Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #13 in Cologne, Germany

St. Hildegard in der Au was a Roman Catholic parish church in the Cologne district of Nippes, which was built in 1960/1961 according to plans by the architect Stefan Leuer and consecrated on the first Sunday of Advent in 1961. The church was under the patronage of St. Hildegard of Bingen. It was decommissioned on 20 September 2020 with a solemn mass and is expected to be demolished.

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Boniface is a neo-Romanesque religious building in the Nippes district of Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine. It belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Engelbert and St. Boniface.

Wikipedia: St. Bonifatius (Köln-Nippes) (DE)

The Cologne Planetarium is located in the Leonardo-da-Vinci-Gymnasium in Cologne-Nippes. A Zeiss ZKP-1 small planetarium, built in 1965, in the basement of the school offers groups of up to 30 people the opportunity to show the starry sky, the Milky Way and planets as they can be seen with the naked eye in clear weather. The Cologne Planetarium also has an observatory that was built between 1960 and 1963. A very large part of the complex – including the telescopes and domes – was built by former students in their spare time. The long-time director of the planetarium was Hermann Gundermann (1938–2022).

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The Luther Church is a neo-Gothic Protestant church building in the Sixty Quarter of the Cologne district of Nippes in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The Nathanael Church belongs to the Protestant Nathanael parish in Cologne-Bilderstöckchen. The church building, named after the disciple Nathanael, was completed in 1965 and in 1974 received its distinctive campanile, set apart from the church building, directly at the intersection of Escher Strasse and Parkgürtel.

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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.

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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