Places to see in ( Leverkusen - Germany )
Places to see in ( Leverkusen - Germany )
Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf. On the right bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf, Leverkusen has only existed as an urban centre since 1975 when a group of towns and districts in the Bergisches Land were incorporated into a city.
One Leverkusen name that will be familiar to all is Bayer, the chemical and pharmaceuticals multinational, founded here in 1863 and still headquartered in the city. Many of the attractions in Leverkusen are connected in some way to Bayer, whether it’s the serene Japanese garden that the company’s CEO planted 100 years ago or the football club that was set up by a group of factory workers in 1904.
The local football club is nicknamed Die Werkself (The Company XI) and as you might guess, came together when Bayer helped a group of its employees start a sports club. Bayer Leverkusen have been playing in the Bundesliga continuously for the last 40 years.
Schloss Morsbroich in the Alkenrath district has a history beginning around the end of the 14th century, and the current Rococo palace was completed in 1775. This delightful building holds Leverkusen’s municipal museum of contemporary art, which puts on ever-changing temporary exhibitions all year round. Right by the Bayer plant in the Flittard district is a Japanese Garden rated as one of the best parks in Germany.
At Industriemuseum Freudenthaler Sensenhammer former factory on the Dhünn River you’ll step into an entirely preserved late-19th-century industrial facility. Neuland-Park was founded in time for the Landesgartenschau (State Garden Show) in 2005 on the site of the former Dhünnaue worker settlement.
In the western end of the vast Reuschenberger Wald is an animal park for European species. In Opladen, the local dye manufacturer Max Römer built himself a resplendent Neo-Renaissance villa, which he lived in from 1905 to 1923. Not long after that it became Opladen’s town hall and then the seat of the British military command after the war.
At Nobelstraße 78 in Wiesdorf you can get a glimpse of life in one of the worker settlements founded by Bayer AG at the start of the 20th century. The museum is one of the pairs of semi-detached houses built by the factory especially to house its employees, in what were known as “colonies”, which even had their own Bayer-brand department store and are now a German historic monument.
On a historic 60,000-square-meter Ophoven estate is an educational park and museum where kids can get in touch with nature and find out about renewable energy. Wherever you go in Leverkusen you should be able to spot this 72.45-metre water tower rising in the Bürrig district.
Another fixture on Bayer’s cityscape is the Bayer Cross, the company’s logo rendered in lights above the factory in a sign measuring 51 metres across. The Schiffbrücke Wuppermündung is a unique pontoon bridge, with a walkway supported by three boats: These are Einigkeit (Unity), a clipper dating to 1907, Recht (Law), an eel trawler from 1924 and finally, Freiheit (Freedom), a flat-bottomed, Dutch-style tjalk dating back more than 100 years.
Some 600 trees and 500 shrubs were planted at Stammheim, and were mainly sourced from the nursery at the Cologne Botanical Garden. If you’re out and about in the centre of Leverkusen, chances are you’ll find yourself at this mall, which opened in 2010. The building is a sight to behold from the outside as it is crowned by a 5,000-square-metre glass rotunda, containing the town hall and the municipal library.
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Leverkusen
Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf.
With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is one of the state's smaller cities. The city is known for the pharmaceutical company Bayer and its associated sports club TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
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