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The grand Villa Hügel, former home of the Krupp family in Essen
10th-century imperial frontage. 20th-century sculptures, 8 Wuppertal
The treasury holds many including works by famous Road map B4. * 380,000. £
precious objects including a artists such as Salvador Dali, n Schloßbleiche 40 (0202-563 22
bronze crucifix from around 1060. Henry Moore, Max Ernst, Emil 70); Elberfeld, Informationszentrum
Nolde and Joseph Beuys. Also am Döppersberg (0202-194 33).
E Museum Folkwang worth visiting is the Museum ∑ wuppertal.de
Goethestraße 41. Tel (0201) 884 54 44. der Deutschen Binnenschiff-
Open 10am–6pm Tue, Wed, Sat & Sun, fahrt with its collection of Wuppertal, capital of the
10am–8pm Thu & Fri. Closed 1 Jan, barges and inland waterway Bergisches Land area, was
Easter, 1 May, 24 & 31 Dec. & vessels. In the 16th century, created in 1929 by combining
Duisburg was the home of the six towns strung along a
Environs famous geographer and 20-km (12-mile) stretch of the
Visitors interested in techno logy cartographer Gerhard Mercator, Wupper river. The towns are
should visit Bochum, which is whose collection of globes, joined by the Schwebebahn,
also the seat of the excellent maps and charts can now be a monorail constructed in
Ruhr-Universität. There are seen in the Kulture- und 1900. Carriages are suspen ded
two excellent museums: the Stadthistorisches Museum. from a single rail, which rests
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum on tall pillars.
devoted to mining, and the E Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum The most interesting of the
Eisenbahnmuseum (railway Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 40. Tel (0203) former towns is Elberfeld, with
museum) in Dahlhausen. Both 283 26 30. Open noon–5pm Tue–Fri, a museum of clocks, and the
have world-class exhibits. 11am–5pm Sun. & Von der Heydt-Museum of
19th- and 20th-century German
Environs art. The museum in the
7 Duisburg CentrO in Oberhausen, 14 km Friedrich-Engels-Haus in
(9 miles) north of Duisburg, Barmen (Engelsstraße 10) is
Road map B4. * 540,000. £ @
n Königstraße 86 (0203-285 440). is the largest shopping and worth seeing, and Neviges has
∑ ruhr-tourismus.de leisure complex in Europe. a Baroque pilgrimage church,
Krefeld, 6 km (4 miles) south- with a much-visited miraculous
Duisburg, on the edge of the west of Duisburg, has been a picture of the Virgin Mary.
Ruhr region, underwent a period centre of silk fabric production
of rapid development in the 19th from the 17th century, and the E Von der Heydt-Museum
and 20th centuries. Once a small Deutsches Textilmuseum has Elberfeld, Turmhof 8. Tel (0202) 563
town, it became the world’s over 20,000 exhibits, ranging from 62 31. Open 11am–6pm Tue, Wed,
largest inland harbour thanks to anti quity to the present day. Fri–Sun, 11am–8pm Thu. & = 8
its location at the spot where the
Ruhr flows into the Rhine.
The small old town was almost
totally destroyed in World War II,
but the 15th-century Gothic
Salvatorkirche (church of St
Saviour) has been rebuilt. Some
of the town’s greatest attractions
are its museums. The Wilhelm-
Lehmbruck-Museum focuses
on the work of the sculptor
Lehmbruck, who was born in
Duisburg. The museum has
an interesting collection of The unusual monorail, linking Wuppertal’s six constituent towns

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