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The previous price was $7 and current price is $5 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Enters the fascinating, contested border areas of a forced municipal merger in 1975. On this immersive tour, you will explore the dramatic clash between an industrial worker paper town and a baroque, aristocratic village. Discover how architecture was used as a weapon of defiance, how shared parks became the glue for a torn community, and why fifty years later the scars of this 'marriage' are still visible in the concrete and cobblestones.
    8.6 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 210 min.
    Ideal for everyone interested in urbanism, infrastructure innovation, and urbanism innovation
    Excitingly tells in a podcast style from experts and locals
    Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Activity location

  • Historisches Rathaus Stadtmitte
    • Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1
    • 51465, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Historic City Hall downtown
    • 1 Konrad-Adenauer-Platz
    • 51465, Bergisch Gladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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Self-guided podcast tour Bergisch Gladbach: The forced marriage in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 3 hours and 30 minutes3h 30m
    3h 30m
  • Opening hours: Tue 12:00am-11:59pm
  • English
Price details
$6.72
$5.38 x 1 Adult$5.38
Total
The previous price was $6.72 and current price is $5.38
19% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Exciting audio output in podcast style with experts and locals
  • Inclusions
    Interactive guide in the app for questions about history and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Verified facts incorporated into an exciting story
  • Inclusions
    Point-to-point navigation between stops

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transportation options are available nearby
    • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Historisches Rathaus Stadtmitte

  • 10m
The starting point represents the old, independent Bergisch Gladbach and symbolizes the administrative heart of the industrial city before the merger.

Zanders Mainstreet

  • 10m
The huge former paper factory that shaped the identity of Bergisch Gladbach and showed the industrial wealth that contrasted with Bensberg.

Lückerather Anger

  • 10m
A community space created by the foundation in a border district, representing the 'seam' between the two cities and their independent local identity.

Saaler Mühle

  • 10m
A huge school and recreation complex that serves as a shared, neutral infrastructure where families from both former cities mix daily.

Rathaus Bensberg (Technisches Rathaus)

  • 10m
A brutalist masterpiece built in the 1960s to prove Bensberg's independence, and today a symbol of defiant futility.

Schloss Bensberg

  • 10m
The grand Baroque hunting lodge, which solidifies Bensberg's historical identity as a noble seat and contrasts with Gladbach's industrial roots.

Schloßstraße

  • 10m
The commercial heart of Bensberg, which illustrates the ongoing struggle to preserve local identity against the pull of the larger, merged city.

Location

Activity location

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    Historisches Rathaus Stadtmitte
    • Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1
    • 51465, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Historic City Hall downtown
    • 1 Konrad-Adenauer-Platz
    • 51465, Bergisch Gladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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