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Im Wulve 2-4, Frintroper Str. 189, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, 45359, Germany
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The carillon tower
Villa Hügel, saloon
Coking Plant, total view from the roof
Museum Folkwang
The retired Krupp workers had this lovely green area of Essen to live in built for them - in much the same way that Lord Leverhulme built Port Sunlight on the Wirral for his workers. its a beautiful area to live in, very green and picturesque.
The houses are very stylish, you will find a market square with a grand hotel and a fancy art deco supermarket facade as well as cute street names and a very quiet atmosphere.
Right next to the Aalto-Theater there is a state-of-the-art concert hall called the Philharmonie, which is the home of the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra and also a venue for numerous visiting orchestras, chamber music ensembles and choirs.
The current building is the third concert hall on this site. The first one was a wooden building that was built in 1864, at a time when the coal mines were quite new and were starting to bring prosperity to the new city of Essen, or at least to a small upper class of wealthy mine-owners and industrialists. A second, more substantial concert hall was built on the same site in 1904, but was destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.
The current concert hall was inaugurated in 1950, and still looks the same now as it did then, but only from the outside. Since 2002 they have been completely rebuilding the inside to bring it up to 21st century standards, not only for concerts, but also for conventions and conferences.
Second photo: The Philharmonie as seen from the terrace of the nearby Aalto-Theater.
Build for retired workers of the company Krupp this area of Essen is probably the most beautiful. The houses are very stylish, you will find a market square with a nice hotel and a fancy art deco supermarket facade as well as cute street names and a very quiet atmosphere.
A jeweller installed the carillon on the facade of their shop. The post-war house has a little tower, four storeys high, that contains the bells and the clockwork and several windows with bronze figures.
The carillon operates almost continuously, you will hear the bells when walking the main shopping street. Stop and look up. The scenery changes. The blinds of the windows open and close, figures start moving.
Location: Kettwiger Straße, about halfway between Dom and train station
... and old iron lamp showing another view of the cathedral
... with the entrance to the Atrium of the cathedral is shown in this picture.
... of St. Johann that connects to the Cathedral in Essen does not look overwhelming. The entrance is just along a main shopping street and does not indicate the huge inner room of the connecting cathedral, which stretches along a slope.
... St. Johann and the Cathedral is the atrium
... of the majestic cathedral
majestic columns carry the gothic construction of the church
This fountain was a present of the old dioceses of Münster, Cologne and Paderborn, when the diocese Essen dreated and the cathedral was re-ingaurated in 1958
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