Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Dusseldorf, Germany
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6.8 km
101 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: Römischer Kaiser
The Hotel Römischer Kaiser is a former hotel at Stresemanstraße 26 in the center of Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has more recently been used as an office and commercial building. It was designed by Josef Kleesattel and finished in 1904.
Sight 2: Königsallee
Book Free Tour*The Königsallee is an urban boulevard in Düsseldorf, state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Königsallee is noted for both the landscaped canal that runs along its center, as well as for the fashion showrooms and luxury retail stores located along its sides.
Sight 3: Peter von Cornelius
The Peter von Cornelius Monument is a historicist monument in Düsseldorf, located as the point de vue of Königsallee and Corneliusplatz on the edge of the Hofgarten. The statue honors the painter Peter von Cornelius, the first director of the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf and the co-founder of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. It was designed by the sculptor Adolf von Donndorf and inaugurated on 24 June 1879 in the presence of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. At a celebration in the evening in the Malkastenpark, a procession with figures based on paintings by Cornelius was performed to the sounds of the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Malkasten Timpani March by Julius Tausch.
Sight 4: K20 - Kunstsammlung NRW
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Düsseldorf. United by this institution are three different exhibition venues: the K20 at Grabbeplatz, the K21 in the Ständehaus, and the Schmela Haus. The Kunstsammlung was founded in 1961 by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia as a foundation under private law for the purpose of displaying the art collection and expanding it through new acquisitions.
Sight 5: Kommödchen
The Kom(m)ödchen is a cabaret stage in Düsseldorf.
Sight 6: Palais Wittgenstein
Palais Wittgenstein (Düsseldorf) is a theatre in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Sight 7: Palais Nesselrode
Palais Nesselrode at Schulstraße 4 and Hafenstraße 2 in Düsseldorf-Carlstadt is a historic city palace. The brick house, which was damaged in the Second World War and has two main floors and one storey in the mansard roof, has been rebuilt and now houses the Hetjens Museum. Its three-part complex, which consists of two pavilion-like wings connected by a narrow central section, is irregularly arranged around a small courtyard. Benrath Castle in the style of Rococo Classicism served as a model for the construction. The semi-detached house at Schulstraße 4 and Hafenstraße 2 was the "only courtyard in Düsseldorf open to the street".
Sight 8: Mannesmann-Hochhaus
The Mannesmann high-rise is an administrative building on Mannesmannufer in the Carlstadt district of Düsseldorf, Germany. It was designed and built between 1956 and 1958 by the architects Egon Eiermann and Paul Schneider-Esleben after they won an architectural competition in 1954. The original client was Mannesmann AG, which was taken over by Vodafone in 2000. As general contractor, Hochtief was involved in the construction. Together with the Dreischeibenhaus, it is one of the first modern high-rise buildings in Germany. It stands for the time of the so-called economic miracle, in which private companies significantly changed the city skyline of Düsseldorf with high-rise buildings in the style of post-war modernism.
Sight 9: Große Mannesmann
The Great Mannesmann, also known as Mannesmann I or Movement, is a sculpture by the sculptor Norbert Kricke. It was created in 1958 in the context of informal art as a commissioned work for Mannesmann AG and was erected in 1961 on the forecourt of the Mannesmann high-rise in Düsseldorf. Together with the high-rise building, the property has been a listed building since 1997.
Sight 10: Mannesmann-Haus
The Mannesmann-Haus, also known as the Behrensbau, is a former administrative building in Düsseldorf, Germany, located on Mannesmannufer in the Carlstadt district. It was built between 1911 and 1912 according to a design by the architect Peter Behrens for the headquarters of Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG and is one of the early large administrative buildings in Düsseldorf.
Sight 11: Jan-Wellem-Denkmal
The Jan Wellem monument in the Düsseldorf City Hall was completed by sculptor Gabriel de Grupello after 1697/before 1708. The marble statue is Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg, named Jan Wellem, Elector of the Palatinate and Duke of Jülich-Berg, who was speaking Lower Franconian at the time.
Sight 12: Radschlägerbrunnen
The Radschlägerbrunnen fountain is located on Burgplatz in Düsseldorf's Old Town.
Sight 13: Schifffahrtsmuseum
The shipping museum in Düsseldorf shows one of the oldest collections on the history of Germany's history and has been housed in the historic castle tower on the banks of the Rhine since 1984.
Wikipedia: Schifffahrtsmuseum (Düsseldorf) (DE), Website, Website
Sight 14: 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 15: Fischerjungen-Brunnen
The Fisherman's Boy Fountain is located on Stiftsplatz near the church of St. Lambertus in Düsseldorf's old town.
Sight 16: Kunstakademie
Book Ticket*The building of the Art Academy on Eiskellerstraße 1 in Düsseldorf-Altstadt was built between 1875 and 1879 by Hermann Riffart in the historical style of the Italian Renaissance. On the banks of the building, a modern studio building designed by Rudolf Schwarz is joined by the Kunstakademie.
Sight 17: 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 18: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus is a theatre building and company in Düsseldorf. The present building with two major auditoria was designed by the architect Bernhard Pfau and built between 1965 and 1969. It opened in 1970.
Sight 19: Malkasten
Malkasten is a progressive German artists' association, founded in Düsseldorf in 1848, during the March Revolution. Since 1867, their headquarters have been in the Pempelfort district.
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