Duisburg is located on the Lower Rhine in the western Ruhr area. The independent city is the fifth largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia. The port with its center in the Ruhrort district is considered the largest inland port in Europe. The waterways connect Duisport with most parts of Central and Eastern Europe. For the North Sea ports - particularly Rotterdam and Antwerp - duisport is a strategically important port.
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Sights:
The William Lehmbruck Museum - centre of international sculpture. Based on the work of the Duisburg artist William Lehmbruck in a museum building designed by his son, a European-wide unique collection of modern sculptures as well as paintings is shown in 1964.
The cultural and historical city museum is located together with the Mercator collection in a former storage house in the inner port.
The museum of the German inland navigation is located in a former Art Nouveau indoor swimming pool in Ruhr, two historical steam ships anchored in the port also belong to it.
The Museum Küppersmühle - the Grothe collection shows modern art in a former storage house in the inner harbor transformed by Herzog & de Meuron.
The Atlantis Children' Museum: a children experience world in the Werhahn storage house in the inner port.
The Duisburg city hall goes back to the mediaeval royal court, which stood on the same place. Today's building erected in early Renaissance style was finished in 1902. The Salvator Church is located on the area of the mediaeval royal court, the later royal square. Here stood for the first time a single-nave wooden church in the 9th century which was later replaced by a three-nave church. The Salvator church located in the interior port has been Evangelical since 1571.
In the Catholic Karmel Church from 1961 (located in the inner port), parts of the Minorites Church destroyed in the war of 1513 were integrated. St.Mary's Church was established in 1153 as the first settlement of the St. John's Order in Germany. Today's classical building goes back to the year 1802. The Hamborn Abbey with the monastery church St. John Baptist dates back to the 11th/12th century, a previous building goes back to the year 900. The abbey belongs to the Oder of the Premonstratensians. The late Roman Catholic village church of St. Dionysus in Mündelheim was built in 1221. The three-gable-house lying at the margins of the inner port, built in 1536, is the oldest still preserved residential building in Duisburg. The older part of the Duisburg office and regional court building was finished 1876 in the Neo-Renaissance style.
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