Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #15 in Cologne, Germany

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 6.9 km
Ascend 62 m
Descend 68 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: St. Gereon

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St. Gereon

The Church of St. Gereon in the Merheim district of Cologne is a Roman Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany. It is part of the Catholic parish association of Brück-Merheim. The church, consecrated in honour of St. Gereon of Cologne, was built around 1820 after the demolition of the old Romanesque church.

Wikipedia: St. Gereon (Köln-Merheim) (DE)

621 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Petrus-Kirche Merheim

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St. Peter's Church is a Protestant religious building in the Merheim district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. Together with the St. John's Church in Cologne-Brück, it belongs to the Protestant parish of Cologne-Brück-Merheim in the church district of Cologne-Right Rhine.

Wikipedia: Petruskirche (Köln-Merheim) (DE)

1000 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 3: Merheimer Heide

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The Merheimer Heide on the right bank of the Rhine is a local recreation area in Cologne, the layout of which goes back to the plans of Fritz Schumacher. These envisaged the creation of an outer green belt encompassing the city. The green spaces of the Merheimer Heide touch or extend over the districts of Buchheim, Holweide, Merheim and Höhenberg. Due to residential and highway construction, the terrain was greatly reduced to its original size of 150 hectares in the eastern area.

Wikipedia: Merheimer Heide (DE)

1668 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 4: St. Theodor

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The Church of St. Theodor is a Roman Catholic Church in Cologne-Vingst. It is the parish church of the parish of St. Theodor and Elisabeth in the Deanery Cologne-Deutz.

Wikipedia: St. Theodor (DE)

1461 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 5: Kalker Kapelle

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Kalker Kapelle Horsch, Willy / CC BY 3.0

The Kalk Chapel in Cologne was rebuilt between 1948 and 1950 after it was destroyed in the Second World War. It has its origins in the early modern period around 1666/67. The chapel is located in the district of Kalk at the junction of the streets Kalker Hauptstraße and the Kapellenstraße, which branches off southeast in the direction of the district of Vingst.

Wikipedia: Kalker Kapelle (DE)

1127 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 6: Historical watertower

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Chemische Fabrik Kalk (CFK) was a German chemicals company based in Kalk, a city district of Cologne. The company was founded in 1858 as Chemische Fabrik Vorster & Grüneberg, Cöln by Julius Vorster and Hermann Julius Grüneberg and was renamed to Chemische Fabrik Kalk GmbH in 1892. At times the company was the second-largest German producer of soda ash and was, with almost 2400 employees, one of the largest employers in Cologne. For decades the chimneys and the water tower of the factory dominated the skyline of Cologne-Kalk.

Wikipedia: Chemische Fabrik Kalk (EN)

1030 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 7: Humboldtpark

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Humboldtpark in Cologne's Humboldt/Gremberg district is a 2.2-hectare listed green space complex and one of the few inner-city parks in the Kalk district.

Wikipedia: Humboldtpark (Köln) (DE)

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