Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in Wuppertal, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 4.1 km
Ascend 118 m
Descend 203 m

Explore Wuppertal 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 Wuppertal

Sight 1: Villa Carnap

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Villa Carnap Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

Villa Carnap is a slate half-timbered house in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf in the Ronsdorf-Mitte/Nord residential district. It is located on In Crimea Street, number 42. The city villa is located "in the second row" about 50 meters from the road, is surrounded by tall trees and borders directly on the Ronsdorf grounds. The two-and-a-half-storey house was built in 1890 by Johannes Zebulon Carnap in what was then Waldstraße. It is now a listed building and is inhabited. The villa has an almost rectangular floor plan with some bay windows and ornamental decorations on the window friezes and gable eaves.

Wikipedia: Villa Carnap (DE)

564 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: ehemaliges Amtsgericht Ronsdorf

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ehemaliges Amtsgericht Ronsdorf Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The former district court of Ronsdorf, located at Erbschlöer Straße 9, was the district court of the then small town of Ronsdorf, since 1929 a district of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia. The building is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Amtsgericht Ronsdorf (DE)

568 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Steigerturm

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Steigerturm Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Steigerturm Ronsdorf is a prominent architectural monument in Ronsdorf, a district of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Steigerturm is located in the area of the older site of the fire station in Ronsdorf. To the left is the old part of the vehicle halls with parking spaces for two emergency vehicles. To the right of the tower is the former recreation room of the firefighting unit, which is now used by the youth fire brigade.

Wikipedia: Steigerturm Ronsdorf (DE)

1026 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 4: ehemalige Volksschule Heidt

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The former elementary school Heidt or Dörpfeldschule is a historic school building in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf, Germany.

Wikipedia: Volksschule Heidt (DE)

1915 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 5: Käshammer

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The Käshammer is a preserved historic hammer mill in the Gelpetal in the Cronenberg district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Wuppertal. The building is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Käshammer (DE)

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