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Essen City Hall

Essen City Hall is a 23-storey, 106 m (348 ft) skyscraper in Essen, Germany.

Essen City Hall
Essen City Hall · Steffen Schmitz
The place

Essen City Hall is a 23-storey, 106 m (348 ft) skyscraper in Essen, Germany. When completed on 1 July 1979, it was one of the tallest city halls in Europe and is currently the third tallest city hall in Germany after New Town Hall (Leipzig) and Hamburg City Hall.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Essen City Hall

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Duisburg-Essen

    The University of Duisburg-Essen is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the university was awarded 194th place in the world.

    900 m · university in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Museum Folkwang

    Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1902.

    2 km · museum in Essen, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Essen Minster

    Essen Minster, since 1958 also Essen Cathedral, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese of the Ruhr", founded in 1958. The church, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Blessed Virgin Mary, stands on the Burgplatz in the centre of the city of Essen, Germany.

    300 m · cathedral · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Golden Madonna of Essen

    The Golden Mother of Good Counsel of Essen is the eldest Roman Catholic sculpture of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The image is a wooden core covered with sheets of thin gold leaf and is part of the treasury of Essen Cathedral in Germany.

    300 m · sculpture of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus in Essen Cathedral, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Essen Abbey

    Essen Abbey was a community of secular canonesses for women of high nobility that formed the nucleus of modern-day Essen, Germany. A chapter of male priests were also attached to the abbey, under a dean.

    300 m · monastery · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Aalto Theatre

    The Aalto Theatre is a performing arts venue in Essen, Germany, and is home to the city's opera company Aalto-Musiktheater and the ballet company Aalto Ballett. The Essener Philharmoniker serve as the venue's orchestra.

    1.3 km · opera house in Essen, Germany · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stadion Essen

    Stadion an der Hafenstraße, known as Stadion Essen until 2022, is a stadium in Essen, Germany. Located in the borough of Bergeborbeck, it has a capacity of 20,650 spectators.

    4.2 km · stadium in Essen, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Schloss Borbeck

    Borbeck Castle is a Baroque moated castle in the Essen district of Borbeck. From the 14th century onward it served as the preferred residence of the prince-abbesses of the Essen Abbey, and it acquired its present external appearance during the 18th century.

    5.2 km · castle · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Essen Cathedral Treasury

    The Essen Cathedral Treasury is one of the most significant collections of religious artworks in Germany. A great number of items of treasure are accessible to the public in the treasury chamber of Essen Minster.

    300 m · Church treasury · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Grugapark

    The Grugapark is a central park in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was first opened in 1929 as the first Big Ruhrland Horticultural Exhibition.

    3.9 km · park in Essen, Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Essen City Hall

Airports
Düsseldorf (DUS), 26 km · Dortmund (DTM), 42 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 63 km
Stations
Essen Central Station, 800 m · Essen-Hügel station, 6 km · Essen Stadtwald station, 4 km · Essen-Frohnhausen station, 3.5 km · Essen West station, 2.5 km
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What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextIts lush green setting has long been a popular day trip and short stay destination for the city dwellers of Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne and other large cities in the region.

From Wikivoyage: Bochum, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    245 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    587 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    607 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    632 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    812 km

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Around it

Next door to Essen City Hall

  • Essencity in Ruhr Region, Düsseldorf Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany800 m
  • Borbeck-Mittedistrict of Essen, Germany4.9 km
  • Bredeneyborough of Essen5.1 km
  • Altendorfhuman settlement in Germany2.7 km
  • Bergeborbeckhuman settlement in Germany3.6 km
  • Bocholdhuman settlement in Germany3.9 km