Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Cologne, Germany

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 7.8 km
Ascend 42 m
Descend 40 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: Lutherkirche

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LutherkircheHOWI - Horsch, Willy / CC BY 3.0

The Luthernotkirche is a Protestant church in the Mülheim district of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Wikipedia: Luthernotkirche (DE), Website

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Liebfrauen

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The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady is a neo-Gothic religious building in the Mülheim district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. Together with seven other churches, it belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Clemens and Mauritius.

Wikipedia: Liebfrauenkirche (Köln) (DE)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Friedenskirche

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The Friedenskirche in today's Cologne-Mülheim is the oldest Protestant church building in today's Cologne.

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

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: St. Clemens

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St. ClemensHOWI - Horsch, Willy / CC BY 3.0

St. Clemens is a former ship church of the now right bank of the Cologne district of Mülheim. The church, which was located directly on the banks of the Rhine, was built as a Romanesque hall church of the 12th/13th Century. It was a branch church of the parish church of St. Mauritius in Buchheim for centuries, was raised to the parish church after its destruction in 1796 and still remained the only Catholic Church in Mülheim. With the new building of the Liebfrauenkirche in 1864, she lost the parish rights and became the side church again. With another seven churches, it is now part of the Catholic parish of St. Clemens and Mauritius, which includes the districts of Mülheim, Buchheim and Buchforst.

Wikipedia: St. Clemens (Köln-Mülheim) (DE)

1549 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 5: Kölner Zoo

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The Aktiengesellschaft Cologne Zoological Garden is the zoo of Cologne, Germany. Being the third oldest zoo in Germany, it features over 10,000 animals of more than 850 species on more than 20 hectares. The internationally renowned zoo with an attached aquarium and invertebrate exhibit is active in preservational breeding of animals that are in danger of becoming extinct. In addition, in-the-wild conservation efforts and research focussing on animals of Madagascar, Wallacea, and Vietnam are actively promoted and supported via cooperation with Cologne University and local projects, such as in the case of Przewalski's horses.

Wikipedia: Cologne Zoological Garden (EN), Website

512 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Sankt Engelbert

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Sankt Engelbert

St. Engelbert is a Catholic church in Cologne-Riehl, Germany. It was built from 1930 to 1932 according to a design by the architect Dominikus Böhm and is considered the first modern church building in Cologne and also one of the original buildings of modern church architecture.

Wikipedia: St. Engelbert (Köln) (DE), Website

770 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Flora

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The Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln is a municipal formal park and botanical garden located adjacent to Cologne Zoological Garden at Amsterdamer Straße 34, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is open daily without charge.

Wikipedia: Flora Botanical Garden (EN), Website

341 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: D15

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D15

The D 15 is a tractor produced by Deutz in the Deutz D series. It was Deutz's smallest and weakest model during its construction period. The D 15 was the last model to be converted to the designations of the D-series.

Wikipedia: Deutz D 15 (DE)

417 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Cologne Sculpture Park

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Skulpturen Park Köln is a major international overview of contemporary sculpture which has been on display to the public, in a series of two-year exhibitions, in Cologne, Germany, since 1997.

Wikipedia: Skulpturen Park Köln (EN), Website

742 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 10: Cologne Cable Car

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The Cologne Cable Car is a gondola lift that runs across the river Rhine in Cologne, Germany. It connects the two banks of the Rhine at the height of Cologne's Zoo Bridge (Zoobrücke).

Wikipedia: Cologne Cable Car (EN)

545 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Persian Onager

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The onager, also known as hemione or Asiatic wild ass, is a species of the family Equidae native to Asia. A member of the subgenus Asinus, the onager was described and given its binomial name by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1775. Six subspecies have been recognized, two of which are extinct.

Wikipedia: Onager (EN)

692 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: St. Hildegard in der Au

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St. Hildegard in der Au

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.

Wikipedia: St. Hildegard in der Au (DE)

534 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 13: Thomaskirche

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The St. Thomas Church is a Protestant church of the Evangelical Parish of Cologne in Cologne's Agnesveedel, on the northern periphery of the city center. Today, the St. Thomas Church and the Christuskirche (Cologne) form a joint district of the Evangelical Community of Cologne, which belongs to the Cologne-Mitte church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

Wikipedia: Thomaskirche (Köln) (DE), Website

313 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Röhrenbunker

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The Reichenspergerplatz courthouse is a historic building in Cologne-Neustadt-Nord, Germany. The building, which today houses the Higher Regional Court of Cologne, the Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office and parts of the Cologne District Court, is a listed building. Since the end of 2017, the building has also been the seat of the victim protection commissioner of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Wikipedia: Justizgebäude Reichenspergerplatz (DE), Website

514 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: St. Agnes

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St. Agnes is a neogothic Catholic church in Neustadt-Nord, Cologne, Germany. It was consecrated in 1902 and is the second-largest church in Cologne after the Cologne cathedral. St. Agnes is 80 metres (260 ft) long, 40 metres (130 ft) wide and occupies an area of 2,155 square metres (23,200 sq ft). The tower has a height of 61 metres (200 ft). The church is named after Agnes of Rome.

Wikipedia: St. Agnes, Cologne (EN)

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