Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Monschau, Germany

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Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 2 km
Ascend 96 m
Descend 121 m

Explore Monschau 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 Monschau

Sight 1: Felsenkeller Brauereimuseum

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The Felsenkeller Brewery Museum was located in Monschau in the city region of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Wikipedia: Brauerei-Museum Felsenkeller (DE), Website

580 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Burg Monschau

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Burg Monschau Steffen Heinz Caronna / CC BY 3.0

Monschau Castle is a castle in the eponymous town of Monschau in the southern part of the Region of Aachen in Germany. It is used today as a youth hostel and in summer as a venue for concerts and operas.

Wikipedia: Monschau Castle (EN)

240 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: St. Mariä Geburt

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The parish church of St. Mary's Nativity in Monschau in North Rhine-Westphalia was built between 1649 and 1650 by the Premonstratensian Fathers of the former monastery of Reichenstein as the first parish church in the community. It was an unadorned hall made of raw quarry stone masonry.

Wikipedia: St. Mariä Geburt (Monschau) (DE)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Pauls’sches Haus

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The Pauls'sche Haus is a typical representative Monschau town house, which was built in the second half of the 18th century. The client was Paul Christoph Scheibler. In 1824 it was acquired by Hermann Pauls. It has been owned by the city since 1921. The house with house numbers 1 to 3 is located on the city road directly on the Rur and is registered under the monument number 25 in the Monschau monument register.

Wikipedia: Pauls’sches Haus (DE)

91 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Monschau City Church

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The Evangelical City Church of Monschau is a church in Monschau in the Aachen city region of North Rhine-Westphalia and is registered under number 57 in the list of monuments in Monschau. It is a church of the Evangelical Parish of Monschauer Land in the Aachen district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Stadtkirche Monschau (DE), Website

70 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Rotes Haus

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The Red House in Monschau, North Rhine-Westphalia, is a former headquarters of the Scheibler family of entrepreneurs and now accessible as a museum, which in particular presents the bourgeois residential culture at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century. The large patrician house was probably built between 1752 and 1768 by the cloth manufacturer Johann Heinrich Scheibler. Due to its facade color, it is called the red house.

Wikipedia: Rotes Haus (Monschau) (DE), Website

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Troistorff House

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Troistorff House Steffen Heinz Caronna / CC BY 3.0

The House of Troistorff in Monschau is a listed house in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Wikipedia: Haus Troistorff (DE)

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Amtsgericht Monschau

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Monschau is the seat of the District Court of Monschau, which is responsible for the city of Monschau and the municipality of Simmerath in the southern city region of Aachen. Around 28,400 people live in the 206 km² judicial district. The neighbouring district courts are Aachen, Düren, Eschweiler and Schleiden.

Wikipedia: Amtsgericht Monschau (DE)

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Haller

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Haller Steffen Heinz Caronna / CC BY 3.0

The Haller is an old fortification from the 13th century in Monschau. Today, the complex opposite Monschau Castle is regarded as an independent fortification structure and not as a parked watchtower of Monschau Castle.

Wikipedia: Haller (Befestigung) (DE)

490 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Fotografie-Forum der StädteRegion Aachen

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