130 m Stadthausturm — the tower without its house the showpiece tower at the south end of the prinzipalmarkt stands alone: its stadthaus was bombed away in 1944, the tower came through almost unscathed. → 160 m Bibelmuseum der Universität on pferdegasse you'll find germany's most comprehensive bible museum — with manuscripts from the 5th century on and a luther bible with a dedication. → 160 m Silberne Frequenz am LWL-Museum 406 steel balls on the museum's corner play light patterns after dark — otto piene's work has been running since the early 1970s. → 170 m The mammoth on Pferdegasse on pferdegasse, a 43,000-year-old mammoth watches you walk by from the window — the geomuseum behind it is free. → 200 m the Friedenssaal in the town hall in this hall the spanish–dutch peace was sworn in 1648 — one building block of the peace of westphalia. → 200 m the hand in the Friedenssaal a real mummified human hand lies in the friedenssaal — to this day nobody knows whose it was. → 200 m Gasthaus Stuhlmacher louis stuhlmacher bought a house from 1470 on the prinzipalmarkt in 1890 — today the fourth generation pulls pints in the shadow of the town hall. → 210 m Prinzipalmarkt — the beautiful copy almost every gable on the prinzipalmarkt is post-war — a simplified echo, not a copy. → 210 m Frege's burnt manuscripts the original manuscripts of logic pioneer gottlob frege burned in a münster air-raid bunker in 1943 — only copies kept in a private flat saved them. → 220 m Struwen on Good Friday on good friday münster eats struwen — the yeast pancakes with raisins have been on record since 1090. → 230 m Grave of the Lion of Münster the 'lion of münster' lies buried in the cathedral — the bishop who preached publicly against the nazi killings of the sick in 1941. → 240 m the astronomical clock in the Dom the astronomical clock in the paulusdom has run backwards for around 480 years — its hands follow the sun, not convention. → 240 m the Anabaptist book burning in march 1534 books burned on the domplatz — in the end the anabaptists tolerated nothing but the bible. → 250 m Market on the Domplatz on wednesdays and saturdays the domplatz becomes a market with around 150 stalls — münster's market history goes back a thousand years. → 260 m Kirschensäule two giant lacquer-red cherries on a sandstone column — thomas schütte's ironic comment on the art world. → 310 m Richter's pendulum in the Dominikanerkirche in the deconsecrated dominikanerkirche, a foucault pendulum by gerhard richter swings — free entry. → 330 m the tongs in the Stadtmuseum the stadtmuseum keeps the red-hot tongs of 1536 — the very originals used to execute the anabaptist leaders. → 340 m the Anabaptist cages at St. Lamberti high up on the tower of st. lamberti, the anabaptist leaders' three iron cages have hung since 1536 — münster's grimmest landmark. → 340 m Drei Irrlichter in the Anabaptist cages at night a light bulb glows in each anabaptist cage — an art installation that hasn't been switched off since 1987. → 340 m the tower watchwoman of St. Lamberti a watchman has kept watch atop st. lamberti since 1383 — since 2014, for the first time, a woman. tuesdays are off. → 340 m the Drubbel outline in the paving in the paving next to st. lamberti, the outline of ten houses is marked — they had to make way for the tram in 1906. → 350 m Archäologisches Museum am Domplatz in the fürstenberghaus on the domplatz, a museum of antiquities has been waiting since 1884 — over 2,000 objects, free entry, almost always empty. → 350 m Roggenmarkt, Fischmarkt, Spiekerhof roggenmarkt, alter fischmarkt, spiekerhof — münster's old town reads like a medieval menu. → 360 m the missing spire of the Überwasserkirche the überwasserkirche has no spire — the anabaptists tore it down in 1534 and put cannons on the roof. → 360 m Clemenskirche behind a plain brick façade hides northern germany's most beautiful baroque church interior. → 370 m the Bibliotheksgasse of the city library the city library is cut in two by a lane — its sightline points straight at the lambertikirche. → 400 m Krameramtshaus münster's last surviving guildhall is where dutch independence was sealed in 1648. → 400 m Töttchen — the Münster ragout münster's traditional dish töttchen was poor people's food made from calf's head and lung — today the sweet-and-sour ragout is back on pub menus. → 420 m Synagogue on Klosterstraße münster's synagogue was burnt down in 1938 — and rebuilt in 1961 on exactly the same spot. → 440 m Erbdrostenhof schlaun's baroque palace stands at an angle on a corner plot that's too small — which is exactly why it looks so elegant. → 450 m Café Gasolin nobody's pumped fuel at the 1950s petrol station on aegidiistraße for ages — it's coffee and flammkuchen now. → 460 m the Kiepenkerl monument the kiepenkerl survived the bombing — only to be run over by a us tank in 1945. → 460 m Three Rotating Squares at the Engelenschanze three steel squares have been turning in the wind here since 1975 — the storm of protest over buying them accidentally invented the skulptur projekte. → 480 m Krummer Timpen — the baker in the street name the street isn't named after its bend but after a baker whose nickname was 'krummer timpen'. → 500 m the Wilsberg bookshop solder's antiquarian bookshop on frauenstraße is 'wilsberg's' shop on tv — and they really do film here. → 500 m Altes Gasthaus Leve münster's oldest inn has been pouring since 1607 — first as 'drei könige', then as 'cardinal', since 1805 as leve. → 540 m the Paul Wulf sculpture the concrete figure on servatiiplatz is paul wulf — forcibly sterilised by the nazis, made a monument by the people of münster. → 540 m the ruin in the theatre foyer in 1956 theater münster became west germany's first newly built theatre — with a real war ruin in the foyer. → 540 m Kanonengraben the pond on the south-west promenade is a genuine piece of fortress moat — legend has it the french sank their cannons here. → 550 m Cavete — Akademische Bieranstalt münster's oldest student pub owes its name to a complaint — 'cavete münster', beware of münster. → 550 m Fischbrathalle the fischbrathalle on schlaunstraße has been frying fish since 1926 — this year the institution turns a hundred, still family-run. → 570 m Pinkus Müller in the Kuhviertel of more than 150 altbier breweries in münster, exactly one is left — pinkus müller has brewed in the kuhviertel since 1816. → 590 m Leezenflow the light posts on the promenade tell you whether you'll make the next light on green — münster's green wave for bikes. → 600 m Frauenstraße 24 in 1973 over 300 people occupied the art nouveau house at frauenstraße 24 — eight years later they had won. → 610 m a school since 797 the gymnasium paulinum has been around since 797 — and since 2001 it has played osnabrück at football every year for the title 'germany's oldest school'. → 620 m Altes Gasthaus Drübbelken the 1765 half-timbered inn in the kuhviertel used to be called 'westfälischer frieden 1648' — and almost disappeared in 2022. → 630 m the flea market on the Promenade once a month the promenade turns into a flea market with up to 900 stalls — one of europe's biggest open-air junk markets. → 670 m Giant Pool Balls by the Aasee the three concrete balls by the aasee were a city scandal in 1977 — today they're münster's favourite meeting spot. → 720 m the Radstation at the main station under the ___ forecourt lies germany's biggest bike garage — room for 3,300 leezen. → 730 m Buddenturm the buddenturm is the last of seven defence towers on the city wall — it survived as a powder store. → 800 m why the Send is called 'Send' münster's funfair is called send because it grew out of a 9th-century church synod. → 810 m the Zwinger on the Promenade the unassuming round building on the promenade was a gestapo execution site — today an artwork ticks inside. → 830 m Masematte — Münster's secret language leeze, jovel, schofel — these words come from masematte, the secret language of münster's poor quarters. → 880 m Promenade — the green ring the promenade follows the old city fortifications exactly — 4.5 kilometres of lime trees, completely car-free. → 880 m the Eisenman fountain at the Kreuzschanze the laid-back fountain figures on the promenade stayed because people in münster raised €630,000 to keep them. → 890 m Solaaris — the water bus a solar boat shuttles across the aasee — the solaaris takes you almost silently to the zoo, the mühlenhof and the natural history museum. → 930 m The uni that got rid of its Kaiser since october 2023 the wwu has simply been called universität münster — kaiser wilhelm II was struck from the name after 116 years. → 940 m the prince-bishop's Schloss the baroque palace was schlaun's last major work — today students cram where the prince-bishop resided. → 1,0 km Tuckesburg in 1892 zoo founder landois built himself his own castle next to the zoo — and lived there with his monkey lehmann. → 1,1 km Kanalstraße — the canal that never arrived kanalstraße recalls münster's failed dream of 1724: a waterway to the north sea that was never finished. → 1,1 km The citadel under the Schlossgarten the schloss stands on a fortress aimed at the city's own people — the schlossgarten still traces its bastions today. → 1,2 km Zentralfriedhof im Himmelreich since 1887 the zentralfriedhof has lain in a spot called 'himmelreich' — a park walk between a reich chancellor and a zoo founder. → 1,2 km Kreuzviertel the kreuzviertel has the late-19th-century façades the old town lost — with cafés and chestnut trees in between. → 1,2 km the botanical garden behind the Schloss behind the schloss, a botanical garden with 8,000 species has been hiding since 1803 — free entry, every day. → 1,2 km Hüfferstift: clinic turned campus the red-brick colossus by the schlossgarten was an orthopaedic clinic for over 80 years — today students cram where 160 patients once lay. → 1,3 km the Aasee fish kill of 2018 in 2018 around 20 tonnes of fish died in the aasee overnight — since then the lake has been monitored round the clock. → 1,4 km Harbour crane at the Kreativkai the old crane by the flechtheimspeicher is the city harbour's monument — coal and grain were once unloaded here. → 1,4 km Hittorf and the forerunner of the X-ray tube no x-rays without the glowing glass tubes of münster physicist hittorf — he was the first to study cathode rays thoroughly. → 1,4 km sanctuarium am Schlossgarten nobody has been allowed behind this round brick wall since 1997 — nature grows wild in there on purpose. → 1,4 km Borchert-Theater im Flechtheimspeicher one of germany's oldest private theatres performs in the old harbour warehouse — the building is named after a famous family of art dealers. → 1,6 km Hafenkäserei am Stadthafen at the mittelhafen, organic cheese ripens behind glass — founded by a söbbeke, fourth-generation cheesemaker. → 1,6 km B-Side am Mittelhafen activists saved the old hill-speicher at the harbour from demolition — today it's a self-run arts centre. → 1,6 km Villa ten Hompel from 1940 the order police organised their part of the holocaust from this industrialist's villa — today it's a history site. → 1,6 km Hawerkamp graffiti, clubs and studios are sprouting on the old concrete works site at hawerkamp — münster's roughest corner. → 1,7 km Kabakov's poem antenna at the Aasee lie down under the 15-metre mast on the aasee meadow — between its antennas hangs a poem made of thin wire. → 1,8 km Killing and the exceptional algebras the mathematician who discovered the legendary E8 structure taught in münster for over 25 years — today the uni's maths colloquium bears his name. → 1,8 km the Capuchin monastery garden the capuchins open their 1.5-hectare monastery garden to everyone — with 60 apple varieties and 150 herbs. → 1,8 km Sentmaringer Park münster's fourth-largest park hides in the geistviertel — with an orchard meadow, a jesuit past and trees that are natural monuments. → 1,8 km St. Mauritz the collegiate church of st. mauritz was founded in the 11th century — its towers are among the oldest things münster has. → 1,9 km Germania Campus — beer before offices where people now live and work out at germania campus, münster brewed germania beer for some 85 years. → 2,0 km Wienburgpark the wienburgpark was laid out in 1986/87 as a thoroughly ecological city park — wild meadows instead of neat lawns. → 2,0 km Square Depression bruce nauman's walk-in concrete funnel took 30 years to get built — and is now being built for the second time. → 2,0 km canal swimming at Schillerstraße münster's summer pool is the canal — for example at the schillerstraße bridge, where a metal grille makes getting in easy. → 2,1 km Donald Judd's concrete rings at the Aasee the two concrete rings on the aasee slope aren't a wall to sit on — they're a donald judd from 1977, bought for 185,000 marks. → 2,1 km meteorites behind the Coesfelder Kreuz the institute of planetology holds one of the world's largest meteorite collections — and münster research flies to the moon and mars on space probes. → 2,1 km Domagk's forbidden Nobel Prize münster pathologist gerhard domagk won the 1939 nobel prize for the first antibacterial drug — and the gestapo forced him to turn it down. → 2,2 km Pier by Jorge Pardo the wooden jetty on the aasee is an artwork from 1997 — and one of the best sunset spots in town. → 2,2 km the bakehouse at the Mühlenhof at the mühlenhof by the aasee, a bakehouse from 1749 smokes on many sundays — the bread comes out of the stone oven like it did 250 years ago. → 2,4 km the battery lab on Corrensstraße at the uni's meet centre, around 150 people are working on the battery of the future — münster is one of the country's key battery hubs. → 2,4 km Post mill at the Mühlenhof the windmill above the aasee dates from 1748 — it stood in the emsland for 200 years before münster brought it over piece by piece in 1961. → 2,7 km Kaffeehaus Wienburg münster's oldest coffee house isn't in the old town — the wienburg has been serving since 1788, on an estate that schlaun remodelled. → 2,7 km stargazing at the Sentruper Höhe the sternfreunde münster show you the night sky — with telescopes in front of the natural history museum. → 2,7 km swivel seats under the starry sky since 2022 every seat in the planetarium by the aasee swivels all the way round — paired with raked rows, that exists nowhere else in the world. → 2,8 km World's largest ammonite the natural history museum holds the world's largest ammonite — 1.80 metres, 3.5 tonnes, bought by landois for 125 marks. → 3,0 km Appelbreipütt on the edge of gievenbeck lies a natural monument with probably the loveliest name in the city: the appelbreipütt. → 3,0 km Haus Lütkenbeck between the harbour and gremmendorf stand the remains of a baroque palace whose manor house burned down in 1720, the year it was finished — and was never rebuilt. → 3,0 km Loddenheide — Münster's first airport münster's first airport wasn't in greven but on the loddenheide near gremmendorf — from 1920 there were scheduled flights from here to bremen. → 3,1 km Why the Allwetterzoo is called 'all-weather' the allwetterzoo is called that because a kilometre of its paths is covered — rainy weather was the selling point in 1974. → 3,1 km Haus Körde — Coerde's vanished namesake coerde is named after a vanished manor: haus körde, whose chapel bishop siegfried had built as early as around 1030. → 3,1 km Schleuse Münster at the lock in the north-east, freighters sink 6.20 metres — ship-watching as an after-work treat. → 3,6 km Oxford-Quartier Gievenbeck for decades gievenbeck held a british town within the town — today the new street names remember jewish women of münster. → 3,6 km Haus Kump in Mecklenbeck at the far end of the aasee lies a farm that supplied the cathedral back in the 9th century — its 1549 granary is münster's oldest farmhouse. → 4,2 km Speicherstadt Coerde in münster's north stands a whole town of grain stores — built in 1939 for the wehrmacht, with a bakery for 30,000 loaves a day. → 4,3 km Freibad Stapelskotten on the werse bank in laer there's an open-air pool with coves, a wave slide and views of the werse — many locals don't even know it. → 4,3 km Berg Fidel — the school on the big screen a primary school in berg fidel made it to the cinema: hella wenders filmed here for three years for 'berg fidel – eine schule für alle'. → 4,4 km Dyckburgkirche deep in the woods near handorf stands a small baroque church by schlaun — a quiet place of pilgrimage. → 4,4 km York-Quartier Gremmendorf gremmendorf's new centre is growing on 50 hectares of barracks land — built by the luftwaffe, lived in by yorkshire regiments. → 4,5 km Lepramuseum in Kinderhaus kinderhaus is called kinderhaus because lepers lived here in the middle ages — today it's home to germany's only leprosy museum. → 4,7 km Handorf — village of the big coffee pots handorf was once called the 'village of the big coffee pots' — café after café lined the werse, plus the palatial boniburg. → 5,3 km Max-Clemens-Kanal münster had a canal towards holland back in the 18th century — it was never finished and died in 1840. → 5,5 km Pleistermühle on the Werse at the pleistermühle you paddle on a werse that has driven a mill since 1412. → 5,8 km Otmar — the cult snack bar münster's most legendary bratwurst comes from a garden centre car park in handorf — otmar moved there from the main station, and the queues moved with him. → 5,8 km Haus Rüschhaus in nienberge, annette von droste-hülshoff wrote die judenbuche — in schlaun's idiosyncratic country house. → 5,9 km the Sudmühle on the Werse a whole district is named after a mill: the sudmühle on the werse is on record since the 12th century — and belonged to the bishop himself. → 6,0 km Hiltruper See 10,000 people a day once swam in the hiltruper see — today it's a drinking-water protection zone, and swimming is off. → 6,2 km Alte Clemenskirche Hiltrup hiltrup's oldest building is a romanesque church from 1160 — for almost 50 years it was deconsecrated and put to secular use. → 6,3 km Sprakel — on record since 1032 münster's northernmost and smallest district is almost a thousand years old: first mentioned in 1032 as 'spraclo' — the name means dense scrub. → 6,3 km Haus Vögeding haus vögeding at münster's gates is private — you can only see it from the street, but across the moat you take in the whole estate. → 6,4 km St. Pantaleon Roxel a bell from 1531 rings in roxel's church tower — shrapnel tore off one of its crown loops in the war, and it rings anyway. → 6,4 km Huronensee a lake with north america in its name, protected since 1937 — hidden between the rieselfelder and the canal, hardly anyone knows it. → 6,6 km Rieselfelder — from sewage to bird paradise where münster's sewage trickled away from 1901, tens of thousands of migrating birds now rest — saved by a citizens' initiative. → 6,6 km Hohe Ward the forest between hiltrup and the canal is münster's water store — your drinking water lies under the pines. → 6,6 km St. Agatha Angelmodde in the werse village of angelmodde stands one of münster's oldest churches — a romanesque village church of a kind that's barely left. → 6,7 km Droste-Landschaft: Lyrikweg 21 stations, ten of them digital, link burg hülshoff and rüschhaus — the path droste walked a hundred times in the second half of her life. → 6,9 km Vorbergs Hügel near Nienberge münster's highest point is near nienberge — just under 100 metres, in the middle of a nature reserve with long views. → 7,2 km Heck cattle in the Rieselfelder back-bred aurochs graze in the rieselfelder — a herd of heck cattle has been mowing for the bird paradise since 1993. → 7,6 km Wolbecker Tiergarten in the wolbecker tiergarten, tomorrow's primeval forest has been growing since 1906 — parts of it are left entirely to themselves. → 7,8 km the Rieselfelder observation tower from the twelve-metre ___ at the big bird sanctuary you can see waders, spoonbills and, with luck, a kingfisher. → 7,8 km the Alte Fahrt and the Gelmer canal aqueduct at gelmer the old canal crosses the ems on an 1897 bridge — today a peninsula idyll instead of shipping. → 8,0 km Albachten and the Baccanten legend has it bishop liudger found the people of albachten all drunk — 'they're all baccanten', and the name was born. → 8,1 km Häger and the station it fought for the farming hamlet of häger organised its own station in 1878 — the farmers wanted to get their produce to münster's weekly market. → 8,3 km Motte Haskenau near dorbaum, a 12th-century castle mound hides in the woods — münster's oldest castle is now just earthworks. → 8,4 km Drostenhof Wolbeck in wolbeck stands arguably westphalia's most important renaissance building — admire it from outside any time. → 8,4 km the park of Burg Hülshoff the park around burg hülshoff costs nothing, and the lawns in front are open for picnics. → 8,5 km Burg Hülshoff and the Droste Museum annette von droste-hülshoff was born in the moated castle near havixbeck — today an audio guide leads you through her museum. → 8,9 km Wigbold Wolbeck — residence of the prince-bishops wolbeck was never just a village: a wigbold with market rights and its own courts since 1242 — and for centuries a favourite residence of münster's prince-bishops. → 9,0 km the Ems floodplain near Gelmer beyond gelmer the werse flows into the ems — in between, floodplain meadows, reeds and dragonflies in the nature reserve. → 9,2 km Davert legend says the davertnünne haunts the davert near amelsbüren — these days the only haunting is by the middle spotted woodpecker. → 9,4 km the nature discovery area at Haus Heidhorn on the southern edge of hiltrup, a 1.3-kilometre loop runs through woodland, pond, bog and heath — open to all, step-free, almost always empty. → 9,6 km the old canal crossing near Greven on fuestruper straße stands an old canal crossing — open all year round and a quiet stop just past the bockholter berge. → 9,7 km Große Bree the ems left a loop behind here — the große bree oxbow has been quietly silting up for decades. → 10,0 km Waldfriedhof Lauheide at münster's woodland cemetery on the ems, 47 bird species breed among 35,000 graves — voted germany's most beautiful cemetery in 2014. → 10,2 km Kunsthaus Kannen on the city's southern edge, kunsthaus kannen collects over 5,000 works by outsider artists — free entry, and hardly anyone knows. → 11,1 km Bockholter Berge birds nest right on the ground on the sandy soil of the bockholter berge — so you stay on the paths and keep your dog on a lead. → 11,2 km Gimbte bei Greven gimbte has around 900 residents, a historic village centre and münsterland inns — a perfect stop between the rieselfelder and münster. →