{"id":3390,"date":"2024-11-11T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jugendherbergen-im-rheinland.de\/newsblog\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:46:57","slug":"essen-ist-angesagtes-reiseziel-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jugendherbergen-im-rheinland.de\/klassenfahrten-2025\/en\/2024\/11\/11\/essen-ist-angesagtes-reiseziel-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Essen is the hot destination in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
View from the town hall towards the south, (c) Peter Prengel, City of Essen<\/h5>\n

Good news for the Rhineland. After Wuppertal, Essen has now also been declared a trend destination for the coming year. In a survey conducted by the travel portal booking.com, which asked users about cities they had visited in the past year, the Ruhr metropolis of Essen recorded a particularly high increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n

The Rhineland is on trend<\/h2>\n

Back in September, the travel guide MARCO POLO featured the city of Wuppertal in its new trend guide \u201eWhere is the journey going? 2025\u201c as Trend target<\/a><\/span><\/strong> for the coming year. Essen is now the second city in the Rhineland to join the list of top destinations. But what makes Essen so special?<\/p>\n

According to booking.com, Essen scores above all with nature and culture. There are several cultural highlights: Essen is home to the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and the Villa H\u00fcgel<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, the former headquarters of the Krupp family. Both sights are a must-see on a city trip to Essen if you are interested in the city's industrial history. Visitors can find modern art in the Museum Folkwang<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. It has an outstanding collection of 19th century painting and sculpture, classical modernism and art after 1945, as well as photography, and offers visitors free admission to its own collection. And the city of Essen is green anyway: many of the city's natural and green spaces were created around 100 years ago so that people could recover from the grey of industry. The Grugapark<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, created for the 1929 horticultural exhibition, is now one of the largest and most beautiful landscape parks in Europe. Another of the city's highlights is the Lake Baldeney<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. Originally a reservoir for drinking water supply, it quickly developed into a popular local recreation area. Today you can row, surf, sail and fish there.<\/p>\n

Other highlights of the city:<\/h2>\n