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North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Cloister of Essen Cathedral – Market Church, Essen loop from Essen Hauptbahnhof

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Cloister of Essen Cathedral – Market Church, Essen loop from Essen Hauptbahnhof

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3.3

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175

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Cloister of Essen Cathedral – Market Church, Essen loop from Essen Hauptbahnhof

00:41

2.58km

20m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 28, 2026

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After 286 m for 172 m

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After 2.08 km for 270 m

Deliveries only

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Start point

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158 m

Hotel Handelshof, Essen

Highlight • Historical Site

The Handelshof, a historic hotel and restaurant building, is located opposite Essen's main train station.

The new Krupp-Thyssen administration building is located two kilometers northwest of the main train station, embedded in the new Krupp Park. The new administration headquarters has architectural quality. The park is lavishly designed, but will need to develop for another one or two decades to have a good effect as a landscape park.

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496 m

Grillo Theater Essen

Highlight • Monument

The Grillo Theater in downtown Essen was opened in 1892 as a city theater, making it one of the oldest theaters in the Ruhr area. The city theater was donated by the Essen industrialist Friedrich Grillo.

The building is designed in the neo-baroque style. With the Theaterplatz, the Grillo Theater forms a beautiful, peaceful oasis in the middle of the city.

More info: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grillo-Theater

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576 m

Lichtburg Essen

Highlight • Monument

In the Federal Republic of Germany and beyond the borders of our state, the Essen cinema is known and famous. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the Lichtburg is a premiere cinema and, on the other hand, because this film theater has the largest cinema hall in Germany. This jewel with 1250 seats is located in the middle of Essen's inner city and continues to cast a spell over cinema fans. The film theater also offers space for a stage behind the roll-up screen, so that the hall can also be used for theater and cabaret events. The building is a historical monument. In the basement of the building there is another cinema hall with 150 seats. The Lichtburg Film Theater in Essen opened on October 18, 1928. The cinema is an early example of the "Aryanization" of Jewish property during the National Socialist era in Germany. As early as 1933/1934, the Jewish operator, Berlin publisher, entrepreneur and co-founder of German film publishing Karl Wolffsohn was killed by massive pressure from the NSDAP in Essen -Gauleiter Josef Terboven was forced to sell the cinema to Universum Film AG, far below its value.

Since 2006, a commemorative plaque on the Lichtburg has commemorated Karl Wolffsohn. It was unveiled in the presence of the grandson, the historian Michael Wolffsohn. He is also the head of the Lichtburg Foundation. in Berlin with a German-Turkish-Jewish cultural center.

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680 m

Bistumsbrunnen at Essen Cathedral

Highlight • Monument

The fountain commemorates the founding of the Ruhr diocese from the mother dioceses of Münster, Cologne and Paderborn in 1958.

dom-essen.de/geschichte-und-architektur/01-domhof

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806 m

Cloister of Essen Cathedral

Highlight • Religious Site

Since 1960, the members of the Essen cathedral chapter have been buried in the middle of the cloister. The cloister is located next to the cathedral near Kettwiger Straße.

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995 m

Market Church, Essen

Highlight • Religious Site

The Essen Market Church, known as Gertrudis Church until the end of the 19th century, is located in the Essen city center on the market, the original Essen market square, which was once the economic, political and religious center of the city. The hall church, which was originally Romanesque and, after partial reconstruction, became late Gothic, was the first Protestant church in Essen.

(de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marktkirche_%28Essen%29)

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1.43 km

Mining Memorial Statues (Homage to Mining)

Highlight • Monument

Background and information about the sculpture and the artist: kreuder.de/assets/2009-11.pdf

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1.64 km

Limbecker Street

Highlight • Structure

One of the main shopping streets in downtown Essen. The street used to end at the Limbecker Tor, one of the four large Essen city gates (in the direction of Dorsten-Lembeck). Today there is a large shopping center here. Unfortunately a lot of vacancies on the street.

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2.58 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

1.31 km

1.23 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

2.41 km

170 m

Elevation

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Cloister of Essen Cathedral – Market Church, Essen loop from Essen Hauptbahnhof

Hotel Handelshof, Essen

Grillo Theater Essen

Lichtburg Essen

Bistumsbrunnen at Essen Cathedral

Cloister of Essen Cathedral

Market Church, Essen

Mining Memorial Statues (Homage to Mining)

Limbecker Street

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