North Rhine-Westphalia - Germany
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Westfalenpark in Dortmund | Rating: 9.00 |
Prior to visiting the Westfalenpark in Dortmund, we considered the Wilhelmshöhe Park in Kassel to be the best park in Germany, but now we have the two leaders. You can enter the park from 9 am, and I strongly recommend that you do so, because only in the morning you can see the real beauty, read more... |
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Ronald McDonald House in Essen | Rating: 8.60 |
In Essen Grugapark you can find a very unusual building of Austrian architect Hundertwasser. The building is called House of ..., read more... |
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Cologne | Rating: 8.60 |
Cologne is a major economic and cultural center, a very well known and promoted city, mainly due to its famous ..., read more... |
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Duesseldorf | Rating: 8.60 |
Düsseldorf is the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia. This city is not often included in tourist routes and is not associated with ..., read more... |
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Bad Oeynhausen | Rating: 8.60 |
Bad Oeynhausen is a small town that no one heard of. You don't expect anything from it, but it will ..., read more... |
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Vischering castle | Rating: 8.60 |
| The region around Münster has the largest number of water castles. The Vischering Castle is perhaps one of the most beautiful and characteristic in Westphalia, read more... |
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Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I in Porta Westfalica | Rating: 8.40 |
There is a small town in Germany with a non-German name Porta Westfalica. It is located in the North Rhine-Westphalia ..., read more... |
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Zollverein Mine | Rating: 8.40 |
Zollverein coal mine is located in the city of Essen in the Ruhr region, one of Europe's largest metropolitan areas. It ..., read more... |
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Drachenburg Castle | Rating: 8.20 |
Drachenburg Castle was built in 1882-1884 by order of Baron Stefan von Zarter, a wealthy stockbroker from Bonn. The castle ..., read more... |
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Wewelsburg Castle | Rating: 8.20 |
Wewelsburg Castle belongs to objects that are interesting not only as castles, but because of their secrets and legends.
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Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park | Rating: 8.20 |
| Land North Rhine-Westphalia is known for its large-scale projects of transforming industrial monsters into modern recreation areas and residential quarters. Almost all the main attractions of the region are former metallurgical plants or mines, read more... |
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Satzvey Castle | Rating: 8.00 |
Satzvey Castle is a medieval fortress with water barriers. Its history began in the 12th century. The first stone buildings ..., read more... |
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Neuhaus Castle in Paderborn | Rating: 8.00 |
Neuhaus Castle, former residence of bishop princes, is quite a famous Renaissance castle in North Rhine-Westphalia. Thanks to the gardeners' exhibition on its territory in 1994, it was renovated and now you can find it in excellent condition, read more... |
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Augustusburg Palace in Bruehl | Rating: 8.00 |
| The 18th century Rococo Palace, built by order of the Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, Clemens August Bavarian, read more... |
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Geyser in Bad Oeynhausen | Rating: 8.00 |
| In the town of Bad Einhausen there is AQUA MAGICA park with an unusual attraction. Surprisingly, the town does not advertise this place in any way, we learnt about it by chance, found it on google maps, read more... |
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Schwebebahn in Wuppertal | Rating: 7.80 |
In the German city of Wuppertal exists the unusual form of urban transport, a hanging railway with the length of ..., read more... |
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Corvey Castle | Rating: 7.80 |
In the Internet this place is often called the Corvey Abbey, and it is wrong: mass tourists will not go ..., read more... |
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Ruhrtal bridge | Rating: 7.80 |
| The Ruhrtal Bridge in Mülheim-Mintard is the longest steel-bridge in Germany and one of Europe’s biggest bridge construction projects after ..., read more... |
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Villa Hugel | Rating: 7.80 |
| In the southern part of Essen, on the high banks of the river Ruhr, stands villa of a wealthiest family ..., read more... |
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Anholt castle | Rating: 7.80 |
| For many centuries Anholt Castle is privately owned by the princely family of Salm-Salm. One half of it is turned into a hotel, and the second is a small museum and living rooms of the owners. During the Second World War, the castle received significant damage. The restoration was completed in 1966, read more... |
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Warburg | Rating: 7.80 |
| Historic city in North Rhine-Westphalia, read more... |
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Lookout tower on Wilzenberg mountain (Wilzenbergturm) | Rating: 7.80 |
| The historic observation tower on Mount Wilzen is 17 metres high and is one of the oldest metal observation towers, read more... |
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Externsteine | Rating: 7.60 |
Externsteine is called "German Stonehenge". It's a chain of sandstone cliffs in the Tevtonburg forest about one kilometer long and ..., read more... |
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Tiger and Turtle - The Magic Mountain in Duisburg | Rating: 7.60 |
| "Tiger and Turtle - Magic Mountain" is an unusual attraction which was created in 2011 in the German Duisburg. The construction, reminiscent of roller coaster, built on top of the old slag heap. It does not carry any practical purpose and used for entertainment and as an observation deck. In the evening the art object is highlighted, read more... |
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Schieder palace (Schloss Schieder) | Rating: 7.60 |
| Small palace of the early 18th century. It was built by a representative of one of the branches of the noble family Lippe, and later belonged to various graphs of Lippe, read more... |
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Open-air inhalatorium in Bad Salzuflen | Rating: 7.60 |
| A resort in Germany with thermal mineral waters. It's a standard spa town, but on Google Maps we noticed an unusual object right in the center and decided to visit it, read more... |
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Playground AVENTURA - Der SpielBerg | Rating: 7.60 |
| Huge playground of 13000 square metres, one of the best playgrounds in Germany at the moment. It is located in a picturesque location on the mountainside near the family recreation centre Center Parcs Park Hochsauerland. Entrance to the playground is free, read more... |
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Mulheim an der Ruhr | Rating: 7.40 |
| Mülheim(Ruhr) is a city in the largest metropolitan area in Germany. The division into cities here is purely conditional, as ..., read more... |
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Gemen castle | Rating: 7.40 |
| Gemen castle was built in 1411 on the site of a castle of the 11th century, by one of the richest people in Westphalia. It is located in the middle of the lake, on two islands. At the moment there is a children's training center in the castle, so the castle has the second name "youth castle", read more... |
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Brake castle | Rating: 7.40 |
| Weser Renaissance castle in the city of Lemgo. A distinctive feature is the seven-story tower, read more... |
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Cherry blossom in Bonn | Rating: 7.20 |
| Cherry blossom (german Kirschblüten) is a popular event in any country of the world. In Germany, there are not many such places and the most famous is Bonn, where trees form a tunnel, read more... |
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Maximilianpark in Hamm | Rating: 7.20 |
| I dont know if there is such statistics, but the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany is the unequivocal leader in the remediation of lands that were previously used for mining or for factories. In almost every city here you can find parks or residential quarters created on the site of former factories, quarries or heaps, read more... |
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Bielefeld | Rating: 7.20 |
| We had heard about Bielefeld long before we visited it. The fact is that the city is a famous Internet meme in Germany. In 1994, some jokers started a rumor that Bielefeld, in fact, does not exist. The joke became so popular that even Angela Merkel used it. And the mayor's office offers a million euros to anyone who can prove that the city does not exist, read more... |
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Bad Driburg | Rating: 7.20 |
| We stopped in the spa town of Bad Driburg for a walk in the Count's Park (Gräflicher Park). Usually such parks are called Spa Parks, but here it is named after the owners, read more... |
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Winterberg | Rating: 7.20 |
| Winterberg or Winter Mountain is a popular ski resort, although there is plenty to do during other seasons. We came to the Adventure Mountain Kappe (Erlebnisberg Kappe) in April, when there was no more snow and little of tourists, read more... |
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Detmold | Rating: 7.00 |
| Detmold is a small town, administrative center of the Lippe district. The castle on an island in the center of the town was first mentioned in 1366. Some walls have survived from that time, read more... |
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Bonn | Rating: 7.00 |
Bonn is known to the public for two reasons: it is the home town of Ludwig van Beethoven and the city used to be the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990. Therefore, all attractions are associated with these events, read more... |
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Burg Castle | Rating: 7.00 |
The Burg Castle has quite an unusual name for a German castle. It's like a dog of Lt. Colombo, which ..., read more... |
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Tetrahedron in Bottrop | Rating: 7.00 |
| In 1995 the Beckstrasse slag heap in Bottrop was transformed into a landscape park. At its top, a gigantic construction (weighing 210 tons) in the form of a tetrahedron was installed. The structure serves as a viewing platform, read more... |
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Palace in Nordkirchen | Rating: 6.80 |
Palace in Nordkirchen was built on the site of the Renaissance "Castle on the Water" from 1703 to 1734 by Münster bishops ..., read more... |
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Muenster | Rating: 6.80 |
Münster is worth a visit to see the City Hall and the Hall of Peace inside it. This is the ..., read more... |
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Dortmund | Rating: 6.80 |
According to the "expert opinion" of Internet travelers, Dortmund is not interesting at all. But, as in Düsseldorf, we found what to do here, read more... |
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Weser-Skywalk - observation deck over the Weser River | Rating: 6.80 |
| Weser-Skywalk is an observation deck, which allows you to look at the river Weser and the Teutonburg Forest from a ..., read more... |
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Ettelsberg Mountain | Rating: 6.80 |
| In winter, Ettelsberg is a popular local winter resort. There is a lake and a children's playground, but the summit is completely flat, so it is not easy to find panoramic views, read more... |
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Movie Park in Bottrop | Rating: 6.60 |
The concept of the theme park Movie Park are Hollywood boulevards and studios. All arrtactions are related to various movies ..., read more... |
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Paderborn | Rating: 6.60 |
2023
We stopped again in Paderborn, just on the way, and walked around the centre for a few hours. I noticed that the centre had somehow changed, but I couldn't figure out what was changed. Already at home, I looked at satellite images and indeed, most of the trees have disappeared in the last year. I have made this gif, click and see the difference.
At first I thought it was a reconstruction, but this is Germany and it is not easy to cut down trees here, especially in the city centre. It turned out that in May 2022 a powerful tornado passed through the centre (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQrZ15L_GE).
The parks downtown look like this now. I can't say they look worse, I'd say quite the opposite.
More photos of the centre.
2013
Paderborn appeared in 777, when the Frankish king Charlemagne founded the residence here. The place was not chosen by chance, there are more then 200 water sources in this area. In the heart of the city, the water comes to the surface and flows into the Pader river, read more... |
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Westerwinkel castle | Rating: 6.60 |
| One of the earliest baroque castles in Westphalia, built in the 17th century. Was not rebuilt, so now you can see the original, 350-year-old castle, read more... |
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Huelshoff castle | Rating: 6.60 |
| Beautiful water castle near Münster. From 1417 belonged to the noble family of von Hulshoff, the castle hosts their museum , read more... |
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Lippepark in Hamm | Rating: 6.60 |
| A large park on the site of the former mine. Such parks are now very popular in the Ruhr region, which already been transformed from an industrial region into a cultural one. Construction began in 2009, when the mine was dismantled. The main part of the park was completed in 2014, read more... |
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Hermann Monument (Hermannsdenkmal) | Rating: 6.40 |
Hermann Monument is located on the top of a 386-meter hill and dedicated to the victory of the Germanic tribes over ..., read more... |
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