Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Dusseldorf, Germany

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Number of sights 11 sights
Distance 6.3 km
Ascend 61 m
Descend 67 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: St. Rochus

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The Catholic Church of St. Rochus is located at Rochusmarkt 5 in the Pempelfort district of Düsseldorf. It is the successor to the Rochus Chapel, which was demolished at the end of the 19th century. The parish of the same name was founded in 1890/1891 and dissolved on January 1, 2013, joining its historic "mother parish" of the Holy Trinity.

Wikipedia: Rochuskirche (Düsseldorf) (DE)

1425 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 2: Museum Kunstpalast

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Museum Kunstpalast

The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum in Düsseldorf.

Wikipedia: Museum Kunstpalast (EN), Website

235 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Rheinterrasse

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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.

Wikipedia: Rheinterrasse (Düsseldorf) (DE)

114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Wasserträgerin

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Wasserträgerin Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Die Nubierin (DE)

319 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf

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The NRW Forum Wirtschaft und Kultur, formerly the Museum für Industrie und Wirtschaft, is a museum in Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, dealing with the development and the economy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia or regions within it, such as the Rhine-Ruhr-region. Today it is part of the Museum Kunstpalast.

Wikipedia: NRW Forum (EN), Website

213 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Denkmal der 39er

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Denkmal der 39er

The Ehrenhof is the name given to an expressionist ensemble of buildings and gardens in Düsseldorf, the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was created for the GeSoLei exhibition in 1926. Today, as a museum, it encloses an inner courtyard with the buildings of the Kunstpalast and the NRW Forum and extends axially over a garden parterre to the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, a dome-roofed concert and multi-purpose hall.

Wikipedia: Ehrenhof (Düsseldorf) (DE)

213 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Tonhalle Düsseldorf

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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.

Wikipedia: Tonhalle Düsseldorf (EN), Website

1351 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 8: Rheinkirmes

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The Largest Fair on the Rhine is a fair in Düsseldorf, one of Germany's largest. It takes place the third week in July on the left bank of the Rhine River, in the district Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, and features beer and food tents, amusement park rides, and vendors.

Wikipedia: Largest Fair on the Rhine (EN)

1010 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 9: St. Antonius

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The Catholic Church of St. Antonius is a landmark of the Düsseldorf district of Oberkassel and is located in a central warehouse not far from the Oberkasslerbrücke on the Luegallee. The patron saint of the church is Anthony of Padua.

Wikipedia: St. Antonius (Düsseldorf-Oberkassel) (DE)

504 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Auferstehungskirche

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The Protestant Church of the Resurrection in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, on the corner of Arnulfstraße and Quirinstraße, is an architecturally important testimony to Art Nouveau, which foreshadows the Rhenish brick architecture of the 1920s. It is a listed building. It was built between 1913 and 1914 according to a design by the Düsseldorf architects Rudolf Wilhelm Verheyen and Julius Stobbe and inaugurated on Ascension Day in 1914.

Wikipedia: Auferstehungskirche (Oberkassel) (DE), Website

956 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 11: Heiligenhäuschen

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The listed Heiligenhäuschen in the street Am Heiligenhäuschen is considered to be the oldest surviving building in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. The Heiligenhäuschen was first mentioned in a document on a map from 1772.

Wikipedia: Heiligenhäuschen (Düsseldorf-Oberkassel) (DE)

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