Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Wuppertal, Germany
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15.2 km
405 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: Platz der Republik
The square of the Republic is an inner -city square in the Wuppertal residential area Osterbaum.
Sight 2: 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 3: Thomaskirche
St. Thomas' Church is a Protestant church in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal, Germany.
Sight 4: Lego-Brücke
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 5: Hardtberg
Hardtberg is a borough (Stadtbezirk) of Bonn, Germany. It has a population of 34,576 (2018).
Sight 6: 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 7: 18
The Helios University Hospital Wuppertal is a hospital in Wuppertal with locations in Barmen and Elberfeld. It is the largest hospital in the Bergisches Land. It has 1,051 beds and more than 2,500 employees and 26 specialist departments at its three locations in Barmen and Elberfeld as well as Bergisch Land in Ronsdorf (pain clinic).
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: 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.
Sight 10: St. Antonius
The Church of St. Anthony in Wuppertal is the church of the oldest Catholic community in the district of Barmen after the Reformation.
Sight 11: Synagoge
The Bergische Synagoge is the meeting place and place of worship of the Jewish community in Wuppertal.
Sight 12: 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 13: Otto Graf von Bismarck
The Bismarck monument in the then independent town of Barmen was inaugurated in 1902. It was designed by the Berlin sculptor Hugo Lederer and originally stood in front of the old Barmen town hall on Werther Strasse ; In the autumn of 1921, the year of completion of the new Barmen town hall, it was moved to its current location in front of the Barmen Hall of Fame on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz.
Sight 14: Astropfad: Merkur
The Astro Trail is a planetary trail in Wuppertal and thus a model of the solar system.
Sight 15: Werther Brücke
The Werther Bridge is a two-lane road bridge built in 1903 over the Wupper River in the Barmen district of Wuppertal, Germany. As part of the Heidter Berg road, it connects the left, southern bank of the Wupper with the Barmer Werth between the Wupper and Barmer Mühlengraben. The road then crosses Höhne/Berliner Straße to the north and continues beyond this intersection as Bachstraße. The bridge is designed as a one-way street, in a northerly direction. The bridge is located in the immediate vicinity of the Werther Brücke suspension railway station, which is named after it.
Sight 16: Knopffabrik PSW
The PSW button factory is a factory building in the Wuppertal residential area Sedansberg and is a monument in accordance with Section 2 (1) DSchG NRW. It is the production location of Bielefelder companies Union Knopf GmbH and PSW-Knopf GmbH. The latter company also ensures the common name Knopffabrik PSW.
Sight 17: Immanuelskirche
The Immanuelskirche in the Oberbarmen district of Wuppertal is the former reformed church of the Wupperfeld district and has been used as a concert church since the profanation in 1984.
Sight 18: Familien- und Begegnungshaus
The Wichlinghausen Church in the Oberbarmen district of Wuppertal is a traditional church building in the district of Wichlinghausen. Until its deconsecration in 2014, it was a church of the Protestant parish of Wichlinghausen-Nächstebreck in the church district of Wuppertal, since 2015 it has been used as a district center.
Sight 19: Haus Abendfrieden
Haus Abendfrieden is a villa in Wichlinghausen, Wuppertal district of Oberbarmen.
Sight 20: St. Paul
St. Paul is a Roman Catholic church on Bornscheuerstraße on the Hilgershöhe in Wuppertal-Langerfeld, Germany.
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