STADTAMHOF, MON AMOUR!

Ursula Gaisa has lived in Regensburg since 1987 and in Stadtamhof for 30 years. She has been running the over-50s blogzine immerschick.de for a good two years and has a vegetarian-vegan food column once a month in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung. Her book “Vegetarian delicacies for 5 seasons” has already been presented here. She explains exclusively on Regensburg.now why she can’t imagine living anywhere else in the cathedral city.

The situation

Regensburg’s smallest district stretches north of the city center, was only incorporated into Regensburg in 1924 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The view from the main street, which is used as a market on Wednesdays and is bordered to the north by a pylon gate, towards the Stone Bridge and cathedral is unique and much photographed. If you turn around, you can see the Holy Trinity Church on the associated hill.

Stadtamhof is surrounded by the arms of the Danube and the Europakanal to the north. The islands in between are bustling with life, but also full of greenery and nature. The beautiful avenue of trees between Wöhrdbad and the northern branch of the Danube is a real power spot. Ok, strictly speaking it belongs to Oberer Wöhrd, but it’s almost part of it 😉 The Grieser Spitz in the east with its playground and sports field is a real local recreation area, the small Dultplatz in the west is currently home to the vaccination center and will hopefully soon see other tents and festivals again, the large one currently offers a musical beach atmosphere.

Gastronomy and retail

From Asian to Italian, Bavarian to currywurst: if you count Regensburg’s most beautiful beer garden right by the Stone Bridge, the Spitalgarten, there are currently no fewer than 16 pubs, bars, cafés and restaurants in the main street alone, where you can eat and drink your way from breakfast to a late-night digestif. Small stores with arts and crafts, fashion and a special hat atelier with a showroom invite you to stroll around. You can go to the hairdresser, buy organic goods, pastries and butcher’s goods. Only here can you find such a density.

The convent of the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady

If you come from the Stone Bridge and turn right into Andreasstraße after the bridge bazaar, you will first come to the church music academy and the parish church of Stadtamhof, St. Mang, then to the Gerhardinger School. On the right is the Andreasstadel, a former salt barn that now houses a restaurant, a hotel and artists’ studios, and finally a small monastery on the left via Am Gries. It is embedded in this picturesque little residential area and is the birthplace of Karolina (later Maria Theresia) Gerhardinger, who founded a whole “dynasty” of school nuns in Bavaria, America and eleven other European countries in the 19th century. Nuns still live there today, teaching religion in the elementary school named after Karolina.

Convent of the Poor School Sisters, Stadtamhof

Market and flea market, St. Katharinenspital

Every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., you can buy vegetables, meat, fish, honey, cheese, pastries and Greek delicacies at small market stalls. Seasonal, regional and sustainable. On Saturdays from 6.00 a.m. you can meet at the flea market at the Protzenweiher. If you leave the Steinerne Brücke starting point on the left through a small gate between the lottery and magazine store and the shoemaker Brosi, you come to the St. Katharinenspital, a former monastery site. Since the Middle Ages, the “Spital”, which today is also home to a traditional pub, a guesthouse and a retirement home including a small church, has been brewing delicious hop-based cold beers.
The large beer garden offers a unique view of the old town and the “Steinerne”, as it is affectionately called by the locals.

If you leave the Spitalgarten to the left, you come to the beautiful Franziskanerplatz, with the city’s surveying office on the right and one of the city’s most beautiful residential areas on the left, which used to be prone to flooding. It is only natural that all this has attracted the young and beautiful. Many houses and old buildings have been renovated in the last 30 years. Nevertheless, there are still many original and historic things to discover in the narrow streets. Not forgetting the Colosseum, the Walhallabockerl and the Herrmann brewery. So let’s get going.

Many thanks to our guest author Ursula Gaisa for the lovely article! Click here to go to Ursula’s blog: immerschick.de

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