It was the first city tour in Freising after the Corona lockdown, and it was tough: what there was to see was especially exciting for the children.
Freising
- If you want to get to know Freising on a city tour, you can experience many a highlight. Especially when the city's history reveals dormant secrets, as was the case last Saturday. During the first tour “to Corona”, the participants were even allowed to take a look at the skeletons that had recently been found during work on local heating between Freising's Marienplatz and the Ziererhaus. Of course, the children found it particularly exciting.
City guide Ruth Langenberg is particularly good at conveying the fact that you are on historically extremely interesting land in the cathedral city.
The art historian with a doctorate has been offering the "Old Town Tour" for many years.
Almost ten interested participants had also gathered in front of the tourist information office at the Rindermarkt on Saturday to ring in the time of the pandemic easing with an interesting input on the city's history.
This time Langenberg was even able to add information about the archaeological find to her remarks on the development of the oldest city on the Isar.
First look at the skeletons, then lick the ice cream
The art historian said that burials took place around St. George's Church around 600 years ago. Only later, in the 16th century, was the cemetery moved north in front of the city wall to its current location. Speaking of the city wall: The guests of the tour set out for the “northern end” of the former bishopric after having learned everything worth knowing about the Ziererhaus, which houses the registry office, from Langenberg. Outside the brick gate, which had to give way to inner-city traffic in the 19th century, the prince-bishop maintained a brick factory. On the property next to the monastery of St. Klara, the bricks were burned for all construction work on the prince-bishop's court.
We continued through the "moat", which was decorated with blooming roses, along the former city wall.
But by then the families who had signed up for the tour with their children had already said goodbye: The “gruesome corner” during the excavations was more interesting, Andrea Berger from the tourist information office found out.
“They wanted to stay there and then have an ice cream,” she said and laughed.
(Maria Martin)
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