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Duisburg is a city in Germany's Rhineland, the fifth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen) in the nation's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its 500,000 inhabitants make it Germany's 15th-largest city. Located at the confluence of the Rhine river and its tributary the Ruhr river, it lies in the west ...
54. Arenas & Stadiums. By keith_hawes. It is a great stadium, plenty of places for food and beer (though the menu is limited it is fine for most football... 10. Aussichtsturm Wolfsberg Duisburg. 18. Lookouts. By dimil2014.
Duisburg’s cultural calendar is brimming with events, from the renowned Duisburg Film Week to vibrant street festivals that light up the city. The Lehmbruck Museum, dedicated to modern sculpture, is a must-visit for art enthusiasts, showcasing works that challenge and inspire.
- Lehmbruck Museum
- Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord
- Inner Harbour
- Museum Der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt
- Museum Küppersmühle
- Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain
- Duisburg Rathaus
- Mercatorbrunnen
- Archäologische Zone Alter Markt
- Duisburg Zoo
In the folds of the Immanuel Kant Park the Lehmbruck Museum is devoted mostly to sculpture, and tracks the career of the Duisburg-based artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck. The museum has 100 or so of his works, as well as his sketches, drawings and paintings in a separate building. But Lehmbruck only makes up a fraction of a collection so large it needs to b...
In the Meiderich district in the north of the city is a disused steelworks that has been turned into a public park. The facility shut down in 1985, and so in the early 90s, instead of demolishing the blast furnaces, conveyor bridges and chimney stacks the landscape architect Peter Latz decided to keep them. The ground was cultivated with plants to ...
Anyone with an affinity for industrial architecture will want to spend some time in Duisburg’s Inner Harbour, which was the lifeblood for the industrial city up to the 1960s. From the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century the harbour was known as the “bread basket of the Ruhr”, storing grain in titanic granaries. After the immediate post-war pe...
In a lovely Art Nouveau public baths from the 1910s is a museum about the social and technical history of inland navigation. The museum is by the right bank of the Rhine, in the Ruhrort district, site of the largest river harbour in the world. In the hall of the former male swimming pool is a barge from 1913, while there’s a walk-through replica ve...
The eye-catching building, rising seven storeys over Duisburg’s inner harbour is half the appeal of this contemporary art museum. The structure dates to 1908 and was a granary, installed with 42-metre steel grain silos on its eastern side in 1934. After being decommissioned in the 70s a citizen’s initiative ensured the building’s preservation, and ...
A short way down the Rhine to the south of Duisburg is an interactive art installation created in 2010 when the Ruhr was Europe’s cultural capital. The Tiger and Turtle is basically a hilltop rollercoaster with twisting stairways instead of a rail, designed by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth. The structure is made from galvanised steel and can be enj...
During the Industrial Revolution Duisburg’s population exploded from 4,500 at the start of the 19th century to 100,000 at the end. The town hall had to be rebuilt twice during the century to cater to all its new citizens. The current building went up on Burgplatz at the turn of the 20th century using a Historicist design by Karlsruhe architect Frie...
The Flemish-German cartographer Gerardus Mercator lived the final 30 years of his life in Duisburg after leaving the city of Leuven because of his Lutheran sympathies. Mercator is famed for his 1569 World Map, which used his Mercator Projection method, where the map is projected onto a grid of straight lines. It was one of the big leaps forward in ...
When excavations were made for Duisburg’s U-Bahn at the start of the 1980s, the remains of the city’s medieval market were uncovered on Burgplatz in front of the town hall. This had been the main market square since the 900s, and a permanent market hall had been constructed in the 1300s. There are steps leading down two metres from street level int...
At the northern tip of the Duisburg Urban Forest, Duisburg Zoo is in 16 hectares and is a habitat for almost 300 animal species. The attraction expanded in the post-war years around its water enclosures. The biggest of these is the dolphinarium (also Germany’s largest), which has three million litres of seawater and is inhabited by nine bottle-nose...
Visit Duisburg. Ruhr Area and Lower Rhine, industry hub and rural idyll, shopping malls and watering holes, philharmonic orchestra and industrial heritage – Duisburg combines contrasts to create an exciting mix.
Duisburg was occupied by Belgian troops (1921–25) and was called Duisburg-Hamborn from 1929 to 1934. The union of Duisburg and the outlying centres made it one of the world’s largest inland ports and one of western Europe’s principal iron and steel centres. In 1975 the outlying cities of Rheinhausen, Homberg-Niederrhein, Rumeln ...
It is a great stadium, plenty of places for food and beer (though the menu is limited it is fine for most football... 10. Aussichtsturm Wolfsberg Duisburg. 18. Lookouts. By dimil2014. A very nice way to enjoy a panaramic view of all the place beneath! Excellent! A very good suggestion to make a walk...
