Essen

4 attractions

Essen is a stop on 1 slow-travel rail route in this guide. Here is what to see and how to reach each sight on foot from the station.

Attractions in Essen

The ‘most beautiful coal mine in the world’, UNESCO.

A landmark collection of modern and Romantic painting.

The Krupp dynasty’s vast hillside mansion in a park above the reservoir.

A great domed synagogue that survived the war, now a house of memory.