Museum FolkwangMuseum Folkwang · photo: Julius1990, CC BY-SA 3.0

Self-guided walking tour of Essen

16 sights · Germany

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Essen, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

Plan your walk through Essen

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

3-hour walk past the highlights of Essen

7 stops · 5.4 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

  1. Photo: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 12 min walkOld Synagogue
  2. Photo: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 3 min walkEssen City Hall
  3. Photo: Essen_2011_66.jpg: Gryffindor…, Public domain
    🚶 5 min walkEssen Minster
  4. Photo: Gryffindor, Public domain
    🚶 1 min walkSt. Johann Baptist
  5. Photo: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 3 min walkGrillo-Theater
  6. Photo: Julius1990, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 26 min walkMuseum Folkwang
  7. Photo: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 14 min walkAalto Theatre
Walk this route (with map)

More well-known sights in Essen

  1. Golden Madonna of Essen
  2. Grugapark
  3. Saalbau Essen
  4. Colosseum Theater
  5. Kreuzeskirche
  6. Marktkirche
  7. Essen-Stadtkern
  8. Stratmanns Theater Europahaus
  9. Schloss Schellenberg
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