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By 1900, Düren was among Germany's richest cities (with 42 millionaires and 93 factories) and had a population of 27,168. By comparison, fewer than 5,000 people had lived in Düren a century earlier. The city of Düren was located on the main fighting front during the Allied invasion of Germany in World War II.
- Schloss Burgau
- Papiermuseum Düren
- Leopold-Hoesch-Museum
- Stadtpark Düren
- Stadtmuseum Düren
- Annakirche
- Bismarck-Denkmal
- Stadtmauer
- Holzstraße
- Bubenheimer Spieleland
First built in 1100 or so, this moated castle to the south of Düren became a lavish palace in Renaissance times. The greatest symbol from that period is the marvellous bay window (1551) on the residence tower, which is masterfully sculpted with medallions, coats of arms and ornamentation. The castle was heavily damaged in the Second World War and t...
The city has a paper-making legacy that goes back to 1576. Those mills were set along the banks of the Rur River, the soft water of which was a key ingredient in production. And right up to the 1970s Düren was Germany’s main source of paper. In the 80s the city decided to mark its paper-making history with a museum, which opened in 1990 by the old ...
At the start of the 20th century the industrialist Wilhelm Hoesch donated 300,000 marks to the city to build a museum in his father’s memory. The magnificent Neo-Baroque edifice was ready in 1905, and it would later be one of the few monuments in Düren to come through the war unscathed. The museum is oriented towards modern and contemporary art, wi...
On the left bank of the Rur Düren’s city park is officially named after the former German chancellor Willy Brandt. And even though it was inaugurated in 1896, the park’s history begins after the war as the Rur River witnessed bitter fighting and almost everything along it was destroyed. Peace soon returned to this space, and outdoor concerts – a tr...
The go-to place to get your head around Düren’s story is the city museum, a volunteer-run attraction that opened in 2009. The museum has no permanent collection, and instead stages three simultaneous temporary shows. In 2017 all of these were from the 20th century. The first tackles Düren’s role in the First World War, when due to the city’s proxim...
The city’s 13th-century parish church was completely ruined in 1944 and the only significant piece to survive was the Gothic southern portal. So when the modern church came to be built on the site in 1954, that portal was integrated into the architecture. In the 1950s some well-known artists were called in to provide decoration: Ewald Mataré and hi...
The larger than life-sized statue of Germany’s first chancellor standing next to Bismarckstraße in the Theodor-Heuss-Park is a listed monument. If you get up close you’ll see that Otto von Bismarck is carrying a document in his right hand. That represents the deed of proclamation announcing the founding of the German Empire and the Unification of G...
For all the destruction visited upon Düren in the Second World War the vestiges of the city wall are in surprisingly good shape. They were mostly unharmed in 1944 and now you can identify five towers and six stretches of fortifications. The walls were first erected the 1100s, and one of the reasons they’ve survived is that they were still being mod...
This street west of the Papiermuseum is one of the few arteries in Düren to keep a lot of its pre-war architecture. Outside the city wall, Holzstraße first appeared on the city map in 1634 lumber road that went down to the side of the Rur. When Düren grew outside its walls in the 19th century the street was flanked by stately Historicist mansions a...
On the grounds of the Medieval castle Burg Bubenheim there’s a children’s play park popular with families from all over the region. One of the neat things about Bubenheimer Spieleland is that it’s an all-weather option, with things to do both indoors and outdoors. In mid-July each year the 40,000-square-metre is ready for action, and it comes with ...
Düren ist mit rund 93.600 Einwohnern eine große Mittelstadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Sie liegt am Nordrand der Eifel zwischen Aachen und Köln und ist Verwaltungssitz des gleichnamigen Kreises sowie Mitglied der Euregio Maas-Rhein. Die von der Rur durchflossene Stadt nennt sich auch Das Tor zur Nordeifel
Düren is a shopping and cultural centre in the middle of it all, with a colourful and open atmosphere. Visit the marketplace, the museums, the theatre and the parks, or book a city tour to discover the history and architecture of Düren.
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Düren, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies along the Rur River, on the northeastern slopes of the Eifel Hills. A Frankish settlement first mentioned in 748, it grew from the Villa Duria of Pippin III the Short, the king of the Franks.
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