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Historic City Wall of Duisburg

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Historic City Wall of Duisburg

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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Horst-Schimanski Alley (Duisburg-Ruhrort) – Museum Ship Oscar Huber loop from Rathaus

13.9km

03:34

60m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Pedestrian bridge at the marina – Duisburg Inner Harbor loop from Rathaus

5.13km

01:19

30m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Duisburg Inner Harbor – Pedestrian bridge at the marina loop from Altstadt

5.04km

01:18

20m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Julia

February 4, 2018

"As early as the eighties, the reconstruction of the inner harbor began and the city walls on the medieval banks of the Rhine were uncovered. Until then hardly a Duisburger knew this city wall - because industry and trade used it from both sides as completion wall for their buildings. Only the wrecking ball released the wall in the second half of the 80s. It is now - instead of on a wall as it was centuries ago - in a ditch. In 1120, the city wall was created and in a second phase in 12./13. Century completed. Behind the city wall, the first Inner Harbor residential district was built at the end of the eighties. The pointed-gabled roofs of the houses - deliberately towering over the wall - interpret the old forms and adapt to their historical surroundings. Corputiusviertel is the name of this residential quarter, named after the Corputiusplatz at the Museum of Cultural History and the international center of the VHS. On the square are three symbols of Duisburg's three traditional industries: a mining sheave, a harbor crane, and a mold car from the iron and steel industry. On the grounds of today's Corputiusviertel stood the textile factory of the Esch family, who for many decades also owned the neighboring, built in 1536 Dreigiebelhaus. The textile factory building in the Ruhrgebiet became known by the fact that it housed the youth center Eschhaus since the beginning of the seventies. It was created by decision of the city council and was managed autonomously by the young visitors. The 1987 demolition in the course of the inner harbor reorganization was politically fiercely contested.

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Julia

February 4, 2018

The city wall can be seen in its original 2.5-kilometer length on the Corputius plan of 1566. Inside there was room for 2,000 to 3,000 people, and the stone fortification is believed to have been built around 1120. Quarry stone as a base, tuff on top - this is how the old Duisburgers built meter-high security that was to last for centuries. Four main gates connected the city and the surrounding area, eleven full and nine semi-circular towers up to 20 meters high reinforced the bulwark.

Duisburg is the only city in the Ruhr area with significant parts of a medieval city wall. The orientation towards today's inner harbor reveals the location on the Rhine before it broke through in 1300.

And the remains of the wall classified by the monument conservationists as "significant parts" represent around a quarter of the original structure, of which 80 percent remained after the Second World War, after bombing and shelling. The gates in particular fell victim to the demolition hoe in the 19th century. A large section of the wall was then used to rebuild the severely damaged city center after 1945.

Nevertheless, the wall can still be experienced in all its historic grandeur. Above all at the inner harbor, on Obermauerstrasse, and also on Unterstrasse. A little intuition is needed to discover the remains of the fortifications along the Sonnenwall. The centuries-old walls form the back of many modern buildings - best seen from Untermauerstrasse. If you want to continue looking for relics of the past, you should enter the "King's Gallery" from the Sonnenwall and look down: further parts of the old wall can be found under glass in the floor." Source: innenhafen-portal.de/standort/stadtmauer.html

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

December 20, 2021

"The Duisburg city wall dates back to the 12th century, but was significantly expanded towards the end of the 13th century. The wall, which was on average 10 meters high, encompassed today's old town with a length of around 2.5 km and had 20 towers and half-towers as well as four city gates: Stapeltor, Kuhtor, Marientor and Schwanentor. All four city gates were demolished between 1815 and 1833. Remains of the historic city wall with individual towers can still be discovered today - around 670 meters are still left, making it the oldest stone medieval city wall preserved on such a large scale in the German-speaking world."

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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Historic City Wall of Duisburg

1. Horst-Schimanski Alley (Duisburg-Ruhrort) – Museum Ship Oscar Huber loop from Rathaus

2. Pedestrian bridge at the marina – Duisburg Inner Harbor loop from Rathaus

3. Duisburg Inner Harbor – Pedestrian bridge at the marina loop from Altstadt

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