Recklinghausen

A museum of Eastern Orthodox religious icons.

Art exhibition.

Also serves as a museum, deals with the history and relation of electricity with the industry and development of the Ruhr area. Part of the industrial Heritage Route.

The oldest church in the city. The church probably stands on the site of a former Carolingian royal court and parts of it date back to 1247. Originally late Romanesque, it was later expanded in the Gothic style and houses several sights, including the late Gothic tabernacle, the war-damaged corpus of Christ and the baroque high altar. This is one of the reasons why the church, which has a two-bay, three-aisled late Romanesque hall with a transept that is only wider than the nave by the thickness of the wall and a 75-meter-high tower, is considered one of the most beautiful in the region. The attentive observer may notice when looking at the west side of the tower that an old cannonball from the First World War is still stuck in the walls.

Theatre erected in the 1950s in the Bauhaus style of architecture. Built as the "home" of the Ruhr Festival, it has developed into an extraordinary cultural centre since its opening in 1965, in which many exhibitions, performances and other events take place outside of the festival season. The house on the "green hill" by the city garden presents itself as part of the Bauhaus architecture with simple and functional lines and right angles.

You can do a guided tour of this former training mine.