Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in Dusseldorf, Germany

The Horten main administration building is located at Am Seestern 3 in Düsseldorf-Lörick. It was built in 1960/1961 according to designs by the architect Helmut Rhode "based on the American model" and is considered a pioneer in office architecture: "The first building in Germany to be realised as a purely open-plan office".

Wikipedia: Horten-Hauptverwaltungsgebäude (DE)

Haus Nakatenus is a residential building in Düsseldorf-Niederkassel, Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 94, on the Rheindamm. It was built between 1954 and 1955 according to the design of the Düsseldorf architect Bernhard Pfau and is a listed building. The sculptor Marianne Jovy-Nakatenus lived in the house.

Wikipedia: Haus Nakatenus (DE)

The Vionville house, originally also Haus Rocholl, is a residential building in Düsseldorf-Golzheim, Kaiserswerther Straße 200. The gable, two-storey house was built in 1893–1894 by the Düsseldorf architect Klein & Dörschel for the painter Theodor Rocholl. It was built in the style of the neo -Renaissance and reflects the construction methods, shapes and materials of a rural and romantizing architecture through a round corner tower with a bell -shaped hood, by bayards, natural stone, half -timbering, window shops and Krüppelwalm. The house also referred to the village structure of Golzheim, which was still present at the time. "The house of its rural environment has been adapted both in the floor plan and in the outer architecture."

Wikipedia: Haus Vionville (DE)

The wire house at Kaiserswerther Strasse 137 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim was built between 1951 and 1952 according to plans by Helmut Hentrich and Hans Heuser for the Association of the Wire Industry. The employee was Hubert Petschnigg (HPP). It is an exemplary post-war building, which with its "dissolved filigree façade was trend-setting for the architecture of the 1950s in Germany".

Wikipedia: Drahthaus (DE)

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to prevent East German citizens from fleeing to the West.

Wikipedia: Berlin Wall (EN)

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche at Roßstraße 75 in Düsseldorf-Derendorf was built between 1905 and 1907 by the architect Josef Kleesattel and is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of the same name in the Archdiocese of Cologne, which has been merged into the Derendorf-Pempelfort parish association since 2009. In accordance with the Pastoral Reform Directive of the Archdiocese of Cologne, on 1 January 2013 the parishes of this association in Düsseldorf-Derendorf and Pempelfort will be merged into their original parish of Holy Trinity.

Wikipedia: Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Düsseldorf-Derendorf) (DE)

The New Synagogue is the synagogue of the Jewish community in Düsseldorf, Germany. The synagogue was built in the Golzheim district, far from the site of the former synagogue, which was located in the city center at Kasernenstraße. There the synagogue, built in 1905, was pillaged and burned by SA men during the Kristallnacht in 1938.

Wikipedia: New Synagogue (Düsseldorf) (EN)

Founded in 1691, the Catholic parish of Holy Trinity in Düsseldorf's Derendorf district is the oldest parish outside the former city walls of Düsseldorf that still exists today. The original parish church was built between 1692 and 1693, and the current church was built between 1892 and 1893.

Wikipedia: Heilige Dreifaltigkeit (Düsseldorf) (DE)

The Catholic parish church of St. Franziskus Xavierius in Düsseldorf-Mörsenbroich is a modern church building of the interwar period. It is located directly at the Mörsenbroicher Ei. The parish of the same name has existed in its current form only since 1 January 2010, when it merged with the parishes of St. Josef and Zum Heiligen Kreuz in the district of Rath.

Wikipedia: St. Franziskus Xaverius (Düsseldorf) (DE)

The former ARAG headquarters building at Heinrichstraße 155 in Düsseldorf's Mörsenbroich district was built in 1956 by Helmut Rhode for Allgemeine Rechtsschutz-Versicherungs AG. The building is an "important contribution to the architecture of the 1950s in Düsseldorf [...] The interior design and fittings are also exemplary for the 1950s." The building is eight storeys high and has a slightly recessed staggered storey at the upper end. The end of the roof is a protruding cornice. The basic Y-shaped shape is "the most striking". There are three concave swinging façades and three straight brick walls. The curved façades with their glazed grid façade are "characteristic of the construction period".

Wikipedia: Ehemaliges ARAG-Hauptverwaltungsgebäude (DE)