Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Königswinter, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 4.7 km
Ascend 114 m
Descend 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 Königswinter

Sight 1: Hirschburg

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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.

Wikipedia: Hirschburg (Königswinter) (DE)

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Hirschberg

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The Hirschberg is a 256.8 m high mountain in the Siebengebirge in the area of the town of Königswinter.

Wikipedia: Hirschberg (Siebengebirge) (DE)

1498 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 3: Dampflok Nr.2

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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.

Wikipedia: Drachenfels Railway (EN)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Kunstforum Palastweiher

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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.

Wikipedia: Wilhelm-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus (DE), Url

737 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 5: Königswinter Moschee

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The Königswinter Mosque in Königswinter belongs to a mosque association with about 150 members and is affiliated with the DITIB association.

Wikipedia: Königswinter-Moschee (DE)

389 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Christuskirche

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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.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Königswinter) (DE), Website

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: St. Remigius-Kirche

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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.

Wikipedia: St. Remigius (Königswinter) (DE)

100 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Weinbrunnen

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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.

Wikipedia: Weinbrunnen (Königswinter) (DE)

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Siebengebirgsmuseum

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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.

Wikipedia: Siebengebirgsmuseum (DE), Website

1043 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 10: Haus Steineck

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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."

Wikipedia: Haus Steineck (EN)

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