Duren: Burgauer Wald
Düren has served as a market town in the Rhineland since the Middle Ages. Set on the River Rur between Cologne and Aachen, the city is shaped by a long paper-making tradition; its mills helped establish Düren paper as a recognised name well beyond the region. The Leopold Hoesch Museum, founded in 1905, holds works of modern art, and the city centre was extensively rebuilt after the destruction of the Second World War. On Düren’s southern side, Burgau Castle stands beside the Rur amid residential neighbourhoods, gardens and woodland. The wooded northern fringe of the Eifel begins close by, marking the transition from the urban Rhineland to upland country.
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Among the cities of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düren stands out for its long-standing papermaking tradition on the River Rur. Positioned between Cologne and Aachen, the town lies on the northern edge of the Eifel, where the low mountain region begins beyond the Rur plain. Paper has shaped local industry for centuries, and the Papiermuseum Düren explores the material’s manufacture, design and cultural uses. The Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, founded in 1905, brings a notable art collection to the centre. Düren was heavily destroyed during the Second World War, and its streets now combine post-war reconstruction with older landmarks such as Burgau Castle in the south of town. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Düren and the Rur valley.
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