Best places: Churches in North Rhine-Westphalia

Landmark Gothic cathedral with a huge facade, plus guided tours & Rhine views.

Medieval abbey church featuring gothic architecture, ornate windows & tranquil, verdant surrounds.

Massive Romanesque church with a landmark tower built on top of Roman temple ruins.

Elaborate, gilded reliquary in Cologne cathedral said to contain the bones of the biblical magi.

Medieval Catholic church in the Romanesque style that's noted for its large, 10-sided dome.

This iconic 13th-century Catholic church is known for its baroque cupola & light-filled sanctuary.

👍👍 A very nice place in the middle of the old town of Düsseldorf. Here you can always find a few minutes of reflection and peace in the Saint Andreas Church, which was taken over by the Dominicans at 7:00 p.m. 72

Established in 1902, this tall, stately place of worship is the second-largest church in Cologne.

Completed in 1270, this Romanesque Lutheran church features a Gothic choir & a Baroque-style tower.

👍👍 Old Catholic Episcopal Church. The history of the church is very interesting and is well documented. It's nice that the church is open every day and you can sit there in peace between baroque and modern and find peace. What's also nice is that it is also a burial church for urns under the altar area...

Catholic church with whose foundations are around 1,000 years old, offering guided tours.

😐 We were there for a concert by a large Cologne band. Overall, the church was rather unsuitable for such a large concert. The seats are limited, if you sit / stand on the sides you can only see columns. The queue at the drinks shop (if you come in on the right) blocked the whole area. We then just s...

👍👍 Looks Romanesque from the outside and Gothic when you're inside. Almost completely destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt 1946-1957.

👍👍 Sehr schön und historisch und klein ist ein Besuch werd

👍 Beautiful!

👍👍 Very cozy place. We drive here especially for breakfast. It's always nice to sit in the pedestrian zone and watch the people.

👍👍 A special baroque gem can be found on the Kreuzberg high above Bonn. The church there was built by Cologne Archbishop Ferdinand in place of an older chapel in 1627/28. It was magnificently expanded a good hundred years later (from 1746) by his successor Clemens August, who also commissioned the baro...

👍👍 Good architectural design

👍👍 Sehr gepflegt mit einigen Sitzplätzen, ein Örtchen zum verweilen. Hier finden auch Veranstaltungen statt, Parkmöglichkeiten sind dann etwas eingeschränkt...

👍 The Salvator Church on Burgplatz is right next to the Duisburg town hall. It is the old Duisburg city church, built in the late Gothic style. The tower dome, which has been missing since the Second World War, is a constant reminder of bad times. Gerhard Mercator and Johannes Clauberg have their fina...