Castle of Heidelberg
We can offer you an interesting and educational day‘s tour in Heidelberg
at an advantageous price – a full program, from arrival to departure. The class excursion consists of three modules: II. The Old Town III. A riverboat trip on the Neckar I. The Heidelberg castle Make history appealing to your pupils – with an audio tour! Our modern
guided tour presents 20 of the most interesting sights of the Heidelberg castle
ruins to your pupils by means of an audio guide and a plan in roughly ninety
minutes. The audiotapes are easy to operate – rewinding and repeating parts of
the text are possible whenever you please. Sound effects, poems by Goethe, Scheffel, Hoelderlin, and numerous sagas
make the tour come alive, and give the listener the impression of being in the
midst of the castle’s exciting history. Experience shows that school children like to operate modern technology,
to use the audio guides to look for certain objects with the help of the plan,
and to explore the castle with them independently, whether in groups or
accompanied by their teacher. Service for Foreign Exchange
Classes The spectrum of languages available in our audio guides makes
smultaneous participation for German and foreign-language exchange pupils
possible, because each pupil can hear the guided tour in his or her own language.
At present, we can provide our tour in German, English, French, Spanish,
Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. History Quiz Together with our audio tour, we also offer you a history quiz in
German, English, or French, the answers to which can be heard in the course of
the tour. With a sufficiently large number of participants, you can set up
competing teams and, if you like, award prizes – an interesting and instructive
game, which is also a lot of fun.
(Please don’t forget to bring writing material!)
(print game)
Special
Prices for Pupils and Teachers, Reservations Special price (audio tour): EUR 2,00 for each audio guide (for teachers, free of charge) Admission to the castle: EUR 3,00 per pupil (teachers free of charge) Special services:umbrellas lent
free of charge by rainy weather Reservations: Tel./Fax:
+49 6221-654429 II.
The Old Town After the audio tour of the
Heidelberg castle, we wander into the Old Town. In about ten minutes on foot,
your class arrives at the Market Square (Marktplatz),
with the Church of the Holy Ghost (Heiliggeistkirche)
and the nearby Old Bridge. Built on the site of two
churches dating to the 13th and 14th centuries Served religious, but also
secular functions Here were the crypts of the
Electors Palatinate: for example, the Elector Ruprecht IIIrd, whom
we have already met in the Heidelberg castle, was buried here In the year 1441, the
invaluable library, the Bibliotheca Palatina, was brought from the church into
the castle For 230 years, the church had
been divided by a wall into a Catholic and a Protestant half 2.
The Old Bridge Also known as the
“Carl-Theodor Bridge“ One of the finest bridges in
the world Built 1786-1788, after eight
wooden predecessors had been destroyed by natural catastrophes and wars The Bridge Ape: a symbol of
human shortcomings The Carl-Theodor monument:
demonstrates the Elector’s power The River Gods: symbolize the
four most important rivers in Germany – the Danube, the Rhine, the Neckar, and
the Mosel 3.
Riverboat Trip on the Neckar After the visit to the Old
Town, it is a five minutes’ walk to the landing-stage “Stadthalle“ (Town Hall), where your school class can take a
riverboat trip on the Neckar. In an excursion on the Neckar upriver, in the
direction of Eberbach, you travel through the most scenic part of the lower
Neckar. After passing under the Old Bridge, you can see the Heidelberg castle
on the right; the passage through the lock, in which the ship is raised by a
height of three meters, is also fascinating. Then you see the Benedictine
monastery, the Neuburg Seminary, built in the 12th century. Goethe,
Brahms, and Weber found time for work and leisure here. Reservations: Tel.: +49 6221-20181; Fax: +49 6221-20211 |