Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Dortmund, Germany

Karl Kneebusch was a German teacher and author of hiking literature about the Sauerland. His "Sauerland Guide", written in 1884 and continued by Hermann Großjohann and Hugo Kracht from 1907 onwards, went through a total of 34 editions until 1974 under the subtitle "Guide through the Sauerland, Siegerland, Wittgensteiner Land, Bergische and Oberbergische Land, Waldeck and the Area of the Lower Ruhr" and was printed more than 215,000 times.

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The Dortmund East Cemetery is a cemetery created in 1876 and a park-like green space in Dortmund's Innenstadt-Ost district, Germany.

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Carl Wilhelm Tölcke was a German Social democratic politician, the "father of Social democracy in Westphalia" and president of the General German Workers' Association.

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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.

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The Landesoberbergamt Dortmund – originally Oberbergamt Dortmund – was the supervisory and administrative authority for the Westphalian mines and, from 1970, also for the Rhenish mines.

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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.

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The Eagle Tower is a reconstructed tower of the medieval city wall in Dortmund, which was built in 1992 over the original foundations of the former defensive tower. The 30-metre-high tower was placed on pillars so as not to interfere with the preserved structure of the foundations of the original 14th-century Eagle Tower and the adjacent 13th-century city wall.

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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.

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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.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Dortmund (DE)

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 Old Synagogue was the largest synagogue and cultural center of the Jewish community in Dortmund, Germany.

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The Stadtgarten Dortmund is an inner-city park and green space in Dortmund, Germany.

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The Südbad is an indoor swimming pool in Dortmund's city centre. The building, which was renovated in 2007, is registered as a listed building in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund.

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The Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche is a Protestant church in Dortmund's Innenstadt-Ost district, Germany. It was built between 1948 and 1949 as an emergency church according to a design by Otto Bartning and has been a listed building since 2011. It is named after the hymn writer Paul Gerhardt. The Evangelical Paul Gerhardt parish, to which the church belongs, is part of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

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The Stone Tower is a protected monument and historic watchtower in the city of Dortmund, Germany, not far from the Westfalenhallen.

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Westfalenhallen is a commercial complex composed of conference and exhibition centers with an indoor arena (Westfalenhalle), located in Dortmund, Germany. It is surrounded by the Eissportzentrum Westfalenhallen, Stadion Rote Erde, Westfalenstadion and Helmut-Körnig-Halle.

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The St. Nicolai Church, often referred to as Nicolai Church for short, is a church built in 1929 in Dortmund's Innenstadt-West district, Germany. A church of the same name existed until 1812 on Wißstraße and was one of the four main churches of medieval Dortmund.

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The Holy Cross Church, often abbreviated to Kreuzkirche, is a church building of the Roman Catholic Holy Cross parish in Dortmund, Germany. It is the namesake for the surrounding residential district Kreuzviertel.

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