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Germany City Travel Guide: Düsseldorf (Duesseldorf, Dusseldorf)

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Dusseldorf

Dusseldorf Altstadt.

Dusseldorf Altstadt
  • State capital of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Prosperous commercial & financial center
  • Famous for its art & fashion scenes
  • Original city dates from 1288
  • Lively cultural and entertainment center
  • Population 567,000
  • Great variety of specialty 'Alt' beers

 

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Attractions in Dortmund include:

Boat trips on the River Rhine.
18 museums.
Statue of the Elector Jan Wellem.

Statue of Jan Wellem

The German Opera House on the Rhine:
Heinrich-Heine-Allee 16a Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia 40479, Germany. Tel: 49-211-890-803
Königsallee shopping street, known as the "Kö". The 'poshest street in Germany', according to some.
Goethe Museum Schloss Jägerhof, Jacobistrasse 2, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia 40211, Germany.
The Rheinufer. A 10 mile path along the River Rhine for walking, cycling, skateboarding, inline skating.
Benrath Castle (Schloss Benrath): Benrather Schloßallee 104 | Benrath, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia 40597, Germany. Tel: 49-211-899-7271
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: Grabbeplatz 5, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Tel: 0211/8-38-10 has important works by sculptor and conceptual artist Joseph Beuys + Picasso, Matisse.

Düsseldorf has some of the best beer in Germany.
Try these ‘Alt’ beers ('Alt’ means 'old' or 'traditional'):
•Schumacher Alt
•Fankenheim Alt
•Fuechschen Alt / Silberfuechschen (wheatbeer). Try this at Ratingerstraße 28.
•Gatzweilers Alt
•Albrecht (limited production)
•Uerige Alt You might like to go to the brewpub itself 'Zum Uerige' to sample their Alt beer. Bergstraße 1, Düsseldorf. A scene from the UK TV series 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' was shot here. The downside: pay toilets.
•Schlösser Alt
•Schlüssel Alt

Dusseldorf Tourist Office

Dusseldorf Goethe Museum.

Dusseldorf Goethe Museum

Tourist Office Altstadt
Burgplatz
Tel: 602 5753
Opening hours: noon-6pm

Tourist Office Finanzkaufhaus
Berliner Allee 33
Tel: 300 4897
Opening hours: 10am-6pm (Mon-Sat)

Tourist Office Hauptbahnhof
Immermannstrasse 65b
Tel: 172 0222
Opening hours: 10am-6pm (Mon-Fri), 10am-6pm (Sat)

Opposite the railway station in Konrad-Adenauer-Platz, the Verkehrsverein Visitor Information Centre has a hotel reservations office. There’s a booking fee of € 5. A deposit of the first night’s room charge is also taken.

Getting to Dusseldorf

Air

Dusseldorf International Airport, one of the three biggest commercial airports in Germany, is 12 minutes from the city centre via the S-Bahn urban railway system (S-bahn trains #7 & #21).

Flight information: tel. 0211 4210.

Train

The rail station (Dü sseldorf Hauptbahnhof) is located in the southeast section of the city centre at Konrad-Adenauer-Platz.
Information: tel. 01805 996633.
Regional trains info: tel. 0211 58228.
Journey time from Frankfurt-am-Main: about 2.5 hours.
Journey time from Munich: about 7 hours.

Bus/Road

Not far from Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen and Cologne (Köln). Autobahn numbers: A3, A44, A46, A52, A57 and A59.

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There are buses to Paris (9 hours), London, Warsaw, Prague and to other parts of Germany.

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Joseph Beuys

Some may remember the "Heads" events of 1984 in which three lost sculptures of heads by the Italian artist Modigliani were dredged up from a river in Leghorn sending art experts into an ecstatic frenzy, at least one of whom shed tears of joy at the discovery. Later, when some young people admitted to making the heads, by means of a Black & Decker, thus hoaxing the art world, some of the so-called experts still would not believe them and the students had to make another identical head with their trusty drill live on television to prove they were not lying. If Joseph Beuys had had his way, by now art historians would be replaced by dead hares, as the latter understand art better than the former despite being animals .. and dead.

Beuys grew up near Düsseldorf, once started a political party for animals, and was one of the founders of the German Green Party. He was concerned about the environment, held utopian ideals of how society should develop, was sacked from his job as a professor at Düsseldorf Art Academy for occupying the admin offices. Before that, he was a Luftwaffe pilot in WW2, was shot down over the Soviet Union, was rescued by Tartars and was wrapped in animal fats and felt to keep him warm. He washed people's feet. He survived a week living with a coyote in a room in New York. He founded the Free International University.

Fat, felt (and copper) he used extensively in his "actions" [installations into which his personal interaction and debate with audience were entwined]. Examples of environments he created include basalt stones laid down on the ground, furniture, and sledges with rolls of felt and torches. He is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

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