Reise-Krise

List of things to do in NRW

I want to compile a list of links of things to do and see in NRW. However, this is taking some time. I will try my best to get these ready. Many of the site are in German. English translations are hidden behing the Union jacks. Also look for links to pictures (Bild or Bilder.)

Eifel Region

Aachen
Pfalzkapelle
Schatzkammer: museum of medieval religious treasures, coffin with the rape of Porsepine
Couven-Museum: 18th C merchant’s house
Internationales Zeitungsmuseum: Reuters
Suermondt-Ludwig Museum: medieval sculpture; works by stained glassmaker Ewald Matare
Ludwig Forum fuer internationale Kunst: Contemporary art, in suburbs
Burg Frankenberg: moated medieval castle (15 minutes walk from HBF)

Bad Muenstereifel
13th C city walls and ramparts
Stiftskirche: 12th C church
17th C houses

Bonn
Muenster
Rathaus: Rococo
Schloss Poppelsdorf: former seat of the AB Cologne; tromp l'oeil design
Rheinisches Landesmuseum: Neanderthal Man skull, Cologne school of painters; likely to be closed until Fall
Kreuzberg: Rococo church
Doppelkirche in Schwarzrheindorf

Siebengebirge

Bad Honnef
Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus: home of founder of the German Federal Republic

Bruehl
Schloss Augustusburg: seat of Clemens August
St. Maria zu den Engeln
Max-Ernst-Kabinett: home of the expressionist painter
Phantasialand

Lower Rhineland

Zons
Stadtbefestigung: medieval fortifications
Kreismuseum: Jugendstil art
Kloster Altenberg/Bergischer Dom: Gothic monestary, seat of the count of Berg

Wuppertal
Schwebebahn: “a monorail suspension system without rails”

Elberfeld
Uhrenmuseum
Von-der-Heydt Museum: excellent mix of modern art

Barmen
Museum fuer Fruehindustrialisierung
Engels-Haus
Home of Martin Niemoeller (confessing Church)

Duesseldorf
Green belt: 18th C French gardens
Hentjens-Museum: ceramic art
Filmmuseum
Heinrich-Heine-Institut: Germany's favorite poet and the city's favorite son
Mannesmann-Gebaeude
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Kunstmuseum: collection of the Duesseldorf Academy
Koenigsallee
Wilhelm-Marx-Haus
Schloss Jaegerhof: Baroque palace, Goethe museum
St. Rochus: giant-beehive church

Neanderthal-Museum: evolution of man at the place where our "distant cousin" was first found

Neuss
St. Quirinus
Dreikoenigenkirche: stained glass by Johan Thorn-Prikker

Moenchengladbach
Museum Abteiberg: modern architecture, Hans Hollein, Joseph Beuys
Muenster: master Gerhard

Duisburg
Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum: 20th C architecture

Essen
Alte Synagoge
Munster: Golden Madonna
Deutsches-Plakat-Museum: poster museum
Museum Folkwang: impressionist and expressionist
Gruga-Park
Villa Huegel
Abteikirche St. Liudiger
Archaeologischer Park

Kalkar
Stadtmuseum
St. Nicolai

Kleve
Haus Koekkoek: guild for medieval illuminators
Museum Kurhaus: Ewald Matare

Kevelaer
pilgramage destination
Niederrheinisches Museum fuer Volkskunde: toy collection

Westphalia

Muenster
Muenster/St. Liudger
Friedensaal: signing of treaty of Westphalia
St. Lamberti: Anabaptist Jan van Leyden
Westfaelisches Landesmuseum: medieval sculpture
Muehlenhof: 17th C village

Bochum
Deutsches Bergbaumuseum: mining
Bauernhausmuseum: farming
Eisenbahnmuseum: rails

Dortmund
Marienkirche: Conrad von Soest
Museum fuer Kunst und Kulturgeschichte: Olbirch room
Mahn- und Gedenkstaette Steinwache

Hagen
Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum: art nouveau
Westfaelisches Freilichtmuseum: technical demonstrations