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The smartphone city tours through Fulda began three years ago with the Baroque Quarter. Now a new tour is being added that leads through the other inner city districts.
Fulda – Stroll through the city center of Fulda and discover well-known places or hidden gems. That is the idea behind the new city tour “Feel Fulda” and which will be available from this Friday Doyo app can be downloaded onto your smartphone for free.
Through Fulda via app: New tour leads to 40 stations in the city
Eight districts in the lower and upper towns can be explored by tourists and locals alike. One of the suggested tours leads from Friedrichstrasse via Severistrasse and Luckenberg through Mittelstrasse to the vegetable market. From Löherstraße it continues through the Bermuda Triangle, via the Buttermarkt and Universitätsplatz to Bahnhofstraße.
40 individual stations are explained, for example today's Hotel Patzhirsch, once the Fulda telegraph office. It is learned that there were 17 participants in the Fulda telegraph network in its early days. “We discovered a lot that we didn’t know yet,” says Sebastian Brähler from Fulda start-up kaleidos:code, which programmed the Doyo app.
And he gives another example: “I was previously unaware that there was once a goldsmith on Friedrichstrasse – namely Goldsmith Rausch – who supplied the Pope.” It was the curiosity of Brähler and two friends that once inspired him to create the city tour app Doyo (discover on your own). “Although we all came from Fulda, we realized that we didn’t really know our homeland.”
The first virtual tour went started a little over three years ago and led through the Baroque Quarter. It is “evergreen” in terms of popularity, says Brähler. Now the city center is added as the seventh tour through Fulda. Katharina Stupp from the Office for Economic Development and City Management formulates the goals: “We want to make the city center a digital experience and connect history, culture, gastronomy and commerce. In this way, people should be excited about Fulda in order to increase the frequency and attention for the city center.”
In the app, Brähler and his team tell stories and anecdotes from the eight neighborhoods in the upper and lower towns – for example, the creation of Fulda in an animation. They show cafes, restaurants, shops and special places. Finally, they combine these with quiz questions and playful tasks. The walk through the city center can be started individually and flexibly.
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Doyo is an app for interactive city tours. It conveys city history in an entertaining and entertaining way – with exciting stories, interactions and playful elements. Thanks to integrated navigation, users are guided from station to station and can discover cities flexibly, at their own pace and regardless of fixed appointments.
The Fulda start-up kaleidos:code is behind Doyo. The team develops digital applications and brings its experience from app development, UI/UX design, e-learning and content creation to the conception and implementation of the tours.
The app has been downloaded 35,000 times and, in addition to Fulda, also offers tours in Romrod in the Vogelsbergkreis (Experience the small town), Würzburg (Illuminate Würzburg post-Kolonial) and Zurich (Discover the Oerlikon district with author Franz Hohler). The following routes go through Fulda:
– City tour through Fulda’s baroque district
– Fulda in the witch madness: The fate of Merga Bien
– 1000 years of Jewish life in Fulda
– Luna takes you through the star city of Fulda
– The true crime tour through Fulda city center
– Hiking tour Bonifatiusstieg
With 40 stops – including selected restaurants and retailers, which, according to Stupp, can be expanded – it is the densest Doyo tour to date. Even if the tour to St. Bonifatius Climb longer after kilometers. What all virtual city tours have in common is navigation using smartphone maps and the recording of stories and explanations; at the Bonifatiustour provided the sound musical actor Reinhard Brussmann.
