Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Dusseldorf, Germany

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 5.1 km
Ascend 54 m
Descend 48 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 Dusseldorf

Sight 1: 39er-Denkmal

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The war memorial of the 39ers is located between Rotterdamer Straße and Reeser Platz in Düsseldorf-Golzheim. It is a war memorial for the soldiers of the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 who were killed or lost in the First World War. It was inaugurated in July 1939. It replaced an earlier monument to the '39ers, which had been demolished for ideological reasons shortly after Nazism came to power. It has been a listed building since 2002.

Wikipedia: Kriegerdenkmal (Düsseldorf-Golzheim) (DE), Website

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Atelierhaus

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The studio house for "young still unmarried painters and sculptors" at Franz-Jürgens-Straße 12 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim was built in 1936/37 according to a design by Hans Junghanns in the style of the home protection architecture. The building ensemble, which is designed as the "artist community center with 12 studios and an exhibition room", is owned by the city of Düsseldorf and is part of a "artist settlement" with sample buildings of the Reich exhibition from 1937, which also includes today's north park and other facilities Name "Settlement creating people" and then "Schlagterstadt" led. In the course of the Reich exhibition, the area of the so -called "New Art Academy" with 52 artist apartments and studios in favor of exhibition halls was planned northwest. The "artist settlement" on today's Franz-Jürgens-Straße offered a replacement for only 22 of the artists. It has been listed as part of the monument area "Golzheimer Settlement" since 2014.

Wikipedia: Atelierhaus für „junge noch unverheiratete Maler und Bildhauer“ (DE)

860 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Nordpark

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Nordpark Alice Wiegand, (Lyzzy) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Nordpark in Düsseldorf is a public green space in the Stockum district. It was planned in 1936 for the Reich Exhibition of the Creative People, a propaganda exhibition of the National Socialists, and opened in 1937. The main entrance is on Kaiserswerther Strasse, another entrance on the Rhine side on Rotterdamer Strasse.

Wikipedia: Nordpark Düsseldorf (DE)

1133 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 4: Tersteegenkirche

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The Tersteegen Church is a Protestant church building in Düsseldorf-Golzheim at Tersteegenplatz 1. It was built between 1957 and 1958 and inaugurated on June 29, 1958. To this day, it is regularly used for church services and concerts. The church is named after the pietistic preacher, pastor and writer Gerhard Tersteegen. It is owned by the Evangelical Tersteegen parish in the Düsseldorf church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, a congregation of around 2000 members today.

Wikipedia: Tersteegenkirche (Düsseldorf) (DE), Website

276 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Dreimädelbrunnen

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The Dreimädelbrunnen is located on the corner of Kaiserswerther Straße and Friedrich-Lau-Straße in Düsseldorf's Golzheim district.

Wikipedia: Dreimädelbrunnen (DE)

987 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 6: St. Albertus Magnus

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The Catholic Church of St. Albertus Magnus in Düsseldorf-Golzheim was built in 1938 on Kaiserswerther Straße, consecrated in 1939 as the first parish church in Golzheim, but was not finally completed until 1974. It belongs to the parish of Holy Family in the city deanery of Düsseldorf in the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Wikipedia: St. Albertus Magnus (Düsseldorf) (DE)

1584 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 7: St. Lukas

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The Roman Catholic Church of Sankt Lukas in Düsseldorf-derendorf is a modern, cross-shaped church.

Wikipedia: Lukaskirche (Düsseldorf-Derendorf) (DE)

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