Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Wuppertal, Germany

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 9.2 km
Ascend 394 m
Descend 433 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: Hardtanlage

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The Hardt-Anlagen, or usually abbreviated to the Hardt, are a park on the partially wooded Hardtberg elevation in the inner city area of Wuppertal, on the border between the districts of Elberfeld and Barmen.

Wikipedia: Hardt (Wuppertal) (DE)

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Botanischer Garten

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The Botanischer Garten Wuppertal, also known as the Botanischer Garten der Stadt Wuppertal, is a municipal botanical garden located at Elisenhöhe 1, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is open daily without charge.

Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten Wuppertal (EN)

450 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Waldbühne Hardt

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The Waldbühne auf der Hardt is an event venue in Wuppertal, Germany. The open-air stage is located on the grounds of the Hardt Landscape Park in the Elberfeld district.

Wikipedia: Waldbühne Hardt (DE)

956 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen

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The justice fountain is a fountain designed by the sculptor Bernhard Hoetger in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, which was inaugurated in 1910 during the festival week for the 300th anniversary of Elberfeld on the “Exerzierplatz” at the time.

Wikipedia: Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen (Wuppertal) (DE)

620 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Diakoniekirche

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The Diakoniekirche in Friedrichstraße is the oldest church building in Elberfelder Nordstadt in Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Diakoniekirche (Wuppertal) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

234 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Herz Jesu

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Herz Jesu, popularly known as Nordstadt-Dom, in Elberfelder Nordstadt in Wuppertal is the third Catholic church in the district built in the 19th century.

Wikipedia: Herz Jesu (Elberfeld) (DE), Website

558 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 7: Lebensader Wupper

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Lebensader Wupper Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Wupper Lifeline is a sculpture by the British sculptor Tony Cragg in Wuppertal, Germany.

Wikipedia: Lebensader Wupper (DE), Website

642 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: Kirche der Heiligen Mutter Gottes

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The Church of the Holy Mother of God is a Serbian Orthodox, formerly Evangelical Lutheran church on the Mount of Olives in Wuppertal's Nordstadt district.

Wikipedia: Kirche der Heiligen Gottesmutter (Wuppertal) (DE), Website

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Haus Daniel von der Heydt

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Haus Daniel Von der Heydt is a listed villa in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße.

Wikipedia: Haus Daniel von der Heydt (DE), Heritage Website

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Palais Meckel

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Palais Meckel is a listed villa in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. The villa has a coach house.

Wikipedia: Palais Meckel (DE), Heritage Website

425 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Neue Kirche

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Neue Kirche

The New Reformed Church, also known as the Second Reformed Church, popularly known as the Sophienkirche after the street on which it stands, is the second place of worship built for the Reformed Church in today's Wuppertal district of Elberfeld.

Wikipedia: Neue reformierte Kirche (Wuppertal) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

187 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Deweerth’scher Garten

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Together with the Luisenpark, the Deweerth'sche Garten is a more than 200-year-old 1.8-hectare inner-city park in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Deweerth’scher Garten (DE)

144 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Villa Frowein

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Villa Frowein is a late classicist villa in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Briller Straße 2, on the edge of the Luisenviertel.

Wikipedia: Villa Frowein (Elberfeld) (DE), Heritage Website

820 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 14: Niederländisch-Reformierte Gemeinde

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The Dutch Reformed Congregation of Wuppertal is an independent Protestant congregation of the Reformed type. It has the legal form of a corporation under public law and has been a full member of the Evangelical Old Reformed Church since 2001.

Wikipedia: Niederländisch-reformierte Gemeinde zu Wuppertal (DE), Website, Heritage Website

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Friedhof der Niederländisch-reformierten Gemeinde

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The Katernberger Straße cemetery is an evangelical-reformed cemetery in the Wuppertal district of Katernberg. As a rose cemetery of the Dutch-Reformed community, he is known far beyond the city limits of Wuppertal due to its execution according to the concept of the Herrnhut Gottesacker.

Wikipedia: Friedhof Katernberger Straße (DE), Website, Heritage Website

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Haus Noetzlin

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Haus Noetzlin is a listed villa in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Haus Noetzlin (DE), Heritage Website

888 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 17: Nützenberg

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The Nützenberg is a 259.3-metre-high elevation in the west of the city of Wuppertal and also gives its name to the residential quarter of Nützenberg.

Wikipedia: Nützenberg (DE)

879 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 18: Villa Simons

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Villa Simons is a slate villa in the style of a Bergisch house on Nützenberger Straße in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany. The two-storey building has five axes on the front side facing the street and the garden with a three-axis central risalite.

Wikipedia: Villa Simons (DE)

1385 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 19: Kalktrichterofen

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The lime funnel kiln on the Eskesberg in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld-West is an industrial monument from the 19th century and one of the last remaining industrial lime kilns in the Niederberg region. The lime funnel kiln is a location of the Museum of Industrial Culture Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Kalktrichterofen Wuppertal (DE)

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