Overview

• The heritage day takes place on Sunday, 14 September, with many tours, workshops and special actions offered free of charge.
• North Rhine-Westphalia lists more than 1,000 participating buildings spanning churches, castles, bunkers and archives.
• Local highlights include Aachen’s canal system tours, Bad Honnef’s last Aalschokker, a civil defense bunker in Meinerzhagen, and rides on the paternoster at Düsseldorf’s district authority.
• Rhineland-Palatinate plans 335 open monuments, with this year’s theme “Wert‑voll: unbezahlbar oder unersetzlich?” shaping the programming.
• Regional line-ups feature an archaeology-focused five-station excursion in Landkreis Dachau and free, no-registration church programs in Pöttmes and Friedberg.