Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Essen, Germany

The Krupp steelworks, or Krupp foundry, or Krupp cast steel factory in Essen is a historic industrial site of the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany that was known as the "weapons forge of the German Reich".

Wikipedia: Krupp steelworks (EN)

The press and hammer factory East was part of the Krupp cast steel factory. Since 1992, the now redesigned, historic building, which is a historical preservation building, has been used as a furniture house in the Westviertel of the city of Essen.

Wikipedia: Press- und Hammerwerk Ost (DE)

Das Kleine Theater Essen is a theatre in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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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 Haus der Technik, or HDT for short, is Germany's oldest independent technical training institute with headquarters in Essen and branches in Berlin and Munich.

Wikipedia: Haus der Technik (Essen) (DE), Website

Pit Kroke was a German artist and architect.

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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

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.

Wikipedia: Friedenskirche (Essen) (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Essen Cathedral Treasury (EN), Website

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 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.

Wikipedia: Baedekerhaus (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Grillo-Theater (EN), 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.

Wikipedia: Stratmanns Theater Europahaus (DE), Website

The Essen Market Church, Gertrudis Church until the end of the 19th century, is located in Essen's city centre on the market, Essen's original market square, which was once the economic, political and religious centre of the city. The hall church, originally Romanesque, was late Gothic after partial reconstruction and was the first Protestant church in Essen.

Wikipedia: Marktkirche (Essen) (DE), Website

The Church of the Holy Cross in Essen's city centre is a Protestant church that was built between 1894 and 1896 according to plans by the architect August Orth. After severe damage during the Second World War, it was rebuilt by 1953 and is now a listed building.

Wikipedia: Kreuzeskirche (Essen) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

St. Gertrud is a Catholic parish church in the north of the Essen city center after the Second World War.

Wikipedia: St. Gertrud (Essen) (DE), Website

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)