60 Sights in Dortmund, Germany (with Map and Images)
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List of cities in GermanySightseeing Tours in Dortmund1. Bismarck-Gedenkplatte
Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a Prussian and later German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of Junker landowners, Bismarck rose rapidly in Prussian politics, and from 1862 to 1890 he was the minister president and foreign minister of Prussia. Before his rise to the executive, he was the Prussian ambassador to Russia and France and served in both houses of the Prussian parliament. He masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871, and served as the first chancellor of the German Empire until 1890, in which capacity he dominated European affairs. He had served as chancellor of the North German Confederation from 1867 to 1871, alongside his responsibilities in the Kingdom of Prussia. He cooperated with King Wilhelm I of Prussia to unify the various German states, a partnership that would last for the rest of Wilhelm's life. The King granted Bismarck the titles of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen in 1865 and Prince of Bismarck in 1871. Bismarck provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France. Following the victory against Austria, he abolished the supranational German Confederation and instead formed the North German Confederation as the first German national state, aligning the smaller North German states behind Prussia, while excluding Austria. Receiving the support of the independent South German states in the Confederation's defeat of France, he formed the German Empire – which also excluded Austria – and united Germany.
2. Gedenkstein für die Kolonie Kirdorf
The Kirdorf Colony – also known as the Kirdorf Settlement and Gitschiner Straße Settlement – is a mining settlement in the Eving district of Dortmund, Germany. It was built by the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG) in 1912–13 in the style of a garden city for workers and employees of the Minister Stein colliery and named after its general director Emil Kirdorf. In 1935, an architecturally adapted extension was made in the western area. Today, the settlement consists of 119 apartments in 70 detached and semi-detached houses as well as 89 apartments in two-storey, unstructured apartment buildings, which were built to replace war-destroyed settlement houses. The overall impression of the settlement has been protected by a preservation statute since 2004. Since 2002, the owner Viterra Wohnen, now Vonovia, has privatized the detached and semi-detached houses to the tenants.
3. Moltke-Denkmal
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke was a Prussian field marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field and one of the finest military minds of his generation. He commanded troops in Europe and the Middle East, in the Second Schleswig War, Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War. He is described as embodying "Prussian military organization and tactical genius". He was fascinated with railways and pioneered their military use. He is often referred to as Moltke the Elder to distinguish him from his nephew Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, who commanded the German Army at the outbreak of the First World War.
4. Sankt Reinoldi-Kirche
The Lutheran Protestant Church of St. Reinold is, according to its foundation date, the oldest extant church in Dortmund, Germany; it is dedicated to Reinold, also known as Renaud de Montauban, the patron of the city. The church was built as a palatine church in the Ottonian era. The present building is a late Romanesque church with a late gothic quire. St. Reinold's was built from 1250 to 1270, and is located in the centre of the city, directly at the crossing of the Hellweg and the historic road from Cologne to Bremen. St. Reinoldi's congregation is a member of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, an umbrella comprising Lutheran, Reformed and united Protestant congregations.
5. Ehemaliges Gesundheitsamt
The Gesundheitshaus Dortmund, the seat of the health department of the city of Dortmund at Hövelstraße 8 in the City district, is one of the few buildings of post-war modernism in Germany that has been largely preserved in its state of construction to this day. It was designed by Will Schwarz and built between 1958 and 1961. In many details of the architecture, it relives the design language of the 1950s and is thus one of the most important buildings of the West German post-war period. It is a listed building and was entered in 1993 in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund under No. A 571.
6. Feldchenbahnbrücke
The Feldchenbahnbrücke not far from the Dortmund district of Aplerbeck is a listed brick arch bridge. It is the last surviving relic of the connecting line built between 1867 and 1870 from the Vereinigte Schürbank & Charlottenburg colliery to the Dortmund–Soest railway. The approximately 1600-metre-long, single-track railway line, which threaded into the main line about 100 metres west of Aplerbeck station until its closure, formed approximately an S-shape. Coming from the colliery, the Feldchenbahn bridge bridges the Emscher, which is still very young at this point, after a good 700 metres.
7. Femlinde mit Freistuhl
The Vehmic courts, Vehmgericht, holy vehme, or simply Vehm, also spelt Feme, Vehmegericht, Fehmgericht, are names given to a "proto-vigilante" tribunal system of Westphalia in Germany active during the later Middle Ages, based on a fraternal organisation of lay judges called "free judges". The original seat of the courts was in Dortmund. Proceedings were sometimes secret, leading to the alternative titles of "secret courts", "silent courts", or "forbidden courts". After the execution of a death sentence, the corpse could be hanged on a tree to advertise the fact and deter others.
8. Konzerthaus
The Konzerthaus Dortmund in the city centre of Dortmund was opened in September 2002. It is located in the Brückstraße district at the intersection of Brückstraße and Ludwigstraße. The hall has 1550 seats, 900 of which can be used as a small hall, and is characterized by a modern steel and glass architecture. The founding director and one of the main initiators of the "Project Konzerthaus" was Ulrich Andreas Vogt. From 2006 to 14 September 2018, Benedikt Stampa was artistic director and managing director. For the 2018/19 season, he was followed by Raphael von Hoensbroech.
9. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal
The Sigiburg was a Saxon hillfort in Western Germany, overlooking the River Ruhr near its confluence with the River Lenne. The ruins of the later Hohensyburg castle now stand on the site, which is in Syburg, a neighbourhood in the Hörde district of Dortmund. Archaeological evidence suggests the site was occupied in the Neolithic era. The hillfort was raised ca. 700 by Westphalian Saxons. During the Saxon Wars, it was taken by the Franks under Charlemagne in 772, retaken by the Saxons in 774, and taken again and refortified by Charlemagne in 775.
10. Sankt Johann Baptist
The Protestant St. John the Baptist Church forms the centre of the Brecht village in the Dortmund district of Eving. Around 1250, the church was built as a three-nave, two-bay hall on an almost square ground plan with a rectangular choir. The west tower is probably older. Around the year 1500 the sacristy was built. During the restoration of the interior in 1960/1962, extensive paintings from the time the church was built were uncovered and restored. The baptismal font dates from the 13th century, the pulpit and altar are from the 17th century.
Wikipedia: St.-Johann-Baptist-Kirche (Brechten) (DE), Website
11. Theater Olpketal
The Olpketal Theatre is a small family-run theatre on Olpketalstraße in the southern Dortmund district of Lücklemberg, where the Dortmund cabaret artist Bruno Knust usually performs several times a week with various programmes. His shows are characterized by the special humor of the Ruhr area, his quick-wittedness and entertainer qualities. In addition, the Olpketal Theatre also offers guest performances by selected artists on its programme, such as Robert Kreis, Lioba Albus, Karl Dall, Wolfgang Trepper, Jürgen Becker and Torsten Sträter.
12. Bezirksverwaltungsstelle Aplerbeck
The Aplerbecker Amtshaus is located directly on the market square in Aplerbeck. It was built from 1906 to 1907 according to the plans of master builder Wilhelm Stricker for the Aplerbeck district, replacing a predecessor building erected in 1851. The person of the master builder Stricker is still remembered today by a memorial plaque on the wall of the office building. A street in Aplerbeck, the Strickerstraße, was named after him. In the list of monuments in the district of Aplerbeck, the building is registered under the number A 0424.
13. Naturmuseum Dortmund
The Natural History Museum Dortmund is a municipal natural history museum. It represents the fields of zoology, botany, geology, paleontology and mineralogy in collections, exhibitions and educational programs. The collections include about 250,000 objects, including 150,000 insects and 70,000 minerals, rocks and fossils. The focus of the museum's work is on education and mediation. Until mid-2020, the Natural History Museum Dortmund operated under the name "Museum of Natural History of the City of Dortmund".
14. Gedenktafel für Maximilian Kolbe
Maximilian Maria Kolbe was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.
15. Scharnhorst-Denkmal
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst was a Hanoverian-born general in Prussian service from 1801. As the first Chief of the Prussian General Staff, he was noted for his military theories, his reforms of the Prussian army, and his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars. Scharnhorst limited the use of corporal punishments, established promotion for merit, abolished the enrollment of foreigners, began the organization of a reserve army, and organized and simplified the military administration.
16. Hansakontor
The Hansakontor Dortmund is an office building in the heart of Dortmund's city centre. As a former administration building of Ruhrkohle AG, it is now accommodation for various younger and established companies from the region. The Hansakontor is directly connected to two roads. On the one hand, it has the old entrance to Silberstraße, and on the other hand, a new entrance to Hansastraße has been created, which leads directly through the listed gardens.
17. Gedenkstein Carl Kneebusch
Karl Kneebusch is a German teacher and author of hiking literature about Sauerland. His "Sauerlandführer" was written in 1884, continued to be published by Hermann Gro ä johann and Hugo Kracht in 1907, and finally published under the subtitle "Führer durch das Sauerland, Siegerland, Wittgensteiner Land, Bergische and Oberbergische Land, Waldeck und das Gebiet der Unterer Ruhr", until 1974 with a total of 34 editions and more than 215,000 prints.
18. Dreifaltigkeitskirche
The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Dortmund's Nordstadt district is located near Borsigplatz at Flurstraße 10. The community is one of the Roman Catholic parishes founded in the context of industrialization in the periphery of Dortmund's city center. The Roman Catholic workers who had immigrated for jobs in the coal and steel industry were to find a religiously influenced home in Protestant Dortmund in these communities.
19. Ehrenstatue Kaiser Wilhelm I.
William I or Wilhelm I was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and German Emperor from 18 January 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany. He was de facto head of state of Prussia from 1858, when he became regent for his brother Frederick William IV. During the reign of his grandson Wilhelm II, he was known as Wilhelm the Great.
20. Gedenkstein für Mehmet Kubaşık
Mehmet Kubaşık was a German retailer of Turkish origin and Kurdish descent. He was shot dead by members of the far-right terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) and was the eighth victim of its NSU murder spree. Until the NSU unmasked itself in November 2011, the investigating authorities falsely suspected Kubaşık himself of criminal activities and his family of involvement in the crime.
21. Westfalenpark
The Westfalenpark is a large public park in Dortmund, Germany. With an area of 70 ha, the park is one of the largest inner-city parks in Europe and is a popular destination for excursions and recreation in North Rhine-Westphalia. The park is situated between the Westfalenstadion, Westfalenhallen, Bundesautobahn 40 and includes the Florianturm. The Emscher valley forms the southern border of the park.
22. Tremoniapark
The Tremoniapark is a green and recreational area on the site of the former ironworks "Carl von Born" south of the former Tremonia colliery and the Rothe Erde in Dortmund, which was used as an experimental pit long after coal mining. Tremonia is also the Latin name for the city of Dortmund, which was common in the Middle Ages. The park is one of the typical examples of structural change in Dortmund.
23. Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche
The Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche is a Protestant church in the Dortmund district of Innenstadt-Ost. It was built between 1948 and 1949 as an emergency church according to a design by Otto Bartning and has been a listed building since 2011. It is named after the hymn writer Paul Gerhardt. The Evangelical Paul Gerhardt parish, to which the church belongs, is part of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.
24. Petrikirche
The Protestant St. Peter's Church in Dortmund is a municipal Westphalian hall church in High Gothic style. Approaching the ideal type of this church form, the central nave and side aisles are of the same height. The building has an almost square floor plan with a comparatively short choir. The sacred building is an important example of the special design of the hall churches in Westphalia.
25. Propsteikirche St. Johannes Baptist
Propsteikirche is the common name of a church in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the only Catholic church in the city centre. The full name is Propsteikirche St. Johannes Baptist Dortmund. It was built from 1331 as the abbey church of a Dominican monastery. Consecrated in 1458, it features a late-Gothic high altar by Derick Baegert which shows the oldest depiction of Dortmund.
26. St. Patrokli
St. Patrokli is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Kirchhörde district of Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the parish church of the St. Patrokli church community, which together with the parishes of St. Clemens Hombruch, St. Franziskus Xaverius Barop, Maria Queen Eichlinghofen and Holy family Brüninghausen forms the pastoral area pastoral network in the south of Dortmund.
27. Altes Hafenamt
Borussia Dortmund's Old Harbour Office was built in 1898 in a neo-Renaissance style at the newly established port of Borussia Dortmund, according to plans by architect and city inspector Friedrich Coulich. The building was used as a port authority until 1962. It underwent extensive restoration between 1982 and 1987 and is now one of the few William-era public buildings in Dortmund.
28. Stadion Rote Erde
Stadion Rote Erde is a 25,000 capacity football and athletics stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It serves as the home stadium to Borussia Dortmund II and several athletic clubs. The stadium was built in between 1924 and 1926 at a cost of 1.8 million German Mark. The stadium was inaugurated in 1926, with a match between the City of Dortmund and FC Wacker München (1-11).
29. St.-Ewaldi-Kirche
St. Ewaldi Aplerbeck is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Aplerbeck district of Dortmund, Germany. The parish of St. Ewaldi Aplerbeck belongs to the parish of St. Ewaldi Dortmund in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. The patron saints of the church are the Ewaldi brothers, who, according to tradition, are said to have died as martyrs here in Aplerbeck at the end of the 7th century.
30. Theater Dortmund
Opernhaus Dortmund is the opera house of Dortmund, Germany, operated by the Theater Dortmund organisation. A new opera house opened in 1966, replacing an earlier facility which opened in 1904 and was destroyed during World War I. It was built on the former site of the Old Synagogue, which was demolished by the Nazi local government in the 1930s.
31. AWO Schultenhof
The AWO-Schultenhof in Dortmund-Renninghausen in the district of Hombruch is a living and working project of the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) for disabled people in the field of organic farming with affiliated open-air gastronomy. The focus is on the integration of disabled people into working life in organic agriculture and horticulture.
32. Hörder Burg
Hörde Castle, also known as Hörde, in today's Hörde district of Dortmund was built in the 12th century in the immediate vicinity of the Emscher as a moated castle. It is the ancestral seat of the noble Hörde family. Not far from the castle there was an economically important flour mill at the confluence of the Emscher and Hörder Bach.
33. Standesamt Dortmund
Altes Stadthaus in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is an office block which was built in 1899, and was designed by "master builder" Friedrich Kullrich. It was built in the Renaissance Revival architecture (Neo-Renaissance) style. After the office block was severely damaged in World War II, it was rebuilt in a simplified form.
34. Gedenktafel für das Alte Rathaus
Dortmund's Old Town Hall is a Romanesque building that was the oldest stone town hall in the German-speaking region north of the Alps before it was demolished in 1955. It is located on the south side of the old market, in the center of the former Imperial City, forming an architectural whole, and the text building adjacent to the east.
35. St. Anna
The Roman Catholic, listed former parish church of St. Anna is located in the inner-city west district of Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia. The church, which belongs to the deanery of Dortmund of the Archdiocese of Paderborn, was handed over to the Polish Catholic Mission Dortmund in 2003 and the parish was dissolved in 2013.
Wikipedia: St. Anna (Dortmund) (DE), Website, Website Pl, Website
36. Maschinenhaus der ehem. Zeche Glückaufsegen Schacht 3
The Glückaufsegen colliery is a former coal mine in the Dortmund districts of Wellinghofen and Brünninghausen. The colliery was also known under the names Zeche Glückauf Seegen, Zeche Glückauf Segen and Zeche Glückaufs Seegen. The mine belonged to the Märkisches Bergamtsbezirk and there to the Brüninghausen jury area.
37. Sankt Urbanus
The Roman Catholic, listed parish church of St. Urbanus is located in Huckarde, a part of the Huckarde district of Dortmund, an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia. The church belongs to the pastoral association Am Revierpark in the deanery of Dortmund of the Archdiocese of Paderborn.
38. DOC - Dortmunder Centrum für Medizin und Gesundheit
The Deilmann Building in Dortmund is an office and commercial building built near the main railway station between 1975 and 1978 for WestLB. As with similar buildings at the headquarters of WestLB AG in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Münster, the design comes from the architect Harald Deilmann.
39. Phoenix des Lumières
The Warsteiner Music Hall is a former industrial hall on the site of the former Phoenix-West steelworks in the Hörde district of Dortmund, Germany. The hall was initially built in 1905 as a gas blower hall for the blast furnaces of the steelworks and is now used as a concert hall.
40. Volkshochschule
The Löwenhof is a building in the city center of Dortmund, Germany. In the course of its history, it has housed one of the largest concert cafés in West Germany, was the headquarters of the Heinrich August Schulte Eisenhandlung and is now the seat of the Volkshochschule Dortmund.
41. Westfalenhalle
Westfalenhallen is a commercial complex composed of conference and exhibition centers with an indoor arena (Westfalenhalle), located in Dortmund, Germany. It is surrounded by the Eissportzentrum Westfalenhallen, Stadion Rote Erde, Signal Iduna Park and Helmut-Körnig-Halle.
42. Große Kirche
The Große Kirche Aplerbeck is a Protestant church in Aplerbeck, now part of Dortmund, Germany. It was built from 1867 to 1869 in Gothic Revival style, designed by Christian Heyden. A listed monument, it is used by the parish St. Georg, serving mostly as a concert church.
43. Sankt-Nicolai-Kirche
The St. Nicolai Church, often referred to as the Nicolai Church for short, is a church built in 1929 in the Dortmund district of Innenstadt-West. A church of the same name existed until 1812 on Wißstraße and was one of the four main churches of medieval Dortmund.
44. Sankt Peter Syburg
St. Peter is a Romanesque church in Syburg, now a suburb of Dortmund, Germany. It is the active Protestant parish church of Syburg, officially named "Ev. Kirche St. Peter zu Dortmund-Syburg". It serves as a concert venue for the bimonthly Syburger Sonntagsmusiken.
45. St. Clemens
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Clemens is located in the Dortmund district of Hombruch. It is the parish church of the parish of St. Clemens of the same name in the pastoral area "Pastoralverbund im Dortmunder Süden". It is dedicated to St. Clement of Rome.
46. Brauerei-Museum
Borussia Dortmund Brewery Museum was established in 1981 and completed on August 12th. It opened the following November on the grounds of the Dortmunder Kronen private brewery. The museum was started by Heiner Brand, owner of Dortmund's Krone private brewery.
47. St. Johannes der Täufer
The listed Protestant church of St. John the Baptist is located in Brackel, a district of the Brackel district of the independent city of Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia. It belongs to the Dortmund church district of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.
48. Georgskirche
St. Georg is a church and Protestant parish in Aplerbeck, now part of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a Romanesque cross basilica (Kreuzbasilika) from the 12th century. The only building in Dortmund of its kind, it is a listed monument.
49. Haus Bodelschwingh
Haus Bodelschwingh is a moated castle in the Bodelschwingh district of Dortmund, which belongs to the district of Mengede. It is one of 18 aristocratic residences in Dortmund and is considered the largest and most representative complex in the city.
50. Wasserturm Dortmund Südbahnhof
The water tower of Dortmund's Südbahnhof is an elevated water tank of the former Dortmund Süd locomotive depot. It was built between 1923 and 1927 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and supplied steam locomotives with boiler feed water until the 1950s.
51. Julius Schanzer
The list of Stolpersteine in Dortmund contains Stolpersteine that were laid in Dortmund as part of the art project of the same name by Gunter Demnig. They are intended to commemorate victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Dortmund.
52. Syberg
The Syberg is a hill in the Ruhr in the southern part of Dortmund, 240 m above sea level (NN), which is part of the Ardey Hills. The Syberg is home to the Sigiburg, the Vincke Tower, a monument to Emperor William I and other points of interest.
53. St.Barbara
The Catholic parish church of St. Barbara is located in the Dortmund district of Dorstfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. The church, under the patronage of Barbara of Nicomedia, was built from 1895 to 1896 by master builder Lambert von Fisenne.
54. St. Barbara
Santa Barbara Avon is a Roman Catholic parish church in Dortmund-Avon. She belongs to Patrozinim of Barbara in Nico Media, and she is regarded as the patron saint of miners. The church is included in the list of monuments in Dortmund.
55. Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche
The Holy Cross Church, often abbreviated to the Kreuzkirche, is a church building of the Roman Catholic Holy Cross parish in Dortmund, Germany. It is the namesake for the surrounding residential district Kreuzviertel.
56. Haus Husen
Haus Husen is a manor house on the right bank of the Ruhr in the district of Hörde, Dortmund, Germany. It was built in 1830 in the style of classicism. Today it is owned by the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.
57. Langer August
Langer August is a home of self-government initiatives in Dortmund, founded in 1979. It is located at Braunschweiger Straße 22 in Nordstadt and is a member of the NW Association of Social and Cultural Centres.
58. Naturbühne Hohensyburg
The Naturbühne Hohensyburg is an open-air theatre in the Syburg district of Dortmund, Germany. The theatre is located in a valley of the Ardey Mountains below the Hohensyburg, which slopes down to the Ruhr.
59. Dortmunder U – Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität
The U-Tower or Dortmunder U is a former brewery building in the city of Dortmund, Germany. Since 2010 it has served as a centre for the arts and creativity, housing among other facilities the Museum Ostwall.
60. Wasserschloss Haus Rodenberg
The Rodenberg house is a water lock in the Dortmund district of Aplerbeck. The castle fell in the 19th and 20th centuries. Only the outer castle with the economic part remained from the former water lock.
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