Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Essen, Germany

The Graf Beust colliery was a coal mine in the eastern quarter of the city of Essen. It was named after the Rhenish mining captain Ernst August Graf von Beust. The Graf Beust colliery was one of the founding members of the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate (RWKS). In the second half of the 19th century, it was one of the most important mines in the western part of the Ruhr area, which belonged to the Prussian Rhine Province, and was one of the first marl mines in this area.

Wikipedia: Zeche Graf Beust (DE)

The Old Synagogue in Essen is one of the largest, best preserved and architecturally most impressive testimonies to Jewish culture in pre-war Germany. Built in the centre of the city, the Byzantine style former Synagogue was originally consecrated as the Neue Synagoge in 1913; it now houses an institution dedicated to documenting and promoting the history of the city's former Jewish community.

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The Friedenskirche is located on Bernestraße near the Old Synagogue and the Town Hall in the city center of Essen. The Old Catholic church, which is a listed building, was built between 1914 and 1916. Its creation in the midst of the horrors of the First World War makes the naming easy to understand.

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The Jahrhundertbrunnen is a historic fountain in the city center of Essen from 1907, which is now a listed building.

Wikipedia: Jahrhundertbrunnen Essen (DE), Heritage Website

Pit Kroke was a German artist and architect.

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The Kaiser Wilhelm monument in the centre of Essen is an equestrian statue depicting Kaiser Wilhelm I. As one of numerous Kaiser Wilhelm monuments erected during the German Empire, this one also glorifies Wilhelm I as its founder and victor over the Second Empire (France).

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The Essen Cathedral Treasury is one of the most significant collections of religious artworks in Germany. A great number of items of treasure are accessible to the public in the treasury chamber of Essen Minster. The cathedral chapter manages the treasury chamber, not as a museum as in some places, but as the place in which liturgical implements and objects are kept, which continued to be used to this day in the service of God, so far as their conservation requirements allow.

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Essen Minster, since 1958 also Essen Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese of the Ruhr", founded in 1958. The church, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Blessed Virgin Mary, stands on the Burgplatz in the centre of the city of Essen, Germany.

Wikipedia: Essen Minster (EN)

The Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist is a Gothic hall church in Essen, dedicated to John the Baptist, which stands on Kettwiger Straße, the main street of Essen, in front of Essen Minster, to which it is connected. On account of its position and the fact that its spire towers over the Minster, visitors often mistake it for part of the Minster.

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The Baedekerhaus was built in 1927 and 1928 on Kettwiger Strasse in the centre of Essen as a commercial building for the G. D. Baedeker publishing house. It was listed as a historical monument in 1987.

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Grillo-Theater is a theatre in Essen, Germany. Named after the industrialist Friedrich Grillo, who made the building possible, it opened on 16 September 1892 with Lessing's drama Minna von Barnhelm.

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Jacob Koerfer was a German architect.

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Today, the Deutschlandhaus is an office and commercial building in Essen's city centre on Lindenallee. It was built in 1928 and 1929 as a technical town hall and is considered the first high-rise building in the city. It has been a listed building since 1988.

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Between 1872 and 1925, Essener Credit-Instar AG, with its headquarters in Essen, was a regional bank that was a leader during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic in the financing of the expansion of the heavy industry in the Ruhr area.

Wikipedia: Essener Credit-Anstalt (DE), Heritage Website

The America Haus Ruhr, called the Europahaus since 1994, has been a building in the city center of Essen since 1991. It was built in the early 1950s as an American house and the first main base of their information network in selected major cities. After the house later served 15 years as the seat of the mayor, the STRATMANNS theater cabaret has been located since 1994.

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Stratmanns Theater Europahaus is a theatre in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Wikipedia: Stratmanns Theater Europahaus (EN)