What to See in Neuss - Top Sights and Attractions

Museum in Neuss. The Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is both a park and a museum combining architecture, art and nature on over 62 acres of meadowland. The park includes the "Kirkeby-Feld" and the "Raketenstation", a disused NATO missile base. The museum located on the Museum Island is called "Museum Insel Hombroich". It presents both antique art from Asia and modern art. The Museum and the grounds around it are part of the "Stiftung Insel Hombroich", which was founded in 1996.

The inception of the Museum Insel Hombroich occurred in 1982 when real estate agent and art collector Karl Heinrich Müller purchased Rosa Haus ("Pink House"), an overgrown industrialist's villa with garden, which was built in 1816. Müller's intention was to support local artists and architects. Landscape architect Bernhard Korte, who was commissioned to redesign the park, restored the old gardens and created minimalist landscapes. From 1982 to 1994 sculptor Erwin Heerich created eleven exhibition pavilions, which Müller called "chapels in the landscape". Heerich's elemental sculptures became the design base for these gallery pavilions.

The buildings include artworks from the collection of Karl Heinrich Müller, among them works by Hans Arp, Alexander Calder, Paul Cézanne, Eduardo Chillida, Lovis Corinth, Jean Fautrier, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Rembrandt, Kurt Schwitters, and works from early China.

Artists retired from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf took up residence on the Museum Island, among them Anatol, who set up his studio in a former barn, and the late Gotthard Graubner.

Between 1995 and 2009, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira has been working on an architecture museum on Hombroich island, completed in collaboration with Rudolf Finsterwalder.

In 2015, the Danish-Icelandic artist Ólafur Elíasson exhibited some 40 of his works from the Boros Collection in the rooms of the Langen Foundation.^[1]

Dome in Neuss, Germany. The Basilica of St. Quirinus also called Minster-Basilica of St. Quirinus of Neuss Is a Catholic basilica that was erected in the city of Neuss in the western part of the present state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany between 1209 and 1230. The basilica is one of the best examples of Romanesque churches in Germany. It has a strong Lombard influence but in principle shows the first signs of Gothic. In its bell tower the first semicircular arches appear. This form of arch becomes centuries later in one of the marks that marked the Gothic style.

It is dedicated to St. Quirinus of Neuss, a prominent Roman martyr of the third century, revered in Neuss as the body of the martyr moved to this city in the year 1050, a gift of Pope Leo IX to Abbess Gepa.

In 2009 the church was recognized by Pope Benedict XVI with the title of minor basilica.^[3]

Haus Rottels is a former convent building in Neuss on Oberstraße that was rebuilt around 1820 by the wealthy manufacturer and soap boiler Franz Rottels and served as a residence for the Rottels family with a soap production facility behind it.

Since the summer of 2004, Haus Rottels has also been home to the Rheinisches Schützenmuseum Neuss with Joseph Lange Schützenarchiv. A scientific staff member is responsible for both areas, the museum and the archive. The "Stiftung Rheinisches Schützenmuseum Neuss mit Joseph-Lange-Schützenarchiv" (Rhineland Rifle Museum Neuss Foundation with Joseph Lange Rifle Archives) is the responsible body, in which the city of Neuss, the Rhine district of Neuss and the "Neusser Bürger-Schützen-Verein" (Neuss Citizens Rifle Association) hold shares.

The Rheinisches Schützenmuseum Neuss with Joseph-Lange-Schützenarchiv was founded in 2004. The foundation "Rheinische Schützenmuseum Neuss mit Joseph-Lange-Schützenarchiv" is supported by the city of Neuss, the Rhein-Kreis Neuss and the Neusser Bürger-Schützen-Verein. The honorary president of the Neusser Bürger-Schützen-Verein, Thomas Nickel, is the chairman.

The aim of the museum with archive is to record, secure and present the rich tradition of the shooting clubs and shooting fraternities of the entire Rhineland and to make it accessible for research. It is housed in Haus Rottels in Neuss.

The idea for a marksmen's museum and archive came from the 1959/60 Neuss marksmen's king Joseph Lange (1911-2007), who presented a leaded glass window as a king's gift with the remark that now a house of the marksmen should be built "around it".

Since February 2005, two scientific half-time employees have been working in the museum and archive, who are responsible for the development. A first exhibition was the presentation of the Neuss silver treasure in June 2005 on the occasion of the Neuss Culture Night.

In May 2006, a new scientific series was launched: "Beiträge zum Rheinischen Schützenwesen". The editors are the scientific assistants Dr. Britta Spies and Dr. Christoph Waldecker. Volume 1 is dedicated to the initiator of the Schützenmuseum and archive, Joseph Lange, on his 95th birthday and is entitled "Neusser - Bürger - Schützen. The Joseph Lange Collection/Neusser Bürger-Schützen-Verein" (ISBN 3-936542-24-4). The volume contains contributions of Lange to the Neusser Schützenwesen from several decades as well as the finding book of his collection, which was compiled over many years and which in large parts is more of a documentation.