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Lindenthal

11 places in Cologne

Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Kirche (Köln-Lindenthal)

since 1979

A Protestant parish centre with a pentagonal single-hall church, built 1979/80 in the Deckstein part of Cologne-Lindenthal and named after Nazi-era resistance figure Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Herakles Slaying the Stymphalian Birds (Bourdelle)

since 1909

A 1909 bronze sculpture by Antoine Bourdelle – Cologne's cast stands freely accessible in the courtyard of the WiSo building on the campus of the University of Cologne.

Karl-Schwering-Platz

since 1925

An elongated green space in Cologne's Lindenthal district, designed in 1925 by garden director Fritz Encke – featuring a sunken garden, rose beds, water basins and a children's playground along the Lindenthal Canal.

Lortzingplatz

since 1908

A 2,300-square-metre garden square in the Lindenthal district, laid out by royal landscape architect Fritz Encke between 1906 and 1908 as a place of recreation for the residential quarter along Theresienstraße.

Matthäuskirche (Cologne-Lindenthal)

since 1975

A Protestant parish centre with church in Cologne-Lindenthal, built between 1975 and 1977 by Busmann + Haberer in a modern architecture of cubic volumes.

St. Johannes der Täufer

since 1958
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Listed clinic church of the University Hospital Cologne in Lindenthal, built 1962–1965 by Gottfried Böhm from exposed concrete and connected to the hospital buildings via an underground passage.

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St. Laurentius (Cologne-Lindenthal)

since 1961

A plain brick cube by Emil Steffann in Lindenthal, deconsecrated in 2019 and set to become a university lecture hall. Built in 1961/62, it counts as a notable example of Cologne's post-war architecture.

St. Maria Magdalena und Lazarus

An early Gothic chapel on Melaten Cemetery, rooted in a medieval leper hospital and older than Cologne Cathedral.

St. Petrus und Paulus (Vom Guten Hirten)

since 1962

Built between 1962 and 1964 to designs by Fritz Schaller in Cologne's Lindenthal district, this church began as a convent church for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and has served the Syriac Orthodox community as St. Petrus und Paulus since 1991.

St. Stephan

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A church in Cologne's Lindenthal district: the 1887 Neo-Gothic building was destroyed in the war and replaced in 1961 by a modern glass church that incorporates the old tower.

Weisshaus Kino

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Award-winning arthouse cinema in Cologne-Lindenthal showing European film art, international narrative cinema and its own strand of children's films – housed in a 1950s theatre building.

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