heinrich in Bamberg in 1020 for
political talks. According to the legend of the "penny miracle", St.
Kunigunde paid for the construction of the church, as a relief on the
emperor's tomb in the cathedral tells. Nothing remains of this
predecessor building today.
The oldest part of today's church is the
tower from the 13th century. The new construction of the church was
started in 1626 by Giovanni Bonalino with the choir, but could only be
completed in 1680 due to the Thirty Years' War and scarce funds. The
dome over the crossing was also omitted and replaced by a flat roof.
Until 1803, the church was directly subordinate to the emperor as a
separate "government district". After secularization it was used as a
storeroom for a while and then handed over to the evangelical community.
In 1987 the interior of the church was renovated in a uniform white
version.
Stucco relief with the martyrdom of Stephan in the church crossing,
created in 1688 by Johann Jakob Vogel.
The baroque organ case
(display part of the organ), probably created in 1695 by the sculptor
Sebastian Degler, is considered to be one of the most beautiful organ
cases in Upper Franconia with its wealth of figures. The organ itself
dates from 1966 and is currently in serious need of renovation.
Choir
stalls in Rococo style from 1769.
Stephansplatz 4;
Opening
hours: daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
St. Martin, at the
University 2. Created by Georg Dientzenhofer in magnificent Jesuit
baroque. Open: daily from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Thursdays from 1:00
p.m.
Karmelitenkloster, Karmelitenplatz 1. Late Romanesque cloister
from the 13th century and baroque church designed by Leonard
Dientzenhofer. Open: daily from 9am to 11.30am and 2.30pm to 5.30pm.
Historical buildings, castles, palaces and palaces
Geyerswörth
Castle: essentially a medieval patrician castle belonging to the Geyer
family.
In 1580 the dilapidated complex was acquired by the Bishopric
of Bamberg. From 1585 to 1587 it was rebuilt as a fortified, four-winged
summer and moated castle and from then on served as the residence of the
prince bishops. Today the building is owned by the city and is used as
the town hall. The Renaissance hall inside has been used as a municipal
reception and event hall since its restoration in 1984.
Geyerswörthplatz (near the Old Bridge)
Altenburg on the Altenberg
(386m), the highest of the seven Bamberg hills:
Former refuge and
stronghold of the Bamberg prince bishops, first mentioned in 1109.
Consecration of the castle chapel in 1124.
You can drive to the car
park just below the castle.
Böttingerhaus Bamberg's most famous town
house, city palace modeled on Italian palazzi.
Built for Hofrat
Johann Ignatz Boettinger from 1707-1713. Today there is disagreement
about the architect.
A richly decorated courtyard, the mighty, almost
oversized staircase and the wonderfully furnished interiors are worth
seeing. Due to numerous defects (cramped, neighbor disputes, lack of
corridors, damp and cold), the "Privy Council" began building the new
"Schloss Concordia" shortly after moving in.
Today the building
houses an art gallery.
Judenstrasse 14
Concordia Castle built in
1716-1722 for the privy councilor Ignaz Tobias Böttinger by master
builder Johann Dientzenhofer as a baroque moated castle.
The most
beautiful view of the building is from the opposite east side of the
river.
Concordiastrasse 28
The old court on the Domberg has
its origins in the 10th century.
The building complex was initially
laid out by Emperor Heinrich II as an imperial palace and, from the
founding of the Diocese of Bamberg in 1007, also served as a bishopric.
The foundation walls of Pallas and the chapel from this period are still
preserved today. The entire complex shows architectural styles from
different eras. The inner courtyard with the half-timbered buildings and
the large roof areas is late Gothic. The building of the "Neue
Ratsstube" from 1568 and its facade with window bay and stepped gable
towards the cathedral square is designed in the Renaissance style. The
last major conversion and renovation phase then took place in 1777,
after large parts of the complex had been neglected after the
construction of the neighboring "New Residence". Despite the wide
variety of architectural styles used, the Old Court shows a harmonious,
harmonious picture.
Access from the cathedral square is through the
"beautiful gate" by Pankraz Wagner from 1573. Worth seeing in the portal
is the relief of Mary, framed by Heinrich and Kunigunde with the
cathedral model, Peter with sword and key and George with the dragon,
both of them Church patrons, and with the Wild Man and the Wild Woman,
the personifications of Main and Regnitz.
A historically significant
event in the "Old Court" is the Bamberg regicide in 1208. King Philip of
Swabia, head of the Hohenstaufen family, was killed shortly before his
election as Emperor by the Bavarian Count Palatine Otto VII von
Wittelsbach. Science is still puzzling over the actual background to the
murder.
Since 1938, the "Historical Museum of the City of Bamberg"
has been housed in the rooms of the Old Court, see the Museums section.
In summer, the Calderon Festival takes place in the open-air courtyard.
New Residence on Domplatz - The New Residence of the Bamberg Prince
Bishops was built in two phases between 1613 and 1703. It served as the
seat of the Bamberg Prince Bishops until 1802. The more than 40 state
rooms are furnished with stucco ceilings, furniture and rugs from the
17th and 18th centuries. The frescoed Kaisersaal, in which concerts with
up to 300 visitors also take place, is impressive. The hall can also be
rented. Also worth seeing are the elector's rooms, the prince-bishop's
apartment and, since 2009, the restored imperial rooms in the
magnificent baroque living quarters of the last Bavarian crown prince
and his family. "The freshly renovated imperial rooms illustrate both
the high baroque period of origin of this central monument of
Franconian, Bavarian and German history and the last significant
historical use as representative living quarters for a couple heir to
the Bavarian throne". In the east wing is the Bamberg State Library,
which shows its rich book treasures in special exhibitions. site;
Wikipedia. The rose garden in the courtyard of the Residenz offers a
wonderful view over Bamberg, with a round fountain at the central
crossroads.
The Old Town Hall is a bridge town hall on an island
in the Regnitz and, next to the cathedral, Bamberg's second landmark.
The legend explains the origin on an island as a result of the rivalry
between the citizens and the bishop, who did not provide the citizens
with space for the planned new building of their town hall. As a result,
the citizens had piled up an artificial island as a building site. In
fact, the Regnitz is the border between the bourgeois inner city and the
episcopal mountain.
Access to the island is via two double bridges,
the Lower Bridge and the Upper Bridge. The Upper Bridge dates from the
12th century, making it one of the oldest vaulted bridges in the world.
It was protected by a bridge tower. The city's storm bell also hung in
this tower. Worth seeing today on the upper bridge is a sculptural group
of crosses by Gollwitzer from 1715 and a statue of St. Nepomuk. The
Lower Bridge was first mentioned in 1020. In the Middle Ages there was a
gallows with a basket on the bridge, the so-called snap basket. It was
used to punish offenders, who were then dunked into the water with it.
The Lower Bridge has been repeatedly destroyed over time, the last time
along with other Bamberg bridges by German soldiers towards the end of
World War II in a futile attempt to stem the defeat. The current
concrete structure was built in 1967.
The building that preceded
the island town hall was first mentioned in 1387. The current building
was built in the Gothic style between 1461 and 1467, but was then
rebuilt between 1744 and 1756 according to plans by Michael Küchel.
Through the balconies on the raised gate tower, through the plastic
frescoes on the long sides, they show allegories of virtues, and through
the Rottmeisterhäuschen in front of it, the architecture in the Baroque
and Rococo style that is visible today was created.
Worth seeing
inside the town hall is the council chamber on the upper floor with a
rococo stucco ceiling, designed by Johann Jakob Vogels in 1745. The
paintings on the walls show scenes from the Old Testament and were
created in 1755 by Johann Anwander.
Since 1995, the “Ludwig”
porcelain collection has also been housed in the Old Town Hall, with one
of the largest collections of Strasburg faience and other objects from
the Meissen, Berlin, Strasburg and Vienna manufactories.
In the
Rottmeisterhäuschen, the half-timbered house in front of it, the
"Rotte", i.e. the city guard, used to be housed directly at the town
hall.
Little Venice, a fishing settlement on the banks of the
Regnitz.
Residential house E.T.A. Hoffmann's with today's museum at
Schillerplatz 26, opposite the theater where the writer worked at the
beginning of the 19th century. A copy of the door knob with the face of
the apple woman from the golden pot can be seen at Eisgrube 14.
In the Bamberg area:
Seehof Palace: Baroque palace complex with four
wings, closed around the inner courtyard;
Built by Prince Bishop
Marquard Sebastin Schenk von Stauffenberg from 1687 as a hunting lodge
and summer residence; Representation rooms from 1700 designed according
to designs by Balthasar Neumann;
in Memmelsdorf, about 6 km northeast
of the city center
In the Bamberg mountain area there is a fairly extensive system of catacombs and rock cellars, some of whose origins go back to the Middle Ages. During the plague and cholera epidemics in the 13th and 14th centuries, some tunnels were also used as burial sites. A rock chapel was built under the Lerchenbühl around 1500, the Holy Hole. As a rule, however, they were designed as cool but frost-protected storage cellars for food and beverages, especially wine and beer, under the Kaulberg as sand mining tunnels for the extraction of scouring sand, over the course of time they served various purposes (shelters from armed conflicts, meeting places, prisons, drinking water supply, relocation of industrial production sites during the Second World War). Today, some of the tunnels serve as storage rooms, civil defense rooms and as a tourist attraction for the city. Driving through the tunnels under the Stephansberg is therefore possible and is organized by the city of Bamberg.
Gabelmann Fountain, on the Green Market. Also called Neptune
Fountain.
Saint Cunigunde. The only surviving bridge figure on the
lower bridge (near the old town hall).
Historical Museum of the City of Bamberg, Domplatz 7, 96049 Bamberg
(arrive by bus line 10, Domplatz stop, elevator and disabled toilet
available, access to the entrance: cobblestones). Tel: (0)951 871142
wikipediacommons. housed in the "Alten Hofhaltung" on Domplatz. Objects
from prehistoric times to the 20th century, sculptures and paintings
from the Middle Ages to the present day, objects from crafts and guilds.
Open: May-Oct: Tue-Sun 9am-5pm; Nov-April: only for special exhibitions.
Natural Science Museum, Fleischstraße 2, 96047 Bamberg. Open: Apr-Sep:
9am-5pm; Oct-Mar: 10:00 - 16:00. Price: adults €3.50, 6-18 years €1.50.
Franconian Brewery Museum, Michelsberg 10f, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49
(0)951 53016 . The museum is housed in the historical vaults of the
former Benedictine brewery in the Michelsberg monastery. It shows a
collection of historical equipment from the brewing industry. The
seminars at the Beer Academy offer information on the subject, sensory
training and the training course to become a "beer expert". Open:
Apr-Oct: Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat, Sun and public holidays 11:00-17:00.
Price: Adults: €4.
Stadtgalerie, Hainstrasse 4a, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.:
+49 (0)951 871861 (ticket office), +49 (0)951 871142 (administration).
Villa Dessauer, temporary exhibitions of international and local
regional artists; The building itself is considered an important
architectural monument of the "German Renaissance" style (around 1880 to
1890). Open: Tue-Thu 10am-4pm, Fri-Sun 12pm-6pm. Price: adults €2.
Ludwig Collection, Obere Brücke 1, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951
871871 (ticket office). in the old town hall, largest private porcelain
collection in Europe, permanent loan from a private collection; The
focus of the collection is the extensive stock of Meissen porcelain,
faience from Strasbourg, as well as objects from smaller porcelain
manufacturers such as Höchst, Nymphenburg, Fürstenberg and Ansbach.
Open: Tue-Sun 9:30-16:30.
Gardener and Häcker Museum, Mittelstraße
34, 96052 Bamberg. The only museum in Germany that specializes in the
culture of gardeners. The museum shows a typical 19th-century dwelling,
various religious objects, etc. Garden of particular interest. Open:
May-Oct: Wed-Sun 11am-5pm. Price: adults €3
World Heritage Visitor
Center, Untere Mühlbrücke 5, 96047 Bamberg. The World Heritage Visitor
Center provides an overview of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Bamberg
through an interactive exhibition. Open: Apr-Oct: daily 10am-6pm;
Nov–Mar: daily 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Price: Admission free.
The Stadtpark Hain is an extensive park area in the south of the
city. The botanical garden of the city of Bamberg is also located in the
park.
The Bamberg rose garden in the inner courtyard of the residence
offers a wonderful view over Bamberg and over 4500 roses in summer.
From April 26 to October 7, 2012, the Bavarian State Horticultural
Show 2012 took place in Bamberg. The core area of the site was the
renatured industrial wasteland of the Erba Island between Regnitz and
the Main-Danube Canal, the motto "meeting point nature". Erba Island is
the company premises of the former Erlangen-Bamberg cotton mill. One
theme of the garden show was "fabrics and fabrics", among other things,
there was a "patchwork garden" and a "pyramid meadow". Water was also a
central theme of the exhibition.
After the end of the garden
show, the area remained as a green band between the existing "South
Park" and "North Park".
Information on the garden show from the
Förderverein Landesgartenschau Bamberg:
www.fv-bamberg2012.de
The historic Ludwig Canal once connected the Danube in Kelheim with the Main near Bamberg. Lock 100 is one of the few surviving locks on the more than 170 km long route.
The old town has a conspicuous number of antique shops, auction
houses and arts and crafts shops, as well as jewelers and blacksmiths.
There is a small Demeter bakery on Ottostrasse, which also sells the
bread it makes at KaDeWe in Berlin.
2 Mohrenhaus, Obere Brucke 14,
96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 980380. The "House for Beautiful Things"
is located in a historic building. In addition to many different types
of tea, you will find home accessories and textiles and much more. Open:
Mon – Wed 9.30 a.m. – 6 p.m., Thu + Fri 9.30 a.m. – 7 p.m., Sat 9.30
a.m. – 6 p.m.
3 Weyermann Fan Shop, Brennerstrasse 15, 96052 Bamberg.
Phone: +49 (0)951 93220764 . Malzfabrik Weyermann fan shop with beer,
malt and accessories. Open: Monday to Thursday 13:00 - 18:00, Friday
10:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 18:00, Saturday 10:00 - 14:00.
4 Alt
Matthias butcher's shop, Erlichstrasse 52, 96050 Bamberg. Phone: +49 951
17623 . The butcher has been making vegan sausage and meat loaf himself
for many years.
5 Kapuzinerbeck, Kapuzinerstrasse 6, 96047 Bamberg.
Tel.: +49 951 27580. Traditional bakery with its own specialties since
1962.
6 Bioland Vegetables Sebastian Niedermaier, Mittelstraße 42,
96052 Bamberg. Mobile: +49 17670701545. Regional, seasonal organic
products. Old Bamberg vegetables such as Bamberg savoy cabbage, Bamberg
garlic, Bamberg radish, Bamberg Hörnla and liquorice. Open: Tue, Sat
09:00 - 13:00, Wed, Fri 14:00 - 19:00.
Markets
The weekly
market takes place from Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on
Maxplatz.
On Shrove Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. there is a honey
market in the front area of Maxplatz. The honey market has been around
since 1873.
With the Bamberg Onion, a large onion is hollowed out, filled and
then stewed in a beer sauce. Raw and smoked pork belly is ground through
the mincer, or minced meat or sausage meat is used for the filling, then
mixed with rolls and eggs and stuffed into the onions. Before serving,
add a crispy fried slice of bacon and mashed potatoes or sauerkraut as a
side dish.
With the Bamberg smoked beer bread, instead of water,
Schlenkerla smoked beer is added to the bread dough, fresh brewer's
grains are also added, and other spices are largely avoided.
Bamberger Hörnla is one of the oldest German potato varieties,
officially documented in Franconia since 1854, not to be confused with
the traditional yeast pastry of the same name. The potatoes are small
and have a crooked, oblong shape. Since they are waxy, they are
particularly suitable for potato salad. You can buy this type of potato
well at weekly markets and in shops with local products, but they are
difficult to come by in supermarkets or outside of Franconia.
There is a Bamberger Hörnla association in Franconia that takes special
care of this potato variety.
A Danish pastry similar to a croissant
is also referred to as Bamberger Hörnla. In Bamberg and its surroundings
they are simply called Hörnla and referred to as Bamberger in the rest
of Upper Franconia. The original made from a light yeast dough with milk
that has to rest overnight. The next day butter is then worked in in
several layers. The butter content must be at least 20 percent of the
flour. The wrapped dough blank is slimmer than the croissant
Liquorice is a plant from which liquorice is made, among other things.
Licorice has been cultivated in Bamberg since the Middle Ages. Around
the middle of the 20th century, cultivation was almost completely
stopped. Since 2010, with the support of
Bamberger Licorice
Society grown again. It is available at the Mohrenhaus, Pamina Bio,
Tourismus- und Kongressservice, the Mussärol nursery and the Michelsberg
monastery shop.
The
best-known of the 40 Bamberg beers is the "Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier",
it is served in the Schlenkerla brewery restaurant and gets its special
flavor from the barley dried over a beech wood fire; it is sold all over
the world and can also be ordered on the Internet (see links). The name
is attributed to the dangling gait of an earlier brewer, which was the
result of an accident. Experienced smoked beer drinkers like to point
out to the inexperienced that the smoked beer only really tastes good
after the third or fourth Seidla, which can then be taken as both a
warning and, for the brave, as a challenge.
Another regional and
Bamberg beer specialty is the U (colloquial) for the untaped beer: The
beer type is unfiltered and without a bung, i.e. with little carbon
dioxide and without overpressure in the keg (Mahrs-Bräu).
The
brewery restaurants and beer cellars also usually offer
Franconian-German cuisine, with a focus on regional products.
1
Schlenkerla, Dominikanerstrasse 6, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951 56060,
fax: +49 951 54019, e-mail: service@schlenkerla.de. "Aecht Schlenkerla
Rauchbier" in the historic brewery bar, many people only really taste it
after the 3rd Seidla (0.5 l). Speciality: Bamberg onions in smoked beer
sauce. Open: daily 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m., hot food 11:30 a.m. - 10:00
p.m., beer garden in the Dominikanerhof in good weather from Easter to
October.
2 Ambräusianum, Dominikanerstrasse 10, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.:
+49 951 5090262. Bamberg's first brewery. If you order the beer tasting,
you can try all 3 beers and don't have to decide. Open: According to the
website.
3 Keesmann-Bräu, Wunderburg 5, 96050 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951
981980. Owned by the Keesmann family since 1867, there is Franconian
cuisine, including vegetarian dishes. You can try the following beers:t
Pils, Helles, Sternla Lager, Hefeweizen, from Ash Wednesday
Josephi-Bock, from October to December Keesmann Boc, from May to
September Keesmann Gold. Open: Mon - Fri 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m., Sat
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Sun closed.
4 Mahrs-Bräu, Wunderburg 10, 96050
Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951 915170. Beer cellar, rustic dining room. You
often hear the order "A U"; the guest expresses that he would like to
drink "an untapped beer". The people who drink their beer standing up in
the hallway are called stand-up bums. Vegetarian and vegan dishes. Open:
Mon to Sat 3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Sun 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: main
dishes from 8.
5 Klosterbräu, Obere Mühlbrücke 1-3, 96049 Bamberg.
Tel.: +49 951 52265. The oldest brewery in Bamberg with a historic
ambience. Franconian cuisine, vegetarian dishes. Open: Fri, Sat 2:00
p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Price: main courses €10 to €15.
6 Special Brewery,
Obere Koenigstrasse 10, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951 24304. Rauchbier
has been brewed for over 475 years. Inn with Franconian home cooking,
roast kitchen on Sundays. Open: Mon to Fri 9am - 10.30pm, Sat 9am - 2pm,
Sun 9am - 9pm.
7 Fässla Brewery, Obere Koenigsstrasse 19-21, 96052
Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951 26516, fax: +49 951 201989, e-mail:
info@faessla.de facebook. Beer cellar, rustic dining room, seats in the
courtyard when the weather is good. Open: Mon to Sat 8.30 a.m. - 11.00
p.m., Sun and public holidays 8.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (no kitchen)
Exceptions: Good Friday, Ascension Day and Corpus Christi, snacks on
weekdays 11.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m. and 5.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.
8
Greifenklau Brewery, Laurenziplatz 20, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951
53219. Hotel with beer garden and own beer. Offal are regularly on the
menu. Open: Tue to Fri 3:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., Sat 11:00 a.m. - 10:30
p.m., Sun, Mon closed.
9 Crown Prince, Gaustadter Hauptstrasse 109,
96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951 96430514. Bamberg's youngest brewery with
craft beers. Open: Wed - Thurs 5 p.m. - 10 p.m., Fri, Sat 5 p.m. - 11
p.m. Price: dishes 10 - 20€.
10 Ahornla in the sand, Ob. Sandstrasse
24, 96049 Bamberg. Three home-brewed beers, Franconian menu, gin & rum
tastings. Open: Mon 18:00 - 00:00, Tue - Wed 12:00 - 00:00, Thu - Sat
12:00 - 02:00. Price: main courses 8 - 16€.
11 Spezial-Keller,
Sternwartstr., 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951 54887. With "special smoked
beer". Located on the Stephansberg, the cellar offers one of the most
beautiful views of Bamberg. Open: Tue to Fri 3:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.,
Sat, Sun 2:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
12 Wild Rose Cellar, Oberer
Stephansberg 49, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951 57691. More than
100-year-old beer cellar under chestnut trees with tasty cellar beer.
There are snacks and warm dishes. Open: From the end of April to
September when the weather is nice. Mon to Fri 4 p.m. - 10.30 p.m., Sat
3 p.m. - 10.30 p.m., Sun 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
1 Restaurant Altenburg, Altenburg 1, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951
56828. Restaurant on the historic Altenburg with fine cuisine. Open:
Tuesday to Sunday 12 noon to 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., closed on
Mondays. Price: main courses €9 to €29.
2 Bolero, Judenstrasse 7,
96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 5090290. Spanish cuisine with a large
beer garden. Open: Monday to Friday from 5 p.m., Saturday and public
holidays from 11 a.m., Sunday from 10 a.m. Price: tapas around €4, main
courses from €15.
3 Ristorante Francesco, Michelsberger Strasse 10,
96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 2085777. Italian cuisine.
4 Hofbräu,
Karolinenstrasse 7, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 53321
5 Kropf,
Untere Koenigstrasse 28, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 2083095.
Upscale cuisine. Open: Wed to Sun 5:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., also on
Easter Monday, April 22, 2019, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
6 Tiled
stove, Obere Sandstrasse 1, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 57172.
7
Rathausschänke, Obere Brucke 3, 96047 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951
2080890.
8 Scheiner's dining rooms, Katzenberg 2, 96049 Bamberg.
Phone: +49 (0)951 5090819.
9 Spaghetteria Orlando, Jesuitenstr. 3 /
at the corner of Austrasse, 96047 Bamberg. Phone: +49(0)951 2082634.
10 Swarg, Frauenstr. 2, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 2974086. Indian
cuisine.
11 Kleehof, Untere Koenigstrasse 6, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49
(0)951 21713. Upscale cuisine with a focus on local vegetables, fruits
and herbs. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 5:30 p.m.
12 ICHI-SAN,
Luitpoldstr. 12, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 50998860, Fax: +49
(0)951 50998861. Sushi and Japanese cuisine. Takeaway can be ordered by
phone. Open: Daily 11:30 - 15:00, 17:30 - 23:00.
13 Misako Sushi,
Jägerstrasse 34, 96050 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0) 951 91766968. Sushi and
Japanese cuisine. Open: Mon-Fri 11:30-14:30, 17:30-23:00, Sat+Sun
17:30-23:00..
14 Cuatro Gatos, Kapuzinerstrasse 34, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951
9178400. Open: Mon – Fri 11.30 a.m. – 2.30 p.m. + 5 p.m. – 10 p.m., Sun
5 p.m. – 10 p.m., closed on Saturdays.
15 Italia Trattoria Pizzeria,
Jaeckstrasse 2, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 33751. Open: Mon, Tue,
Thu – Sat 11 a.m. – 1.30 p.m. + 4.30 p.m. – 11.30 p.m., Sun 4.30 p.m. –
11.30 p.m., Wed is closed.
16 Salino wood oven pizza, Schillerplatz
11, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 57980. Open: Sun – Fri 11 a.m. –
2.30 p.m. + 5 p.m. – midnight, Sat 11 a.m. – 2.30 p.m. + 5 p.m. – 1 a.m.
17 L-Osteria Sarda, Heinrichsdamm 7, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951
7006464 Italians in Bamberg. Restaurant, Trattoria & Pizzeria. Open:
Monday-Friday: 11:30-14:00 & 17:00-22:30, Saturday: 17:00-22:30. (49°
53′ 40″ N 10° 53′ 38″ E)
Since 2011, Bamberg has also been a wine town again: two years after
the Silvaner grapes were planted on the southern slope of the
Michelsberg below the former Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael, there was
a harvest in autumn 2011 and for the first time in 175 years. The first
wine harvest in the beer town was around 1,500 liters of late harvest
with 98 Öchsle. It is now being sold in the monastery shop as "Silvaner
vom Bamberger Michaelsberg".
Bamberger Stiftsladen, Michaelsberg
10, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 951 87 2419. Regional and own products from
the monastery garden are sold, as well as goods from other European
monasteries. The profit is used to maintain the monastery complex and
the foundation's purpose of caring for the elderly. Open: Thursday to
Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
During the day, life in Bamberg takes place in the many cafés, beer
gardens and restaurants, and in the evening hours it changes to the pub
mile around Sandstrasse in the old town. There is a curfew in Bamberg:
due to frequent noise pollution in the early hours of the morning,
restaurants and clubs in large parts of the city center have to close at
2 a.m. on weekdays, and at 4 a.m. on weekends and public holidays.
Cinemas
9 CineStar Bamberg, Ludwigstraße 2, 96052 Bamberg
(directly at the train station on the roof of the Atrium shopping
center). Phone: +49 (0)951 30288-50.
10 Lichtspiel (cinema & café),
Untere Königstraße 34, 96052 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 26785 commons.
11 Odeon (cinema & café), Luitpoldstrasse 25, 96052 Bamberg. Phone: +49
(0)951 27024.
Clubs
60 Days, Lange Strasse 3, 96047 Bamberg.
Agostea, Ludwigstr. 25, 96052 Bamberg.
Club Kaulberg, Unterer
Kaulberg 36, 96049 Bamberg.
Live Club, Obere Sandstr. 7, 96049
Bamberg.
Mojow, Am Obstmarkt 9, 96047 Bamberg.
13 Sound n' Arts,
Obere Sandstr. 20, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 18307667. Open: Wed +
Thu 10 p.m. – 2 a.m., Fri + Sat 10 p.m. – 4 a.m., Sun 9 p.m. – 2 a.m.,
Mon + Tue closed.
Theatre
Anonymous Improniker, c/o Harald
Rink, Heinrich-Semlinger-Str. 42, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951
602274. Improvisation theatre.
12 Bamberg Marionette Theater, Untere
Sandstrasse 30, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 67600.
13 Brentano
Theater, Gartenstrasse 7, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 54528.
Chapeau Claque, Grafensteinstr. 16, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951
3029774. Theater for children and young people.
14 ETA Hoffmann
Theater, ETA Hoffmann Platz 1, 97046 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 873030.
Cabaret Die ÄH-Werker, c/o Ulf Sowa, Schellenberger Straße 37, 96049
Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 5 28 49.
15 Herrenleben Puppet Theater,
Luisenstrasse 14, 96047 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 24959.
Ensemble
Satirium, Amalienstr. 16, 96047 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 23195.
Theater am Michelsberg (formerly Galli-Theater), Michelsberg 10f, 96049
Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 30290988.
Theater der Schatten,
Luitpoldstraße 40 a, Bamberg (New Palace). Phone: +49 (0)951 500391.
Camping
1 island, at the campsite 1, 96049 Bamberg-Bug. Phone: +49
(0)951 56320.
Caravan pitches (on the Heinrichsdamm P&R sites).
Cheap
Youth hostel Bamberg-Wolfsschlucht (closed until further
notice, future unclear), Oberer Leinritt 70, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49
(0)951 56002.
2 Youth guest house on Kaulberg ("high standard"),
Unterer Kaulberg 30, 96049 Bamberg (in the center of Bamberg). Phone:
+49 (0)951 29952890.
Apartment in the middle of Bamberg
(Ferienwohnung), Unterer Kaulberg 13, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951
59585.
Fässla Brewery, Obere Koenigsstrasse 19-21, 96052 Bamberg.
Simple accommodation in the brewery inn.
Middle
3 Hotel Alt
Ringlein, Dominikanerstrasse 9, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 95320.
4 Arkaden Hotel im Kloster, Am Knöcklein 1, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49
(0)951 5098410.
5 Hotel Central, Promenadestrasse 3, 96047 Bamberg.
Phone: +49 (0)951 981260.
6 Hotel garni Berliner Ring, Pödeldorfer
Strasse 146, 96050 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 915050. Features: ★★★,
Garni.
7 Hotel Ibis Bamberg am Schillerplatz, Schillerplatz 2, 96047
Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 980480.
8 Hotel National, Luitpoldstrasse
37, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 509980. Feature: ★★★.
9 Baroque
Hotel am Dom, Vorderer Bach 4, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 54031.
Upscale
10 Hotel Brudermühle, Schranne 1, 96049 Bamberg. Phone:
+49 (0)951 955220.
11 Hotel Europa, Untere Koenigstrasse 8, 96052
Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 3093020.
12 Villa Geyerswörth Hotel,
Geyerswörthstrasse 15, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 91740. Feature:
★★★★★.
13 Hotel-Restaurant St. Nepomuk, Obere Mühlbrücke 9, 96049
Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 98420.
14 Palais Schrottenberg,
Kasernstrasse 1, 96049 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 955880.
15 Romantik
Hotel Weinhaus Messerschmitt, Lange Strasse 41, 96047 Bamberg. Phone:
+49 (0)951 297800.
16 Bamberger Hof Bellevue, Schönleinsplatz 4,
96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 98550. Feature: ★★★★.
17 Best Western
Hotel Bamberg, Luitpoldstrasse 7, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951
510900. Feature: ★★★.
18 Tandem Hotel, Untere Sandstrasse 20, 96049
Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 51935855.
19 Welcome Hotel Residenzschloss
Bamberg, Untere Sandstrasse 32, 96049 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 60910.
Feature: ★★★★.
20 Welcome Kongresshotel Bamberg, Mußstrasse 7, 96047
Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 70000. Feature: ★★★★.
Poison hotline Nuremberg: Tel.: 0911-398 24 51; 0911-398 26 65;
Bamberg on-call practice: Tel.: 0951-700 20 70;
Telephone counseling:
Tel.: 0800 - 111 0 111; 0800 - 111 0 222;
hospitals
1 Bamberg
Clinic, Buger Str. 80, 96049 Bamberg. Tel: +49 (0)951 5030. General
Hospital.
pharmacies
2 St. Hedwig Pharmacy,
Franz-Ludwig-Strasse 7, 96047 Bamberg. Phone: +49 (0)951 23213, fax: +49
(0)951 23902, email: st.hedwig-apotheke@t-online.de. Open: Mon, Tue, Thu
8 a.m. - 6.30 p.m., Wed + Fri 8 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
3
Herzog Max Pharmacy, Friedrichstr. 6, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951
24463, fax: +49 (0)951 23484, e-mail: herzogmaxapotheke@gmx.de. Open:
Mon - Fri 8 a.m. - 6.30 p.m., Sat 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
4 Luitpold
Pharmacy, Luitpoldstrasse 33, 96052 Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 982370,
fax: +49 (0)951 9823723, e-mail: luitpold-apo@arcor.de. Open: Mon – Fri
8.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. + 2.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m., Sat 8.30 a.m. – 12.30
p.m.
5 Bridge Pharmacy, Heinrichsdamm 6, 96047 Bamberg. Tel.: +49
(0)951 3020740, Fax: +49 (0)951 30207411. Open: Mon – Fri 7.30 a.m. – 8
p.m., Sat 8.30 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Services and addresses
Tourism Office of the City of Bamberg
(Bamberg Tourismus & Kongress Service), Geyerswörthstraße 5, 96047
Bamberg. Tel.: +49 (0)951 2976200, Fax: +49 (0)951 2976222. Open: Mon –
Fri 9.30 a.m. – 6 p.m., Sat 9.30 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sun 9.30 a.m. – 2.30
p.m.
Holiday pass: For children and young people between the ages of
four and 18, discounts in the district of Bamberg for outdoor swimming
pools, visits to museums, bus trips during the summer holidays, etc.;
Price €4, available from tourist information and municipal
administrations, among others.
Däumling family pass: discounts and
vouchers for all families living in the city and district of Bamberg,
price: €5, at the tourist information and ticket offices;
A
launderette can be found next to the train station, in the shopping
center and on Obere Königstrasse, next to the Spezial brewery. Open
daily. Usually there is a pensioner on site who helps to change money
and the like.
Public toilets are located:
In the building of the new tourist
information, Geyerswörthstraße 5
On the cranes next to the lower
bridge.
In the grove in the botanical garden.
On the Adenauerufer
(Kunigundendamm) in the kiosk Kunni next to the playground.
In the
toilet pavilion on the promenade at the central bus station (ZOB)
Bamberg is in Upper Franconia. The majority of Bamberg residents
therefore speak Franconian or Bambergisch, a dialectal variant of German
that differs greatly from Standard German and is only understandable to
a limited extent for the untrained. High or standard German is
understood by most Bambergers, but spoken by only a few, even without a
clear dialect coloring.
A high level of education, a local labor
market with a strong international orientation and characterized by
immigration, Bamberg’s role as a former American garrison location that
lasted until 2014, the establishment of a central asylum center in
Bamberg, a high proportion of foreign students and decades of dealing
with tourists from all over the world lead to that many Bambergers speak
one or more foreign languages in addition to Franconian. However, the
comparatively high proportion of people with a migration background,
which has continued to rise in recent years, means that you will
increasingly meet people in Bamberg who only have very little or limited
knowledge of German, but who have excellent knowledge of other
languages. Therefore, it usually does not cause any major problems to
communicate with the residents of the city center in English or French.
In recent years, the proportion of Bamberg residents with whom visitors
to the city can communicate in Italian, Russian, Spanish, Chinese,
Portuguese, Greek, Turkish or Arabic has increased - albeit at a
significantly lower level.
The oldest relics of Bamberg's prehistory are probably the Bamberg
idols found in the 19th century.
Bamberg was first mentioned in
718. In the metrical Vita of Saint Bilihild, it is mentioned as
Babenberg. In the year 902 a Castrum Babenberch on today's Domberg was
mentioned for the first time. It belonged to the East Franconian family
of the older Babenbergs, who lost the fief in 903 in a bloody feud with
the Rhenish Franconian Conrads. In the so-called Babenberg feud, three
Babenberg brothers died. The possessions fell to the king and remained
royal property until 973. Emperor Otto II gave the castrum to his
cousin, the Duke of Bavaria, Heinrich the Brawler.
The bishopric
was founded in 1007 by King Henry II, son of Henry the Brawler, and in
the same year he had the first cathedral built, which burned down twice
and was replaced by the current 13th-century building. In 1208 King
Philip of Swabia was murdered in Bamberg by Otto VIII von Wittelsbach.
In January 1430 the Hussites advanced on Bamberg (see also Hussite
wars). The cathedral chapter fled with the cathedral treasure (today in
the Bamberg Diocesan Museum) to the Giechburg, the bishop himself
withdrew to Carinthia. The wealthy citizens fled to Forchheim and
Nuremberg. However, the Hussites did not take Bamberg. When they had
conquered Scheßlitz, the craftsmen, day laborers and farmers who
remained in Bamberg first plundered the wine cellars and then the town
houses and monasteries. Shortly thereafter, Margrave Friedrich von
Brandenburg negotiated a truce with Andreas Prokop, commander of the
Hussites, at Zwernitz Castle and Bamberg paid a ransom of 12,000
guilders to avoid being burned.
A revolt of the citizens in the
15th century against the prince-bishop's power, the so-called immunity
dispute, was unsuccessful. The Peasants' War of 1524/1525 left its mark
on the city.
The changing flow of the Regnitz has posed a threat to the city for
centuries. In July 1342, the Magdalenen flood tore a bridge with it.
Probably the biggest flood was on February 27, 1784, which destroyed the
houses on the bank in the Mühlenviertel. The bridges were also badly
damaged. In particular, the lake bridge, today's chain bridge, with its
baroque furnishings, which was not completed until 1756, was destroyed
by ice floes and tree trunks that were swept away.
In the city
area, high water marks can be found in Langen Straße, at the
Hochzeitshaus, in the fishery, on the Weegmannufer next to the
Luitpoldbrücke and at the Walkmühle. The comparative values for the last
major flood in 2004 are also listed there. The Jahn weir and the flood
barrier near Bug have provided extensive flood protection since 1964.
The former bishopric of Bamberg, together with the bishoprics of
Würzburg and Eichstätt as well as Kurmainz, the neighboring Protestant
principality of Bayreuth, the small Swabian dominion of Wiesensteig and
Ellwangen, was one of the main centers of early modern witch and
magician persecution in southern Germany.
The Constitutio
Criminalis Bambergensis came into force in Bamberg in 1507, which
stipulated, among other things, that the punishment for witchcraft was
death by burning:
"The punishment of magic: Item if someone harms
people through magic or causes harm, one should punish from life to
death, and one should do so tightly with the fewer"
– Article 109 of
the Constitutio Criminalis Bambergensis of 1507
As a result of
long-lasting, sometimes violent power struggles between the citizens and
the ruling prince-bishop of Bamberg, a famine caused by crop failures in
the Little Ice Age and the effects of war, and a strong personal belief
in witches by the ruling prince-bishop of Bamberg, Johann Georg II Fuchs
von Dornheim, known as the witch burner (1623– 1633), the persecution
and execution of individuals and entire families on charges of
witchcraft peaked in Bamberg in the 1620s and early 1630s. The auxiliary
bishop Friedrich Förner was the most important preacher and the real
agitator of the witch hunt. Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim built the
so-called Drudenhaus, also known as the Malefizhaus, in 1627
specifically for the imprisonment of those accused of witchcraft.
In addition to numerous other Bamberg citizens (e.g. Dorothea Flock
and Christina Morhaubt, Georg Haan, chancellor in the Bishopric of
Bamberg) and members of the cathedral chapter, the mayor of the city of
Bamberg, Johannes Junius, was also arrested in the Drudenhaus in August
1628 under the pretext of witchcraft. Before his execution, he wrote in
his farewell letter to his daughter:
"Innocently I went to
prison, innocently I was tortured, innocently I must die..."
–
Farewell letter from the mayor of Bamberg, Johannes Junius
According to a list with the names of the victims, well over 300 people
were executed in Bamberg as witches or sorcerers by 1632. Surviving
trial files show that from 1595 to 1631, over 880 people were accused of
witchcraft or sorcery and executed in three waves. The church
confiscated the belongings of the murdered persons. Only the invasion of
Swedish troops (1630-1635) in February 1632 put an end to the activities
of the bishop and his captors. Prince Bishop Johann Georg II Fuchs von
Dornheim fled to Upper Austria and died there in 1633.
The heyday
of the Bamberg witch hunt is well documented by the extensive, albeit
incomplete, case files that have survived. The most important and by far
the largest collection of sources is in the Bamberg State Library.
Smaller collections are preserved in the Bamberg City Archives (as a
deposit of the Bamberg Historical Association), in the Bamberg State
Archives and in the Witchcraft Collection of the Cornell University
Library in Ithaca, New York (USA). The group of people accused of
witchcraft and the circumstances of the trial make it clear that the
Bamberg witch trials were primarily about power-political disputes.
Prince-Bishop Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim used the pretext of
witchcraft specifically to eliminate power-political opponents in the
cathedral chapter and in the urban bourgeoisie of Bamberg.
Jews
played a significant role in the city's history.
The university, founded in 1647, was abolished by the Bavarian
occupiers in 1803 in the course of the secularization of the Bamberg
Bishopric, but continued to exist in a reduced form as a
philosophical-theological university.
During the Thirty Years'
War the city suffered greatly from the Swedish troops. The city's
population shrank from 12,000 to approximately 9,600 residents. In
addition, an investigation by the city council in 1643 revealed that
over 660 buildings were damaged, more than half of which were completely
destroyed. The decay of the building structure was not only caused by
the direct effects of the war, but also by vacancies and the
corresponding deterioration in the course of the population decline.
Under the prince-bishops Lothar Franz (1693-1729) and Friedrich Carl
von Schönborn (1729-1746), the city experienced a cultural boom in the
Baroque period. As Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg, Friedrich Carl
von Schönborn particularly promoted art, architecture and science.
During his reign, the University of Bamberg was effectively expanded
into a full university. Among other things, Schönborn commissioned the
construction of the basilica of the Fourteen Saints, the pilgrimage
church of Gößweinstein and the construction of the new residence and the
lower bridge in Bamberg.
In the time before secularization and
the territorial reforms, the Franconian Reichskreis, to which the
diocese of Bamberg provided troops, was responsible for the defense of
Bamberg. There were parts of the Hohenlohe and Ferntheil regiments as
well as troops from the Franconian district artillery. Bamberg was
relatively poorly fortified and was taken by Prussian forces three times
during the Seven Years' War, partly to force the Bamberg Prince-Bishop
Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim, who had a great deal of influence at the
imperial court, to remain neutral.
In the Treaty of Lunéville,
the town and monastery were offered to the Electorate of Bavaria as
compensation for the loss of the Palatinate to France. Even before it
was finally fixed in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, Bavaria began to
militarily occupy the territory of the Bishopric on September 2, 1802
and finally declared the area a Bavarian province on November 29. Prince
Bishop Christoph Franz von Buseck resigned and thus sealed the end of
the independent Bishopric of Bamberg.
In the course of the
Hep-Hep riots in Bamberg, from August 8 to 12, 1819, there were serious
riots against the city's Jewish residents, during which the window panes
of houses inhabited by Jews were smashed.
During the March
Revolution in 1848/49, Bamberg was a stronghold of the democrats, which
is why the city was considered particularly radical by the government in
Munich. The best-known personalities were the lawyers Nikolaus Titus and
Ignaz Prell, the doctor Heinrich Heinkelmann and the journalist Carl
Heger. There, the so-called 14 Bamberg Articles, a catalog of
fundamental rights, were read out.
On May 25th and 26th, 1854,
eight German states (Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Württemberg, Baden,
Electoral Hesse, Hesse-Darmstadt and Nassau) held the Bamberg Conference
in Bamberg, in which they discussed their position on the two great
powers of Austria and Prussia agreed on the oriental affair.
Bamberg's "house regiments" were the 5th Infantry Regiment (since 1855)
and the 1st Uhlan Regiment, nicknamed Sekt-Ulanen (since 1872) of the
Bavarian Army. At the beginning of the First World War, the Bamberg
Cavalry took part in the battle at Lagarde. Both regiments were in
Bamberg until 1918. In memory of the cavalry attack on the border town
of Lagarde, which was successful from a German point of view but
involved a great deal of loss, the Bamberg site was later called Lagarde
Barracks. After the American army withdrew at the end of 2014, the end
of the Lagarde barracks was sealed. However, the historic name Lagarde
was retained: as the Lagarde campus, it now points to "something big: a
lively, future-oriented city district".
In 1909 one of the first
scout groups in Germany was founded in Bamberg.
After the First
World War, on April 7, 1919, the recently elected Bavarian state
government (Hoffmann cabinet) fled to Bamberg in the dispute over the
Munich Soviet Republic and requested military support from there to
suppress the Soviet Republic. After the Soviet Republic was violently
ended by the Reichswehr and Freikorps, the Bamberg Constitution was
signed on August 14, 1919 as the first democratic constitution for
Bavaria.
After 1919, Bamberg was a garrison for the 17th Cavalry
Regiment of the Reichswehr. The rearmament under the Nazi regime brought
with it the construction of new barracks and the stationing of parts of
the 4th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht.
In Bamberg, too, power was handed over to the National Socialists in
1933, and Bamberg citizens took part in the persecution of Jewish fellow
citizens. The Bamberg synagogue, built between 1908 and 1910, was
destroyed during the November pogroms of 1938 and the Aryanization of
Jewish businesses was completed. Willy Aron was taken into "protective
custody" on March 10, 1933 and then murdered in the Dachau concentration
camp. On July 1, 1933, just a few weeks after May 10 in Berlin, books
were burned on the main arena of the Volkspark. The Jewish entrepreneur
of the Hofbräu Bamberg, Willy Lessing, was expropriated in 1936 and
mistreated so badly during the November pogroms in 1938 that he died a
short time later. From 1939, the Bamberg Jews were used for forced
labor, mostly in communal areas. From November 1941, the Jews living in
Bamberg were deported. The Jewish cemetery was expropriated and the
Taharahaus was rented to the Bosch company, which used it as a
warehouse. By May 1945, only 15 Jews remained, living in so-called mixed
marriages. A total of around 630 Jews who were born in Bamberg or who
had lived there for a longer period of time fell victim to the Holocaust
as a result of deportation and murder.
Several air raids, which
claimed a total of 378 lives and destroyed 1,700 apartments, also had a
significant impact on the historic old town of Bamberg. Among other
things, on February 22, 1945, Bamberg was attacked by American planes as
a replacement target, killing 216 and destroying the Church of the
Redeemer except for the tower. Buildings that shaped the cityscape, such
as the old toll and the municipal gazebos on the green market and the
historic buildings on the fruit market, were irretrievably lost. On
April 14, 1945, Bamberg was taken by US Army troops. There was little
military resistance from the German side, but this resulted in American
artillery fire. A total of 23 German soldiers and four civilians were
killed.
After the end of the Second World War, Bamberg was part of the
American occupation zone. A DP camp for so-called displaced persons was
set up by the military administration. During the occupation, the US
Army stationed a garrison in Warner Barracks in the east of Bamberg. The
military base was the hub of various US war operations, such as Iraq or
Kosovo. According to estimates by various military historians, hundreds
of thousands of US soldiers were smuggled through the base before it was
closed in 2014.
Reopening of the University of Bamberg
Expanded with all university faculties, the philosophical-theological
university began teaching in the winter semester of 1946/1947 in the
hope of being able to develop into the fourth Bavarian state university.
The then rector Benedikt Kraft was the energetic initiator. He appointed
well-known professors who had previously taught in Königsberg or
Breslau, as well as judges from the Imperial Court in Leipzig. Many
former soldiers who returned from the war began their studies here,
which were expanded from semester to semester. The expansion plans then
fell through, and Regensburg became the fourth Bavarian state
university. In 1972, the Bamberg University was re-established as a
comprehensive university and in 1979 it was elevated to the status of a
university. In memory of its two founders, it has borne the name
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg again since 1988. Since the
university-wide restructuring and outsourcing of the university of
applied sciences to Coburg, the university has had four faculties since
2007: humanities and cultural studies, human sciences, social and
economic sciences and the information science faculty.
On January 1, 1970, the districts of Kramersfeld and Bruckertshof in
the municipality of Hallstadt were incorporated into the urban area. On
July 1, 1972, as part of the local government reform, the communities of
Bug, Gaustadt, Wildensorg, the Bughof district of the Strullendorf
community and the Hirschknock district of the Gundelsheim community
followed.
Entries in the UNESCO World Heritage and World Document
Heritage
In 1993, the old town of Bamberg was recognized as a world
heritage city by the United Nations UNESCO organization. The 142-hectare
World Heritage site includes the Mountain District, the Island City and
the Gardener Quarter. In addition, in 2003 and 2013, a total of three
medieval documents from the Bavarian State Library in Bamberg were
entered into UNESCO's "Memory of the World" world document heritage. On
the one hand, the two works created on the monastery island of Reichenau
in Lake Constance, the Bamberg Apocalypse and the commentary on the Song
of Songs, and on the other hand, the Lorsch Pharmacopoeia from the reign
of Charlemagne were included.
Commemorating the victims of the Nazi dictatorship in Bamberg
Since the end of 2004, so-called stumbling blocks on the pavements in
the city of Bamberg have commemorated the victims of National Socialist
rule in Germany between 1933 and 1945. The Willy-Aron-Gesellschaft
Bamberg e.V. is responsible for laying the stumbling blocks in Bamberg.
V. responsible. This association, which was registered in 2003, is named
after Willy Aron from Bamberg, who died in 1933 as the first Nazi victim
ever. So far, 151 to 160 stumbling blocks have been laid in Bamberg and
Hallstadt. A memorial was dedicated in 2016 in Bamberg's Harmoniegarten
to commemorate Willy Aron, Hans Wölfel and Claus Schenk Graf von
Stauffenberg. To commemorate the Jewish Nazi victims Willy Aron, Willy
Lessing and Siegmund Bauchwitz, one street each bears their name.
1000 year celebration of the Diocese of Bamberg
In 2007 the
Archdiocese of Bamberg celebrated its 1000th anniversary with the motto
1000 years under the starry cloak. The motto is an allusion to the
starry cloak of King Heinrich II, who gave this cloak to the diocese of
Bamberg when it was founded in 1007. The original piece is part of the
collection of the Diocesan Museum in Bamberg.
On May 25, 2009,
the city was awarded the title of place of diversity by the federal
government.
State Garden Show and development of the Erba Park
From April
to October 2012, the State Garden Show took place on the previously
derelict site of the former Erlangen-Bamberg cotton mill (ERBA) in the
Gaustadt district.
An important ecological element was the
creation of the fish pass, which allows fish and other aquatic life to
bypass the adjacent hydroelectric power station and thus protects the
biodiversity of the Regnitz in the long term. The project was funded
with over 1 million euros by the state of Bavaria.
In May 2013,
seven months after the end of the State Horticultural Show, the Erba
Island was opened to the public as a public park. Part of the area of
the former State Horticultural Show site was demolished in order to
build a new housing estate. This is directly connected to the former
spinning mill building, which was also converted and is now mostly used
by the University of Bamberg.
In addition to the newly developed
housing estate, large parts of the parks specially created for the state
garden show, as well as children's playgrounds, sports facilities and
allotment gardens have been preserved.
Modern processing of witch
hunts
In October 2012, theme weeks on the witch trials were held in
Bamberg to review this chapter of the city's history. In the course of
this, Archbishop Ludwig Schick rehabilitated the victims of the witch
trials in the Bishopric of Bamberg. Following a decision by the city
council in April 2015, a memorial by the Essen artist duo "Bildgehege"
was erected next to Geyerswörth Castle to commemorate the victims. The
commemorative plaque is intended to be both a commemoration and a
reminder: “In the 17th century, around 1,000 innocent women, men and
children were accused, tortured and executed in the Bishopric of
Bamberg. This memorial commemorates them. Their suffering obliges us to
stand up against exclusion, abuse of power, degradation and every kind
of fanaticism.” The memorial was financed by the city of Bamberg, the
Archdiocese of Bamberg, the Oberfrankenstiftung, the Bürgerverein
Bamberg-Mitte and many individual donors.
In 2014, the former US Army base "Warner Barracks" in the east of the
city of Bamberg was closed. The conversion areas that became free
included the barracks area (approx. 190 hectares), the shooting range
(approx. 21 hectares) and the Muna (approx. 140 hectares). In January
2014, a permit agreement was concluded between the city of Bamberg and
the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks, which made it possible to hand
over five partial areas from the conversion area to the city in March
2015. At the beginning of October 2014, the "NATO settlement" on the
former US army site with 149 residential units was handed over for
civilian use.
As part of the nationwide expansion of the federal
police force under Interior Minister De Maizière, a new federal police
academy was built on the site within a year. The training center was
officially opened in September 2016. The district with 8,000 inhabitants
originally planned by the city of Bamberg became obsolete. With a total
of 2500 training places and over 700 training and administrative staff,
the Federal Police School is the largest of its kind in Germany.
In February 2017, the city of Bamberg acquired 19.5 hectares of the
conversion area, including the former Lagarde barracks. After several
years of renovation of the old barracks building, a digital start-up
center was opened in 2019. The IGZ Bamberg is a public company and
offers various services and consulting offers for young start-ups in the
IT industry. The project was financed one third each by the city and
district of Bamberg and the Free State of Bavaria. In addition to
several commercial and office units, new residential areas for up to
2400 people are also being built on the former barracks site. In
addition, the city of Bamberg would like to promote the cultural
development of the district as part of the so-called "cultural quarter"
by renovating and constructing various buildings.
In September 2015, an arrival and repatriation facility was opened at
the former US military base, which was used to deport refugees from the
Balkan states with few prospects of staying. In July 2016, it was merged
with the initial reception center in Bayreuth to form the "Upper
Franconia Reception Facility" (AEO) and expanded to 3,400 places by
2017. Since September 2016, the facility has also served as an arrival
center for the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. In August
2018, at the will of the Bavarian state government, a so-called
“Arrival, Decision-making and Repatriation Center” (anchor center for
short) was set up. Here, asylum procedures are to be accelerated by
bundling the competent authorities (Government of Upper Franconia, State
Office for Asylum and Repatriations, Federal Office for Migration and
Refugees, Social Welfare Office, Health Office, Administrative Court,
Employment Agency, Police). The Bavarian Minister of the Interior
Herrmann has assured the city administration that the capacity of
currently around 3400 places will not be exhausted and that occupancy
will be limited to 1500 people.
The responsible ombudsman of the
city of Bamberg criticized the actions of the Bavarian state government
in the context of the reception center in several cases. Their
representatives criticized the long accommodation times and called for
accelerated procedures for accommodation in community accommodation in
order to increase acceptance among refugees and the local population. In
addition, the stay of longer than two months for children is "absolutely
unreasonable". In addition, 50 of the 170 occupied dwelling units were
found to be overcrowded, while at the same time 40% of the potentially
usable dwellings were vacant. This cannot be reconciled with a “local
understanding of humanity”. The Bavarian Refugee Council also sharply
criticized the anchor centers and described their practice as a "human
rights backyard" of Bavarian asylum policy. Since 2017, the non-profit
association "Freund statt Fremd" has been organizing the weekly "Asylum
Vigil" in downtown Bamberg, during which the organizers protest for a
humanitarian refugee policy in Bamberg.
Stadtwerke Bamberg converted its electricity production to 100%
renewable energy back in 2016, thereby making an important contribution
to climate protection in the city. For comparison: In the same year, the
share of renewables in the nationwide electricity mix was only 31.7%. An
important pillar of energy production from environmentally friendly
sources is the hydroelectric power plant in Viereth, which supplies more
than 12,000 households with "green" electricity with a total annual
output of 30GWh.
The results of the local elections in 2020
testified to the increasing importance of the political issues of
sustainability and climate protection for the electorate, as the Greens
Bamberg party was able to win the most votes for the first time with
27%.
In September 2020, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder
announced that the former plant of the tire manufacturer Michelin would
be converted into a "Clean Tech Park", following the previous proposal
by the city and district of Bamberg. The multi-million investment is
intended to initiate the development of sustainable mobility concepts
and enable the future production of hydrogen-based drive technologies.
Referendum for the preservation of the main moor forest
The
Bamberg City Council planned to convert part of the conversion area
(Muna) into an industrial and commercial park. In reaction to these
plans, a civil protest initiative was formed, which sought to prevent
the development plans and the associated clearing of 47 hectares of the
main moor forest. Right from the start there was broad support among the
Bamberg population for the preservation of the forest and so the newly
founded initiative "For the Main Moor Forest" was able to collect over
13,000 signatures in June and July 2018 as part of a citizens'
initiative. This was followed by a referendum in November, in which a
three-quarters majority (75.39%) of Bamberg residents voted in favor of
keeping it, thus preventing the city council's plans.
Digitization and further development into a "Smart City"
In 2019,
Bamberg was awarded a tender by the Ministry of the Interior for 17.5
million euros to further develop the city into a "Smart City". The
program runs for seven years: After two years of strategy development,
in which the city council, the University of Bamberg and city
authorities as well as the citizens were involved, a total of 18
sub-projects are to be implemented in the implementation phase between
2023 and 2027. The core of the program is the creation of a "digital
twin" of the city, with which the preservation of monuments within the
World Heritage City is to be improved. The "twin" is used on the one
hand for the detailed reconstruction of destroyed buildings in the event
of a potential disaster, and on the other hand for simplified urban
development and construction planning through 3D modeling with special
attention to the protection of the ensemble.
The federal funding
fits into a broader strategy to advance the digital development of the
city of Bamberg. For example, the University of Bamberg received seven
professorships for artificial intelligence in the AI competition of the
Free State of Bavaria, which complement the department of business
informatics and applied informatics.
A report by the Bavarian Municipal Audit Association revealed in
December 2020 that the city of Bamberg had been paying improper bonuses
and bonuses to administrative officials and employees for years. Between
2011 and 2017, at least 450,000 euros were paid out to city hall
employees without any legal basis. The grievances were already
criticized in 2013 by the same testing association. The public
prosecutor's office in Hof, specializing in commercial and financial
law, has started investigations into the "suspicion of breach of trust".
In July 2022, a penalty order was officially imposed on Mayor Andreas
Starke and three employees of the city administration for breach of
trust. The court sentenced Starke to a fine of 24,000 euros.
2020s
"Stay Awake" Bamberg formed in 2020 as a protest movement
during the corona pandemic and attracted right-wing extremists and Reich
citizens. Since 2021 the III. Weg part of the Bamberg Stay awake
demonstrations.
In the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, the population of
Bamberg grew only slowly and fell again and again due to the numerous
wars, epidemics and famines. During the Thirty Years' War it dropped to
7,000 in 1648. Before the war it was 12,000. With the beginning of
industrialization in the 19th century, population growth accelerated. In
1811 17,000 people lived in the city, in 1900 there were already 42,000.
By 1939 the population had increased to 59,000. Shortly after the
Second World War, the many refugees and expellees from the German
eastern regions brought the city an increase of 16,000 to 75,000
inhabitants in December 1945 within a few months. By June 1972 it had
fallen again to 69,000. Incorporations on July 1, 1972 brought an
increase from 7,207 to over 76,000 inhabitants. On June 30, 2006, the
official number of inhabitants for Bamberg was 70,063 according to the
Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (only main
residences and after comparison with the other state offices). Since
2009, the population has grown annually and reached a new historic high
on December 31, 2018 with 77,592 inhabitants.
The following
overview shows the population according to the respective territorial
status. Up to 1811 they are mostly estimates, after that they are census
results (¹) or official updates from the State Statistical Office. From
1871, the information refers to the "local population", from 1925 to the
resident population and since 1987 to the population at the main
residence. Before 1871, the number of inhabitants was determined
according to inconsistent survey procedures.
The basketball club Brose Bamberg was 2005 (as GHP Bamberg), 2007,
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 (as Brose Baskets) and 2017 German
Basketball Champion, in the years 1993 (as TTL Bamberg), 2003 (as TSK
uniVersa Bamberg) and 2004 (as GHP Bamberg) vice champion and 1992 (as
TTL Bamberg) as well as 2010, 2011, 2012 (as Brose Baskets), 2017 and
2019 German Cup winner. Due to the club's fanatical supporters and the
widespread enthusiasm within the relatively small city, Bamberg is known
to German basketball fans as the "Freak City".
The most
successful football club is (historically speaking) FC Eintracht
Bamberg, whose predecessor club 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg was formed in
2006 from the merger of 1. FC 01 Bamberg and TSV Eintracht Bamberg.
After two years in the Bayernliga, the club was promoted to the
Regionalliga Süd in 2008. In 2010, FC Eintracht Bamberg took the place
of the insolvent 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg, but they also had to file for
bankruptcy in 2016. In 2022/23 you will play in the Bavarian League
North. However, the most successful time of the predecessor club 1. FC
01 Bamberg was in the 1950s. Between 1990 and 1993, the second oldest
football club SC 08 Bamberg also achieved some notable successes
(Bayernliga and round of 16 in the DFB Cup 1991/92). DJK Don Bosco
Bamberg also represents football in Bamberg in the Bavarian League
North. Home venues are the Fuchs Park Stadium for FC Eintracht on the
eastern outskirts and the Rudi Ziegler Sports Complex for DJK Don Bosco
on the outskirts of the Wildensorg district.
The 1st men's team
of SKC 1947 Victoria Bamberg is a nine-time German bowling champion,
six-time DKBC cup winner, three-time Champions League winner, five-time
European Cup winner and four-time World Cup winner. The 1st women's team
of SKC Victoria has won the German championship nine times, won the DKBC
cup five times, won the European cup once, won the Champions League five
times and won the world cup four times.
The chess players from SC
1868 Bamberg were German champions three times (1966, 1976, 1977) and
once German cup winners (1983/84).
The underwater rugby team of
TC Bamberg (diving club) was German Vice Champion in 2004, became German
Champion twelve times in a row from 2007 to 2018 and was also Vice
Champion Cup winner in underwater rugby in 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2016.
The bridge club "Bamberger Reiter" also won the Team Bundesliga in
2019 after 1994, 1998, 2003, 2006-2010 and 2013-2016 and, after Bamberg3
was promoted to the 3rd Bundesliga, will be represented with two teams
at national level for the first time from 2020. Further successes:
German team champion in 2005, 2006 and 2008, winner of the European
Champions Cup of the national champions in 2006 (victory on October 15,
2006 in Rome; 2007: 3rd place; 2008: 4th place and 2009 2nd place). In
2008, Bamberg provided the German Senior Champion with Wilhelm
Gromöller. By coming third at the 2008 European Championships, where
Bamberg provided the German national team, the team was the first German
men's team to ever qualify for the 2009 World Championships and took
third place in the Transnations Cup. Sabine Auken (née Zenkel) is 3×
World Champion, 2× Vice World Champion and has been one of the best
women's players in the world for many years. In 2017, Sabine Auken, a
native of Bamberg, played again for the World Cup. This makes the
Bamberger Club the most successful German bridge club in recent years.
The VC Franken men's volleyball team played in the 2009/10 season in
the men's German national volleyball league and took part in the DVV
Cup. The home games took place in the Stechert Arena.
The
Aero-Club Bamberg flies at the Bamberg-Breitenau airfield and has been
in the German Gliding League since 2012. In 2019, the club's glider
pilot Maximilian Dorsch won the team ranking at the Junior Gliding World
Championships in Szeged, Hungary, with the German team.
In 2021,
the city had applied to host a four-day program for an international
delegation to the Special Olympics World Summer Games 2023 in Berlin. In
2022, the city was chosen to host Special Olympics Bahrain. This made it
part of the largest municipal inclusion project in the history of the
Federal Republic with more than 200 host towns.
January: Bamberg Short Film Festival
February: Bamberg Literature
Festival
March: Bamberg Klezmer Days in the Haas halls
May: World
Heritage Run (every two years since 2003)
May–June: Bamberger
Pfingstcup (one of Germany's largest basketball tournaments)
May–June: Contact – The Culture Festival (four-day, free arts and
culture festival AStA Bamberg e. V.)
June: Bamberg Wine Festival at
Maxplatz
June: Hegel week
June: Early Music Days (every 2 years.
Organized by Musica Canterey Bamberg e.V.)
June: Days of New Music
Bamberg (every 2 years. Organizer New Music in Bamberg e. V.)
June:
Bamberg Beer Days (reintroduced in 2008 after a 20-year hiatus)
June–July: Bamberg Summer Nights (symphonic music in the Imperial
Cathedral and in the concert and congress hall)
End of June/July:
Calderón Festival (open-air performances by the ETA Hoffmann Theater),
Old Court
July: Old Town Festival at the Otto Friedrich University on
the first Friday in July
July: Bamberg does magic. on the 3rd weekend
in July, cabaret festival in the old town, on Saturday the improv
marathon
July/August: Bamberg Antiques Week
July-September: Rose
Garden Serenades
August: Sandkirchweih (Franconian: Sandkerwa)
August: Blues & Jazz Festival
3 October: Antique Market
1st
Advent–6th January: Bamberg Nativity Scene Trail and Christmas market at
Maxplatz
Every even year: Awarding of the E.-T.-A.-Hoffmann-Prize
(literature prize)
Every two to three years: award of the Volker
Hinniger Prize (art prize)
A specialty of Bamberg is the Bamberger Hörnla, which describes both
a croissant-like pastry and a type of potato. Another specialty is the
Zwätschgabaamäs (roughly translated as "Plum Trees"), an air-dried beef
ham that owes its name to the smoking with plum wood. Furthermore, the
city of Bamberg is also known for the Franconian Schäuferla as well as
for its beer tradition and smoked beer.
Licorice has been
cultivated in Bamberg since the early sixteenth century. Today Bamberg
is the only place in northern Europe where this plant is still
cultivated. This tradition is maintained by the Bamberg Sweet Wood
Society, which supports the Bamberg gardeners in the cultivation.
Economic metrics
In 2016, Bamberg, within the city limits, had a
gross domestic product (GDP) of €4.498 billion. In the same year, GDP
per capita was €59,859 (Bavaria: €44,215/ Germany €38,180) and thus well
above the regional and national average. In 2017 there were around
75,200 employed people in the city.[109] The unemployment rate was 3.7%
in December 2018, above the Bavarian average of 2.7%, but below the
national average. In the neighboring district of Bamberg, the
unemployment rate was 2.0%.[110]
In 2017, GDP climbed to €4.807
billion. In the years that followed, 2018 and 2019, Bamberg's GDP grew
again to €4.958 and €4.931 billion respectively for 2019.[111]
In
the 2016 Atlas of the Future, the independent city of Bamberg took 32nd
place out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent
cities in Germany, making it one of the places with "very good prospects
for the future".
In 2014 there were around 50,253 employees in
Bamberg (reference date: June 30, 2014) subject to social security
contributions.[112] The most important industry is the automotive supply
industry, followed by electrical engineering and the food industry. At
the end of May 2014, the automotive supplier Brose Fahrzeugteile started
construction of an office building with a social wing in Bamberg and
intends to create a total of 600 jobs by March 2016.[113] The
traditional industry of vegetable gardening, which has characterized the
city for centuries since its beginnings, is still there. Tourism also
plays an important role in the city's economy. In addition, there are
numerous small and medium-sized companies in other sectors in Bamberg.
Another special feature is the tradition of organ building that has been
cultivated for centuries and is currently being continued by the master
craftsman Thomas Eichfelder.
The most important commercial
employers in the city, each with more than 400 employees, are:
Bosch:
The Bosch factory came to Bamberg in 1939 and had 6,300 employees in
2022.
Social Foundation Bamberg, over 5000 employees.
Wieland
Electric, 1700 employees (worldwide).
Sparkasse Bamberg, around 750
employees.
Mediengruppe Oberfranken (including Fränkischer Tag), more
than 700 employees.
Bakery Fox
BI-LOG (logistics service provider)
Backfabrik Gramss
Brose vehicle parts
The city is part of the Franconia region on the border between wine
and beer Franconia. Specialty is the smoked beer. Of the 68 historical
breweries that were once there, there are still eight breweries with old
traditions in Bamberg: the Mahr brewery, the Fässla brewery, the
Schlenkerla brewery, the Spezial brewery, the Klosterbräu Bamberg, the
Greifenklau brewery, the Keesmann brewery and the Kaiserdom brewery in
the formerly independent district of Gaustadt. An inn-brewery, the
Ambräusianum, the roast malt beer brewery and the experimental brewery
of the Weyermann malt house opened in 2004. The Maisel-Bräu still
existed until 2008. Since 2016 there has been another brewery in
Gaustadt, the “Kronprinz”. In 2019, the restaurant "Zum Sternla" also
started its own brewery. In the same year, the "Landwinkl Bräu" was
founded. The "Hopfengarten Bamberg" emerged from the Emmerling nursery.
And since 2021 there has been another brewery in Bamberg with the
"Ahörnla". There is also the small customs-approved brewery
"Robesbierre", which does not sell beer.
In 1907 there was the
so-called Bamberg Beer War, during which a boycott by the population
forced the breweries to reverse the beer price increase from eleven to
twelve pfennigs.
print media
A total of 13 magazines and newspapers of various
formats and genres appear in Bamberg or are distributed in Bamberg:
weekly newspapers, daily newspapers, church magazines, cultural
magazines and student newspapers, which are either published by private
publishers or by the city and district of Bamberg.
The
Fränkischer Tag is one of the largest daily newspapers in Upper
Franconia and is based in Bamberg. It is the only one on site. The focus
is on local reporting, including a regional and national sports section
and a feuilleton. News from Germany, Europe and the world is delivered
by the dpa news agency and by correspondents at home and abroad. The
Franconian Day goes back to the prince-bishop's court printing works of
the Kronach printer Georg Andreas Gertner.
The Wochenblatt
Bamberg is a local weekly newspaper that focuses exclusively on
reporting from Bamberg and the region. It reports on politics, business,
sport and events in Bamberg. The newspaper was founded in 1981 in
Bamberg as Wochenblatt Bamberg and was popularly known as Wobla, which
led to the newspaper receiving its current name.
Founded in
Bamberg in 2012 under the name Art. 5|III (name with slogan: Art. 5|III
– the supplier for art and culture; also spelled: Art.5/III) in Bamberg,
since then the magazine has been published every two months – six issues
a year – in Rhenish format with a print run of 20,000 copies. The
distribution area is the city and district of Bamberg, the metropolitan
region of Nuremberg, all of Lower Franconia and Thuringia. As the only
newspaper in Bamberg, it specifically illuminates cultural phenomena
ranging from art to cultural politics. The focus is both on the local
northern Bavarian region and on reports and articles about national art
and culture events from the metropolises of Berlin and Munich. In
addition to regular reporting on the Bamberg Short Film Festival and the
Erlangen Poets Festival, the magazine repeatedly conducted interviews
with influential personalities from the international cultural scene:
the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, the chief conductor of the Prague
Philharmonic Jakub Hrůša, the violist and winner of the Frankfurt Music
Prize Tabea Zimmermann, the writer and P.E.N. member Tanja Kinkel as
well as the contemporary singers Max Herre, Milow and Joris.
Sportecho is a free sports magazine that has been published bimonthly
since November 2014. The distribution area is Bamberg and the
surrounding area. The thematic focus is on the regional sports world and
reporting on the sporting youth. There is also a section that sheds more
light on important personalities of the Bamberg sports scene.
radio
The predecessors of Radio Bamberg (Radio Regnitzwelle and the
youth radio station Fun Boy Radio) began broadcasting on October 10,
1987 on the Bamberg VHF frequency of 88.5 MHz. Since the two stations
did not attract enough listeners on their own, the merger was decided on
July 1 and implemented a short time later. The program was initially
focused on hits of the 1980s. In the meantime, the spectrum of music has
been expanded to include the 1970s to the present day. The programming
also includes world news on the hour, regional news on the half hour,
traffic reports, service and comedy. The transmitter is the
responsibility of the Mediengruppe Oberfranken.
Radio Galaxy can
be received in Bavaria and parts of Hesse. The seat is in Regensburg.
With its “Young-CHR” format, i. H. Black Music, Hip-Hop, Dance Music,
House Music and Pop Music mainly to 14 to 26 year olds. Radio Galaxy is
operated by "Digitale Rundfunk Bayern GmbH & Co. KG", while "Funkhaus
Regensburg GmbH & Co. Studiobetriebs KG" is responsible for programming.
TV
TV Oberfranken is a Bavarian regional broadcaster based in
Hof/Saale, owned by TV Oberfranken GmbH & Co. KG. The transmission area
covers the entire administrative district of Upper Franconia. In
addition to the main broadcasting station in Hof, the station also has
regional studios in Bamberg, Bayreuth and Coburg.
Offices, authorities and municipal institutions
The headquarters
of the Bavarian riot police was relocated from Munich to the Lagarde
barracks on Pödeldorfer Strasse in May 1998. The surveying office in
Bamberg has its headquarters in the converted former Franciscan
monastery in Bamberg, and the state building authority has its
headquarters in the Dominican monastery in Bamberg. In Bamberg there is
also a position of the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry.
As the seat of a higher regional court, a regional court, a district
court, a labor court and a prison, Bamberg is a nationally important
court location.
The Higher Regional Court of Bamberg is housed
together with the Regional Court in the Justice Building on
Wilhelmplatz. The jurisdiction includes the administrative districts of
Upper and Lower Franconia. A total of 12 senates, 9 for civil law
proceedings and 3 criminal and fine senates are located at the OLG
Bamberg.
With more than 12,000 students (as of 2020), the Otto Friedrich
University of Bamberg is one of the medium-sized universities in
Bavaria. The university buildings are spread across the entire city of
Bamberg. A large part lies in the heart of Bamberg's old town.
Linguistics and literary studies occupy some buildings that previously
belonged to the Kaiser-Heinrich-Gymnasium. In addition to the
administration, the two faculties of humanities and cultural sciences
(GuK) and human sciences (Huwi) are located in the old town locations.
The computer center and the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
(SoWi) are located on Feldkirchenstrasse. The Faculty of Business
Informatics and Applied Informatics (WIAI) was also located there until
it moved to the new building on the ERBA island in the summer of 2012.
The extensive university library has a central library, five branch
libraries and the ERBA library branch. The Otto Friedrich University is
a member of the network of medium-sized universities and has been
recognized as a family-friendly university and as a partner university
for top-class sport. It is one of the leading universities for social
and economic sciences as well as psychology in Bavaria.
In 2009,
due to austerity measures by the Bavarian state government, the
department of social work was dissolved and integrated into the Coburg
University of Applied Sciences. The founding faculty of Catholic
Theology was also shut down and transformed into the Institute of
Catholic Theology within the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies.
The private Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (FHM) with
administrative headquarters in Bielefeld has maintained a location in
Bamberg since taking over teaching operations on September 1, 2013 from
the Bamberg University of Applied Sciences. The University of Applied
Sciences is the only university in Bavaria that offers the two
therapeutic professions of physiotherapy and speech therapy as part of
an undergraduate degree.
The Bamberg Institute for Geodesy - a research institute for higher
geodesy on the Domberg - was founded in 1945 by the US Army Survey and
existed until the early 1950s, when it was incorporated into the
Frankfurt Institute for Applied Geodesy. Its main task was the
completion of the Central European triangular network over Central
Europe, which had been started in the Nazi era and was completed in
1949. Other major projects were the ED50 coordinate system and an
astro-geodetic geoid determination of Central and Western Europe. There
was also cooperation with the Bamberg Remeis Observatory.
The
first director was Erwin Gigas, under whom the series of publications of
the Institute for Geodesy was founded.
In addition to the universities, there are several educational institutions for vocational training and professional development in Bamberg. These include five vocational schools, the adult education center in Bamberg, the training center of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the vocational training center of the Bavarian economy (bfz), the Archbishop's night school for working people, the Association for the Promotion of Catholic Adult Education in the City of Bamberg (KEB) and nine vocational training courses - and qualification bodies,
Clavius-Gymnasium, the largest grammar school in the city of Bamberg
in terms of the number of students with a scientific and technological
orientation.
Dientzenhofer-Gymnasium, high school in the northeast of
the city with a special focus on sports
Eichendorff-Gymnasium, a
social and scientific high school named after the poet Joseph von
Eichendorff. An all-girls high school by 2022.
E.T.A.
Hoffmann-Gymnasium, named after the well-known writer E.T.A. Hoffmann,
the central focus of the grammar school is musical and artistic. All
students must master at least one musical instrument.
Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium, linguistic and humanistic high school
Kaiser-Heinrich-Gymnasium, linguistic and humanistic high school
Maria-Ward-Gymnasium, until 2001 a grammar school under church
supervision called Englische Fräulein and to this day an all-girls
grammar school.
Theresianum
Two junior high schools (including an all-girls school), a business school, elementary and special schools, five vocational schools, ten private schools, the municipal music school, von Lerchenfeld school / private support center, special focus on hearing with boarding school. Bamberg also has 12 elementary schools, such as the Gaustadt elementary school, Kaulberg or Hain, as well as a privately run Montessori elementary and middle school.
The Aufseesianum was donated in 1738 by canon Jodocus Bernhard
Freiherr von Aufseß. Erich Kästner's novel The Flying Classroom was
filmed here in 1973.
The Maria Ward boarding school run by the
English Misses (from 1717) was closed in 2011.
Two other church
boarding schools were closed at the end of the 20th century: the
Ottonianum (1866-1999, diocesan sponsorship) and the Marianum
(1918-1988, sponsored by the Carmelites).
Bamberg has a municipal fire brigade association. The volunteer fire
brigade Bamberg consists of 11 departments. These are a permanent guard,
the ABC train (firefighting group 51) and nine other firefighting
groups. Another special unit of the former civil protection was the
technical platoon/oil rescue team (firefighting group 21), which,
however, was dissolved on December 31, 2013 and incorporated into
firefighting group 3. In addition, there is a support group for local
operations management (UG ÖEL) in the city of Bamberg.
In
addition, there is a local branch of the Federal Agency for Technical
Relief (THW) in Bamberg. This local branch consists of the staff, a
technical platoon with a specialist group for clearance, a specialist
group for water hazards and a specialist group for water damage/pumps,
as well as other internally procured equipment. There is also a youth
group. In addition, the office for the THW managing director area
Bamberg is located in Breitengüßbach near Bamberg.
The rescue
service in Bamberg is ensured by two rescue guards (one from the BRK and
one from the Malteser Hilfsdienst). There are also several emergency
doctor locations.
Several units of the aid organizations BRK,
Malteser and JUH are active in civil disaster control. The Bamberg
district association of the Bavarian Red Cross provides two SEG
treatment, one SEG care and specialist units UG SanEL, technology and
safety. Furthermore, the medical operations management (SanEL) is
provided by organizational leaders and senior emergency physicians.
There are eleven old people's homes in the city, which are operated by different carriers.
The Stadionbad was opened in 1953 and renovated in September 2001.
Today (2020) it bears the name Bambados outdoor pool and it borders on
the Bambados leisure and sports pool with wellness and sauna area, which
opened in 2011.
The Hainbad has offered the opportunity to swim
in the left arm of the Regnitz since 1972, including a wooden sunbathing
area.
With the incorporation of Gaustadt into Bamberg in 1972,
the Gaustadt outdoor pool at Badstraße 17, which was inaugurated in
1956, was added.
The grave with the memorial for the resistance fighter of the
Catholic Action Hans Wölfel, who was murdered in Görden in 1944, is
located in the municipal cemetery on Hallstadter Straße, which was
expanded into the main cemetery between 1817 and 1822. Near the cemetery
of honor for killed Wehrmacht soldiers there is a burial site for 52
foreign forced laborers who were deported to Germany in World War II and
died doing forced labor. A memorial stone describes them only as war
dead, not as victims of the Nazi tyranny.
Portico from 1822 in the
first section of the main cemetery. In the portico are u. a. the burial
places of the families of Michel-Raulino and Messerschmitt.
The
burial place of the Boveri family is in the second section of the main
cemetery.
Next to the main cemetery is the cemetery of the Jewish
religious community in Bamberg, which opened in 1851 and has a Tahara
house built between 1885 and 1890. A memorial stone on the site
commemorates the Jewish victims of persecution during the National
Socialist era and their extermination in the Shoah. "Renewed barbaric
desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Bamberg" – this is the title of a
picture from June 1965. The reader also learns: "In early June 1965,
before the unveiling of a memorial stone for the synagogue burned down
by the Nazis in 1938, anti-Semitic riots had already broken out in
Bamberg, which suggests organized action."
There are other cemeteries
in the districts of Bug, Gaustadt and Wildensorg.
Bamberg is integrated into the transport network with an inland port on the Main-Danube Canal (Regnitz), two motorways (A 70/E48 and A 73) and a train station. The city also has a special landing field for aircraft (ICAO identifier: EDQA). On January 1, 2010, the city joined the greater Nuremberg transport association.
28 city bus lines and 4 in night traffic cover almost the entire city
area and serve local traffic to the neighboring municipalities of
Bischberg, Gundelsheim, Hallstadt, Memmelsdorf, Pettstadt, Stegaurach
and to the Schammelsdorf district of the Litzendorf municipality. In
addition, some regional bus lines operated by Omnibusverkehr Franken
GmbH and other private bus companies operate in Bamberg. There are also
stops for regional buses at the central bus station (ZOB) to make it
easier to change trains. The central bus station is the center of the
city network.
A total of 60 city buses are currently in the
Bamberg transport company's fleet, transporting around 8 million
passengers a year. Since the 2004/2005 winter semester, all students at
the University of Bamberg have received a semester ticket. It applies to
all buses and local trains operated by DB Regio and Agilis in the city
and district of Bamberg.
Twelve heavily frequented bus stops were
provided with the so-called dynamic passenger information systems. With
the 2015 timetable change, they will also show the actual arrival of the
buses in real time.
Since March 23, 2011, the bus stops have been
announced by children's voices.
From 1897 to 1922 the electric
tram Bamberg AG carried out the city traffic.
Several
long-distance bus lines stop near the station. Operators are Flixbus and
Sinbad.
Bamberg train station is the northern terminus of the S1 S-Bahn line
of the greater Nuremberg transport association (VGN). This means that
Bamberg is directly connected to Erlangen, Fürth and Nuremberg by local
transport. The trains run hourly to Hartmannshof, 100 km to the
south-east. With the regional express, which runs staggered, there are
two trains per hour during the day, and sometimes three trains per hour
during commuter times, from Bamberg to Nuremberg and back.
In
long-distance traffic, Bamberg is on the Nuremberg-Erfurt high-speed
route and is generally served by ICE trains every hour. Until it was
completed, the ICE route from Leipzig to Nuremberg ran via Saalfeld and
Jena; since December 10, 2017, the connection has been running via
Erfurt. Bamberg is the end point of the Nuremberg–Bamberg railway line,
and the Bamberg–Hof railway line and the Bamberg–Rottendorf railway line
also start in Bamberg.
Bamberg train station is the starting
point for regional express and regional train lines
Erlangen-Nuremberg
Lichtenfels - Hof/Bayreuth - Nuremberg
Lichtenfels-Coburg-Sonneberg
Lichtenfels - Kronach - Saalfeld (Saale)
- Jena - Leipzig
Schweinfurt – Würzburg – Frankfurt am Main
Breitengüßbach - Ebern, VGN area
This route is used by DB Regio and
Agilis up to Breitengüßbach. From Breitengüßbach to Ebern, it only
serves Agilis every hour.
The railway line to Scheßlitz was shut down
in 1988 after passenger services had already been discontinued in 1985.
Since 2021, Deutsche Bahn has been expanding the route network
between Nuremberg and Bamberg to add missing sections of the express
route between Berlin and Munich. A total investment of more than 1.3
billion euros will be made for the four-track expansion, which is
scheduled for completion in the mid-1920s. In the course of the
expansion, almost all railway bridges in the city area are to be
renewed.
Due to the relatively flat topography between the Main-Danube Canal
and the Regnitz, there is traditionally a lot of cycling in the city
center of Bamberg. The relatively compact inner city area, short
distances between the university locations, one-way streets, scarcity of
parking spaces and the faster accessibility of the local recreation area
in the grove favor the use of the bicycle as an everyday means of
transport.
Due to its direct location on the Main Cycle Path,
Aischtal Cycle Path and Regnitz Cycle Path, Bamberg is also the
destination of many tourist cycle routes. The city has set itself the
goal of changing the modal split in favor of cycling.
The
regionally signposted network of cycle paths has significant gaps,
especially in the old town area. The ADFC Bamberg sees a need for
improvement in the city's transport policy.
There is a charge for
taking bicycles on DB regional trains and VGN buses.
In 2009, on
the way to making urban bike-friendlier cities, the city was awarded the
federal zero-emission mobility model test by the Federal Ministry of
Transport. In the summer of 2009 it was implemented in multimedia form
with the advertising campaign Head on: Motor off. For zero CO2 on short
trips.
Electric scooters have also been represented in the city
since 2019. You can rent these at various locations throughout the city.
The airfield Bamberg-Breitenau is one of the oldest still operational landing fields in Germany. The first motorized aircraft landed there in 1912. The year 1909 is considered to be the actual start of aviation in Bamberg. At this point in time, Willy Messerschmitt began developing aircraft together with the city master builder Friedrich Harth. From 1945 to 2012, the airfield served as an American military airfield with civil use. In 2013, after extensive renovations, it was reopened as a German special landing site. It is run by Stadtwerke Bamberg in cooperation with the Aero-Club Bamberg.
The Franconian Marienweg runs through Bamberg. In the city center, the western Magnificat route and the eastern Ave Maria route of the circular route meet, each beginning and ending in Bamberg.
In Bamberg is the federal waterway Main-Danube-Canal, also called RMD- or Europa-Canal, which historically can be seen as the successor of the Ludwig-Danube-Main-Canal.
The city's water supply used to be secured by wells. These were
mainly wells on private property, of which there were around 300.
Furthermore, public wells, built and maintained by the public sector,
supplied the city with water. In addition, there was already a kind of
long-distance water supply with pipes from wells in the area, which was
mainly used by church and monastic institutions.
The development
of a city pipe network began in the last quarter of the 19th century. In
addition to its own water well, Bamberg has been connected to the Upper
Franconia long-distance water supply (FWO) since the 1970s. Since the
spring of 1975, this has been feeding water from the Ködeltalsperre into
the municipal water supply network.
Since 2003, long-distance
water supply has been provided exclusively by the Water Supply
Association of the Franconian Economic Area (WFW). The water is
delivered to the city network of the city of Bamberg from the transfer
tank in Hüttendorf (city of Erlangen).
Bamberg is the location of well-known cinema and television
productions such as:
the children's and youth series Finally
Saturday!
the children's films Das Sams, Sams in Danger, Sams im
Glück with Ulrich Noethen and Armin Rohde
Lola Montez from 1955 with
Peter Ustinov and Will Quadflieg
Heroines from 1960 with Marianne
Koch and Paul Hubschmid
City Without Pity from 1961 with Christine
Kaufmann and Kirk Douglas
The Flying Classroom (1973) with Joachim
Fuchsberger
the crime series Pfarrer Braun with Ottfried Fischer and
Der König with Günter Strack
the fairy tale The Dwarf Nose with
Mechthild Großmann
the short film the Unconditional about August von
Kotzebue
the drama In the world you are afraid by Hans W.
Geißendörfer with Anna Maria trouble and Max von Thun
the comedy
Resturlaub by Tommy Jaud with Maximilian Brückner and Mira Bartuschek
the remake of the "coat and sword classic" The Three Musketeers with
Logan Lerman, Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich and Christoph Waltz
the
home crime thriller produced by Bavarian Radio – Bamberger Reiter
a
few episodes of Kunst und Krempel, a broadcast by Bavarian Radio on
antiques advice
the BR cinema production Charleen breaks up with
Heike Makatsch
the ZDF film about the witch hunt Die Seelen im Feuer
with Axel Milberg
the ARD crime series Tatort (Episode: At the end
you go naked) with Dagmar Manzel and Fabian Hinrichs
the ARD crime
series Tatort (episode: Wo ist Mike?) with Dagmar Manzel and Fabian
Hinrichs
the movie "The School of Magical Animals 2"
The film
Engelchen oder The Jungfrau von Bamberg addresses the contrasts felt in
the late 1960s between the Franconian "province" and the "permissive"
Schwabing.
Since August 2008 there has been an independent
television for Bamberg's schools.
In the ZDF feature film Die
Seelen im Feuer, based on the novel of the same name by Sabine Weigand,
the time of the witch hunts in Bamberg is taken up.
Ezzo (poet) († probably November 15, around 1100) was a canon and
teacher in the cathedral school in Bamberg in the second half of the
11th century. Poet of the early Middle High German Ezzlied, he wrote a
hymn about the Christian history of salvation.
From 1260 Hugo von
Trimberg (1230-1313) worked at the Latin school in Theuerstadt, a suburb
of Bamberg at the time. He wrote the moral didactic poem Der Renner,
which contains 24,000 verses against the seven deadly sins.
The early
humanist Albrecht von Eyb (1420-1475) lived in the Bamberg Curia Sancti
Sebastiani. He wrote the song of praise about the grace of the little
girl Barbara.
Some time later, Bamberg played an important role in
the development of German Romanticism. Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
(1773–1798) is regarded as one of the earliest authors of this concept
of art and developed it with the collaboration of Ludwig Tieck
(1773–1853) in The Heart Outpourings of an Art-loving Monastery Brother,
inspired among other things by his stays in Bamberg.
Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) found a publisher for his work Phenomenology
of Spirit in Bamberg in 1807. He became editor-in-chief of the Bamberger
Zeitung, but soon came into conflict with the Bavarian press law.
Finally, in 1808, Hegel left the city in the direction of Nuremberg,
disillusioned. His journalistic engagement should remain an episode in
his biography. In 1810, Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel (1779–1819) took
on the role of editor-in-chief of the newspaper, which was renamed
Fränkischer Merkur. In the course of his work in Bamberg, numerous
dramas, volumes of poetry and other works were created.
One of the
city's most famous writers was E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), who took
up a position as music director in Bamberg in 1808. A little later he
had to resign from this post, but continued to work as a theater
composer. In 1809 he wrote his first literary work, The Knight Gluck. He
also began directing plays and helping to design stage sets. His love
for his 15-year-old singing student Julia Marc, who later contributed to
numerous female figures in his works, was formative for his literary
work. Overall, however, his livelihood in Bamberg remained modest.
Hoffmann was repeatedly plagued by financial hardship and finally left
the city in 1813. His second house is now looked after by the ETA
Hoffmann Society and is open to the public as a museum.
Karl
Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel (1779–1819), from 1810 editor-in-chief of the
Fränkischer Merkur. Has been discussed as a possible (co-)author of
Bonaventure's Night Watches.
Friedrich Deml (1901-1994), member of
the Bamberg circle of poets
Hans Wollschläger (1935-2007) translated
the novel Ulysses by the Irish poet James Joyce into German in Bamberg
and made the city the setting for his avant-garde novel Herzgewächse
oder Der Fall Adams.
Wulf Segebrecht (* 1935), literary scholar,
author, editor, publisher
Peter Schanz (* 1957), author, dramaturge
and director
Rolf-Bernhard Essig (* 1963), author, journalist, etc.
Non-fiction books, broadcasts
Nora-Eugenie Gomringer (* 1980), poet
and performance artist
Joseph Marquard Treu (1713–1796), converted to the Catholic faith in
1732, painter
Adalbert Friedrich Marcus (1753–1816), converted to the
Catholic faith; Co-founder and first "medical director" of the municipal
hospital founded by Prince Bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal in 1789,
medical advisor in Bavaria.
Franz Ludwig von Hornthal, converted to
the Catholic faith, mayor of the city of Bamberg from 1818 to 1821
August von Wassermann (1866–1925), German immunologist and
bacteriologist
Oscar Wassermann (1869–1934), German banker and
economist, from a long-established banking family (Privatbank Wassermann
with parent company in Bamberg)
Philipp Lederer (1872–1944),
numismatist, coin and antique dealer
Martin Finkelgruen (1876–1942),
owner of a department store in Bamberg, murdered by Anton Malloth in
Theresienstadt
Willy Lessing (1881-1939), entrepreneur and
councillor, was beaten to death in Bamberg
Hedwig Bernet (1890–1975),
one of three Bamberg Jews who returned, co-founder of the Israelite
religious community in Bamberg, services to reconciliation, bearer of
the Federal Cross of Merit.
Willy Aron (1907–1933), lawyer, first
Bamberg Jew who was sent to the Dachau concentration camp and was
murdered there
Hilde Marx (1911–1986), poet, journalist
Josef
Heller, conductor at the Stadttheater
Herbert Loebl (1923–2013),
engineer, entrepreneur, historian and philanthropist
In addition to honorary citizenship, the city of Bamberg awards other
honors to deserving citizens who "enjoy general reputation" and "have
achieved special merits":
City medal Bamberg (since 1989) -
"special achievements for the general well-being of the city and its
citizens"
Citizens' Medal (since 1962) - "outstanding achievements
for the general well-being of the city of Bamberg and its citizens"
Ehrenring (since 1973) - "outstanding achievements for the reputation
and the general well-being of the city of Bamberg and its citizens", for
example through "extraordinary achievements in the fields of art,
science, economy, social affairs, public life or international
understanding "
Medal of Merit (since 1980) – an internal City
Council award