Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #10 in Cologne, Germany

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Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 7 km
Ascend 47 m
Descend 46 m

Explore Cologne 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 CologneIndividual Sights in Cologne

Sight 1: Karnevalsmuseum

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The Cologne Carnival Museum is the largest carnival museum in Germany. It is located in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district and is currently closed until further notice due to renovation work.

Wikipedia: Kölner Karnevalsmuseum (DE)

1311 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 2: Grabeskirche St. Bartholomäus

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The burial church of St. Bartholomäus is a former Roman Catholic parish church in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, which has been used as a columbarium since 2014, in which the ashes of the deceased are buried in burial chambers. The Catholic parish of the Grab Church is the Catholic parish for the St. Rochus, Epiphany and Bartholomew. It is the first and so far the only tomb church in the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Wikipedia: St. Bartholomäus (Köln-Ehrenfeld) (DE), Website

984 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 3: DOMiD

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DOMiD is a registered association in Cologne that collects, preserves, researches and exhibits materials on the history of migration. The history of immigration in Germany is to be presented to a wide audience. In addition to its museum and archival work, DOMiD organizes events, conferences and lectures. The aim is to convey migration as the norm. Since 2010, DOMiD has been located in the district town hall in Cologne-Ehrenfeld.

Wikipedia: DOMiD (DE), Website

445 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Urania Theater

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The Urania Theater is a theatre in the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne, Germany.

Wikipedia: Urania Theater (DE), Website

348 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Kölner Edelweißpiraten

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Kölner Edelweißpiraten photographer: Christoph Rückert aka Dstern - thank you! / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of youths opposed to the status quo of Nazi Germany. They emerged in western Germany out of the German Youth Movement of the late 1930s in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth. Similar in many ways to the Leipzig Meuten, they consisted of young people, mainly between the ages of 14 and 17, who had evaded the Hitler Youth by leaving school and were also young enough to avoid military conscription, which was only compulsory from the age of 17 onward. The roots and background of the Edelweiss Pirates movement were detailed in the 2004 film Edelweiss Pirates, directed by Niko von Glasow.

Wikipedia: Edelweiss Pirates (EN)

716 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 6: Friedenskirche

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The Friedenskirche is a Protestant religious building in the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne, Germany. It is one of the two church buildings of the Evangelical Parish of Ehrenfeld in the Cologne-North church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

Wikipedia: Friedenskirche (Köln-Ehrenfeld) (DE), Website

327 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: St. Mechtern

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The Church of St. Mechtern is a Roman Catholic church building in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. It is in the tradition of the Cologne martyr church of Mechtern, which is based on the legend of the Thebaian Legion.

Wikipedia: St. Mechtern (Köln-Ehrenfeld) (DE)

517 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: Sankt Joseph

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The Church of St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic parish church in Cologne-Ehrenfeld and, together with the churches of St. Mechtern, St. Peter, St. Anna and St. Barbara, belongs to the pastoral care area of Ehrenfeld in the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is located on Venloer Straße in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, not far from the market square and the chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and is framed on the sides by Klarastraße and Wahlenstraße.

Wikipedia: St. Joseph (Köln-Ehrenfeld) (DE)

1354 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 9: Synagoge im Jüdischen Wohlfahrtszentrum

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Synagoge im Jüdischen Wohlfahrtszentrum Elke Wetzig (Elya) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Jewish Welfare Center is a large Jewish social institution located in the former buildings of the "Israelite Asylum for the Sick and Weak" at Ottostraße 85 in the Neuehrenfeld district of Cologne. The centre looks back on an eventful and eventful history. The newly built and rebuilt building complex, which was moved into in 2003, now houses facilities of the Cologne synagogue community, such as administration, social counselling, day-care centre, primary school and a parents' home as a Jewish institution for the elderly.

Wikipedia: Jüdisches Wohlfahrtszentrum (DE), Website

974 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 10: Blücherpark

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The Blücherpark is a green space in the district of Bilderstöckchen in Cologne, Germany. The Volkspark was built between 1911 and 1913 according to the plans of the garden architect Fritz Encke. It is considered to be the first urban park for the former industrial suburbs of Ehrenfeld and Nippes, located in the northwest and north of Cologne. Its current size is 18.4 ha. Blücherpark borders on the Parkgürtel to the south, the A 57 to the west and residential areas to the north and east, which lie between Äußere Kanalstraße and Escher Straße. On the east-west axis, the parking area from Heidemannstraße is divided into the north and south halves. There is a sports field to the north and a pond to the south. The name of the park commemorates the Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

Wikipedia: Blücherpark (DE)

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