Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Wuppertal, Germany

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 8.2 km
Ascend 289 m
Descend 207 m

Experience Wuppertal in Germany in a whole new way with our free 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 Wuppertal

Sight 1: Villa Frowein

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The 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

144 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Deweerth’scher Garten

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The Deweerth'sche Garten is a 200-year-old 1.8-hectare inner-city park in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld, which is over 200 years old.

Wikipedia: Deweerth’scher Garten (DE)

187 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Neue Kirche

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Neue Kirche

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

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

425 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Palais Meckel

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

Wikipedia: Palais Meckel (DE), Heritage Website

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Haus Daniel von der Heydt

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

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

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Basilika St. Laurentius

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Basilika St. Laurentius Fotograf: Daniel Jünger / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Basilica of St. Laurentius in Elberfeld is the main Roman Catholic church completed in 1835 and the most important Roman Catholic church building in Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: St. Laurentius (Wuppertal) (DE), Heritage Website

460 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 7: 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.

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

410 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Ein neuer erfolgreicher Tag

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A new successful day, popularly known as the Tie Man, is the title of a sculpture that shows a young businessman in black suit trousers and a white shirt on a concrete pedestal in a handstand pose with a tie and briefcase. The artwork is located in Wuppertal in the Elberfeld district at the so-called Kasinokreisel, the area between Herzogstraße, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße and Kasinostraße. The artwork was made by the Belgian conceptual artist Guillaume Bijl and was installed here in 2008.

Wikipedia: Ein neuer erfolgreicher Tag (DE)

558 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 9: Elastisch schwebend

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

Wikipedia: Skulpturenpark Johannisberg (DE)

77 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Schwimmoper

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Schwimmoper

The Wuppertal Swimming Opera is a municipal swimming pool in Wuppertal, Germany. It was built until 1957 and was entered into the city's list of monuments in 1995.

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

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Stadthalle

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The Stadthalle Wuppertal is one of the most important sights in the city of Wuppertal and at the same time known worldwide as a concert and event venue due to its unique acoustics. It is located on the Johannisberg in the south of Elberfeld, not far from the city centre and Wuppertal's main train station. In the immediate vicinity are the Schwimmoper and the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium.

Wikipedia: Stadthalle Wuppertal (DE), Website

385 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal

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Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal is a public credit institution based in Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Its business area is the city of Wuppertal.

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

344 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Armenpflegedenkmal

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Armenpflegedenkmal

The neoclassical Elberfeld Monument to the Preservation of the Poor is the 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 of Elberfeld". The occasion was the 50th anniversary of the existence of the "Elberfeld System".

Wikipedia: Elberfelder Armenpflegedenkmal (DE)

79 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: CityKirche Elberfeld

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The Old Reformed Church is the oldest church in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal. It is the successor to the Catholic Church of St. Laurentius until the Reformation and has been the main Protestant church of the Wuppertal church district since 2005 as the City Church of Elberfeld.

Wikipedia: Alte reformierte Kirche Elberfeld (DE), Website, Heritage Website

174 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Köbohaus

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The Köbo-Haus is a listed building at Alte Freiheit 26 in the Elberfeld district of the city of Wuppertal. It is the only house in the city that is built over the Wupper.

Wikipedia: Köbo-Haus (DE), Heritage Website

403 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Jubiläumsbrunnen

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The Jubilee Fountain is located on the northeastern side of Neumarkt, one of the most important inner-city squares in Wuppertal's Elberfeld district.

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

267 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Von der Heydt-Museum

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Von der Heydt-Museum Fotograf: Daniel Jünger / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Von der Heydt Museum is a museum in Wuppertal, Germany.

Wikipedia: Von der Heydt Museum (EN), Website

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Alte lutherische Kirche am Kolk

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The church on the Kolk is the second oldest church building in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld after the Old Reformed Church. The originally baroque church has been rebuilt and renovated several times, most recently in the 2020s. It was deconsecrated at the end of September 2024.

Wikipedia: Kirche am Kolk (DE), Website, Heritage Website, Youtube

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: 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)

481 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 20: Dürer-Haus

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

Wikipedia: Dürer-Haus (DE), Heritage Website

514 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 21: Sopp'scher Pavillon

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Sopp'scher Pavillon Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Sopp'sche Pavillon is a former automobile salon and workshop from the 1950s in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, which has been a listed building since 1998.

Wikipedia: Sopp’scher Pavillon (DE), Heritage Website

497 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 22: Kolkmannhaus

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The Kolkmannhaus is a former commercial building or department store in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, which is now used as an office building. It is the most famous start-up centre in the city.

Wikipedia: Kolkmannhaus (DE), Heritage Website

573 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 23: Ziegenburghöhlen

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The Ziegenburg Caves are three nearby caves in the city of Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Ziegenburghöhlen (DE), Website

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: St. Marien Kirche

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St. Marien Kirche

The Church of St. Mary in Wuppertal is the second sacred building built in the 19th century for the Catholic community of Elberfeld.

Wikipedia: St. Marien (Elberfeld) (DE)

296 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: Waldbühne Hardt

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The Waldbühne auf der Hardt is a 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)

450 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: 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)

106 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 27: Elisenturm

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The Elisenturm is a 21-metre-high observation tower in Wuppertal in a park on the Hardt ridge, north of the Wupper.

Wikipedia: Elisenturm (DE)

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 28: Hardt-Anlage

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

Wikipedia: Hardt (Wuppertal) (DE)

461 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 29: Bismarckturm Wuppertal

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The Bismarck Tower in Wuppertal is on the site of the hard system, a park -like mountain back in the center of Wuppertal on the border between the districts of Elberfeld and Barmen.

Wikipedia: Bismarckturm (Wuppertal) (DE)

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