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Promenade Emmerich on the Rhine, © Tourismus NRW e.V.

Wesel and Em­merich pier


Go­ing any­where from the Lower Rhine

A quick trip into nature, following the tracks of Joseph Beuys, or experiencing unique industrial culture in the nearby Ruhr Area – from Wesel and Emmerich at the Lower Rhine, excursion destinations worth the journey of up to one hour can be found in any direction.

Fam­liy theme park Kernie's Wun­der­land Kalkar

Fun and re­lax­a­tion at aban­doned nuc­le­ar re­act­or

The fun al­tern­at­ive to nuc­le­ar power! The site of a nuc­le­ar power plant that nev­er went on­line is now home to Kernie’s Fam­i­li­en­park and Wun­der­land Kalkar.

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LVR Ro­man Mu­seum in Xanten

Xanten

Ar­chae­olo­gic­al finds bear wit­ness to the lives of Ro­man cit­izens and le­gion­naires. In build­ings that are true to the ori­gin­als, his­tory is turned in­to an ex­per­i­ence for every­one. Vis­it­ors can find out about trade routes, im­port­ant mil­it­ary bases and reign­ing powers in the re­gion.

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Moy­land Castle in Bed­burg-Hau

A Lower Rhine Mecca for fans of Beuys

Since its res­tor­a­tion in the 1990s the neo-goth­ic wa­ter castle is a sig­ni­fic­ant mu­seum for mod­ern and con­tem­por­ary art. Be­sides oth­ers the found­a­tion mu­seum Schloss Moy­land pos­sesses the world’s largest col­lec­tion of art works from Joseph Beuys and is a re­search centre of in­ter­na­tion­al de­gree. Moreover his­tor­ic­al gar­dens stretch around the castle at the Lower Rhine.

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UN­ESCO World Her­it­age Site Zollver­ein

From in­dus­tri­al site to UN­ESCO World Her­it­age Site

Pre­vi­ously the site of toils, today Zollver­ein of­fers in­dus­tri­al cul­ture at its best: art, con­certs, fest­ivals and sport­ing op­por­tun­it­ies set against an im­press­ive back­drop.

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Land­scape Park Duis­burg Nord

This is in­dus­tri­al her­it­age: few oth­er former in­dus­tri­al sites are used so di­versely, cre­at­ively, ath­let­ic­ally and cul­tur­ally as that of the Land­scape Park.

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