Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Wuppertal, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 10.5 km
Ascend 427 m
Descend 415 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: Stadion am Zoo

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Stadion am Zoo Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Stadion am Zoo is a multi-purpose stadium in Wuppertal, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Wuppertaler SV. The stadium is able to hold 23,067 people and was built in 1924.

Wikipedia: Stadion am Zoo (EN)

548 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Märchenbrunnen

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Märchenbrunnen Norbert Sdunzik / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Märchenbrunnen is a fountain in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal, Germany.

Wikipedia: Märchenbrunnen (Wuppertal) (DE)

1218 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 3: Von-der-Heydt-Turm

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The Von der Heydt Tower is an observation tower at a height of 274 m above sea level in front of the Königshöhe on the Kiesberg, which rises south of the Wupper in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld-West.

Wikipedia: Von-der-Heydt-Turm (DE)

1781 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 4: Jakobstreppe

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The Jakobstreppe is the longest continuous straight staircase in Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Jakobstreppe (DE)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Baumsche Villa

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The Baumsche Villa is a villa in the Arrenberg residential district of Wuppertal, in the Elberfeld-West district. It is located at the foot of the Nützenberg in the section of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, which is classified here as Bundesstraße 7.

Wikipedia: Baumsche Villa (DE), Heritage Website

657 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 6: Sankt Joseph

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Sankt Joseph

The Church of St. Joseph in Wuppertal is the Catholic parish church for the west of Elberfeld. Along with the churches of St. Suitbertus, St. Marien and St. Laurentius, it is part of the parish of St. Laurentius in Elberfeld-Mitte and its westernmost place of preaching.

Wikipedia: St. Joseph (Elberfeld) (DE)

70 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Küpper Brauerei

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Küpper Brauerei

The Küpper Brewery is a building ensemble of a former brewery in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße.

Wikipedia: Küpper-Brauerei (DE), Heritage Website

1900 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 8: Elastisch schwebend

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The Johannisberg Sculpture Park is a sculpture trail between the Von der Heydt Museum and Johannisberg Street in Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Skulpturenpark Johannisberg (DE)

425 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal

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Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal is a public bank based in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its business area is the city of Wuppertal.

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

344 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Armenpflegedenkmal

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Armenpflegedenkmal

The neoclassical Elberfeld Monument to the Care of the Poor is a work of the Elberfeld sculptor Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg (1856–1917), which was erected on 24 September 1903 on the church square of the "Old Reformed Church Elberfeld". The occasion was the 50th anniversary of the existence of the "Elberfeld System".

Wikipedia: Elberfelder Armenpflegedenkmal (DE)

307 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Rex Filmtheater

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Rex Filmtheater Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

Rex-Theater is a historically protected theatre in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Wikipedia: Rex-Theater (Wuppertal) (EN), Website

481 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Dürer-Haus

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The Dürer House is a listed former school building in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal, Germany. It is located on the eastern side of Wuppertal's main train station on Döppersberg Street.

Wikipedia: Dürer-Haus (DE), Heritage Website

877 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 13: Wunderbau

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Wunderbau Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

Wunderbau is the popular name of the oldest secular natural stone building in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Wunderbau (Wuppertal) (DE), Website

157 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Landgericht

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The Regional Court of Wuppertal is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of six regional courts in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf.

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

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: Martin Gauger

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Gotthard Martin Gauger was a German jurist and pacifist from Wuppertal, Rhenish Prussia. He was a member of the Kreisau Circle which sought to overthrow the Nazi regime in Germany during the Second World War.

Wikipedia: Martin Gauger (EN)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Haspeler Brücke

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The Haspeler Brücke is a road bridge over the Wupper River in the Barmen district of Wuppertal, Germany. The steel bridge connects Haspeler Straße south of the Wupper in Unterbarmen with the northern right bank of the river with the streets Hofkamp and Hardtufer, which are located in the Elberfeld district. Built between 1902 and 1903, the bridge is one of the oldest truss bridges in Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Haspeler Brücke (DE)

366 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Pauluskirche

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Pauluskirche

St. Paul's Church in the Wuppertal district of Unterbarmen, the westernmost district of the old town of Barmen, today the district of Barmen in the city of Wuppertal, is the second place of worship built for the United Evangelical Community of Unterbarmen.

Wikipedia: Pauluskirche (Wuppertal) (DE)

865 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 18: Gesellschaftshaus Union

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The company house Union has been a residential building in Wuppertal-Barmen, which has been listed since 1993 at Friedrich-Engels-Allee 202. It was built in its original form between 1867 and 1871 in the style of classicism and has been housing the Union, founded in 1829.

Wikipedia: Gesellschaftshaus Union (DE)

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