Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Hagen, Germany
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8.8 km
302 m
Explore Hagen 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 HagenSight 1: Hohenhof
Hohenhof is a 1908-built Art Nouveau villa, located within Gartenstadt Hohenhagen in the city of Hagen, Germany. The villa was designed by Belgian architect Henry van de Velde as a Gesamtkunstwerk - incorporating shell, accessories, furnishings, landscape and all into the building's design.
Sight 2: Künstlerkolonie Am Stirnband
The garden city of Hohenhagen was founded in 1909 by the Hagen patron Karl Ernst Osthaus and is located in today's district of Eppenhausen, not far southeast of the Hagen motorway junction.
Sight 3: Villa Cuno
The Villa Cuno is a villa built in 1909/10 by Peter Behrens and supervised by Walter Gropius for the mayor of Hagen, Willi Cuno, in Hagen-Eppenhausen, Haßleyer Straße 35. It has been used by a kindergarten since the mid-1990s.
Sight 4: Heilig-Geist-Kirche
The Church of the Holy Spirit is the church of the Catholic parish of the Holy Spirit in Hagen (Westphalia) in the district of Emst. The foundation stone was laid on 9 May 1954. The consecration took place on 12 June 1955 by the Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Franz Hengsbach. The church was designed by the well-known Cologne architect Dominikus Böhm, who had a significant influence on church construction in Germany in the post-war years.
Sight 5: Arbeitersiedlung Walddorfstraße
The Walddorfstraße workers' housing estate of the Hagen textile industry Gebr. Elbers AG in Hagen (Westphalia) was designed by the Munich architect Richard Riemerschmid. Her name is closely associated with the Hagen impulse and the great Hagen patron of the arts, Karl Ernst Osthaus.
Sight 6: ELBERSHALLEN
The Elbers textile factory was a company in Hagen that existed from 1822 to 1932. Located in the centre of Hagen, the premises of the cotton textile factory were of great importance for the economic development of the city.
Sight 7: Johanniskirche
The Johanniskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in Hagen-Mitte on the market square at the Springe.
Sight 8: Synagoge Hagen
The Jewish Community of Hagen was founded in 1819. It is a member of the State Association of Jewish Communities of Westphalia-Lippe.
Sight 9: Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum
The Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum is an art museum in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The center of the museum is a building whose interior was designed by Henry van de Velde to house Karl Ernst Osthaus' art collection, open to the public as the Museum Folkwang. When Osthaus' heirs sold his art collection to the city of Essen, the city of Hagen gained possession of the empty museum building. For a time it served as offices for the local electric company.
Sight 10: Emil Schuhmacher Museum
The Emil Schumacher Museum is an art museum and part of the Kunstquartier in Hagen and is dedicated to the internationally important painter Emil Schumacher, who was born in Hagen. It was opened on 28 August 2009 in a purpose-built new building in the run-up to the Capital of Culture year RUHR.2010.
Sight 11: Bunkermuseum
The Bunker Museum Hagen is located in the basement of a high-rise bunker in Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia and was opened in 2013.
Sight 12: Goldberg
The Goldberg is a 266.2 m above sea level. Nhn high mountain in Hagen. Already in the late Middle Ages, gold and silver were mined in the Goldberg near the village of Hagen on the Volme.
Sight 13: Bismarckturm Hagen
The Hagen Bismarck Tower in memory of the first Chancellor of the German Reich, Otto von Bismarck, is located in the Westphalian town of Hagen on the nearby Goldberg.
Sight 14: Eugen-Richter-Turm
The Eugen Richter Tower is an observation tower in the Westphalian city of Hagen, above the district of Wehringhausen.
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