Durch die Troisdorfer Innenstadt

by Johannes_Schmitz · Troisdorf · 22 stations · 43:30 min · 7 km · Walk

1. Bahnhof Troisdorf Mitte

2:06 min · We are on the Hans-Jaax-Platz in between the train station and the bus station. Hans Jaax was mayor of Troisdorf for 18 years, from 1975 until 1993...

32 m

2. Kronprinzenstraße

2:00 min · Still on the Hans-Jaax-Platz, we can take a look at the Kronprinzenstraße, the street of the crown prince, and easily see the positive influence of...

186 m

3. Johanneskirche

2:19 min · Now we are standing in front of the Protestant church of Johannes to learn more about how the Protestants came to Troisdorf. In 1840, there were on...

523 m

4. Ort der Erinnerung

1:47 min · For the lawn on the left side of the town hall, a large sculpture was made by Victor Bonato in 2002. It’s a place to remember the fate of forced la...

159 m

5. Rathaus

1:51 min · Now, the town hall is in front of us, located in the Kölner Straße 176. On the first of August in 1969, the new city of Troisdorf was declared thro...

845 m

6. Carl-Diem-Straße 17

1:38 min · The first houses in the Carl-Diem-Straße weren't built until 1949. The house number 17 has a very special history. When a big exhibition called “Tr...

560 m

7. Sankt-Josef-Hospital

1:40 min · The hospital of St. Josef is the oldest building in the Schlossstrasse. It was built in 1902. In the end of the 19th century, Troisdorf had grown t...

340 m

8. Prinzenwäldchen

4:08 min · We're standing on the corner of the little forest of the princes and Parkstraße. The house in the Parkstraße no.1 was built in 1919 by professor He...

221 m

9. Mannstaedt-Villen

4:18 min · Our way is leading us gently uphill into a left turn, then the street is bending softly to the right and we can see a quite unmotivated stone struc...

281 m

10. Waldpark

1:18 min · The Troisdorf architect Karl Heise had the ideas how to build this park in the forest in the 1930ies. Right in the beginning, there are a few aviar...

260 m

11. Lehrbienenstand

0:50 min · On the right of the the two main paths in the forest park, almost at the far end, in a very idyllic scenery on a hill, surrounded by trees and shru...

194 m

12. Haus Ravensberg

1:15 min · House Ravensberg is a restaurant and the last house on the Altenrather Straße on the way to the heath. In 1928, the architect and innkeeper Alois R...

611 m

13. Waldfriedhof

2:02 min · Walking from the café in the forest, House Ravensberg, towards the forest cemetery, we reach the place that at least the older inhabitants of Trois...

544 m

14. Park der Sinne

0:22 min · The creative workshop of Troisdorf is an important part of the museum Burg Wissem. Everyone can create visual art here. The field of sensual experi...

171 m

15. Burg Wissem und Touristen-Info

2:37 min · If we look around the courtyard of the Burg Wissem, we see buildings from four different decades. The oldest building is the one made of quarry sto...

62 m

16. Figuren "Hans im Glück"

0:56 min · Right next to the Burg Wissem, you can see a group of figures from the famous fairy tale Hans in Luck. Troisdorf artist Michael Sönksen created the...

596 m

17. Großes Stadttor

3:27 min · This is a very important historical site in Troisdorf, because the center of the village and the school were here. Today, it is the location of the...

449 m

18. Kirchstraße 39

2:00 min · A bronze plate on the house in Kirchstraße no. 39 tells us that Wilhelm Hamacher used to live here. He was born in 1886 and received his PhD in 191...

270 m

19. Sankt Hippolytus-Kirche

1:55 min · We are now in the Hippolytusstraße in front of the Catholic Church of St. Hippolytus. The patronage of St. Hippolytus indicates that the church is ...

192 m

20. Fischerplatz

2:21 min · We are standing on the Fischerplatz. A stone of Giovanni Vetere was placed here during the first meeting of sculptors from Troisdorf. Also, the now...

7 m

21. Brunnen Valder

0:44 min · A fountain can be seen behind the big man that consists of two round plates forming a semicircle, which is interrupted in the middle. It was create...

242 m

22. Metamorphosen

1:56 min · The road of the pedestrian zone widens to make room for a large art work that was created in 1984 for the sculptors' meeting, but it has a more his...

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