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Tonhalle Düsseldorf is a concert hall in Düsseldorf. It was built by the architect Wilhelm Kreis. The resident orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, play symphonic repertoire at the Tonhalle as well as opera at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
The Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum unites Zoo, Natural History Museum and Aquarium in one institution under the administration of the city of Düsseldorf. It was opened in 1987 in the North Park under the name "Löbbecke-Museum + Aquazoo". On an area of about 2000 square meters, around 500 animal species are exhibited in 25 themed rooms in aquariums, terrariums and a tropical hall. Moreover, the exhibition includes 1,400 natural history exhibits, models and interactive stations. With about 400.000 visitors per year, the Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum has been by far the most visited cultural institution in the city of Düsseldorf for many years. The name of the institution refers to Theodor Löbbecke who laid the foundation of the natural history collection by collecting sea shells. The collection is rich in type material for different mollusc species, such as the Angaria loebbeckei and Chicoreus loebbeckei.
The Nordpark in Düsseldorf is a public green space in the Stockum district. It was planned in 1936 for the Reich Exhibition of the Creative People, a propaganda exhibition of the National Socialists, and opened in 1937. The main entrance is on Kaiserswerther Strasse, another entrance on the Rhine side on Rotterdamer Strasse.
The building of the Art Academy on Eiskellerstraße 1 in Düsseldorf-Altstadt was built between 1875 and 1879 by Hermann Riffart in the historical style of the Italian Renaissance. On the banks of the building, a modern studio building designed by Rudolf Schwarz is joined by the Kunstakademie.
The Rhine Terrace is a building with restaurants and meeting places, which was built between 1924 and 1926 according to plans by Wilhelm Kreis for the GeSoLei exhibition. It is located at Joseph-Beuys-Ufer 33 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort.
The Catholic parish church of St. Lambertus in Düsseldorf's Kalkum district forms the centre of the old town centre and dates back to the 11th century. The parish of the same name belongs to the Catholic parish community of Angerland/Kaiserswerth.
The Rheinturm is a 240.5-metre-high (789 ft) concrete telecommunications tower in Düsseldorf, capital of the federal state (Bundesland) of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Construction commenced in 1979 and finished in 1981. The Rheinturm carries aerials for directional radio, FM and TV transmitters. It stands 172.5 metres high and houses a revolving restaurant and an observation deck at a height of 168 metres. It is the tallest building in Düsseldorf.
The Königsallee is an urban boulevard in Düsseldorf, state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Königsallee is noted for both the landscaped canal that runs along its center, as well as for the fashion showrooms and luxury retail stores located along its sides.
9. Atelierhaus
The studio house for "young still unmarried painters and sculptors" at Franz-Jürgens-Straße 12 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim was built in 1936/37 according to a design by Hans Junghanns in the style of the home protection architecture. The building ensemble, which is designed as the "artist community center with 12 studios and an exhibition room", is owned by the city of Düsseldorf and is part of a "artist settlement" with sample buildings of the Reich exhibition from 1937, which also includes today's north park and other facilities Name "Settlement creating people" and then "Schlagterstadt" led. In the course of the Reich exhibition, the area of the so -called "New Art Academy" with 52 artist apartments and studios in favor of exhibition halls was planned northwest. The "artist settlement" on today's Franz-Jürgens-Straße offered a replacement for only 22 of the artists. It has been listed as part of the monument area "Golzheimer Settlement" since 2014.
Wikipedia: Atelierhaus für „junge noch unverheiratete Maler und Bildhauer“ (DE)
10. Kolpingplatz
Kolpingplatz, also spelled Kolping-Platz, formerly Clever Platz, is a park and square in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, Germany, which is used above ground as a green space, playground and market square and below ground for an underground car park. The 100-metre-wide and 150-metre-long town square, which is laid out on a rectangular ground plan, is bordered to the north by Klever Straße, to the east by Mauerstraße, to the south by Pfalzstraße and to the west by Schwerinstraße. After the Second World War, the city of Düsseldorf named the square after the Catholic priest Adolph Kolping, who was active in social reform. On the east side of the square, he is commemorated by a sculpture made of Roman travertine by Hermann Isenmann, erected in 1954 as a Kolping monument, which shows the "Father Kolping – Apostle of the Family" in a group of figures with a working-class family.
11. Wohn- und Atelierhaus Wach
The Wach residential and studio building is located at Emmericher Straße 28 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim. It was built from 1931 to 1933 according to designs by Karl Wach. Due to the free composition of the cubes and surfaces, it was groundbreaking for the modern residential architecture of the 1950s. For the first time, exposed concrete was used as a building material in Düsseldorf residential buildings. The front building is two-storey, the rear building single-storey. A pent roof slopes diagonally from the front to the rear building. The façade on the street shows an asymmetrical composition of transverse windows. A band of round windows is located above the entrance area. It is a motif from shipbuilding and comes from the exterior design of ocean liners.
12. Haus Vionville
The Vionville house, originally also Haus Rocholl, is a residential building in Düsseldorf-Golzheim, Kaiserswerther Straße 200. The gable, two-storey house was built in 1893–1894 by the Düsseldorf architect Klein & Dörschel for the painter Theodor Rocholl. It was built in the style of the neo -Renaissance and reflects the construction methods, shapes and materials of a rural and romantizing architecture through a round corner tower with a bell -shaped hood, by bayards, natural stone, half -timbering, window shops and Krüppelwalm. The house also referred to the village structure of Golzheim, which was still present at the time. "The house of its rural environment has been adapted both in the floor plan and in the outer architecture."
13. Peter von Cornelius
The Peter von Cornelius Monument is a historicist monument in Düsseldorf, located as the point de vue of Königsallee and Corneliusplatz on the edge of the Hofgarten. The statue honors the painter Peter von Cornelius, the first director of the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf and the co-founder of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. It was designed by the sculptor Adolf von Donndorf and inaugurated on 24 June 1879 in the presence of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. At a celebration in the evening in the Malkastenpark, a procession with figures based on paintings by Cornelius was performed to the sounds of the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Malkasten Timpani March by Julius Tausch.
14. Mannesmann-Hochhaus
The Mannesmann high-rise is an administrative building on Mannesmannufer in the Carlstadt district of Düsseldorf, Germany. It was designed and built between 1956 and 1958 by the architects Egon Eiermann and Paul Schneider-Esleben after they won an architectural competition in 1954. The original client was Mannesmann AG, which was taken over by Vodafone in 2000. As general contractor, Hochtief was involved in the construction. Together with the Dreischeibenhaus, it is one of the first modern high-rise buildings in Germany. It stands for the time of the so-called economic miracle, in which private companies significantly changed the city skyline of Düsseldorf with high-rise buildings in the style of post-war modernism.
15. Kaiserpfalz
The ruins of the Kaiserswerth Imperial Palace are located in the Kaiserswerth district of Düsseldorf. The Palatinate dates back to a monastery founded by the monk Suitbert(us) around 700. At that time, the Frankish householder Pippin the Middle and his wife Plektrudis gave the Anglo-Saxon monk an island on the Rhine artificially created by circumnavigating the old arm of the Rhine, on which there was already a Frankish Fronhof – protected by earthen ramparts, ditches and palisades. In the time that followed, this developed into a fortified customs fortress. On 23 December 1982, the complex was inscribed on the city's list of monuments in the category of castles, manor houses, fortifications, palaces.
16. Altes Araghaus
The former ARAG headquarters building at Heinrichstraße 155 in Düsseldorf's Mörsenbroich district was built in 1956 by Helmut Rhode for Allgemeine Rechtsschutz-Versicherungs AG. The building is an "important contribution to the architecture of the 1950s in Düsseldorf [...] The interior design and fittings are also exemplary for the 1950s." The building is eight storeys high and has a slightly recessed staggered storey at the upper end. The end of the roof is a protruding cornice. The basic Y-shaped shape is "the most striking". There are three concave swinging façades and three straight brick walls. The curved façades with their glazed grid façade are "characteristic of the construction period".
17. Alt St. Martin
The Alt St. Martin church is the oldest church in Düsseldorf and at the same time the oldest surviving building in the state capital. The origins of the former Bilk parish church lie in Carolingian times. The church, originally built around the year 700 and rebuilt around the year 1000, presumably also served as a parish church for the then neighbouring community of Düsseldorf until 1206. In 1812, Alt St. Martin lost its function as the parish church of Bilk and was no longer used as a church for over a century. After war damage and several elaborate restorations, the Catholic parish of St. Boniface and the Protestant Lutheran parish now regularly celebrate services in Alt St. Martin.
18. Haus der Universität
The University of the University of Düsseldorf Schadowplatz 14 is a facility at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. It was opened on September 20, 2013. There will be public events, conferences, exhibitions and study advice during opening hours from Monday to Saturday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. There is also an offer from the Düsseldorf University and State Library for researching scientific literature. With the new house and its facility in the city center district, the university, the campus of which is rather peripheral in the Bilk district, is given the opportunity to offer its information offer in a central location and thus to be better accessible to the public.
19. Drahtstiftefabrik Dreher
The Förderkreis Industriepfad Düsseldorf e.V. (FKI) is an association for research into the industrial history of Düsseldorf and the neighbouring region. The purpose of the association is the scientific processing and promotion of industrial culture, monument protection, monument preservation and cultural landscape protection. The association realizes this purpose with the conception of a path of local historical industrial development in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim and in neighboring Düsseldorf-Ludenberg, with the designation of industrial heritage locations throughout the city of Düsseldorf and with the support of industrial heritage networks in the region.
Wikipedia: Förderkreis Industriepfad Düsseldorf-Gerresheim (DE), Website
20. tanzhaus nrw
The Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf is a dance institution founded in 1998 that offers a comprehensive concept of presentation, production and participation in the field of dance. The premises at Erkrather Straße 30, an old tram depot, house stage performances, professional dance training, the development of productions as part of choreographer residencies as well as a variety of further training opportunities within the framework of courses and workshops under one roof. The cultural training programme of the Tanzhaus NRW, which is aimed at beginners, advanced dancers and professional dancers across generations, reaches an average of 3600 visitors per week.
21. Palais Nesselrode
Palais Nesselrode at Schulstraße 4 and Hafenstraße 2 in Düsseldorf-Carlstadt is a historic city palace. The brick house, which was damaged in the Second World War and has two main floors and one storey in the mansard roof, has been rebuilt and now houses the Hetjens Museum. Its three-part complex, which consists of two pavilion-like wings connected by a narrow central section, is irregularly arranged around a small courtyard. Benrath Castle in the style of Rococo Classicism served as a model for the construction. The semi-detached house at Schulstraße 4 and Hafenstraße 2 was the "only courtyard in Düsseldorf open to the street".
22. St. Mariä Empfängnis
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary's Conception – also known as St. Mary's Church – was built between 1894 and 1896 according to plans by the Mainz cathedral architect Ludwig Becker. It is located opposite the junction of Tonhallenstraße in Oststraße in the centre of Düsseldorf. The three-nave basilica with the double tower façade was designed in the cathedral style and is a typical example of Rhenish neo-Gothic. The parish belongs to the parish of St. Lambertus in the city deanery of Düsseldorf in the Archdiocese of Cologne. In 2011, the parish merged with the old town community to form the parish of St. Lambertus.
23. Hungerturm
The rescue institution Düsseldhal for orphans and street children was built in 1822 by Count Adelberdt von der Recke-Volmerstein as one of the first German institutions of this kind. It was built on the ground of a Cistercian monastery. The monastery was a gift from Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz to the Cistercians. The spekkerhöfe used for the foundation of the monastery, named after the stick bars made of bacon, later gave their name to the "bacon monks". The road on which the monastery was located was named after Count Adelberdt by the Recke-Volmerstein, the founder of the rescue institution.
24. Thomaskirche
The St. Thomas Church at Aschaffenburger Straße 8 in Düsseldorf-Reisholz was built in 1957/1958 according to plans by Walter Köngeter and Ernst Petersen. At its inauguration, it was named after Adolf Klarenbach, the first Protestant martyr in the Rhineland. It served the congregational work in District II (Reisholz) of the Protestant parish of Düsseldorf-Holthausen. In 1963/1964 a community centre was added and alterations were carried out. In 1996, the Klarenbach Chapel, the rectory and the community centre were entered into the list of monuments of the city of Düsseldorf.
25. Kriegerdenkmal im Hofgarten
The war memorial in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf's city centre stands on the Landskrone, the landscaped remnant of the former city fortifications in the Hofgarten. The monument was created by Karl Hilgers (1844–1925) after he had won an artists' competition with his design "Vaterstadt" (Father's Town), which had been announced by the "Committee for the Erection of a War Memorial". The monument was inaugurated on October 18, 1892. It is dedicated to fallen Düsseldorf soldiers of the German Wars of Unification (1864–66) and the German-French War (1870/71).
26. Mahn- und Gedenkstätte für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft
The Düsseldorf Memorial for the Victims of National Socialist Tyranny is a cultural institute of the state capital of Düsseldorf. It is a museum, a research centre and an archive. The house was opened in 1987 and has since been dedicated to the memory of Düsseldorf's victims and persecuted by the Nazi regime. It is located in the western part of the historic town hall in the old town and has been showing the permanent exhibition "Düsseldorf Children and Young People under National Socialism" since a thorough renovation and its reopening in May 2015.
27. Stück der Berliner Mauer
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to prevent East German citizens from fleeing to the West.
28. Ratinger Tor
The Ratinger Tor is the last and only remaining city gate of the original city of Düsseldorf. However, the current building is not the medieval city gate, but a customs gate built between 1811 and 1815 in the classicist style. The need for a new building arose from the demolition of the fortifications stipulated in the Treaty of Lunéville, to which the old gate fell victim. The new Ratinger Tor was moved by about 115 m to the east, which made it possible to extend Ratinger Straße by 60 m and to create a boulevard, today's Heinrich-Heine-Allee.
29. Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche at Roßstraße 75 in Düsseldorf-Derendorf was built between 1905 and 1907 by the architect Josef Kleesattel and is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of the same name in the Archdiocese of Cologne, which has been merged into the Derendorf-Pempelfort parish association since 2009. In accordance with the Pastoral Reform Directive of the Archdiocese of Cologne, on 1 January 2013 the parishes of this association in Düsseldorf-Derendorf and Pempelfort will be merged into their original parish of Holy Trinity.
30. Gedenkstein Hundsburg
Stoffeln is a devastation in the Düsseldorf districts of Bilk, Oberbilk and Wersten in the districts 3 and 9. On the site of the former village, there is now an allotment garden adjacent to Düsseldorf's Südpark, part of the Stoffel cemetery and newer residential buildings north and south of today's Werstener Straße. On the "Stoffeln district", which still exists in the land register, there are parts of the Südpark and the campus of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf as well as the University Hospital Düsseldorf.
31. Die Kugelspielerin
The Ball Player is a sculpture by the sculptor Walter Schott and is considered his main work. It was created between 1895 and 1897 in Berlin. A life-size bronze cast can be found in the flower garden on Königsallee in Düsseldorf, other art castings can be found in Mannheim and Langen (Hesse), and a copy in Berlin-Köpenick. A marble setting has been preserved in the park of Gut Waltersdorf near Heideblick. In addition, there are a large number of statuettes of the figure, in bronze, chryselephantine and Meissen porcelain.
32. Scheidt-Weschpfennig
Haus Altestadt 14 in Düsseldorf is a listed building. The location, the street Altestadt, is one of the oldest in Düsseldorf. The explanations of the various authors given under the following description are partly somewhat different in their statements on the details. However, the most important statements are confirmed or clarified by the Düsseldorf H. Ferber in his book of 1889. This is especially true for the date of construction, some names of the various owners and the magnificent ceiling in one room.
33. Immanuel-Kirche
The Immanuel Church at Pionierstraße 61 in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt was built between 1965 and 1966 according to plans by the architect Heinz Kalenborn for the Protestant Peace Church. It is an example of the use of concrete as a building material. For example, the "inside and outside of the wall surfaces are made of exposed concrete". The relief "Jesus in the Boat" and the inscription "If you don't believe, you won't stay" are works by the Düsseldorf artist Curt Beckmann. The church was closed in 2013.
34. Tersteegenkirche
The Tersteegen Church is a Protestant church building in Düsseldorf-Golzheim at Tersteegenplatz 1. It was built between 1957 and 1958 and inaugurated on June 29, 1958. To this day, it is regularly used for church services and concerts. The church is named after the pietistic preacher, pastor and writer Gerhard Tersteegen. It is owned by the Evangelical Tersteegen parish in the Düsseldorf church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, a congregation of around 2000 members today.
35. Hubertuskapelle
The Hubertus Chapel is a baroque chapel in Düsseldorf-Angermund with the patronage of St. Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters. The chapel is located in the area of the parish of St. Remigius Wittlaer, deanery of Düsseldorf-Nord, and used to be used in particular by hunters for church services and thanksgiving services. Today, it is the only surviving example of the castle chapels in front of medieval or baroque knights' residences, which were often found in the city of Düsseldorf.
36. Düsseldorf-Benrath
Düsseldorf-Benrath station is about 10 kilometres south of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof in the Düsseldorf district of Benrath. It is on the Cologne–Duisburg line, and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. In addition, Düsseldorf Benrath station is served by two Regional-Express services, several city bus services and two Stadtbahn lines. Benrath is the busiest station after Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof in Düsseldorf with about 25,000–30,000 daily entries and exits.
37. St. Benediktus
The neo-Gothic Roman Catholic Church and former parish church of St. Benediktus in Düsseldorf-Heerdt is the only Benedict patronage in the Archdiocese of Cologne. It refers to the St. Benedict of Nursia, the order of the Neuss Benedictines, to which the Hof Heerdt in the Middle Ages belonged. On January 1, 2015, the parish of the same name merged with the remaining three parish parishes in Düsseldorf on the left bank of the Rhine for the new parish of St. Antonius and Benediktus.
38. K20 - Kunstsammlung NRW
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Düsseldorf. United by this institution are three different exhibition venues: the K20 at Grabbeplatz, the K21 in the Ständehaus, and the Schmela Haus. The Kunstsammlung was founded in 1961 by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia as a foundation under private law for the purpose of displaying the art collection and expanding it through new acquisitions.
39. Sankt Marien koptisch-orthodoxe Kirche
The former Roman Catholic bunker church of St. Sacrament, since 2015 Coptic parish of St. Maria, in Düsseldorf's Heerdt district, was originally a high-rise bunker from the Second World War, which offered space for around 2300 people on four floors. The listed building is thus a unique place of worship in the world and has also been aptly described as the "most stable church in the world". Today it is a church, memorial and art venue all in one.
Wikipedia: Bunkerkirche Sankt Sakrament (Düsseldorf) (DE), Website
40. Haus Weber
Haus Weber, An der alten Mühle 5 in Düsseldorf-Kalkum, was built in 1951 by Helmut Hentrich and Hans Heuser together with the landscape architect Roland Weber in the tradition of the 1930s homeland protection style. The house is single-storey, has white mud masonry and ends with a gable roof at the top. On the garden side there is a large window area. The "Garden Room", an unglazed room, opens onto a rectangular water basin in front.
41. Auferstehungskirche
The Protestant Church of the Resurrection in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, on the corner of Arnulfstraße and Quirinstraße, is an architecturally important testimony to Art Nouveau, which foreshadows the Rhenish brick architecture of the 1920s. It is a listed building. It was built between 1913 and 1914 according to a design by the Düsseldorf architects Rudolf Wilhelm Verheyen and Julius Stobbe and inaugurated on Ascension Day in 1914.
42. Museum für Naturkunde
Schloss Benrath is a Baroque-style maison de plaisance in Benrath, which is now a borough of Düsseldorf. It was erected for the Elector Palatine Charles Theodor and his wife, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, by his garden and building director Nicolas de Pigage. Construction began in 1755 and was completed in 1770. The ensemble at Benrath has been proposed for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
43. Johanneskirche
St John's Church, with its almost 88 m high tower, is the largest Protestant church in Düsseldorf. It is located at the Martin-Luther-Platz. The church was built from 1875 to 1881 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was severely damaged in World War II, but was saved from destruction and in 1953 it was reopened. The last major remodeling took place in 2008. There is a cafe through which one enters the actual church.
44. Denkmal der 39er
The Ehrenhof is the name given to an expressionist ensemble of buildings and gardens in Düsseldorf, the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was created for the GeSoLei exhibition in 1926. Today, as a museum, it encloses an inner courtyard with the buildings of the Kunstpalast and the NRW Forum and extends axially over a garden parterre to the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, a dome-roofed concert and multi-purpose hall.
45. St. Peter
The neo-Gothic Catholic parish church of St. Peter in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk on the church square was built according to designs by the architect Caspar Clemens Pickel and consecrated in 1898. It is one of the largest churches in the state capital of Düsseldorf. The parish of the same name belongs to the pastoral care area of Unterbilk, Oberbilk, Friedrichstadt and Eller-West in the Archdiocese of Cologne.
46. St. Cäcilia
The Catholic parish church of St. Cäcilia in Düsseldorf-Benrath is a three-aisled neo-Gothic church with the tower attached to the side, which was built by the architect Wilhelm Sültenfuß in the late 19th century. Former church buildings in the same place can be traced back to 1005. The parish of the same name forms the parish association Benrath-Urdenbach with the Herz-Jesu parish in Urdenbach.
47. Robert Schumann-Haus
The Schumannhaus at Bilker Strasse 15 in Düsseldorf's Carlstadt was the last joint residence of Robert and Clara Schumann and at the same time the only one in Germany that has been preserved in its historic structure. Built in 1795, the building housed the Schumann Memorial from 2003 to 2018 and, after a renovation and a new extension, has been reopened as the Schumann Museum since 1 December 2023.
48. Südpark
With an area of 70 hectares, the Südpark is the largest and most visited park in the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital of Düsseldorf. It was created according to designs by the Südpark planning group for the Federal Horticultural Show in 1987 by expanding the existing Volksgarten with new parks laid out on former wasteland. The resulting Südpark consists of three differently designed areas.
49. Weg der Befreiung, Station 3
The path of liberation is a history project in the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital of Düsseldorf and in the district town of Mettmann. It is reminiscent of local resistance to National Socialism at the end of the Second World War and the liberation of the city of Düsseldorf in April 1945. It is also a decentralized memorial that is reminiscent of the time of National Socialism.
50. Drahthaus
The wire house at Kaiserswerther Strasse 137 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim was built between 1951 and 1952 according to plans by Helmut Hentrich and Hans Heuser for the Association of the Wire Industry. The employee was Hubert Petschnigg (HPP). It is an exemplary post-war building, which with its "dissolved filigree façade was trend-setting for the architecture of the 1950s in Germany".
51. Große Mannesmann
The Great Mannesmann, also known as Mannesmann I or Movement, is a sculpture by the sculptor Norbert Kricke. It was created in 1958 in the context of informal art as a commissioned work for Mannesmann AG and was erected in 1961 on the forecourt of the Mannesmann high-rise in Düsseldorf. Together with the high-rise building, the property has been a listed building since 1997.
52. St. Bruno
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Bruno is located at Kalkumer Straße 58 in the west of Düsseldorf's Unterrath district. Its patronage is under the jurisdiction of St. Bruno, a native of Cologne, the founder of the Carthusian Order, who maintained a monastery in nearby Lichtenbroich until 1964. Until 1998, the church was the centre of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Bruno.
53. Mannesmann-Haus
The Mannesmann-Haus, also known as the Behrensbau, is a former administrative building in Düsseldorf, Germany, located on Mannesmannufer in the Carlstadt district. It was built between 1911 and 1912 according to a design by the architect Peter Behrens for the headquarters of Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG and is one of the early large administrative buildings in Düsseldorf.
54. Vater Rhein und seine Töchter
The fountain sculpture "Father Rhine and His Daughters" in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk was created by the sculptors Karl Janssen and Josef Tüshaus and unveiled on 7 March 1897. The monument is an allegory of the Rhine and represents the Prussian Rhine Province. It is located in front of their Estates House on an exedra that juts out into a body of water, the Kaiserteich.
55. St. Franziskus Xaverius Kirche
The Catholic parish church of St. Franziskus Xavierius in Düsseldorf-Mörsenbroich is a modern church building of the interwar period. It is located directly at the Mörsenbroicher Ei. The parish of the same name has existed in its current form only since 1 January 2010, when it merged with the parishes of St. Josef and Zum Heiligen Kreuz in the district of Rath.
56. St. Antonius
The Catholic parish church of St. Antonius in Düsseldorf's Friedrichstadt district was built between 1905 and 1909 according to plans by architects Wilhelm and Paul Sültenfuß in neo-Romanesque style. It belongs to the pastoral care area of Unterbilk, Oberbilk, Friedrichstadt and Eller-West in the Düsseldorf City Deanery of the Archdiocese of Cologne.
57. St. Maximilian
The Catholic Church of St. Maximilian in the Carlstadt district of Düsseldorf is a late Baroque church that emerged from a Franciscan monastery that was dissolved in 1804. The monastery, whose living and utility rooms were located in the immediately adjacent Maxhaus, was founded in the 17th century, and today's church was built in the 18th century.
58. St. Adolfus
The Catholic Church of St. Adolfus is located in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, Kaiserswerther Straße 60. Cordobastraße, which runs on the south side of the church, is an indication that the Church is dedicated to the Spanish martyr St. Adolphus, according to the description of the priest Eulogius, had the Emir of Córdoba executed in the 9th century.
59. St. Martin
The Catholic Martinskirche, also known as the Bilker Church, is located in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk and is the parish church of the parish of St. Martin, which belongs to the pastoral care area of Unter- and Oberbilk, Friedrichstadt and Eller-West. The building, which was blown up during the war, was stylistically related to the Suitbertus Church.
Wikipedia: Martinskirche (Düsseldorf-Unterbilk) (DE), Website
60. Quadenhof
The Quadenhof is a building at Gerricusplatz 23 in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim. It was built for Godt of Broichhusen 1427 to 1436. The farm was named after the Quad family of Raede, who received him in 1458 by marriage. The Quadenhof is one of the few profane brick buildings of the late Middle Ages, which have been preserved in the Düsseldorf area.
61. Phoenix-Haus
The Phoenix-Haus is a listed administration building at Fritz-Roeber-Straße 2 in Düsseldorf's old town, which was built from 1923 to 1926 for Phoenix AG for mining and metallurgy on the former Eiskellerberg, served as an employment office for almost seven decades and has been the seat of the Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office since 2002.
62. St. Rochus
The Catholic Church of St. Rochus is located at Rochusmarkt 5 in the Pempelfort district of Düsseldorf. It is the successor to the Rochus Chapel, which was demolished at the end of the 19th century. The parish of the same name was founded in 1890/1891 and dissolved on January 1, 2013, joining its historic "mother parish" of the Holy Trinity.
63. St. Gertrud
The Catholic parish church of St. Gertrud in the Düsseldorf district of Eller is a neo-Gothic church building. The church on Gertrudisplatz was preceded by three places of worship at other locations. The parish of the same name was founded in 1624 and today belongs to the parish community of Eller-Lierenfeld, which has existed since 2000.
64. NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
The NRW Forum Wirtschaft und Kultur, formerly the Museum für Industrie und Wirtschaft, is a museum in Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, dealing with the development and the economy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia or regions within it, such as the Rhine-Ruhr-region. Today it is part of the Museum Kunstpalast.
65. Ständehaus
The Ständehaus was the parliament building of the Provincial Day of the Prussian Rhinelande in Düsseldorf from 1880 to the 1930s. From 1949 to 1988, it served as a venue for the North Rhine-Westphalia Landtag. Today, it is home to the K21 exhibition building, the Department of Contemporary Art of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
66. St. Mariä Himmelfahrt - Liebfrauen
The Church of St. Mary’s Assumption – also called Liebfrauenkirche – is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Flingern-Nord district of Düsseldorf. It was built in 1890 to 1892 in accordance with the designs of the architect Caspar Clemens Pickel. The parish of the same name belongs to the parish association Flingern/Düsseltal.
67. Synagoge Düsseldorf
The New Synagogue is the synagogue of the Jewish community in Düsseldorf, Germany. The synagogue was built in the Golzheim district, far from the site of the former synagogue, which was located in the city center at Kasernenstraße. There the synagogue, built in 1905, was pillaged and burned by SA men during the Kristallnacht in 1938.
68. Kreuzherrenkirche
The Church of the Knights of the Cross was originally a monastery church of the Order of the Knights of the Cross. Located in the old city centre of Düsseldorf on the corner of Ursulinengasse and Ratinger Straße, the building now serves as the St.-Ursula-Gymnasium as a school church and auditorium and is not open to the public.
69. Stummhaus
The silent house at Breite Straße 67 to 69 in Düsseldorf was built on behalf of the Stumm Group by the Düsseldorf office building company from 1922 to 1924 according to Paul Bonatz plans in the materials and forms of baking stone expressionism. The construction is considered "a prime example of Expressionism in architecture".
70. Haus am Seestern
The Horten main administration building is located at Am Seestern 3 in Düsseldorf-Lörick. It was built in 1960/1961 according to designs by the architect Helmut Rhode "based on the American model" and is considered a pioneer in office architecture: "The first building in Germany to be realised as a purely open-plan office".
71. Aalschokker
Schokker is a type of Dutch ship that was used until the 19th century. Schokkers were fishing sailing vessels used in the Zuiderzee and were characterized in particular by the so-called Schokker tree, a swing-out device for fishing with trawl nets. The type of ship takes its name from the island of Schokland in the Zuidersee.
72. Haus Goldener Helm
Haus Goldener Helm is located at the corner of Flinger Strasse 1 and Berger Strasse in the Altstadt district of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital of Düsseldorf. On November 10, 1983, it was entered into the city's list of monuments in the category of residential and settlement buildings in the subcategory Baroque.
73. Hetjens-Museum
The Hetjens - German Ceramic Museum is a Düsseldorf Museum of Ceramic History founded on May 9, 1909. Due to the pieces of its collection, which is up to 8000 years old and from all parts of the world, it is considered the most universal institute of its kind and is regularly represented with loans at home and abroad.
74. St. Albertus Magnus
The Catholic Church of St. Albertus Magnus in Düsseldorf-Golzheim was built in 1938 on Kaiserswerther Straße, consecrated in 1939 as the first parish church in Golzheim, but was not finally completed until 1974. It belongs to the parish of Holy Family in the city deanery of Düsseldorf in the Archdiocese of Cologne.
75. Karl-Arnold-Haus
The Karl-Arnold-Haus is located at Palmenstraße 16 in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk, adjacent to the Florapark. The building is the joint headquarters of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, the Johannes Rau Research Foundation and the State Rectors' Conference of North Rhine-Westphalia.
76. Anbetungskirche
The Adoration Church is a Protestant church in Düsseldorf-Hassels, Germany. Between 1962 and 1964, the Protestant parish of Benrath built this church building in addition to the Dankeskirche, because the congregation had grown considerably. The dedication service took place on October 4, 1964, Thanksgiving Sunday.
77. Schlosspark Kalkum
Kalkum Castle is a moated castle in the district of the same name in the north of Düsseldorf, about two kilometres northeast of Kaiserswerth, and is an extraordinary example of classicist castle construction in the Rhineland. Together with the associated park, it has been a listed building since 18 January 1984.
78. Triton-Brunnen
The Triton Fountain was created by the Düsseldorf sculptor Friedrich Coubillier from 1898 to 1902 and acquired by the City Beautification Association for Düsseldorf's Königsallee. At the northern end of the avenue, the fountain functions as a point de vue and design closure of the canal axis of the city moat.
79. Wildpark am Grafenberger Wald
With its size of 36 hectares, the wildlife park in the Grafenberg Forest is one of the larger parks in Düsseldorf. It is one of the oldest wildlife parks in Germany and shows only native animal species. The outdoor areas and enclosures of the animals are home to a beech forest that is more than 200 years old.
80. Classic Remise Düsseldorf
Classic Remisen are service centres for motorcycles and automobiles, specialising in the field of classics, classic cars and collector's vehicles. There are two Classic Carriage Houses in Berlin and Düsseldorf. Both service centres are located in listed buildings with an industrial and transport background.
81. St. Agnes
The Catholic Church of St. Agnes is located in Düsseldorf-Angermund. It was built as a parish church after the Thirty Years' War. The parish of the same name belongs to the Catholic pastoral care area of Angerland - Kaiserswerth in the city deanery of Düsseldorf of the Archdiocese of Cologne.
82. Heilige Dreifaltigkeit
Founded in 1691, the Catholic parish of Holy Trinity in Düsseldorf's Derendorf district is the oldest parish outside the former city walls of Düsseldorf that still exists today. The original parish church was built between 1692 and 1693, and the current church was built between 1892 and 1893.
83. Jan-Wellem-Denkmal
The Jan Wellem monument in the Düsseldorf City Hall was completed by sculptor Gabriel de Grupello after 1697/before 1708. The marble statue is Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg, named Jan Wellem, Elector of the Palatinate and Duke of Jülich-Berg, who was speaking Lower Franconian at the time.
84. Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Düsseldorf-Urdenbach is a three-nave, neo-Romanesque basilica, the construction of which began in 1893. The Sacred Heart Parish, which has existed since 1906, today forms the Benrath-Urdenbach parish association together with St. Cecilia.
85. German Opera on the Rhine
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company. Axel Kober has been its Music Director since 2009. The resident orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, play both opera and symphonic repertoire.
86. Friedenskirche
The Friedenskirche is a Protestant church consecrated in 1899 on Florastraße in the Unterbilk district of Düsseldorf, Germany. Its neo-Gothic architecture is typical of sacred buildings of historicism, even though many parts of the building were altered or simplified after war damage.
87. Schneidersches Geschäftshaus
The former Schneider office building in Düsseldorf's old town was built in 1896 or 1898 according to designs by the Düsseldorf architect Hermann vom Endt. On 2 September 1983, the corner house was listed as a historical monument. The ground floor of the building is now a boutique.
88. Stephanuskirche
Wersten is a quarter (Stadtteil) of Düsseldorf located in Borough 9 of the city. It is south of Eller and Oberbilk, east of Bilk, and north of Holthausen. It has an area of 4.42 km2 (1.71 sq mi), and 27,151 inhabitants (2020). It has been a part of Düsseldorf since 1909.
89. Burg Angermund
Angermund Castle, also known as the Kellnerei or Alte Kellnerei, is a moated castle on the Angerbach in the Angermund district of Düsseldorf, Germany. It is located south of the historic town centre and is one of the most important architectural monuments in Düsseldorf.
90. Jan-Wellem-Kapelle
The Jan-Wellem chapel (Kreuzkapelle) on Fährstraße No. 95 in Düsseldorf-Hamm was donated by Philipp Wilhelm in 1658 for the birth of his son Johann Wilhelm, called Jan Wellem. Jörg Heimeshoff describes the Renaissance chapel completed in 1660 and renovated in 1990:
91. Ehemaliges Konsulat USA
The Consulate General of the United States, Düsseldorf is a consular post located in Golzheim, Düsseldorf, Germany. It was built in 1953, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the 1950s International Style. The architect Otto Apel implemented the design on-site.
Wikipedia: Consulate General of the United States, Düsseldorf (EN)
92. St. Suitbertus
The former collegiate church and today's parish church of St. Suitbertus is a flat-roofed, three-nave pillar basilica in the Kaiserswerth district of Düsseldorf, Germany. The parish of the same name belongs to the Catholic parish community of Angerland/Kaiserswerth.
Wikipedia: St. Suitbertus (Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth) (DE), Website
93. St. Ursula
The Catholic parish church of St. Ursula in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg was originally built by Josef Kleesattel in the neo-Romanesque style. After the almost complete destruction, a more modern church building was added to the standing tower, but quoting the old model.
94. Rheinkirmes
The Largest Fair on the Rhine is a fair in Düsseldorf, one of Germany's largest. It takes place the third week in July on the left bank of the Rhine River, in the district Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, and features beer and food tents, amusement park rides, and vendors.
95. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is a Protestant church consecrated in 1899 on Kruppstraße in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk. Its neo-Gothic architecture is typical of sacred buildings of historicism, even though many parts of the building were altered or simplified after war damage.
96. Römischer Kaiser
The Hotel Römischer Kaiser is a former hotel at Stresemanstraße 26 in the center of Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has more recently been used as an office and commercial building. It was designed by Josef Kleesattel and finished in 1904.
97. Klarenbachkirche
The Klarenbachkirche is a Protestant church in Düsseldorf-Holthausen, Bonner Straße 24. Along with St. Stephen's Church in Wersten, it belongs to the parish of Düsseldorf-Süd in the church district of Düsseldorf of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
Wikipedia: Klarenbachkirche (Düsseldorf-Holthausen) (DE), Website
98. St. Josef
The Catholic Church of St. Josef is located in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk. It was once the parish church of the largest parish in the Archdiocese of Cologne. Today, the parish belongs to the pastoral care area of Unterbilk, Oberbilk, Friedrichstadt and Eller-West.
99. Florapark
The Florapark is one of the smaller parks in the state capital of Düsseldorf. Its total area is 3 hectares. It is located in the old south of the city, today in the south of the city center in the district of Unterbilk, not far from Friedrichstadt and Bilk.
100. Kreuzkirche
The Kreuzkirche is a church building of the Protestant parish of Düsseldorf-Mitte in the district of Pempelfort on the borders of Golzheim and Derendorf. It was built in the Neo-Romanesque style, the style preferred by Kaiser Wilhelm II for church building.
Wikipedia: Kreuzkirche (Düsseldorf-Pempelfort) (DE), Website
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