Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Dusseldorf, Germany
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Experience Dusseldorf in Germany in a whole new way with our free 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.
Activities in DusseldorfIndividual Sights in DusseldorfSight 1: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus is a theatre building and company in Düsseldorf. The present building with two major auditoria was designed by the architect Bernhard Pfau and built between 1965 and 1969. It opened in 1970.
Sight 2: Haus der Universität
The Haus der Universität at Schadowplatz 14 in Düsseldorf is an institution of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. It was opened on 20 September 2013. Public events, conferences, exhibitions and student counselling take place there during opening hours from Monday to Saturday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. In addition, there is a service of the University and State Library Düsseldorf for researching scientific literature. With the new building and its facility in the city centre district, the university, whose campus is rather peripheral in the Bilk district, will have the opportunity to offer its information services in a more central location and thus more accessible to the public.
Sight 3: Schadow-Denkmal
The Schadow Monument is a classicist monument that was erected in honor of the painter Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (1788–1862) on Schadowplatz in Düsseldorf's city center, which is named after him. It consists of a bust that shows the honoree in old age. The bust stands on a square pedestal bearing the inscription W. von Schadow. August Wittig and Ernst Giese created the monument in 1869, and it was unveiled on 22 June 1869.
Sight 4: Steigenberger Parkhotel
Steigenberger Parkhotel Düsseldorf is a 5-Star Steigenberger Hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, located on the city's famous Königsallee and next to the Hofgarten and the opera house.
Sight 5: Peter von Cornelius
The Peter von Cornelius Monument is a historicist monument in Düsseldorf, located as a point de vue of Königsallee and Corneliusplatz on the edge of the Hofgarten. The statue honours the painter Peter von Cornelius, the first director of the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf and the co-founder of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. It was designed by the sculptor Adolf von Donndorf and inaugurated on 24 June 1879 in the presence of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. At a celebration that followed in the evening in the Malkastenpark, a procession with figures based on paintings by Cornelius was performed to the sounds of the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Malkasten Timpani March by Julius Tausch.
Sight 6: Kriegerdenkmal im Hofgarten
The war memorial in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf's city centre stands on the Landskrone, the landscape remodelled remnant of the former city fortifications in the Hofgarten. The monument was created by Karl Hilgers (1844–1925) after he had won an artist's competition with his design "Vaterstadt", which had been announced by the "Committee for the Erection of a War Memorial". The monument was inaugurated on 18 October 1892. It is dedicated to fallen Düsseldorf soldiers of the German Wars of Unification (1864–66) and the Franco-German War (1870/71).
Sight 7: Opernhaus Düsseldorf
Opernhaus Düsseldorf is a venue and administrative headquarters of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Sight 8: German Opera on the Rhine
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company. Axel Kober has been its Music Director since 2009. The resident orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, play both opera and symphonic repertoire.
Sight 9: Galerie Schmela
Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf was a gallery founded in 1957 by the art dealer Alfred Schmela. It is considered one of the most important and first private art galleries of the post-war period in the Federal Republic of Germany. The gallery house, which opened in 1971 and is currently called the Schmela House, has served as the third location for exhibitions for the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen since November 2009 and was rented to the gallery owner Hans Mayer and his son Max from summer 2020.
Sight 10: Kommödchen
The Kom(m)ödchen is a cabaret stage in Düsseldorf.
Sight 11: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Düsseldorf.
Sight 12: Stadthaus
The Düsseldorfer Stadthaus is located in Düsseldorf's old town on Mühlenstraße. It is bordered to the east by St. Andrew, to the south by Andreasstraße and to the west by Mertensgasse. The Stadthaus, as it was called especially after 1945, has an eventful history of construction and use behind it, which in turn is closely linked to the history of the city of Düsseldorf. Over the centuries, the house has been used as a monastery, school, observatory, government and administration building, police headquarters and Nazi memorial.
Sight 13: St. Andreas
The Church of St. Andreas is a Roman Catholic parish church situated in the center of the German city of Düsseldorf. It is the priory church of the local community of Dominican Friars, who also administer the much older Collegiate Church of St Lambertus.
Sight 14: Mahn- und Gedenkstätte für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft
The Düsseldorf Memorial for the Victims of National Socialist Tyranny is a cultural institute of the state capital of Düsseldorf. It is a museum, research facility and archive. The house was opened in 1987 and has since been dedicated to the memory of Düsseldorf's victims and persecuted by the Nazi regime. It is located in the western part of the historic Stadthaus in the old town and, since a thorough renovation and its reopening in May 2015, has been showing the permanent exhibition "Düsseldorf Children and Young People under National Socialism".
Sight 15: Lieferhaus
The Löwenhaus or, as the house inscription says, Lieferhaus, Liefergasse 9 in Düsseldorf, is a listed building. It is the oldest secular building in Düsseldorf in Stein; the building core is Gothic.
Sight 16: Zum Csikós
The Zum Csikós restaurant was opened in the old town in the winter of 1950 as a Hungarian tavern with Hungarian cuisine and gypsy music and was one of Düsseldorf's traditional restaurants.
Sight 17: Neanderkirche
The Neanderkirche is a Protestant church in the centre of Düsseldorf, the Altstadt. The building in early Baroque style was completed in 1687 and later named after the Reformed minister and hymn writer Joachim Neander. It is now a parish church of the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Düsseldorf-Mitte. In 1965, a Rieger organ was installed, which is also used for a series of summer concerts.
Sight 18: Heine Haus
The Heine Haus is a cultural institution in Düsseldorf's old town, located in the building Bolkerstraße 53, where Heinrich Heine's birthplace was located until about 1821. The house, which has initially been considered a centre for literature since 2006 and has been fulfilling its function as the "Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf" since 2017, is dedicated to the mediation and promotion of German-language and international contemporary literature. It is run in a public-private partnership between the state capital of Düsseldorf, the Förderverein Heine Haus e.V. and the literary shop Müller & Böhm, which is located in the front area of the building. In the rear area there is an event room with a literature café.
Wikipedia: Heine Haus (Düsseldorf) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 19: Altes Rathaus
The old town hall in Düsseldorf is the wing on the northern side of the market square and the oldest part of the town hall complex in the old town of Düsseldorf. It was built in the style of the Renaissance between 1570 and 1573 as the office and meeting place for mayors, Schöffen and the city council. Until 1806, the town hall also served as the meeting place of the lands of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg. Previously, a house had been used as a town hall since 1544, which had been on the same place on the market square and had gradually become dilapidated. Before that, the house “Zum Schwarzen Horn” at Ratinger Straße 6 had served as a town hall since 1470. In the construction of the town hall of 1573, the upward development of the city is expressed under the Märkische Duken von Jülich-Kleve-Berg. Under Wilhelm, she experienced a considerable expansion as a preferred residence city. Nevertheless, the city had great effort to raise the funds for the construction costs and had to tackle the sovereign for help several times.
Wikipedia: Altes Rathaus (Düsseldorf) (DE), Heritage Website
Sight 20: Radschlägerbrunnen
The Radschlägerbrunnen is located on Burgplatz in Düsseldorf's old town.
Sight 21: Stadterhebungsmonument
The City Elevation Monument is a monument commemorating the granting of city rights to Düsseldorf. It is located on Joseph-Wimmer-Gasse at the corner of Müller-Schlösser-Gasse in the old town. The sculpture was made by Bert Gerresheim. It was erected in 1988 on the occasion of the 700th anniversary celebration. The motifs include the Battle of Worringen, the sealing of the town charter and the elevation of the parish church dedicated to St. Lambertus to a canonical monastery.
Sight 22: Schifffahrtsmuseum
The Maritime Museum in Düsseldorf shows one of the oldest collections on the history of Rhine navigation in Germany and has been housed in the historic castle tower on the banks of the Rhine since 1984.
Wikipedia: Schifffahrtsmuseum (Düsseldorf) (DE), Website, Website
Sight 23: Schlossturm
Get Ticket*The castle tower is located on Burgplatz in Düsseldorf and is used as a maritime museum.
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