Discover Laupheim: History, Park and Starry Skies

If you’re looking for a hotel in Laupheim, the local attractions can help you decide what to focus on during your stay. The town combines its history of Christian and Jewish residents living together with a palace park, a varied cultural program, routes of different lengths and a planetarium. Interests range from places connected with the town’s history to changing events and star shows.

Town History at the Museum

At Großlaupheim Palace, the Museum of the History of Christians and Jews presents the history of relations between the Christian majority and Jewish minority in Laupheim. Its focus is the relationship between these two communities within the town. If you’d like to get to know Laupheim through its local history, this offers a clear historical focus: the story of coexistence and relations between majority and minority.

The Jewish Cemetery on Judenberg

Another specific place connected with Jewish history is the Jewish Cemetery. It is located in the middle of town on Judenberg and contains 1,200 burial plots and 1,000 gravestones. These figures refer to two different things: burial plots and gravestones. The oldest gravestone bears the year 1740; its inscription can now only be deciphered in fragments. The figures describing the cemetery’s size are thus accompanied by a datable historical trace.

Palace Park and Cultural Program

Laupheim’s palace park covers seven hectares. Its features include waterways, ponds, ornamental birds and rare trees. This offers a different focus from the historical sites: the park’s described highlights lie in the landscape itself.

In collaboration with external organizers and Laupheim cultural groups, the Kulturhaus offers a varied program throughout the year. It includes musicals, concerts, theater, operetta, ballet, slapstick and comedy. Individual events and dates vary. If you’re interested in a particular format, it’s worth checking the current schedule before your trip.

Town Walk or Town Hike

For exploring on foot, Laupheim offers a 3.6-kilometer town walk and an 8.1-kilometer town hike, both with numerous highlights and viewpoints. The hike is more than twice as long as the walk, so the two routes differ considerably in length. If your choice depends on how much distance you’d like to cover, this comparison offers a useful reference point. In the town’s 2024 route update, both were presented as newly redesigned.

Star Shows and LAUSCHTOUR

The multimedia star shows at the Laupheim Planetarium change quarterly. They cover astronomy and space travel, while the specific topics change from one season to the next. You can check in advance which topic interests you most, and choose the planetarium as an activity based on the focus of the show.

The GPS-guided, app-based LAUSCHTOUR uses your own smartphone and leads from Großlaupheim Palace to the place known as Judenberg. It differs from the planetarium program: there, the focus is on changing topics in astronomy and space travel, while the LAUSCHTOUR follows a route between two named places in Laupheim. The museum, cemetery, routes, Kulturhaus, park and planetarium thus offer different perspectives on Laupheim, each experienced in its own way.

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