Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Wuppertal, Germany
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11.3 km
271 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 WuppertalSight 1: Gut Röttgen
Gut Röttgen is a listed former manor house in the Langerfeld-Beyenburg district of Wuppertal at the foot of the Ehrenberg.
Sight 2: Villa Beckmannshagen
Villa Beckmannshagen is a listed villa in the Langerfeld district of Wuppertal on Beyeröhde Street. Until mid-2020, it housed the Children's Museum Showcase School & Children's Art, as well as other service companies. Real estate companies have their headquarters on the upper floors.
Sight 3: Alte Kirche Langerfeld
The Alte Kirche is a Protestant church in the district Langerfeld of Wuppertal. It is one of two churches of the Protestant congregation Langerfeld and is located between the Odoakerstraße and the Schwelmer Straße. It was built from 1768 to 1786; the first service took place on 24 September 1786, and was celebrated to the memory of Frederick II of Prussia.
Sight 4: Altes Amtshaus
The old office building, also known as the old guard, is a historic office in the Langerfeld district of Wuppertal, which is independent until 1922. Since the incorporation of Langerfeld, the building has been used as a residential building.
Sight 5: 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 6: Haus Goebel
The Haus Goebel is a two-storey house with the address on top road 5 in Wuppertal-Langerfeld and was built in 1785 on the courtyard of the former HEILENBECK. The client was Friedrich Keggemann, the first surgeon Langerfeld. It has been owned by the Goebel family since 1849. In 1870 the Goebel bookbindery was founded and the later Goebel cardboard box factory.
Sight 7: Alte Zollbrücke
The Heckinghauser Zollbrücke is a stone bridge built in 1775 over the Wupper River in the Heckinghausen district of Wuppertal. It is the oldest surviving bridge in the city and today connects Lenneper Straße with Rauental Street, near the mouth of the Murmelbach.
Sight 8: Kirchsaal Ackerstraße
The Kirchsaal Ackerstraße is a Protestant church building in the Heckinghausen district of Wuppertal and was until 2016 the largest place of worship of the United Evangelical Parish of Heckinghausen. As an example of the neo-Gothic architecture of the time, the building, which was built in 1893/1894, has been a listed building since 15 July 1994.
Sight 9: Lutherkirche Heidt
The Luther Church is a Protestant church on Obere Sehlhofstraße am Heidt in the Heckinghausen district of Wuppertal, Germany. After the closures of the Old Wupperfeld Church and the Hatzfeld Church, it is one of the last two remaining places of worship of the Evangelical Parish of Gemarke-Wupperfeld in the Wuppertal Church District of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
Sight 10: Dicke-Ibach-Treppe
The Dicke-Ibach-Treppen is a listed Wilhelminian staircase in Wuppertal-Barmen and the entrance to the Ringeltal in the Barmer Anlagen. The staircase, which leads to the higher Joseph-Haydn-Straße and to the country houses on the east side of the Ringeltal, was donated in 1897 by the board members of the Barmen Beautification Association from 1878 to 1897, Friedrich Wilhelm Dicke and Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach. The construction of the sophisticatedly designed staircase, which harks back to the forms of castle architecture and Gothic, is typical of buildings in public parks of the time.
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 Bergisch city of Wuppertal, named after the Engels family, which included the politician and philosopher Friedrich Engels.
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 due to the delayed completion and the exploding costs. Until the erection of the Angel Monument in 2014, the Hrdlicka sculpture was sometimes referred to as the Friedrich Engels Monument.
Sight 14: 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 urban historical building ensemble in the historic centre, near Friedrich-Engels-Allee in Wuppertal-Unterbarmen.
Sight 15: 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 16: Astropfad: Jupiter
The Astro Trail is a planetary trail in Wuppertal and thus a model of the solar system.
Sight 17: Adlerbrücke
The Eagle Bridge is a road bridge over the Wupper River in the Barmen district of Wuppertal, Germany.
Sight 18: Hohenstein
The Hohenstein is a dolomite rock cliff in the city of Wuppertal, which is located in a 4,450 m² city park of the same name.
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