Altstadt
Historic riverside quarter of cobbled lanes, Baroque churches and a lone surviving castle tower.
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This guide to the Altstadt in Düsseldorf follows the money of one Baroque prince, Elector Johann Wilhelm, known locally as Jan Wellem, and the old town that lived off his court around the turn of the seventeen hundreds. It visits the painters and agents on his payroll, among them the Amsterdam flower painter Rachel Ruysch, and asks what a small Rhine town stood to lose when its best customer died. Best heard on Burgplatz, facing the old castle tower by the river.
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