Museum · Essen · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Villa Hügel is a museum in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. This place has a story in the app. Within 360 m you'll find a bench and a public toilet.
Story · Villa Hügel
You're standing at Villa Hügel, the vast home of the Krupp industrial dynasty, high above the Ruhr valley in Essen. Hügel simply means hill, and you can see why. From up here you look out over the valley and the Baldeneysee lake. The park around you covers a whopping twenty-eight hectares.
Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).
Source: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.
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Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00 (according to OpenStreetMap). Check the official website for public holidays.
Partly: according to OpenStreetMap it is only partly wheelchair accessible.
Yes: a public toilet at 360 m.
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