Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Dusseldorf, Germany

The NRW Forum Wirtschaft und Kultur, formerly the Museum für Industrie und Wirtschaft, is a museum in Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, dealing with the development and the economy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia or regions within it, such as the Rhine-Ruhr-region. Today it is part of the Museum Kunstpalast.

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Tonhalle Düsseldorf is a concert hall in Düsseldorf. It was built by the architect Wilhelm Kreis. The resident orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, play symphonic repertoire at the Tonhalle as well as opera at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

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In the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital of Düsseldorf, the Ehrenhof, is the name given to an expressionist ensemble of buildings and gardens that was created for the GeSoLei exhibition in 1926. Today, as a museum, it encloses an inner courtyard with the buildings of the Kunstpalast and the NRW Forum and extends axially over a garden parterre to the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, a concert and multi-purpose hall covered with a dome.

Wikipedia: Ehrenhof (Düsseldorf) (DE)

The Phoenix-Haus is a listed administrative building at Fritz-Roeber-Straße 2 in Düsseldorf's old town, which was built from 1923 to 1926 for Phoenix AG für Bergbau und Hüttenbetrieb on the former Eiskellerberg, served as an employment office for almost seven decades and has been the headquarters of the Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office since 2002.

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The building of the Academy of Fine Arts at Eiskellerstraße 1 in Düsseldorf-Altstadt was built between 1875 and 1879 by Hermann Riffart in the historicist style of the Italian Renaissance. On the Rhine side of the building is a modern studio building of the art academy designed by Rudolf Schwarz.

Wikipedia: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Gebäude) (DE)

The Palais Schaesberg at Ritterstraße 16–16a in Düsseldorf is a listed building. The building is now part of the Ursula Gymnasium complex. With its "clear proportions and elaborately designed window surrounds", it is reminiscent of the façade of Bensberg Castle, the main work of the court architect Matteo Alberti, and was attributed to him before Simon Sarto could be identified as the architect after evaluation of documents from the Schaesberg archive.

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The baroque Joseph's Chapel in Düsseldorf's old town on today's Emilie-Schneider-Platz was designed as a convent chapel of the Düsseldorf Carmelite nuns and has the floor plan of a Greek cross.

Wikipedia: Josephskapelle (Düsseldorf) (DE)

St. Lambertus is one of four Roman Catholic churches in Düsseldorf's Old Town on Stiftsplatz. It is the parish church of the enlarged parish of St. Lambertus Düsseldorf, which was created in 2011 by the merger of the parishes of St. Lambertus, St. Maximilian and St. Mariä Empfängnis. Their church consecration festival forms the spiritual background of the "Largest Funfair on the Rhine".

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The Fisherman's Boy Fountain is located on Stiftsplatz near the Church of St. Lambertus in Düsseldorf's Old Town.

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Haus Altestadt 14 in Düsseldorf is a listed building. The location, the street Altestadt, is one of the oldest in Düsseldorf. The statements of the various authors given under the following description are partly somewhat different in their details of the details. However, the most important statements are confirmed or specified by H. Ferber from Düsseldorf in his book of 1889. This applies in particular to the date of construction, some names of the various owners and the magnificent ceiling in one room.

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The Church of the Knights of the Cross was initially a monastery church of the Order of the Knights of the Cross. The building, located in the old city centre of Düsseldorf on the corner of Ursulinengasse and Ratinger Straße, now serves the St.-Ursula-Gymnasium as a school church and auditorium and is not open to the public.

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The Palais Spinrath in Düsseldorf was originally a convent of the Celestian nuns, which was built from 1696 to 1712 by Matteo Alberti at Ratinger Straße 15.

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The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Düsseldorf. United by this institution are three different exhibition venues: the K20 at Grabbeplatz, the K21 in the Ständehaus, and the Schmela Haus. The Kunstsammlung was founded in 1961 by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia as a foundation under private law for the purpose of displaying the art collection and expanding it through new acquisitions.

Wikipedia: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (EN), Website

The Ratinger Tor is the last and only remaining city gate of the original city of Düsseldorf. However, the current building is not the medieval city gate, but a customs gate that was built between 1811 and 1815 in the classicist style. The need for a new building arose from the demolition of the fortifications stipulated in the Treaty of Lunéville, to which the old gate fell victim. The new Ratinger Tor was moved by about 115 m to the east, which made it possible to extend Ratinger Straße by 60 m and to create a boulevard, today's Heinrich-Heine-Allee.

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The fairytale fountain is located in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf's Stadtmitte district.

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Monumento, also known as Rumor de límites IX, is the title of a sculpture by the Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida. It is the first and first larger sculpture by the artist made of steel to be erected in Germany. To mark the 100th anniversary of the rolled steel factory Thyssen & Co., founded by August Thyssen, the property was donated to the city of Düsseldorf, the headquarters of one of the company's successors, and unveiled on July 8, 1971 in a green area at the Dreischeibenhaus in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte.

Wikipedia: Monumento (Plastik) (DE)

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.

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The Malkasten House is the social house of the Malkasten artists' association. It is located at Jacobistraße 6a in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort.

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The Malkastenpark is a historic private park, now in the centre of Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name refers to a group of artists, Malkasten, founded in 1848. The park is also known as the Jacobigarten, after the original owners who created a Baroque garden. It is now a public garden with both Baroque features and English landscape garden elements, and a listed historic monument.

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The Schloss Jägerhof, formerly also called die Vénerie, is located at Jacobistraße 2 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, near the city centre. It was built between 1752 and 1763 by order of the Prince-elector Karl Theodor. At that time, the castle was still located outside the city gates. The palace is a point de vue of the Hofgarten riding avenue and the Jägerhofstraße. Since 1987, the castle has housed the Goethe-Museum and the Ernst Schneider Foundation.

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The listed aluminium house at Jägerhofstraße 29 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort was built between 1952 and 1953 according to plans by Helmut Hentrich and Hans Heuser as a residential and office building for the Olga van Meeteren company. The employee was Hubert Petschnigg. The name is derived from the appearance of the building with the aluminium-clad building supports that vertically structure the glass façade.

Wikipedia: Aluminiumhaus (DE)

The Catholic Church of St. Rochus is located at Rochusmarkt 5 in the Düsseldorf district of Pempelfort. It is the successor to the Rochus Chapel, which was demolished at the end of the 19th century. The parish of the same name was founded in 1890/1891 and dissolved on 1 January 2013 by joining its historic "mother parish" Holy Trinity.

Wikipedia: Rochuskirche (Düsseldorf) (DE)

The Industriehaus Düsseldorf is a listed office and commercial building in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, Schirmerstraße 80/Am Wehrhahn.

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The Protestant Matthäikirche is located at Lindemannstraße 70 in Düsseldorf-Düsseltal. It belongs to the Evangelical Emmaus parish in the Düsseldorf church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

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St. Paul's Church is a Catholic parish church in the Düsseltal district of Düsseldorf, Germany. The parish of St. Paulus belongs to the parish association of Flingern/Düsseltal.

Wikipedia: Pauluskirche (Düsseldorf-Düsseltal) (DE)

From 1876 to 1943, the Düsseldorf Zoo was the zoo in Düsseldorf, the tradition of which is continued today by the Aquazoo – Löbbecke Museum in Nordpark.

Wikipedia: Zoologischer Garten Düsseldorf (DE)

The Düsselthal Rescue Centre for orphans and street children was built in 1822 by Count Adelberdt von der Recke-Volmerstein as one of the first German institutions of its kind. It was built on the site of a Cistercian monastery. The monastery was a gift from the Elector Johann Wilhelm of the Palatinate to the Cistercians. The Spekkerhöfe used to found the monastery, named after the billet dams made of bacon, later gave the "Speckermönchen" their name. The street on which the monastery was located was named after Count Adelberdt von der Recke-Volmerstein, the founder of the rescue centre.

Wikipedia: Rettungsanstalt Düsseltal für Waisenkinder (DE)

The Neiser House at Heinrichstraße 12 in Düsseldorf-Düsseltal was built between 1954 and 1955 for Joachim Neiser according to his own designs.

Wikipedia: Haus Neiser (DE)

The Catholic parish church of St. Ursula in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg was originally built by Josef Kleesattel in the neo-Romanesque style. After the almost complete destruction, a more modern church building was added to the tower, which was still standing, but quoting the old model.

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