Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Dortmund, Germany
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7.2 km
92 m
Explore Dortmund 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 DortmundIndividual Sights in DortmundSight 1: St. Franziskus
St. Francis, usually called the Franciscan Church, is the second post-Reformation Roman Catholic church in Dortmund. It is located on Franziskanerstraße in the eastern part of the city centre.
Sight 2: Bezirksregierung Arnsberg - Bergbau und Energie
The Landesoberbergamt Dortmund – originally Oberbergamt Dortmund – was the supervisory and administrative authority for the Westphalian mines and, from 1970, also for the Rhenish mines.
Sight 3: Wasserturm Dortmund Südbahnhof
The water tower of Dortmund Südbahnhof is an elevated water tank of the former Dortmund Süd railway depot. It was built between 1923 and 1927 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and supplied steam locomotives with boiler feed water until the 1950s.
Sight 4: Gedenktafel für Karl Wilhelm Schmieding
Karl Wilhelm Schmieding was a German administrative lawyer, politician and local official in the Kingdom of Prussia.
Sight 5: Denkmal für Heinrich Schüchtermann
Heinrich Schüchtermann was a German entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Sight 6: Otto Meinecke
The list of stumbling stones in Dortmund contains stumbling stones that were moved in Dortmund as part of the art project of the same name by Gunter Demnig. They are intended to be used to think of victims of National Socialism, who lived and worked in Dortmund.
Sight 7: Sankt Reinoldi-Kirche
The Lutheran Protestant Church of St. Reinold is, according to its foundation date, the oldest extant church in Dortmund, Germany; it is dedicated to Reinold, also known as Renaud de Montauban, the patron of the city. The church was built as a palatine church in the Ottonian era. The present building is a late Romanesque church with a late gothic quire. St. Reinold's was built from 1250 to 1270, and is located in the centre of the city, directly at the crossing of the Hellweg and the historic road from Cologne to Bremen. St. Reinoldi's congregation is a member of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, an umbrella comprising Lutheran, Reformed and united Protestant congregations.
Sight 8: Reinoldihaus Dortmund
The Dortmund Chamber of Crafts (HWK) is one of 53 chambers of crafts in the Federal Republic of Germany, based in Dortmund.
Sight 9: Konzerthaus
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.
Sight 10: Volkshochschule
The Löwenhof is a building in the city center of Dortmund. In the course of its history, it has housed one of the largest concert cafés in West Germany, was the headquarters of the Heinrich August Schulte Eisenhandlung and is now the seat of the Dortmund Adult Education Centre.
Sight 11: Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
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.
Sight 12: Propsteikirche St. Johannes Baptist
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.
Sight 13: Rathaus
Book Ticket*Dortmund City Hall is the seat of the City Council and the Lord Mayor. It was built in the years 1987–1989 in the style of modernism.
Sight 14: Standesamt Dortmund
Altes Stadthaus in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is an office block which was built in 1899, and was designed by "master builder" Friedrich Kullrich. It was built in the Renaissance Revival architecture (Neo-Renaissance) style. After the office block was severely damaged in World War II, it was rebuilt in a simplified form.
Sight 15: Stadtgarten
The Stadtgarten Dortmund is an inner-city park and green space in Dortmund, Germany.
Sight 16: Fletch Bizzel
Fletch Bizzel is a theatre in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Sight 17: Löwendenkmal
The Lion Monument in Dortmund is the oldest small monument in the city. It was inaugurated on October 17, 1869 in memory of the German War.
Sight 18: Westpark
The Westpark is a green space in the western city centre of Dortmund, Germany.
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