The Steinau Museum focuses on trade and travel, and the importance of the VIA REGIA for the development of the town of Steinau. It was therefore a natural choice to integrate the historical traces of the "road," which are still visible throughout the town outside the museum's doors, into the museum's QR tag information system.

Visitors on a city tour now find explanations of trading centers, such as the town hall and market square, administrative and judicial sites, such as the Amtshof (official court) and the castle, and places of travel, such as inns and carriage houses. The use of visitors' own devices (smartphones, etc.) enables a seamless information transition between the museum and the town. This enables new tour concepts. The museum's themes and exhibits are linked to the town's sights and are constantly available even outside of museum opening hours.

The information can be accessed using a smartphone via QR tags.
(Burkhard Kling)

contact:
Museum Steinau – das Museum an der Straße
Brüder-Grimm-Straße 80
D-36396 Steinau an der Straße
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Website: www.museum-steinau.de
fon: 0049/ (0)6663/ 76 05
fax: 0049/ (0)6663/ 91 88 00

The VIA REGIA tours through Fulda bring stories and history to life through street and field names as well as quotes from famous travelers and invite you to participate. Places in and around Fulda will be visited that tell stories of travel, trade, and traffic along the VIA REGIA. References to current uses and developments that address travel, traffic, and trade along the road will be highlighted. Around Johannesberg, the mighty Imperial Oak still commemorates Napoleon's retreat, and the inn that Provost Konrad von Mengersen had built for pilgrims during the Baroque period, as well as the Baroque Kohlhäuser Bridge, are monuments of the historic VIA REGIA.

In the city of Fulda, quotes from famous travelers, old building plans, explanations and stories about trade and merchandise, and former city gates and inns, illustrate the significance of the VIA REGIA. One can learn that the Brothers Grimm were once guests of the Elector, Goethe rested several times at the Oswald Post Office in the Gasthaus zum Schwan (Löherstraße), and Napoleon stayed at the Leipziger Hof. Some of the old inns can still be recognized as such, for example on Löherstraße, Karlstraße, Mittelstraße, and Unterm Heilig Kreuz. Many of them are under special protection as cultural monuments, but entire streets such as Löherstraße or Johannesberger Allee, including the bridge and statues, are also ensembles worthy of protection.

contact:
Renate Christ
D-36041 Fulda
An der Schindhohle 11
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fon: 0049/ (0)6617/ 25 03 07 54
fax: 0049/ (0)6617/ 25 03 07 55

"Collegiate Church, Village Green, and Military Cemetery"

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As is well known, even in Goethe's time, the historic VIA REGIA passed Weimar from Erfurt via Buttelstedt to Leipzig. The postal address of the royal residence at that time was "Weimar near Buttelstedt." In the last years of the 18th century, a messenger woman named "Maiden Wenzel" walked several times a week, laden with heavy baskets, to the post office in Buttelstedt, 12 km away, on the VIA REGIA to ensure the royal residence's mail exchange with the national postal system. She also delivered letters and manuscripts from Goethe in Weimar to Schiller in Jena and vice versa, thus enabling the "poet princes" to exchange ideas quickly and easily.

This episode inspired Weimar city guide Beate Hermann to create the tour "How the Letter Came to Goethe..." A tour with "Maiden Wenzel" through Weimar's city center takes visitors on a journey back in time to 1797. In about an hour, you'll learn a great deal about the postal system of that time, the types of letters, the delivery methods, and the fonts commonly used at the time. The tour brings the events of this cattle-farming and farming town to life in an entertaining way.

Afterward, you can enjoy a small culinary treat related to travel and the postal service of that time, which is only served on the days of the tour. This dish is not regularly available on the menu.

contact:
Beate Hermann
fon: 0173 / 39 46 933
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web: www.weimar-zufuss.de

After learning some interesting facts about the city of Bautzen and its former position on the VIA REGIA on the way to the Nicolai Tower, you will delve deeply into the history of this historically significant street in the Nicolai Tower.

contact:
Museum Bautzen
Kornmarkt 1
D-02625 Bautzen
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website: www.museum-bautzen.de
fon: 0049/ (0)3591/ 49 850
fax: 0049/ (0)3591/ 49 85 40

Görlitz owes its wealth and exceptional splendor, still evident today, to its location on the ancient VIA REGIA trade route. The historic VIA REGIA itself stretched from Kyiv to Santiago de Compostela and, during the centuries of its development, served as a transfer route for goods and commodities, people and ideas, and a transit route for armies. Thanks to it, Görlitz developed over the centuries into an influential center of trade and science, whose legacy can still be experienced today. Görlitz was never one of the great, style-setting and leading metropolises. The most important local commodity was the famous Görlitz cloth. Having gained importance, grandeur, and wealth as a mediator in the transfer of goods and ideas along the VIA REGIA, the history of the European Road is also the best metaphor for condensing and visualizing the city of Görlitz's visions of the future. The tour takes you back to the beginnings of Görlitz's history, but also brings you closer to some events from times long past.
The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes.

Tickets for the tour are available at the Görlitz Information Center at Obermarkt 32 or at the i-vent Tourist Office, Obermarkt 33/corner of Brüderstraße.

contact:
Interessenzusammenschluss
„Görlitzer Stadtgeschichten“
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Website: goerlitzer-stadtgeschichten.de
fon: 0049/ (0)3581/ 47 570
fax: 0049/ (0)3581/ 47 57 27
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During the tour with Via Regina city guide Ms. Hübler portrays herself as a pilgrim on the Way of St. James and as a merchant's wife on the VIA REGIA. Walk a short distance through Görlitz with Via Regina and discover the fascination of the Way of St. James and the old trade route VIA REGIA, the "Internet of the Middle Ages." You'll also experience little surprises during the tour.

The tour lasts approximately 120 minutes.

contact:
Touristbüro i-vent
Tourismus, Veranstaltungen, Marketing
Obermarkt 33
D-02826 Görlitz
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Website: www.goerlitz-tourismus.de
fon: 0049/ (0)3581/ 42 13 62
fax: 0049/ (0)3581/ 42 13 65

VIA REGIA was the name given in the Middle Ages to the Royal Route, which led from St. Florian's Church at the Barbican, across the Main Market Square, to Wawel Hill. All important events began here, from visits and weddings of the kings to their funerals. The Royal Route is one of Kraków's most important tourist routes.

The Barbican, including St. Florian's Gate, was an important part of the city's defense system. The city walls date back to the 14th century. Only the northern part with its four towers and St. Florian's Gate have survived to this day. The Barbican, a circular bastion, was built in 1498-99 due to the impending threat from the Turks. The walls are over three meters thick. The entire complex was surrounded by a 24-meter-wide moat. Another important landmark of the VIA REGIA is the main market square, called the Rynek. This is where the entire life of the medieval city took place. Trade, prayer, and execution took place here.

Many medieval buildings, such as St. Mary's Church, the Cloth Hall, the Town Hall Tower, and the Romanesque St. Adalbert's Church, have been preserved on the Rynek. They all testify to the importance of Kraków as a center of trade, religion, and history in Poland. St. Mary's Church is the most important and largest church in the city, the parish church of Kraków. Its charter dates back to the 13th century and is famous throughout Europe for its high altar by Veit Stoss. Opposite St. Mary's Church, the Cloth Halls divide the market square the entire length. Originally, fine cloths from all over Europe and Asian silk were traded there. Today, the first floor houses a section of the National Museum with the collection of Polish paintings. The ground floor is home to the city's largest souvenir market.

On the other side of the Cloth Hall, the Town Hall Tower rises. Since the 14th century, the Town Hall has served important functions. It housed the state rooms with paintings of Polish kings, the granaries, and the cellar vaults housed the prison and torture chamber. At the beginning of the 19th century, the many dilapidated buildings in Kraków began to be demolished, and only the Town Hall Tower remains today. The Royal Route joins Grodzka Street south of the market square and leads via Senacka and Kaninocza Streets to Wawel Hill.

contact:
Stadtführerin und Dolmetscherin
Agnieszka Wac
PL - Kraków
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Website: krakaustadtfuehrung.de
fon: 0048/ (0)501/ 78 31 79