Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Wuppertal, Germany
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10.3 km
234 m
Experience Wuppertal in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in WuppertalSight 1: Lego-Brücke 2.0
The Lego-Brücke is a concrete beam bridge which crosses over the Schwesterstraße in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Wuppertal, Germany. In 2011, graffiti and street artist Martin Heuwold repainted the bridge in the style of Lego bricks, receiving national and international media attention for his work. The work was awarded the Deutscher Fassadenpreis in 2012.
Sight 2: St. Johann Baptist
The church of St. Johann Baptist in today's Wuppertal district of Oberbarmen is the second place of worship built for the Catholic Christians of Barmen.
Sight 3: Immanuelskirche
The Immanuel Church in the Wuppertal district of Oberbarmen is the former Reformed church of the Wupperfeld district and has been used as a concert church since its desecration in 1984.
Sight 4: Alte Kirche Wupperfeld
The old church Wupperfeld is a former Evangelical Church in Wuppertal-Barmen. In 2017 it was developed and sold as a place of worship.
Sight 5: Werther Brücke
The Werther Bridge is a road bridge built in 1903 with two lanes over the Wupper in the Wuppertal district of Barmen. As part of the Heidter Berg road, it connects the southern bank of the Wupper with the Barmen city centre (Werth) in the north. The bridge is set up as a one-way street, in a northerly direction, and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Werther Brücke suspension railway station, which is named after it.
Sight 6: Otto Graf von Bismarck
The Bismarck monument in the then independent city of Barmen was inaugurated in 1902. It was created by the Berlin sculptor Hugo Lederer and originally stood in front of the old Barmen town hall on Werther Straße ; In the autumn of 1921, the year of completion of the new Barmen town hall, it was moved to its current location in front of the Barmen Hall of Fame on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz.
Sight 7: Haus der Jugend
The Barmer Ruhmeshalle is a historic building in the Barmen district of the German town of Wuppertal, originally built as a hall of fame. It was officially known as the Kaiser Wilhelm- und Friedrich-Ruhmeshalle and later as the Haus der Jugend.
Sight 8: Wuppertaler Brauhaus
The Stadtbad Kleine Flurstraße is a preserved historic municipal swimming pool in the Barmen district of Wuppertal. The building is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.
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Sight 9: Synagoge
The Bergische Synagoge is the meeting place and place of worship of the Jewish community in Wuppertal.
Sight 10: Gemarker Kirche
The Gemark Church is a Protestant church in the Barmen district of Wuppertal, where the Barmen Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church adopted the Barmen Theological Declaration, also known as the Barmen Confession, on May 31, 1934. That was the constituent synod of the Confessing Church.
Sight 11: Bahnhofsempfangsgebäude Barmen
Wuppertal-Barmen station is a station in the city of Wuppertal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway. Its entrance building is protected as a monument. It was Barmen Hauptbahnhof prior to Barmen's incorporation in Wuppertal in 1929. Before the Second World War it was an important stop for express trains and had substantial freight traffic. Its importance declined after the war in favour of Oberbarmen and since the renaming of the Elberfeld station as Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof. The Opernhaus Wuppertal is nearby.
Sight 12: Engelsgarten
The Engelsgarten is a city park in the city of Wuppertal, Germany, named after the Engels family, from which the politician and philosopher Friedrich Engels came from.
Sight 13: Die starke Linke
The Strong Left is a sculpture by the Austrian sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka, who died in 2009 in Wuppertal-Unterbarmen. Until it was erected, it caused a local scandal because of the late completion and the exploded costs. Until the Engels monument was erected in 2014, the Hrdlicka sculpture was sometimes also referred to as the Friedrich Engels Monument.
Sight 14: Haus Barthels
Haus Barthels is a listed villa in the Wuppertal district of Barmen and on Friedrich-Engels-Allee. The property with the address Friedrich-Engels-Allee 384 is a former merchant's villa in the Empire style. The two-storey house was built in 1790 at Berliner Straße 100 and has been inhabited by the entrepreneur Philipp Barthels since about 1820.
Sight 15: Haus Röhrig
The two-storey Röhrig House, built in 1789, together with the Barthels House and the Engels House on the edge of the Engelsgarten, forms an important historical urban building ensemble of the Historic Centre, near Friedrich-Engels-Allee in Wuppertal-Unterbarmen.
Sight 16: Engels-Haus
Engels-Haus is a museum in Wuppertal, Germany, located in the house where Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) grew up. The museum is a constituent member of the Museum of Industrial Culture in Wuppertal.
Sight 17: Museum für Frühindustrialisierung
The Museum of Early Industrialization is a museum of industrial and social history in Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany. It is a location of the Museum of Industrial Culture Wuppertal.
Sight 18: Astropfad: Jupiter
The Astropfad is a planetary trail in Wuppertal and thus a model of the solar system.
Sight 19: Adlerbrücke
The Eagle Bridge is a road bridge over the Wupper in the Barmen district of Wuppertal, Germany.
Sight 20: St. Antonius
The Church of St. Antonius in Wuppertal is the place of worship of the oldest Catholic community in the district of Barmen after the Reformation.
Sight 21: Hohenstein
The Hohenstein is a dolomite rock cliff in the Wuppertal city area, which is located in a city park of the same name, around 4,450 m² in size.
Sight 22: Eben-Ezer-Kapelle
The Eben-Ezer Chapel is a listed church in Wuppertal-Unterbarmen. It is the place of worship of the Assemblée de Dieu de Wuppertal, a French-speaking Baptist congregation.
Sight 23: Unterbarmer Hauptkirche
The suburminarian main church is a Protestant church in Wuppertal-Barmen. The Unterbarm church is of particular importance for two reasons: on the one hand, it is the first church building of the architect Heinrich Hübsch, on the other hand, on the other hand it is one of the earliest known buildings of neuromanic architecture.
Sight 24: Cleff´sche Mühle
The Cleff'sche Mühle is a former mill complex in the Wuppertal district of Unterbarmen. The property at Warndtstraße 7 as a mill building with a residential building, including the historic furnishings and the mill ditch on the Wupper, has been protected as an architectural monument since 1 September 1989.
Sight 25: Hardtberg
Hardtberg is a borough (Stadtbezirk) of Bonn, Germany. It has a population of 34,576 (2018).
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