Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Essen, Germany
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6.5 km
90 m
Explore Essen 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.
Individual Sights in EssenSight 1: Friedenskirche Steele
The Evangelical Church of Peace in the eastern Essen district of Steele is a neo-Gothic, three-nave church building that has been a listed building since 1989. The church was built in 1872 according to plans by the Essen architect Julius Flügge as a successor to a predecessor church that had become too small on the same land and is today the parish church of the Protestant parish of Königssteele, which belongs to the Essen church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
Sight 2: Amtsgericht Steele
The district court of Essen-Steele, with its seat in the Essen district of Steele, is responsible for the districts of Burgaltendorf, Byfang, Freisenbruch, Horst, Kray, Kupferdreh, Leithe, Steele, Überruhr-Hinsel and Überruhr-Holthausen.
Sight 3: St. Laurentius
The Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius is a listed church building in Essen-Steele.
Sight 4: Fürstin-Franziska-Christine-Stiftung
The Princess Franziska Christine Foundation is an orphanage founded in 1764 by the Princess Abbess Franziska Christine of Palatinate-Sulzbach in what is now the Steele district of Essen.
Sight 5: Jüdischer Friedhof
The Jewish Cemetery Hiltrops Kamp in the Steele district of Essen is a Jewish cemetery in the street Hiltrops Kamp.
Sight 6: Grabmal Brünglinghaus
The Old Cemetery Huttrop was established in 1878 as a municipal cemetery in today's Essen district of Huttrop. At that time, Huttrop was part of the mayor's office of Stoppenberg, although Huttrop was incorporated into the city of Essen in 1908. Deconsecrated in 1991, the burial ground has been transformed into a park in which several tombstones are preserved, most of which are now listed as historical monuments.
Sight 7: Franz Sales Haus
Franz Sales Haus (sic) is a Catholic institution for disabled people in Essen. The facade of the old building has been protected by monument since 2002.
Sight 8: Ordensschwester Philippa Boening
Sight 9: Liegende, sich aufstützend
Karl Ulrich Nuss is a German sculptor and medalist.
Sight 10: Altlutherische Kirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Church, also known as the Old Lutheran Church, is a church building built in 1909/10 in Essen, Germany, at Moltkeplatz 17/19. It belongs to the church district of Westphalia of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK).
Wikipedia: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche (Essen) (DE), Website
Sight 11: allegorische Giganten
Joseph Bernhard Hubert Enseling was a German sculptor and university professor. Educated in Düsseldorf and Paris, he lectured at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and taught the artists Joseph Beuys and Hermann Blumenthal. His own work encompassed industrial and mining monuments as well as architectural sculptures. He also created portraits of personalities from the 1920s and 1930s.
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