True Crime Düsseldorf

What's the walk about?

Welcome to Düsseldorf — a city of gleaming boutiques, carnival tradition, and a Rhine waterfront as scenic as any in Germany. But behind that polished surface lie nine stories of snipers and serial killers, corporate fraud and pipe bombs, a ram-raid in broad daylight and a cold case from the sixteenth century. This walk follows Düsseldorf's criminal history from the riverbank where Germany's reunification architect Detlev Karsten Rohwedder was assassinated, through the Altstadt's medieval squares and a notorious courthouse, along the Königsallee and into the Hofgarten where the Vampire of Düsseldorf once hunted, all the way to a suburban train station that became the site of a still-unsolved xenophobic bombing. Every stop is a real place. Every case is a true crime.

What you'll see

1. 1

   The RAF Assassination - Rheinuferpromenade

   political_assassination

2. 2

   The Strangled Duchess - Schlossturm

   cold_case

3. 3

   Barricades and Blood - Marktplatz

   riot

4. 4

   The V-Sign Trial - Ehemaliges Landgericht

   white_collar_trial

5. 5

   The Plot That Never Was - Heinrich-Heine-Allee

   terror_hoax

6. 6

   The €3.3 Million Ram-Raid - Königsallee

   heist

7. 7

   The Vampire's Park - Hofgarten

   serial_killer

8. 8

   The Effi Briest Affair - Malkastenpark

   fatal_duel

9. 9

   The Unsolved Bombing - S-Bahnhof Wehrhahn

   terror_bombing