Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Wuppertal, Germany
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15.4 km
468 m
Experience Wuppertal in Germany in a whole new way with our 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 WuppertalSight 1: 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
Sight 2: Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal
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
Sight 3: CityKirche Elberfeld
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
Sight 4: Alte lutherische Kirche am Kolk
The church at the Kolk is the second oldest church in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld after the Old Reformed Church and one of five places of worship in the Evangelical parish of Elberfeld-Nord.
Wikipedia: Kirche am Kolk (DE), Website, Heritage Website, Youtube
Sight 5: Rex Filmtheater
Rex-Theater is a historically protected theatre in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Sight 6: 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 most famous start-up centre in the city.
Sight 7: Köbohaus
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.
Sight 8: Dürer-Haus
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.
Sight 9: Klophaus-Park
The Klophaus-Park is a small park in the east of the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld, in the village of Kluser Höhe in the Südstadt residential district.
Sight 10: Sopp'scher Pavillon
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.
Sight 11: Wunderbau
Wunderbau is the popular name of the oldest secular natural stone building in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld.
Sight 12: Landgericht
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
Sight 13: Pauluskirche
St. Paul's Church in the Wuppertal district of Unterbarmen, the westernmost district of the old town of Barmen, today the Barmen district of the city of Wuppertal, is the second church built for the United Evangelical Community of Unterbarmen.
Sight 14: Meisenburgsche Häuser
The Meisenburg Houses are a complex of buildings on Wuppertal's Friedrich-Engels-Allee in Unterbarmen, which are protected as residential buildings as architectural monuments.
Sight 15: Gesellschaftshaus Union
The Gesellschaftshaus Union is a listed residential building in Wuppertal-Barmen since 1993 at Friedrich-Engels-Allee 202. It was built in its original form between 1867 and 1871 in the style of classicism and since 1968 has housed the Union Society, founded in 1829.
Sight 16: Haspeler Brücke
The Haspeler Brücke is a road bridge over the Wupper 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. The bridge, built between 1902 and 1903, is one of the oldest truss bridges in Wuppertal.
Sight 17: Hardtanlage
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.
Sight 18: Bismarckturm Wuppertal
The Bismarck Tower in Wuppertal stands on the site of the Hardtanlage, a park-like mountain ridge in the centre of Wuppertal on the border between the districts of Elberfeld and Barmen.
Sight 19: Hardthöhlen
The Hardt Caves are a large cave system in the city of Wuppertal. The caves under the Hardt Gardens, a park on the Hardtberg in the city area, are not open to the public.
Sight 20: Unterbarmer Hauptkirche
The suburminarian main church is a Protestant church in Wuppertal-Barmen. The Unterbarm church is of particular importance for two reasons: on the one hand, it is the first church building of the architect Heinrich Hübsch, on the other hand, on the other hand it is one of the earliest known buildings of neuromanic architecture.
Sight 21: Eben-Ezer-Kapelle
The Eben-Ezer Chapel is a listed church in Wuppertal-Unterbarmen. It is the place of worship of the Assemblée de Dieu de Wuppertal, a French-speaking Baptist congregation.
Sight 22: Museum für Frühindustrialisierung
The Museum of Early Industrialization is a museum of industrial and social history in Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany. It is a location of the Museum of Industrial Culture Wuppertal.
Sight 23: 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 24: Engelsgarten
The Engelsgarten is a city park in the city of Wuppertal, Germany, named after the Engels family, from which the politician and philosopher Friedrich Engels came from.
Sight 25: 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 26: Lutherkirche Heidt
The Luther Church is a Protestant church on the Obere Sehlhofstraße am Heidt in the Wuppertal district of Heckinghausen. After the closures of the Old Wupperfeld Church and the Hatzfeld Church, it is one of the last two remaining preaching places of the Protestant parish of Gemarke-Wupperfeld in the Wuppertal church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
Sight 27: St.-Elisabeth-Kirche
The Church of St. Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic church on Hebbelstraße in the Wuppertal district of Heckinghausen and, together with St. Petrus in Eschensiepen, part of the parish of St. Elisabeth and St. Peter.
Sight 28: Heckinghauser Gaskessel
The Heckinghausen gas tank, also known as the Heckinghausen gas boiler, is a 66.65-metre-high former gas tank in the Heckinghausen district of Wuppertal, Germany.
Sight 29: Alte Zollbrücke
The Heckinghauser Zollbrücke is a stone bridge built in 1775 over the Wupper in the Wuppertal district of Heckinghausen. It is the oldest preserved bridge in the city and today connects Lenneper Straße with Rauental Street, near the mouth of the Murmelbach.
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