Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Königswinter, Germany
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4.7 km
214 m
Explore Königswinter 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 KönigswinterSight 1: Hirschburg
The Hirschburg is a historicist country villa with castle character in Königswinter, a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was built in 1883/84. It is located on the northwest slope of the Hirschberg in the Siebengebirge, east and above the Nachtigallental. The Hirschburg is a listed building.
Sight 2: Hirschberg
The Hirschberg is a 256.8 m high mountain in the Siebengebirge in the area of the town of Königswinter.
Sight 3: Dampflok Nr.2
The Drachenfels Railway is a rack railway line in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. The line runs from Königswinter, on the east bank of the Rhine, to the summit of the Drachenfels mountain at an altitude of 289 m (948 ft). Besides the two terminal stations, an intermediate station serves the Schloss Drachenburg.
Sight 4: Kunstforum Palastweiher
The Wilhelm-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus is a villa with an adjoining gymnasium in Königswinter, a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, built in 1908 and 1910/11. The building is located on Winzerstraße east of the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine. It is considered a listed building and today serves as a municipal event and cultural building.
Sight 5: Königswinter Moschee
The Königswinter Mosque in Königswinter belongs to a mosque association with about 150 members and is affiliated with the DITIB association.
Sight 6: Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is an evangelical church built in the style of neo-Gothic in the years 1863 and 1864 in the old town of Königswinter in the Rhein-Sieg district (North Rhine-Westphalia) and, with the old Evangelical Church in Oberkassel and the Dollendorf community center, one of the Three preachers of the parish of Oberkassel-Königswinter in the church district to Sieg and Rhine of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. It is a monument protection as a monument.
Sight 7: St. Remigius-Kirche
The Catholic parish church of St. Remigius in Königswinter, a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia, was built in 1779/80. It is located in the south of the old town on the main street at the corner of Drachenfelsstraße. The church building is a listed building.
Sight 8: Weinbrunnen
The Weinbrunnen is a fountain in Königswinter, a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was built in its current form in 1938. It is located on the market square on the Drachenfelsstraße, which leads down from the main street to the banks of the Rhine, in front of the town hall. The fountain is a listed building.
Sight 9: Siebengebirgsmuseum
The Siebengebirgsmuseum is a regional museum and specialist museum for Rhine Romanticism in Königswinter, a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Sight 10: Haus Steineck
Haus Steineck was originally the summer home of the Stein family of Cologne. Until 2008 it was owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. "Auf der anderen Seite der Fährstrasse steht das stattliche Haus Steineck, eine frühere Sommervilla der Familie Stein aus Köln. Nach verschiedenen Besitzern war es zuletzt als Gästehaus des Königreich Saudi-Arabien."
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