straubing at the
first glance

Quiet corners, narrow alleys, century-old houses with facades that tell stories and – right in the middle – the 68 meters high city tower with its striking five spires: Welcome to Straubing at the Danube. Reaching the historic old town of Straubing is just like opening a history book – you can experience Bavarian history reaching back to 5000 BC. Next to the second largest folk festival in Bavaria, the city of Straubing and its surroundings have a lot to offer. Here you can immerse yourself in an authentic part of Bavaria unaffected, cozy, diversified, progressive and traditionally different – you are not carried away with the current here, instead you can drift away and learn something new.

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Amazing
Historical Centre

the historic city tower

Straubing’s landmark is the historic city tower – a medieval fire and watch tower, built in 1316, which has grown with the city over the past two centuries. The gothic building rotrudes with a height of 68 meters (223 feet) and eight floors into the white and blue Bavarian sky.

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Fun at the
Gäuboden fair

Bavaria’s second largest fair

The Gäuboden fair in Straubing, which was first celebrated in 1812, is Bavaria’s second largest fair, the largest still being the Oktoberfest in Munich. 1.4 million visitors come every year to soak up Bavarian “Gemütlichkeit” in the large tents.

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Travern zum Geiss
for a beer

The oldest tavern in Straubing

Bavaria is famous for its delicious and traditional beer. Bavarian beers’ recipe for success is more than 500 years old and the Bavarian purity law is actually the oldest food law in the world. It stipulates that Bavarian beer may only be brewed of four ingredients: water, hops, malt, and yeast.

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Explore the
Danube

From atop a bicycle

One leg of the Danube bike trail passes through Straubing: on a three-hour tour through Lower Bavaria’s Gäuboden region, bikers pass lush green meadows, quaint farms and idyllic villages with onion dome churches, and wooden balconies, on which geraniums blossom in bright red and pink.

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Impressions of an awesome bavarian town

Points of view

Quiet corners, narrow alleys, century-old houses with facades that tell stories and – right in the middle – the 68 meters high city tower with its striking five spires: Welcome to Straubing at the Danube.

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