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The previous price was NZ$13 and current price is NZ$10 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 47m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Cross the bridge and enter a living social experiment. Over a century ago, the Krupp steel dynasty created a garden city on Margarethenhöhe that was intended to improve workers' lives through architecture, fresh air, and strict rules. Accompany a city planner and an architectural detective through this area and discover how a homogeneous working-class settlement became a diverse community, how residents challenge control from above, and what small architectural details tell about power, change, and cohesion.

    • 3.0 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 107 min.
    • Ideal for everyone interested in urbanism, infrastructure, and innovation
      Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals
    • Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Activity location

  • Essen
    • Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Am Brückenkopf 8
    • 8 Am Brückenkopf
    • 45149, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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Self-guided podcast tour Essen The Experiment Margarethenhöhe in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 47 minutes1h 47m
    1h 47m
  • Opening hours: Mon 12:00 am-11:59 pm
  • English
Price details
NZ$12.01
NZ$9.61 x 1 AdultNZ$9.61
Total
The previous price was NZ$12.01 and current price is NZ$9.61
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Exciting audio output in podcast style with experts and locals
  • Inclusions
    Interactive guide in the app for questions about history and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Verified facts incorporated into an exciting storey
  • Inclusions
    Point-to-point navigation between stops

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Essen

  • 10m
The dramatic sandstone viaduct that serves as a conscious, psychological gateway to the utopian garden city.

Margarethe Krupp-Stiftung für Wohnungsfürsorge

  • 10m
The headquarters of the powerful foundation that manages the settlement and enforces strict aesthetic rules to preserve the historical vision.

Schatzgräberbrunnen, Margarethenhöhe - Georg Metzendorf, Joseph Enseling (1911)

  • 10m
The historical and current centre of daily life, with the treasure-digger fountain and modern local retail.

Gustav-Adolf-Haus - Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Essen-Margarethenhöhe

  • 10m
A Protestant community centre that serves as a hub for grassroots organisations and local clubs.

Stensstraße 25

  • 10m
A preserved model apartment showing the highly standardised, original living conditions of a Krupp worker family around 1910.

Schule an der Waldlehne

  • 10m
The local primary school, which illustrates how utopian ideals of education and nature adapt to a modern, multicultural student body.

Halbachhammer

  • 10m
A historical pre-industrial forge, embedded in the green belt, symbolising the balance between heavy industry and the human need for nature.

Location

Activity location

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    Essen
    • Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Am Brückenkopf 8
    • 8 Am Brückenkopf
    • 45149, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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