One day in Oberhausen!🇩🇪

Oberhausen is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen (c. 13 km or 8 mi). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

What to see in one day in Oberhausen?

•The District Court of Oberhausen is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of seven district courts in the district of the District Court of Duisburg.

•Friedensplatz is a park-like, traffic-calmed area in downtown Oberhausen.

•Oberhausen Town Hall has been the seat of the Oberhausen City Council and administration since 1930.

•The Kaisergarten is the oldest park in the city of Oberhausen. The young industrial city wanted to create a pleasant, refreshing stay in the great outdoors for its citizens "by creating a public garden.“ The park was named in 1898 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I. It is located southwest of the palace buildings and extends from Duisburger Strasse to the Rhein-Herne Canal and from Konrad-Adenauer-Allee to the Oberhausen Hbf.-Sterkrade railway line. The area is a conservation area. Some of the park's plane trees are natural monuments because of their age.

•Slinky springs to fame (also Rehberger Bridge) is the name of a pedestrian bridge over the Rhine-Herne Canal at canal kilometer 8.596, which connects the Kaisergarten in Oberhausen with the sports park on Lindnerstraße opposite and the subsequent Emscher landscape.

•The Ludwig Gallery Schloss Oberhausen is an art museum in Oberhausen. The gallery is located in the Imperial Garden of Oberhausen Castle.

•Revierpark Vonderort was largely created on the site of a disused quartz sand pit. It was opened in 1974 as the third of a total of five Revierparks in the Ruhr area. The approximately 32-hectare park area in the hilly south-east of the Oberhausen district of Osterfeld is divided into a north and a south part by Bottroper Strasse. In the northern part, in addition to a large playground and various fields for team sports, there is a former ice rink, which is now used as an inline skater hockey hall, and a leisure pool with a brine pool, sauna area and outdoor pool. The southern part offers a multi-purpose pavilion and the "leisure house" which houses the administration and which can be used for various cultural and social events.

•The Catholic Church of St. Pankratius is dedicated to St. Pankratius. It is the oldest parish church in the Oberhausen district of Osterfeld, which was in Westphalia until 1929. A first church was mentioned in documents as early as the 12th century. It was dependent on the Werden monastery.

•Vondern Castle is located in the Vonderort district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Oberhausen. It was a fief of the Counts and Dukes of Kleve and was first mentioned in the 13th century. Today owned by the city of Oberhausen, the Förderkreis Burg Vondern e. V. to preserve the historic buildings, which were listed as historical monuments in 1987.

•"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (German: "Der Zauberlehrling") is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in 14 stanzas.

•The Gasometer Oberhausen is a former gas holder in Oberhausen, Germany, which has been converted into an exhibition space. It has hosted several large scale exhibitions, including two by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Gasometer is an industrial landmark, and an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage and the Industrial Heritage Trail. It was built in the 1920s, and reconstructed after World War II.

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