Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Aachen, Germany

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Number of sights 14 sights
Distance 6.7 km
Ascend 236 m
Descend 237 m

Explore Aachen in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Aachen

Sight 1: Karlsgarten

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A Charlemagne Garden or Carolingian Garden is a garden that implements and demonstrates the garden concept of Charlemagne's Courts and Villages Ordinance from around 800 in whole or in part in the present day.

Wikipedia: Karlsgarten (DE), Website

1158 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 2: St. Sebastian

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The Catholic parish of St. Sebastian Aachen-Hörn belongs to the Community of Municipalities (GdG) Aachen-Nord-West St. Philipp-Neri and is located in the Aachen district of Hörn.

Wikipedia: St. Sebastian (Aachen-Hörn) (DE)

969 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 3: Bilal-Moschee

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The Bilal Mosque in Aachen was built between 1964 and 1971 on the grounds of the Aachen University of Applied Sciences and named after Bilal al-Habashi. It is the fifth oldest mosque still in existence in Germany, after the Wilmersdorf Mosque in Berlin, the Fazle Omar Mosque in Hamburg, the Nuur Mosque in Frankfurt am Main and the Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg, as well as the fourth mosque built in Germany after World War II. The Bilal Mosque is considered a pioneer in terms of interreligious dialogue.

Wikipedia: Bilal-Moschee (Aachen) (DE), Website

960 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 4: Heilig-Kreuz

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Heilig Kreuz is a city church in Aachen, Germany. It was consecrated in 1902 and is located in the Pontviertel, a northern part of the city on Pontstraße near the former city gate Ponttor. This puts it in the immediate vicinity of the buildings of the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH).

Wikipedia: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Aachen) (DE), Website

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Ehrenmal

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The Marienturm was a defensive tower of the outer city wall of the city of Aachen, built between 1300 and 1350. It is one of the few surviving towers of the former city fortifications and is one of the architectural monuments of the city of Aachen.

Wikipedia: Marienturm (Aachen) (DE)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Alfred von Reumont

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Alfred von Reumont

Alfred von Reumont was a German scholar and diplomatist.

Wikipedia: Alfred von Reumont (EN)

735 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Ehemalige Klosterkirche der Karmelitinnen

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The Convent of the Discalced Carmelite Sisters (OCD) in Aachen has existed since 1662 and has been dissolved several times and rebuilt at various locations in the city.

Wikipedia: Karmelitinnenkloster Aachen (DE)

675 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: Salvatorberg

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At 229 meters, the Salvatorberg is the middle of the three “house mountains” of Aachen. The highest of these witness mountains is the Lousberg, the lowest of the Wingertsberg. The Salvatorberg was given its name after the Salvator chapel built in the 9th century and the "Salvator monastery" of the same name, which was also founded there, which was also found there, both of which were consecrated in his capacity as Salvator Mundi.

Wikipedia: Salvatorberg (DE)

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Salvatorkirche

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St. Salvator on the Salvatorberg in Aachen is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church. The current building was completed in 1886. Predecessor buildings were first mentioned around the year 840 and consecrated to Jesus Christ in his capacity as Salvator Mundi around 870 at the latest.

Wikipedia: St. Salvator (Aachen) (DE)

325 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Gartenhaus Mantels

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The garden house Mantels, also Kerstenscher Pavillon, is a baroque garden pavilion by the Aachen master builder Johann Joseph Couven, today located on the southeastern slope of the Lousberg. The garden house is one of the three traditional garden houses of Couvens in Aachen, including the garden house Nuellens and the pastor garden house, which was broken off in 1888.

Wikipedia: Gartenhaus Mantels (DE)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Tranchot-Obelisk

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Tranchot-Obelisk

Topographic Survey of the Rhineland is a work of maps taken by the French geographer Jean Joseph Tranchot.

Wikipedia: Topographische Aufnahme der Rheinlande (DE)

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Belvedere

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The Belvedere Water Tower, also known as the Aachen Turning Tower and Belvedere Turning Tower, is a 35 m high water tower in reinforced concrete construction on the Aachen Lousberg, which was built between 1956 and 1958 according to the plans of the then Aachen City Planning Officer and architect Wilhelm K. Fischer.

Wikipedia: Wasserturm Belvedere (DE)

33 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Lousberg

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At a height of 264 meters, the Lousberg is a striking elevation on the northern edge of the historical center of the city of Aachen, which was designed as a forest and mountain park at the beginning of the 19th century according to plans by Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe. The origin of the name is not completely clarified. He could come from Louren because the mountain offers an excellent panoramic view, or go back to Ludwig the pious (Louis), the son of Charles of the Great. Another explanatory approach refers to the expression Lous in the Aachen dialect for "smart".

Wikipedia: Lousberg (DE)

843 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 14: Müschpark

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Müschpark

The Müschpark is an approximately 11-hectare park that was laid out between 1803 and 1814 by order of the Secretary General of the French administration, Wilhelm Körfgen, directly at the northern foot of the Lousberg in Aachen as Ferme Ornée. The park takes its name from Gut Müsch, which is located in the same area, which is directly adjacent to today's St. Raphael Monastery in the Soers and lies in the Aachen landscape conservation area. Until 2005 it was privately owned and then taken over by the city of Aachen, which made it available to the population as a public facility. The entrances are located at the former main gate on the corner of Purweider Weg and Strüver Weg and in the area of Buchenallee on the Lousberg.

Wikipedia: Müschpark (DE)

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