Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #17 in Bonn, Germany

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Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 3.7 km
Ascend 64 m
Descend 59 m

Explore Bonn 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.

Activities in BonnIndividual Sights in Bonn

Sight 1: von Carstanjen Mausoleum

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von Carstanjen MausoleumEliot from The Negev / CC BY 2.0

The Mausoleum of Carstanjen in the Plittersdorf district of Bonn was the largest private mausoleum on the Rhine and is considered unique to culture and architect. The original family crypt, which is visible from the banks of the Rhine, which is visible between Auerhofstraße and Von-Sandt bank in the Plittersdorfer Auengrund, is now used as a public urn grave. The building based on the Roman Pantheon is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Mausoleum von Carstanjen (DE)

513 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Stimson Memorial Chapel

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Stimson Memorial Chapel is a church in Plittersdorf, Bonn, in the district of Bad Godesberg, Germany. It is used by the American Protestant Church. The chapel is located on the southeastern edge of the HICOG settlement Plittersdorf at the Rhine-side end of Kennedyallee. It is a monument under monument protection.

Wikipedia: Stimson Memorial Chapel (DE), Website

1120 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 3: Deutsches Museum Bonn

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The Deutsches Museum Bonn is a museum with exhibits and experiments of famous scientists, engineers and inventors. Its central themes are research and technology in Germany after 1945.

Wikipedia: Deutsches Museum Bonn (EN), Website

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Transrapid 06

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Transrapid 06 is a two-membered magnetic levitation railway vehicle of the Transrapid type and was built as the first magnetic levitation railway of its kind for the Transrapid experimental system Emsland (TVE) which was put into operation in June 1983. On 13 March 1983, TR06 was presented to the public at the Krauss-Maffei plant in Munich. He is the successor of Transrapid 05.

Wikipedia: Transrapid 06 (DE)

491 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche

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The Holy Cross Church is a Roman Catholic church in the district of Hochkreuz in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn, Germany. The church at Cheruskerstraße 11–15 is used by the Catholic parish of St. Andreas and Evergislus and thus belongs to the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Wikipedia: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Bad Godesberg) (DE)

1532 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 6: Joseph Roth

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The list of Stolpersteine in Bonn contains Stolpersteine that were laid in Bonn as part of the art project of the same name by Gunter Demnig.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Bonn (DE), Website

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