Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Wuppertal, Germany
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13.3 km
281 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: Heckinghauser Gaskessel
The Heckinghausen gas tank, also Heckinghauser Gaskessel, is a cityscape -defining, 66.65 meter high former gas container in the Heckinghausen district of Wuppertal.
Sight 2: St. Johann Baptist
The Church of St. John the Baptist in today's Wuppertal district of Oberbarmen is the second church built for the Catholic Christians of Barmen.
Sight 3: Alpha e.V.
The property Kleiner Werth 17 is a villa in the Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach residential district of Wuppertal in the district of Barmen.
Sight 4: 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 5: Synagoge
The Bergische Synagoge is the meeting place and place of worship of the Jewish community in Wuppertal.
Sight 6: 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. This was the constituent synod of the Confessing Church.
Sight 7: 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 8: Eben-Ezer-Kapelle
The Eben-Ezer Chapel in Wuppertal is a listed church. It is the place of worship of the Evangelical Free Church congregation in Wuppertal-Barmen.
Sight 9: Cleff´sche Mühle
The Cleff'sche Mühle is a former mill 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 10: Johnson Controls IFM Industrie GmbH
The consumer cooperative "Vorwärts-Befreiung" was a large consumer cooperative in Wuppertal. It emerged from the merger of the cooperatives "Liberation" and "Vorwärts" as well as "Budget" in Velbert in 1924. Previously, several attempts to unite the Elberfeld and Barmer cooperatives had failed.
Sight 11: Engelnburg
The Engelnburg is a residential complex with a restaurant in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal, on the Engelnberg hill in the Ostersbaum residential district and is a listed building.
Sight 12: Platz der Republik
The square of the Republic is an inner -city square in the Wuppertal residential area Osterbaum.
Sight 13: Herz Jesu
Herz Jesu, popularly known as Nordstadt-Dom, in Elberfelder Nordstadt in Wuppertal is the third Catholic church in the district built in the 19th century.
Sight 14: Alte Synagoge
From 1865 to 1938, the Old Synagogue was the meeting place of the Jews in Elberfeld, and until the construction of the Barmen Synagogue in 1897, it also served as a synagogue for the Jews of Barmen.
Sight 15: Alte lutherische Kirche am Kolk
The Church am Kolk is the second oldest church in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld after the Old Reformed Church and one of five places of worship of the Evangelical parish of Elberfeld-Nord.
Wikipedia: Kirche am Kolk (DE), Website, Heritage Website, Youtube
Sight 16: Kolkmannhaus
The Kolkmannhaus is a former commercial building or department store in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, which is now used as an office building. It is the city's best-known business incubator.
Sight 17: CityKirche Elberfeld
The Old Reformed Church is the oldest church in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal. It is the successor building of the St. Laurentius Church, which was Catholic 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
Sight 18: 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".
Sight 19: Glanzstoff-Hochhaus
The Glanzstoff high-rise is an administrative building in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal, Germany. The building on Kasinostraße is the second tallest in the city after the Stadtsparkassen tower and dominates the skyline of the centre of Elberfeld.
Sight 20: Deweerth’scher Garten
Together with the Luisenpark, the Deweerth'sche Garten is a more than 200-year-old 1.8-hectare inner-city park in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal.
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