The historical city situated in North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), Germany, located on the River Rur and sandwiched between cities of Aachen and Cologne. The city grown by booming paper industry in 19th century, most of the city demolished in Second World War, overcome the devastation quickly and turned to be a lively city with a vast array of cultural and shopping opportunities. The land of events and festivals welcomes thousands of visitors every year in famous ‘Anna Fair Festival’, ‘Anna Market’ and city offers numerous recreational activities with best strolling, biking, and hiking routes of around 130 km offer you to explore cultural heritage of Düren.

The wonderful architecture of Renaissance style ‘Schloβ Burgau’ (Castle Burgau) exemplify the historical opulence, the housing tower of the castle made in mid of 16th century, served as the watch tower of this three winged building. Now, this beautiful moat castle is transformed to a cultural center with regular musical and theatrical performances. As most of the city damaged by war there are few structures left as the old fortification located in the Düren’s Old Town named as ‘Dick Turm’ or Fat Tower. Furthermore, the ‘Amtsgerichtsgebaude’ which is the magnificent District Court Building, it is among those fewer buildings in the city that live to tell the tale, remained untouched by war, built in 1940.

The bell towered ‘Annakirche’ the church of St. Anne, built in around 1501 preserved the relics from Saint Anne. The ‘Marienkirche’ the church of St. Mary also located in city’s vicinity.

You will find an spectacular building in the center of city, with youth club, library, theater and a hall under one roof, which is the ‘Arts center’ (Haus Der Stadt). The well preserved baroque building of 20th century turned to be the museum on the name of its owner ‘Leopold Hoesch’ displaying the artifacts, paintings and sculptures.  In Düren you can experience the ‘Paper Art’ as the city famous for its paper industry; the ‘Papiermuseum’ well reflects the history, manufacturing and techniques of paper production.

The green and vivid central city, around the ‘Market Square’ is main activity and meeting point, city rapt with numerous parks for relaxation. Every week there is a market in heart of the city best shopping opportunity, for whatever the reason you are coming to the city either to experience its consolidated shopping, to rejoice any of jazzed fiestas or to experience the cultural affluence from its social gathering, theater or musical events, you will always experience the inspiring and enriching liveliness of Düren.