Category
Landmarks in Duisburg
Tiger & Turtle, the town hall and the water tower
Attractions
City Centre
Inner Harbour (Innenhafen)
From the "bread basket of the Ruhr" to a lively city quarter: a former grain harbour with a promenade, restaurants, museums and modern architecture.
Free entry
City Centre
Salvator Church & Old Market
The Gothic main church of the old town right next to the town hall, burial place of the cartographer Gerhard Mercator on the historic Old Market.
Free entry
City Centre
Duisburg Town Hall
An imposing neo-Renaissance town hall on the Burgplatz, with a prominent tower in the heart of the old town.
Free entry
City Centre
Inner Harbour Marina
A leisure-boat marina in the middle of the Inner Harbour, with yachts, houseboats and a maritime feel against the skyline of the old warehouses.
Free entry
City Centre
Three-Gable House
The oldest surviving residential house in the old town, dating from the 16th century, with its characteristic three stepped gables.
Free entry
Hochfeld
Stadtwerke Tower
At around 200 metres the tallest structure in Duisburg — the "Lange Heinrich" is a landmark visible far across the Rhine.
Free entry
Ruhrort
Duisburg Port (duisport)
The largest inland port in the world — experienced by harbour boat tour with cranes, containers and kilometres of quays.
from 14 EUR
Meiderich
Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord
A disused ironworks turned spectacular industrial park: climb a blast furnace, dive in the gasometer and watch the colourful light show at night.
Free entry
Hamborn
Hamborn Town Hall & Pollmann-Eck
A striking town hall at the Pollmann-Eck in the north of Duisburg, a testament to the once-independent industrial town of Hamborn.
Free entry
Homberg/Ruhrort/Baerl
Homberg–Ruhrort Rhine Ferry
A historic passenger ferry across the Rhine between Homberg and Ruhrort — the "Glückauf" has connected the banks for generations.
from 2 EUR
Beeck
Rheinpreußen Spoil Tip & Geleucht
A spoil tip with the "Geleucht" — a walkable, giant miner's lamp as a glowing landmark artwork above the Ruhr region.
Free entry
Wanheim-Angerhausen
Tiger & Turtle – Magic Mountain
A walkable roller-coaster sculpture on a spoil tip in the Angerpark — a landmark of structural change with magnificent panoramic views.
Free entry