20 Sights in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany (with Map and Images)

The Rheinwiesenlager were a group of 19 concentration camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. Officially named Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures (PWTE), they held between one and almost two million surrendered Wehrmacht personnel from April until September 1945.

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The Konkordienkirche is a Protestant church in Mannheim's city centre. It was built between 1706 and 1717 and has been redesigned several times over time. The church tower, the highest in the city, was built in 1893.

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The Christuskirche is a Protestant church in the Oststadt district of Mannheim, Germany. Together with the Church of Peace, it forms the ChristusFriedenGemeinde. It was built between 1907 and 1911 according to the plans of Christian Schrade in the neo-baroque style with Art Nouveau echoes. Hardly affected by the great war destruction of 1943/44, it has been preserved almost completely in its original condition. The rich design of the Christuskirche adapted to the upper-middle-class villa district of the Oststadt and was the crowning glory of the Protestant church building activities, which became necessary due to the strong population growth during the industrialization of Mannheim.

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The Prinzregenten-Theater in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, in the district of Hemshof, is a privately run theater that was founded in the summer of 1977 by the actor and director Bernhard F. Dropmann with the aim of preserving the Palatinate dialect.

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The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, built in 1907, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. Since then it has housed the city's art collections as well as temporary exhibitions – and up to 1927 those of the local Mannheimer Kunstverein as well as its administration.

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The Castle and Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the Ludwigshafen district of Oggersheim is a Catholic hall church in the early classicist style, which also has high baroque elements. It was built in 1775 over a Loreto chapel that had existed since 1729, which was completely preserved. The address is Kapellengasse 8.

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The Luisenpark is a municipal park in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the left bank of the Neckar river and has an area of 41 hectares. The lower Luisenpark is the oldest part which is conserved as a historic garden. The upper Luisenpark includes various attractions, such as a greenhouse, an arboretum, a Chinese garden, "gondoletta" boats, and a variety of facilities for children. Along with the Herzogenriedpark the upper Luisenpark is operated by the non-profit Stadtpark Mannheim GmbH.

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Via the canal harbour and the associated Frankenthal Canal, the town of Frankenthal (Rhineland-Palatinate) in the Lower Palatinate used to be connected to the Rhine, which flowed past 4 km to the east. After extensive renovation, the filled in old harbour basin has been a park-like recreation facility on the eastern outskirts of Frankenthal since 2011.

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The Herschelbad is a public bath in the Mannheim squares, for the construction of which the Jewish Mannheim merchant and city councillor Bernhard Herschel (1837–1905) donated part of his fortune to the city in his will in 1905.

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The Glass Cube is a modern memorial in the pedestrian zone of Mannheim, which is made of glass and has the shape of a cube. The glass cube was designed as a local memorial to the Jewish victims of National Socialism from Mannheim by the sculptor Jochen Kitzbihler, who lives in Freiburg im Breisgau, and was erected in 2003 on the planks in the middle of the footpath in front of square P2.

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The Fernmeldeturm Mannheim is a 217.8-metre-high (715 ft) concrete telecommunication tower with an observation deck in Mannheim, Germany. It was designed by the architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner and built from 1973 and 1975. It contains transmission facilities for VHF radio services, microwave communications, and omnidirectional radio services. A glassed observation deck and a revolving restaurant at a height of 120 metres allow a nice view over Mannheim and the surrounding area. The tower is a modern landmark of the city of Mannheim.

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The Mannheim Synagogue is the successor to earlier synagogues in Mannheim. It was built by the Jewish community between 1985 and 1987 according to the plans of Karl Schmucker with the community center in square F 3.

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The Mannheim Jesuit Church is a Catholic church of historic and artistic importance in Mannheim, Germany. Church construction was begun in 1733 and completed in 1760. It was consecrated to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier. During the Second World War, the church suffered severe damage from air attacks; after the war it was rebuilt in its historical style using original parts.

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The Spitalkirche, also known as the Bürgerhospitalkirche, is a Catholic church in Mannheim, Germany. It was built between 1786 and 1788 according to the plans of Johann Faxlunger and is one of the few buildings from the 18th century in Mannheim's city centre.

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The dumpling fountain is the nickname of a fountain in the center of Ludwigshafen's pedestrian zone. It is a fountain designed by the Ludwigshafen artist Ernst W. Kunz with balls piled on top of each other. The fountain was created as a result of a competition by the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein for the artistic decoration of Bismarckstraße, which was converted into a pedestrian zone in 1977.

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The Mannheim Palace Church, founded as a court chapel, was built in the 18th century and is part of the Mannheim Palace. The church served as court chapel for the prince-electors of the Electorate of the Palatinate between 1731 and 1777 and belongs to the oldest parish churches of the Old Catholic diocese in Germany.

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St. Sebastian is the oldest Catholic parish church in the city of Mannheim and one of the three churches of the Mannheim city pastoral unit in the city center. In Electoral Palatine times it was used by the Elector as a court church and received a magnificent interior by artists such as Bibiena, Verschaffelt and Egell. The furnishings were impaired by remodeling in the 19th century and damaged during World War II. Together with the Old Town Hall, St. Sebastian's Church forms a Baroque double building erected at the beginning of the 18th century, which is the oldest preserved structure in the city.

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The Paul-Gerhardt Church is a Protestant church in the Rheingönheim district of Ludwigshafen. It was built in the 18th century. The tower dates from the 13th century. It is the oldest preserved building part of a church in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

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Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein, is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it forms the Rhine Neckar Area.

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The water tower is a well-known landmark of Mannheim. The tower was built from 1886 to 1889 on today's Friedrichsplatz on the eastern edge of the city centre according to the plans of Gustav Halmhuber. The tower is 60 meters high and has a diameter of 19 meters. It was the first municipal water tower in Mannheim and initially had to fulfil all the functions of drinking water supply, including maintaining a constant water pressure. After the construction of the higher Luzenberg water tower in 1909, it served as a reserve elevated tank until 2000. The tower structure has been a listed building since 1987.

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