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Popular Night Attractions in North Rhine-Westphalia [2025]
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Cologne Cathedral
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824 reviews
8.4
Based on 22,483 reviews
Cologne City Center | 73.5 km from downtown
Phone +4922192584730
Address: Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
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It is a famous attraction that is worth visiting. It is a pleasure to visit Cologne Cathedral. Through the introduction, we learned that Cologne Cathedral was built in 1248 by the then Archbishop of Cologne, Conrad. Von Hochstaden presided over the laying of the foundation stone. The construction process took hundreds of years and was interrupted many times due to wars, lack of funds and other reasons. The church was not completed until 1880, after a total construction period of 632 years. The cathedral is an outstanding example of Gothic architecture. Its architectural style is characterized by towering spires, pointed arches, flying buttresses and exquisite stained glass windows. As an important Catholic church, Cologne Cathedral is a place for believers to carry out religious activities, attracting a large number of believers to make pilgrimages every year. The church houses the remains of the "Three Holy Kings of the East", which gives it a very high religious status.
huge and impressive, the view from the cathedral is also great, can’t remember the number of the stairs and it will take some time to go upstairs but totally worth it
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Hohenzollern Bridge
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220 reviews
4.9
Based on 3,646 reviews
73.1 km from downtown
Phone +492212210
Address: 50679 Cologne, Germany
Recommended sightseeing time: 0.5-1 hour
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The classic photo that is often seen is the photo of the Hohenzollern Bridge and the Cologne Cathedral. Walking eastward along the Cologne Cathedral, you will come to the bridge. There are sidewalks and bicycle lanes on both sides of the bridge, and a railway track in the middle. Walking on the bridge, trains will pass by on the middle track from time to time. Standing in the middle of the bridge or on the west bank of the bridge is a better viewing position.
On the side of the sidewalk close to the track, there are colorful and dense love locks. It is said that if you hang a lock on the Hohenzollern Bridge and throw the key into the Rhine River, love will last forever, so many locals and tourists who come here to admire it have their own and their loved ones’ names engraved on the locks and left on this bridge. Over time, there are more and more locks, and colorful copper locks of various types form a unique landscape.
Reasons to go: Germany's most romantic bridge
If you are visiting Koln then chances are you will walk over it or arrive by train. If you walk over it is a great place for pictures and enjoy people watching on the banks of the Rhine. If you want to show your love buy a pad lock and lock it to one of the fences on the bridge
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Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
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16 reviews
4.0
Obermeiderich | 61 km from downtown
Phone +492034291919
Address: Emscherstraße 71, 47137 Duisburg, Germany
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
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The North Duisburg Landscape Park was originally a large mining and smelting base. Due to the changes of the times, it has become a park that showcases the industrial history of Germany. Many of the factories and equipment of the time are preserved here, and modern landscape design is also added. The two are very harmonious and beautiful.
Like the famous Ruhr Museum, the Duisburg North Landscape Park was also renovated on the site of an abandoned factory. Many of the original mining machinery here are used as sculptures in the park for long-term exhibition, and the original pipes between the factory workshops are dressed up as very industrial-style sculpture exhibits, giving people a familiar yet unfamiliar feeling.
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