Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Dortmund, Germany

Heinrich Schüchtermann was a German entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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The A: AI Archive for Architecture and Engineering Building NRW, for short building art starchive NRW, is an architectural museum in Dortmund.

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The Old Town Hall in Dortmund was a Romanesque building at its core and, until its final demolition in 1955, the oldest stone town hall in the German-speaking world north of the Alps. It was located on the south side of the Old Market Square in the centre of the former imperial city and formed an architectural ensemble with the writing office adjoining it to the east.

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The Dortmund Chamber of Crafts (HWK) is one of 53 chambers of crafts in the Federal Republic of Germany, based in Dortmund.

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The Konzerthaus Dortmund in Dortmund's city centre was opened in September 2002. It is located in the Brückstraße district at the intersection of Brückstraße and Ludwigstraße. The hall has 1550 seats, 900 of which can be used as a small hall, and is characterized by a modern steel-and-glass architecture. The founding artistic director and one of the main initiators of the "Project Konzerthaus" was Ulrich Andreas Vogt. From 2005 to 2018, Benedikt Stampa was artistic director and managing director. For the 2018/19 season, he was succeeded by Raphael von Hoensbroech.

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Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus was a German encyclopedia publisher and editor, famed for publishing the Conversations-Lexikon, which is now published as the Brockhaus encyclopedia.

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Propsteikirche is the common name of a church in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the only Catholic church in the city centre. The full name is Propsteikirche St. Johannes Baptist Dortmund. It was built from 1331 as the abbey church of a Dominican monastery. Consecrated in 1458, it features a late-Gothic high altar by Derick Baegert which shows the oldest depiction of Dortmund.

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Maximilian Maria Kolbe was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.

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The Hansakontor Dortmund is an office building in the heart of Dortmund's city centre. As a former administration building of Ruhrkohle AG, it is now home to various younger and established companies from the region. The Hansakontor is directly connected to two roads. On the one hand, it has the old entrance to Silberstraße, and on the other hand, a new entrance to Hansastraße has been created, which leads directly through the listed gardens.

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Opernhaus Dortmund is the opera house of Dortmund, Germany, operated by the Theater Dortmund organisation. A new opera house opened in 1966, replacing an earlier facility which opened in 1904 and was destroyed during World War II. It was built on the former site of the Old Synagogue, which was demolished by the Nazi local government in the 1930s.

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The Gesundheitshaus Dortmund, the seat of the health department of the city of Dortmund at Hövelstraße 8 in the City district, is one of the few buildings of post-war modernism in Germany that has been largely preserved in its state of construction to this day. It was designed by Will Schwarz and built between 1958 and 1961. In many details of the architecture, it allows the formal language of the 1950s to be relived, making it one of the most important buildings of the West German post-war period. It is listed as a listed building and was entered in 1993 in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund under no. A 571.

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St. Peter's Church in Dortmund, Westphalia, Germany, is an urban hall church in the High Gothic style. The central nave and side aisles are of the same height, coming close to the ideal type of this church form. The building is almost square in plan with a comparatively short chancel. The sacred building is an important example of the special shape of the hall churches in Westphalia.

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Dortberghaus is a listed building in the Dortmund city center.

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The Vehmic courts, Vehmgericht, holy vehme, or simply Vehm, also spelt Feme, Vehmegericht, Fehmgericht, are names given to a tribunal system of Westphalia in Germany active during the later Middle Ages, based on a fraternal organisation of lay judges called "free judges". The original seat of the courts was in Dortmund. Proceedings were sometimes secret, leading to the alternative titles of "secret courts", "silent courts", or "forbidden courts". After the execution of a death sentence, the corpse could be hanged on a tree to advertise the fact and deter others.

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The Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte or MKK is a municipal museum in Dortmund, Germany. It is currently located in an Art Deco building which was formerly the Dortmund Savings Bank.

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The German Football Museum aka DFB-Museum is the national museum for German football in Dortmund, Germany. It opened on 23 October 2015.

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The Medieval Jewish Cemetery Dortmund is a former Jewish cemetery in Dortmund, Germany.

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The Westpark is a green space in the western city centre of Dortmund, Germany.

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The Roman Catholic, listed former parish church of St. Anna is located in the district of Innenstadt-West in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. The church, which is part of the Dean of Dortmund of the Archdiocese of Paderborn, was handed over to the Polish Catholic Mission Dortmund in 2003 and the parish in 2013 was dissolved.

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The Evangelical Church of Dorstfeld is a listed former church building in Dorstfeld, a district of Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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