Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Aachen, Germany
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11.5 km
236 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 AachenSight 1: Auferstehungskirche
The Church of the Resurrection is a Protestant church in Aachen-Forst, Germany. Her congregation belongs to the Aachen church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
Sight 2: Aachener Tierpark Euregiozoo
The Aachen Zoo Euregiozoo is an 8.9-hectare zoo located between the districts of Forst and Beverau in Aachen's "Drimborner Wäldchen", which is named after the former family of the mayors Hermann von Dremborn and Johann von Drimborn. The entrance is located in Obere Drimbornstraße.
Sight 3: Grünenthalsmühle
The list of historic mills in Aachen provides an overview of the most famous former watermills on the banks of the Aachen streams in today's area of the city of Aachen. More than 70 mills have been identified and substantiated with data from the sources, although there were also other mills that have been historically forgotten or about which there is no information. The proven Aachen mills had once served, among other things, as grain, grist or oil mills as well as copper, grinding, fulling or coloured wood mills and most of them had an overshot water wheel. From the early modern period onwards, they formed the basis for Aachen's economic rise, especially in the area of the cloth and needle industry in the 18th and 19th centuries, as evidenced by the history of the cloth industry in Aachen, for example.
Sight 4: Sankt Michael
The Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Burtscheid was the former "Leutkirche" of the Imperial Abbey of Burtscheid. It was first mentioned in a document in 1252.
Sight 5: Kurpark Burtscheid
The Kurpark Burtscheid is a green space created at the end of the 18th century in the Aachen district of Burtscheid. The Burtscheider Kurpark is the oldest park in Aachen and has been changed several times in its size and use over the years. Until the middle of the 20th century, more than 15 artesian thermal springs sprang up within the spa park. There are several listed buildings on the park grounds, such as the translocated Nuellens Pavilion, the Fürstenbad and the former Neubad.
Sight 6: Marktbrunnen
The Burtscheid thermal fountain is located in the Aachen district of Burtscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia on the Burtscheider Markt and is therefore also known as the market fountain. As it is a public fountain, thermal water can be taken there free of charge.
Sight 7: St. Johann Baptist
The former parish church of St. Johann Baptist in Burtscheid is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St. John the Baptist and former abbey church of the Imperial Abbey of Burtscheid. Since 2010, it has been part of the "Catholic Parish of St. Gregor von Burtscheid", a large parish formed in the Diocese of Aachen as part of the parish structure reform implemented in 2008, which is named after the founder of the abbey, Abbot Gregor von Burtscheid, and which includes St. Johann-Baptist as well as the former parishes of St. Michael-Burtscheid and St. Apostles, St. Gregorius and Sacred Heart.
Sight 8: Couvenwandbrunnen
The Couvenwandbrunnen is located in the Aachen district of Burtscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia on Abteiplatz.
Sight 9: Abteitor
Burtscheid Abbey was a Benedictine monastery, after 1220 a Cistercian nunnery, located at Burtscheid, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
Sight 10: Seepferdchenbrunnen
The Seepferdchenbrunnen is a fountain monument in Burtscheid based on a design by the Aachen architect Gerhard Thomalla, which was originally erected in 1956 in the rotunda of the Elisenbrunnen after its reconstruction in 1952/53. The bronze figures of the six seahorses standing upright around the fountain column were created by the Aachen sculptor Josef "Jupp" Zeller. The fountain bowl, created from a dark block of marble, comes from the stonemason's workshop of Ewald Mies, the brother of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It has a diameter of 3.30 meters. After the fountain had been removed from the Elisenbrunnen, it was erected in 1971 at its current location on Burtscheider Kapellenstraße.
Sight 11: Heißbergfriedhof
The Heißberg Cemetery is a cemetery in the former independent town of Burtscheid, which was founded in 1862 and was incorporated into a district of Aachen in 1897. It is located on the corner of Heißberg and Kapellenstraße No. 2, obliquely opposite the Burtscheider Ferberpark. The complex is in its entirety protected by monument protection.
Sight 12: Wasserspiele
Wasserspiele is the name of a fountain inaugurated on 30 September 1969 by the sculptor Philipp Anton from Aachen in the Aachen district of Burtscheid.
Sight 13: Marienkapelle
The Marienkapelle is a chapel dedicated to the Mother of God in Aachen-Burtscheid, Germany. It stands on the corner of Gregorstraße and Berdoletstraße and was built in 1643/44 at the instigation of the incumbent abbess of the Imperial Abbey of Burtscheid, Henrietta Raitz von Frenz, and the monk Peter Kerchof in honour of the "Madonna of Scherpenheuvel". The most important part of the chapel is the newly made miraculous image of Mary, the depiction of which corresponds to the original in the baroque pilgrimage church dedicated to Our Lady in the Belgian pilgrimage site of Scherpenheuvel-Zichem. The formerly used French name Montaigu for Scherpenheuvel derives from the Latin mons acutus = pointed mountain or sharp hill. In the vernacular, this led to the name Klein Scherpenhövel or simply a chapel for the Burtscheider Marienkapelle.
Sight 14: Gut Bodenhof
The manor house, also known as the ground court, was a manor house located south of the town of Aachen on the road to Eupen. Until the 17th century, the estate was also known as Laboenhof. Of the property, only the former main portal, some wall base and an arch bridge are still preserved. These remains are under monument protection.
Sight 15: Kaiser-Friedrich-Park
The Kaiser-Friedrich-Park is a park in the south of Aachen, the German Emperor Friedrich III, who died in 1888. was named.
Sight 16: Sternwarte Aachen
The Volkssternwarte Aachen is a listed observatory in the south of the city of Aachen.
Sight 17: Tritonenbrunnen
The Triton Fountain is a fountain monument originally erected in 1906–1910 in front of Aachen Central Station by the sculptor Carl Burger in Aachen, which was translocated to its current location in Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee in 1923. The fountain is also popularly known as Aquarius. In fact, it depicts Triton, a sea god in Greek mythology.
Sight 18: Von-Halfern-Park
The Von-Halfern Park is a park and arboretum in the southwest of Aachen on the Liège Street, direction Kelmis/Belgium, located directly and without transition on the northern edge of the Aachen Stadtwalde. It was created in the style of an English landscape garden and it contains trees and plants up to 200 years old, including North America, Europe and Asia.
Sight 19: Landgraben
The Aachen Landgraben is the name given to the fortifications along the almost 70 km long border of the former Aachen Empire. Individual sections can be documented as early as the 14th and 15th centuries, but it was not until the beginning of the 17th century that the construction of the Landwehr was completed and on 11 April 1611 Albrecht VII von Habsburg, the acting regent of the Spanish Netherlands in Brussels, contractually legitimized it with the aldermen and the city council in Aachen.
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