13 Sights in Königswinter, Germany (with Map and Images)
Explore interesting sights in Königswinter, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 13 sights are available in Königswinter, Germany.
List of cities in GermanySightseeing Tours in Königswinter1. Leserpark
The small readers' park in the Bonn district of Plittersdorf in Bad Godesberg covers an area of around 40,000 square metres along the Rhine between the Von-Sandt-Ufer and the new development Am Büchel. In the north of the forest park lies the historic Villa Cahn, whose owner at the turn of the 20th century, the Leser family, gave its name to the park. Originally, the park was considerably more extensive to the west, it was greatly reduced in the 1980s by the development of apartment buildings on today's street Am Büchel. Already at the beginning of the 20th century, the Godesberg municipal administration had tried to open up the park for development towards the Rhine. At that time, however, the legally experienced Higher Regional Court Councillor Wilhelm Leser was able to prevent the development plans.
2. Auferstehungskirche Ittenbach
The Church of the Resurrection is a Protestant church built in 1966 and 1967 according to plans by the Cologne architects Wolfgang Lincke and Karl-Heinz Urmetzer in Ittenbach, a district of the city of Königswinter in the Rhein-Sieg district (North Rhine-Westphalia). Along with the Friedenskirche Aegidienberg, the Otto-Bartning-Notkirche Oberpleis, the Evangelical Church Stieldorf and the parish hall in Birlinghoven, it is one of the five preaching sites of the Evangelical parish of Siebengebirge.
3. Reptilienzoo
The Nibelungenhalle is a domed building in Königswinter, a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the way to the summit of the Drachenfels, where Siegfried is said to have killed the dragon, and shows a collection of paintings by Hermann Hendrich on Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Wagner's Gralsoper Parsifal. The hall includes a "dragon's cave" and an outdoor reptile zoo.
4. Schloß Drachenburg
Schloss Drachenburg or Drachenburg Castle is a private villa styled as a palace and constructed in the late 19th century. It was completed in only two years (1882–84) on the Drachenfels hill in Königswinter, a German town on the east bank of the Rhine, south of the city of Bonn. Baron Stephan von Sarter (1833–1902), a broker and banker, planned to live there, but never did.
5. Landsturmdenkmal
The castle ruin Drachenfels in the Siebengebirge is the remnant of a hilltop castle at 321 m above sea level, which was begun in 1138 by the Archbishop of Cologne, Arnold I, and bought and completed in 1149 by Gerhard von Are, the provost of Bonn's St. Cassius Abbey. It stands on the mountain of the same name Drachenfels.
Wikipedia: Burg Drachenfels (Siebengebirge) (DE), Architect Wikipedia
6. Drachenfels
The Drachenfels is a hill in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The hill was formed by rising magma that could not break through to the surface, and then cooled and became solid underneath. It is the subject of much tourism and romanticism in the North Rhine-Westphalia area.
7. St. Michael-Kirche
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Niederdollendorf, a district of Königswinter in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district, dates back to 1911. It is a listed building. The church is located at the junction of Heisterbacher Straße and Hauptstraße.
8. St. Pankratius
St. Pankratius is a former provost church built in the 12th century in Oberpleis, a district of Königswinter in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Benedictine provost was abolished in 1803, and the Prussian state left the church to the Catholic parish as a parish church.
9. Eisbacher Kapelle
Eisbach is a village and a former municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It belongs to the district of Oberpleis and mainly to the municipal area of Wahlfeld, on 30 September 2022 it had 220 inhabitants.
10. Caesarius von Heisterbach
Caesarius of Heisterbach, sometimes erroneously called, in English, Caesar of Heisterbach, was the prior of a Cistercian monastery, Heisterbach Abbey, which was located in the Siebengebirge, near the small town of Oberdollendorf, Germany.
11. Kapelle Kreuzerhöhung
Quirrenbach is a village and a former municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It belongs to the district of Eudenbach and the district of the Oberhaus, on 30 September 2022 it had 225 inhabitants.
12. Dollendorfer Hardt
The Dollendorfer Hardt is a mountain of the Siebengebirge and its northernmost elevation. It is located east of Oberdollendorf in Königswinter, directly on the border with Bonn. The wooded summit lies at 246.7 m above sea level.
13. Michaelkapelle
The Michaelskapelle is a church building in the Bonn district of Bad Godesberg. The building is located about 60 meters northwest of the keep of the Godesburg, built from 1210. It is a listed building.
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