Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in Cologne, Germany

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 10.5 km
Ascend 117 m
Descend 113 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: Sankt Johannes Deutz

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St. John's Church is a Protestant church in Cologne-Deutz, Germany. It is one of the two church buildings of the Evangelical Parish of Cologne-Deutz/Poll in the Cologne-Mitte church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

Wikipedia: St.-Johannes-Kirche (Deutz) (DE), Website

1517 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 2: Chocolate Museum

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The Cologne Chocolate Museum is a special museum for chocolate in the Altstadt-Süd district of Cologne. The exhibition building, located on a peninsula in the Rheinauhafen, houses a collection on the history of chocolate and a permanent exhibition on modern chocolate production, among other things.

Wikipedia: Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum (DE), Website

139 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Deutsches Sport- und Olympiamuseum

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Deutsches Sport- und Olympiamuseum

The German Sport & Olympic Museum is a museum in Cologne that presents the history of sports from antiquity to modern times. It is located in Cologne's Rheinauhafen within the Cologne-Altstadt-Süd district.

Wikipedia: Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum (DE), Website

936 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: St. Georg

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St. Georg's Church is one of twelve Romanesque churches in the city of Cologne, Germany.

Wikipedia: St. George's Church, Cologne (EN)

30 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: Hermann-Joseph Brunnen

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The Hermann-Josef-Brunnen is a sculptural fountain originally designed as a running fountain on the Waidmarkt in the Altstadt-Süd district of Cologne. It was donated in 1894 by the Cologne Beautification Association and designed and implemented by the sculptor Wilhelm Albermann. The sculptures depict scenes from the life and legend of the so-called "apple saint" Hermann Joseph von Steinfeld. Since 1 July 1980, the fountain has been registered under the number 164 in the list of monuments of the city of Cologne.

Wikipedia: Hermann-Josef-Brunnen (DE)

450 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: St. Johann Baptist

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St. Johann Baptist is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne.

Wikipedia: St. Johann Baptist (Köln) (DE)

736 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Ulrepforte

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The Ulrepforte was built in the early 13th century as part of the medieval city walls of Cologne. It was first mentioned in a document in 1245. The Ulrepforte has been preserved with major structural changes. In front of it, the Sachsenring road passes as part of the Cologne Ring.

Wikipedia: Ulrepforte (DE)

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: St. Maria vom Frieden

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St. Maria vom Frieden Elke Wetzig (Elya) / CC BY-SA 3.0

Our Lady of Peace is a baroque church in the southern part of Cologne, Germany. The monastery church of a convent of the Discalced Carmelite nuns was consecrated in 1692 after several years of construction. The patronage refers to a miraculous image of the Mother of God, which was bequeathed to the convent as an inheritance in 1642. In April 1942, the church and monastery were largely destroyed, but between 1947 and 1957 they were gradually rebuilt in the old style.

Wikipedia: St. Maria vom Frieden (Köln) (DE)

438 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: St. Johannisgemeinde

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St. Johannisgemeinde

The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany. It is a member of the European Lutheran Conference and of the International Lutheran Council (ILC). The SELK has about 33,000 members in 174 congregations. The seat of SELK is in Hanover.

Wikipedia: Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church (EN), Website

830 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 10: Volksgarten

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The Volksgarten is a public park in the Neustadt-Süd district of Cologne, Germany.

Wikipedia: Volksgarten, Cologne (EN)

1562 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 11: Alte Mensa

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Alte MensaRaymond - Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 3.0

Studiobühne Köln is a theatre in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Wikipedia: Studiobühne Köln (EN), Website

931 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 12: Volkssternwarte Köln

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The Volkssternwarte Cologne is a volunteer observatory in the Cologne-Sülz district, which belongs to the Cologne-Lindenthal district. It is located on the roof of the Schiller Gymnasium there at Nikolausstrasse 55.

Wikipedia: Volkssternwarte Köln (DE), Website

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Kirche Johannes XXIII.

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The Church of the Catholic University Community of Cologne – St. John XXIII is a Roman Catholic church in the Cologne district of Sülz, built between 1968 and 1969 by Josef Rikus and Heinz Buchmann († 2004). With its brutalist, sculptural architecture, it occupies a special position among Cologne's church buildings. After the canonization of Pope John XXIII in 2014, he was included as the patron saint of the church in the official name of the church.

Wikipedia: Kirche der katholischen Hochschulgemeinde Köln – St. Johannes XXIII. (DE)

602 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: St. Nikolaus

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas on Berrenrather Straße at Nikolausplatz in Cologne-Sülz belongs to the parish of St. Nicholas and Charles Borromeo. Together with the church of St. Bruno in Cologne-Klettenberg, it forms the pastoral care area of Sülz-Klettenberg in the deanery of Cologne-Lindenthal.

Wikipedia: St. Nikolaus (Köln-Sülz) (DE)

1451 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 15: Weißhaus

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The Weißhaus is a medieval water lock in the Sülz district of Cologne.

Wikipedia: Weißhaus (DE)

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