26 Sights in Bochum, Germany (with Map and Images)

Haus Weitmar is a former noble residence in the Weitmar district of Bochum. It originated from a Schulzenhof of the Werden Abbey, whose roots can be traced back to the 8th/9th century. Surrounded by a moat in the 12th century, it was expanded into a representative seat in the first half of the 13th century. Extensions in the second half of the 15th century under the von Brüggeney family called Hasenkamp and an expansion in the 18th century resulted in a classicistic-looking manor house with a outer bailey. Northwest of it stood a chapel dedicated to St. Silvester, which, however, lost its function as a home chapel during the Reformation. After the von Hasenkamp family died out, Haus Weitmar was briefly owned by the von Vaerst family before it was purchased by Andreas Friedrich Wilhelm von Berswordt-Wallrabe in 1780. His family is still the owner today.

Wikipedia: Haus Weitmar (EN), Heritage Website

Westpark Bochum is the starting point for the urban development of the "Innenstadt West" in Bochum's city centre. The total area available for urban development is about 75 ha. The implementation of the measure began with the approximately 38-hectare park, the first construction phase of which was completed and opened in 1999. The centre of the Westpark is now the Jahrhunderthalle, which has been converted into an event centre. The areas immediately around the Jahrhunderthalle and some surrounding areas were successively brought into their final form during the event-free periods of the RuhrTriennale until 2007. In 2009, the redesign was awarded the National Prize for Integrated Urban Development and Building Culture by the Federal Ministry of Transport.

Wikipedia: Westpark (Bochum) (DE)

The Homecoming Church of Thanksgiving is a Roman Catholic church in the Weitmar district of Bochum, Germany, as well as a memorial for peace and reconciliation among peoples. It is consecrated to the Holy Family. Since 2009 it has been a branch church of the parish of St. Francis in Bochum-Weitmar in the diocese of Essen. Since 2005, the church has been a listed building. In 2010, the Ruhr Capital of Culture year, the church was one of 52 so-called "spiritual cultural filling stations" in the Diocese of Essen. The overall concept of the sacred building is unique in Germany.

Wikipedia: Heimkehrer-Dankeskirche (DE), Website

The Christuskirche on Hattinger Straße in Bochum-Linden is a church building in the Protestant parish of Bochum-Linden. It was built between 1874 and 1877 according to plans by the Witten master builder Friedrich Ellinghaus in the neo-Gothic style. In the last days of the Second World War, on 11 April 1945, one day after the city centre of Bochum had already been taken over by US troops, it burned down during the fighting in Linden. It was rebuilt between 1950 and 1953. The exterior made of Ruhr sandstone is a listed building. The Christuskirche is a hall church.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Bochum-Linden) (DE), Website

The Jobsiade Fountain is located on Husemannplatz in Bochum. The fountain was donated by Deutsche Bank and opened to the public in 1987. The artist Karl Ulrich Nuss refers to the examination scene of Carl Arnold Kortum's Jobsiade. The group of figures consists of five people: the self-confident but highly clueless theology student Jobs, three examiners and a night watchman. In 2013, the fountain was sprayed with white varnish by vandals. In 2018, one of the bronze figures was sprayed with gold lacquer.

Wikipedia: Jobsiade-Brunnen (DE)

The Evangelical Church of Werne is a sacred building at Kreyenfeldstraße 30 in the Werne district of Bochum. It is a three -aisled, four -year -old brick hall church in the style of neo -Gothic from 1895 to 1896. The architect was Gerhard August Fischer. It had to be rebuilt from 1949 to 1957. It has been a listed building since 1989. The Evangelical parish of Werne belongs to the Bochum church district in the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Kirche Werne (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Kunstmuseum Bochum is a museum of art in the district of Bochum. It is located at the northern end of the Kortumstraße Bochum. Opposite the museum is the Bochum Stadtpark, among others with some steel art objects. The museum dates back to the Municipal Painting Gallery and 1921. In 1960, the museum was newly founded as a Städtische Kunstgalerie. The acquisition of additional departments was the title of Museum Bochum from 1970.

Wikipedia: Kunstmuseum Bochum (DE), Website

The Petrikirche is a Protestant church building on Wiemelhauser Straße 255 in Bochum-Wiemelhausen. It belongs to the Evangelical Church of Westphalia. It was built from 1901 to 1903 according to plans by the Bochum architect Heinrich Robert in the style of neo -Gothic. For the interior design, the so-called Wiesbaden program was decisive, the one-room church with centering on the altar, pulpit and organ.

Wikipedia: Petrikirche (Wiemelhausen) (DE), Heritage Website

The Evangelical Lutheran Epiphany Church in the Bochum district of Hamme, whose name commemorates the apparition of Christ to the wise men from the East, was built from 1929 onwards according to designs by the Castrop-Rauxel architect Wilhelm Tiefenbach. The Epiphany Church was opened on 30 May 2010 as the first motorway church in a major city and was included in the Route of Industrial Heritage in 2011.

Wikipedia: Epiphanias-Kirche (Bochum) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Century Hall is a venue in the Stahlhausen district of Bochum. The hall was built in 1902 by the Bochum Association for the Industrial and Commercial Exhibition of the Düsseldorf and then reused as a blower machine hall for the blast furnaces of the Bochum Association. It has been extended several times, the name Century Hall is used today for the entire building covering an area of 8,900 m².

Wikipedia: Jahrhunderthalle (Bochum) (DE), Website

St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic church in the city center of Bochum, Germany. It was built between 1891 and 1892 and belongs to the diocese of Essen. The architect Hermann Wielers chose the neo-Romanesque style. Wielers also designed the nearby St. Vincent orphanage. It is now used by the Polish community. To the east of it is the Appolonia Peacock Park.

Wikipedia: St. Joseph (Bochum) (DE), Heritage Website

The Medical History Collection of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum is a collection of more than 10,000 instruments and large-scale equipment from all fields of medicine. It is housed in an old Malakow tower of the former Julius-Philipp colliery from 1877. The sponsor is the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum.

Wikipedia: Medizinhistorische Sammlung der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (DE)

The Kalwes (Kalbweide) is an elevation in the district of Querenburg in the southeast of Bochum. The city of Bochum is planning a 35-hectare nature reserve here. One of the bodies of water is the Kalwesbach, which flows into the Lottenbach. The forest, the monastery bush, is characterized by beech trees, and holly also occurs here.

Wikipedia: Kalwes (DE)

Since 1977, the Puppet Theatre College has been a state-recognised continuing education centre in Bochum. Since 1991, it has been supported by the Association for the Promotion of the Puppet Theatre College Bochum. Previously, it was supported by the German Institute for Puppetry, which was closed in 1991.

Wikipedia: Figurentheater-Kolleg (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Christuskirche Bochum is a Protestant church in Bochum, which is also considered a memorial against the war. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Bochum Town Hall. There are other churches in Bochum with this name, such as in the districts of Langendreer, Linden, Gerthe and Günnigfeld.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Bochum) (DE), Website

The Bochum Planetarium is one of the most visited star theatres in Europe. It is located near the Ruhr Stadium on the northeastern edge of downtown Bochum in the Ruhr area. The planetarium was built in 1964 as the first large German planetarium of the post-war period. It is now a listed building.

Wikipedia: Zeiss Planetarium Bochum (DE), Website

The Situation Art is an art museum in the park of Haus Weitmar in the Weitmar district of Bochum with a permanent exhibition of important works of contemporary art. The building ensemble is designed in such a way that art, architecture and nature relate to each other in a dialogical way.

Wikipedia: Situation Kunst (DE), Website

The Bismarck Tower in Bochum is a Bismarck tower and observation tower in Bochum, Germany, inaugurated in 1910. Like all Bismarck Towers, it is dedicated to Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who was nationally revered as the architect of the founding of the German Empire in 1871.

Wikipedia: Bismarckturm (Bochum) (DE), Heritage Website

Bochum Observatory, often known in Bochum as Cape Kaminski is a research institute in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The institution came into being through a private initiative. Its main areas of interest are in radio astronomy and environmental research.

Wikipedia: Bochum Observatory (EN), Website

The former dispensary at the Stadtpark Bochum is a toilet house between the Stadtpark Bochum and the Kunstmuseum Bochum. It was built in 1925 in expressionist brick architecture. At this point, it had been preceded by installations made of wood and cast iron.

Wikipedia: Ehemalige Bedürfnisanstalt am Stadtpark Bochum (DE), Heritage Website

The Königsgrube Park is a wildly growing park on the wasteland of the former Königsgrube colliery. It is now used as a local recreation area as well as for various leisure activities and is part of the Route of Industrial Heritage.

Wikipedia: Park Königsgrube (DE)

Terminal, precise terminal is the title of a sculpture in public space by the artist Richard Serra, designed for documenta 6 in 1977. Their subsequent acquisition and installation in the city of Bochum was discussed controversially.

Wikipedia: Terminal (Skulptur) (DE)

The Bahnhof-Langendreer Cultural Centre is a nationally known socio-cultural centre in the Ruhr area. It is located in the Langendreer district of Bochum in the former station building of the local railway station.

Wikipedia: Kulturzentrum Bahnhof-Langendreer (DE), Facebook, Website

The Bochum Synagogue was built at what was then Wilhelmstraße 18, today Huestraße/Dr.-Ruer-Platz in Bochum, and was consecrated in 1863. It was destroyed in 1938. In 2007, the New Synagogue in Bochum was opened.

Wikipedia: Alte Synagoge Bochum (DE)

The telephone museum in Bochum is founded by the Bochum e. V. was carried and located on the site of Deutsche Telekom at Karl-Lange-Straße 23, on which the Bochum telecommunications tower is also located.

Wikipedia: Telefonmuseum Bochum (DE), Website

The Schauspielhaus Bochum is one of the notable drama theatres in Germany. It is located on Königsallee in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. Eric de Vroedt is an established guest director at the theatre.

Wikipedia: Schauspiel Bochum (EN), Heritage Website