Burgplatz
Riverside square on a vanished ducal castle site, its floor plan traced in coloured paving stones.
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This guide to Burgplatz in Düsseldorf follows the castle that once filled the square, seat of the Dukes of Berg and of Elector Johann Wilhelm's court. It moves through French cannon fire in the seventeen-nineties, the art academy that later moved into the rebuilt rooms, and a March night in eighteen seventy-two when a fire started in the Rhine-side wing. Listen standing on the coloured paving stones near the round tower at the north end.
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