Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Dusseldorf, Germany
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3.4 km
56 m
Explore Dusseldorf 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 DusseldorfIndividual Sights in DusseldorfSight 1: Haus der Universität
The University of the University of Düsseldorf Schadowplatz 14 is a facility at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. It was opened on September 20, 2013. There will be public events, conferences, exhibitions and study advice during opening hours from Monday to Saturday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. There is also an offer from the Düsseldorf University and State Library for researching scientific literature. With the new house and its facility in the city center district, the university, the campus of which is rather peripheral in the Bilk district, is given the opportunity to offer its information offer in a central location and thus to be better accessible to the public.
Sight 2: Steigenberger Parkhotel
Steigenberger Parkhotel Düsseldorf is a 5-Star Steigenberger Hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, located on the city's famous Königsallee and next to the Hofgarten and the opera house.
Sight 3: Kriegerdenkmal im Hofgarten
The war memorial in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf's city centre stands on the Landskrone, the landscaped remnant of the former city fortifications in the Hofgarten. The monument was created by Karl Hilgers (1844–1925) after he had won an artists' competition with his design "Vaterstadt" (Father's Town), which had been announced by the "Committee for the Erection of a War Memorial". The monument was inaugurated on October 18, 1892. It is dedicated to fallen Düsseldorf soldiers of the German Wars of Unification (1864–66) and the German-French War (1870/71).
Sight 4: Märchenbrunnen
The fairytale fountain is located in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf's Stadtmitte district.
Sight 5: Der Mahner
The dawn is the title of a bronze dumpling plastic by Wadim Abramowitsch Sidur in the Hofgarten of Düsseldorf. The object, which makes the caller's biblical figure think in the desert, is also interpreted as a memorial against totalitarianism and violence.
Sight 6: German Opera on the Rhine
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company. Axel Kober has been its Music Director since 2009. The resident orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, play both opera and symphonic repertoire.
Sight 7: Mahn- und Gedenkstätte für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft
The Düsseldorf Memorial for the Victims of National Socialist Tyranny is a cultural institute of the state capital of Düsseldorf. It is a museum, a research centre and an archive. The house was opened in 1987 and has since been dedicated to the memory of Düsseldorf's victims and persecuted by the Nazi regime. It is located in the western part of the historic town hall in the old town and has been showing the permanent exhibition "Düsseldorf Children and Young People under National Socialism" since a thorough renovation and its reopening in May 2015.
Sight 8: Fischerjungen-Brunnen
The Fisherman's Boy Fountain is located on Stiftsplatz near the church of St. Lambertus in Düsseldorf's old town.
Sight 9: Josephskapelle
The baroque Josephkapelle in the old town of Düsseldorf on today's Emilie-Schneider-Platz was designed as the monastery chapel of the Düsseldorf Carmelitists and has the floor plan of a Greek cross.
Sight 10: Scheidt-Weschpfennig
Haus Altestadt 14 in Düsseldorf is a listed building. The location, the street Altestadt, is one of the oldest in Düsseldorf. The explanations of the various authors given under the following description are partly somewhat different in their statements on the details. However, the most important statements are confirmed or clarified by the Düsseldorf H. Ferber in his book of 1889. This is especially true for the date of construction, some names of the various owners and the magnificent ceiling in one room.
Sight 11: Kreuzherrenkirche
The Church of the Knights of the Cross was originally a monastery church of the Order of the Knights of the Cross. Located in the old city centre of Düsseldorf on the corner of Ursulinengasse and Ratinger Straße, the building now serves as the St.-Ursula-Gymnasium as a school church and auditorium and is not open to the public.
Sight 12: Palais Spinrath
The Palais Spinrath in Düsseldorf was originally a Celester convent, which was built from 1696 to 1712 by Matteo Alberti at Ratinger Straße 15.
Sight 13: Ratinger Tor
The Ratinger Tor is the last and only remaining city gate of the original city of Düsseldorf. However, the current building is not the medieval city gate, but a customs gate built between 1811 and 1815 in the classicist style. The need for a new building arose from the demolition of the fortifications stipulated in the Treaty of Lunéville, to which the old gate fell victim. The new Ratinger Tor was moved by about 115 m to the east, which made it possible to extend Ratinger Straße by 60 m and to create a boulevard, today's Heinrich-Heine-Allee.
Sight 14: Phoenix-Haus
The Phoenix-Haus is a listed administration building at Fritz-Roeber-Straße 2 in Düsseldorf's old town, which was built from 1923 to 1926 for Phoenix AG for mining and metallurgy on the former Eiskellerberg, served as an employment office for almost seven decades and has been the seat of the Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office since 2002.
Sight 15: Tonhalle Düsseldorf
Book Ticket*Tonhalle Düsseldorf is a concert hall in Düsseldorf. It was built by the architect Wilhelm Kreis. The resident orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, play symphonic repertoire at the Tonhalle as well as opera at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Sight 16: Wasserträgerin
The Nubierin is a bronze statue by the sculptor Bernhard Sopher. The figure represents an undressed nubier in a stride attitude. She wears a vase on her head. The arms are bent, the outside of the hands are placed on the hip.
Sight 17: Rheinterrasse
Book Ticket*The Rhine Terrace is a building with restaurants and meeting places, which was built between 1924 and 1926 according to plans by Wilhelm Kreis for the GeSoLei exhibition. It is located at Joseph-Beuys-Ufer 33 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort.
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