Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Wuppertal, Germany

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Number of sights 25 sights
Distance 7.9 km
Ascend 289 m
Descend 242 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: 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

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: 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 3: 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

147 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: 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)

424 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: 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

267 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: 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

142 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Lebensader Wupper

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Lebensader Wupper Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Wikipedia: Lebensader Wupper (DE), Website

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Alte Synagoge

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The Old Synagogue was the meeting house of the Jews in Elberfeld from 1865 to 1938, and until the construction of the Barmen Synagogue in 1897, it also served as a synagogue for the Jews of Barmen.

Wikipedia: Alte Synagoge (Elberfeld) (DE)

495 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: 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

692 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 13: Friedhofskirche

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Friedhofskirche Die Autorenschaft wurde nicht in einer maschinell lesbaren Form angegeben. Es wird Thomas Wtal als Autor angenommen (basierend auf den Rechteinhaber-Angaben). / CC BY-SA 2.5

The cemetery church in Elberfeld is one of the largest churches in Wuppertal and the third oldest church built for the Reformed Church in Elberfeld. Important Reformed pastors such as the moderator of the Reformed Federation, Hermann Albert Hesse, and the church historian Hermann Klugkist Hesse officiated at the church. With 1,020 seats, it is the second largest Protestant church in the Rhineland after the Basilica of Constantine in Trier.

Wikipedia: Friedhofskirche (Wuppertal) (DE), Website

452 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Herz Jesu

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

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

824 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 15: Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen

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The Fountain of Justice is a fountain in Wuppertal-Elberfeld designed by the sculptor Bernhard Hoetger, which was inaugurated in 1910 during the festival week for the 300th anniversary of Elberfeld on the former "parade ground".

Wikipedia: Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen (Wuppertal) (DE)

20 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: Platz der Republik

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Platz der Republik is an inner-city square in the Ostersbaum residential district of Wuppertal.

Wikipedia: Platz der Republik (Wuppertal) (DE)

650 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 17: 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 18: 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 19: 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 20: 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 21: 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 22: 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 23: 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)

333 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: Hardtberg

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Hardtberg

Hardtberg is a borough (Stadtbezirk) of Bonn, Germany. It has a population of 34,576 (2018).

Wikipedia: Hardtberg (EN)

816 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 25: Johnson Controls IFM Industrie GmbH

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The consumer cooperative "Vorwärts-Befreiung" was a large consumer cooperative in Wuppertal. It emerged from the merger of the cooperatives "Befreiung" and "Vorwärts" as well as "Haushalt" in Velbert in 1924. Previously, several attempts to unite the Elberfeld and Barmer cooperatives had failed.

Wikipedia: Konsumgenossenschaft Vorwärts-Befreiung (DE)

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