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Holsterhausen, Essen — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Fernsehturm Essen stands over Holsterhausen, a borough of roughly three square kilometres whose other markers are churches and a former convent.
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Where to stay in Holsterhausen
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Holsterhausen puts a traveller within reach of the Essen city centre without putting a hotel district under the Fernsehturm Essen, and the borough reads as housing, parish halls and everyday streets. Guests find few beds around the Fernsehturm. The Augustinerinnenkloster Essen sits among those same streets.
Those with reason to be near the Friedenskirche look for a flat, while everyone else books the Essen centre.
Few places to stay in Holsterhausen — most visitors book in Essen nearby.
About Holsterhausen
What are the main landmarks in Holsterhausen?
A television tower, then churches. The Fernsehturm Essen is the tallest structure Holsterhausen owns, and the rest of the borough's register runs to the Friedenskirche, the Katholisch-Apostolische Kirche, the Augustinerinnenkloster Essen and a Catholic parish dedicated to Mariä Empfängnis. No museum answers to the borough.
Those churches, not a gallery or a castle, are what a walk through Holsterhausen turns up.
What is the history of Holsterhausen?
Essen's archives never recorded when the borough began. Holsterhausen reaches the register as one of the boroughs of Essen, with its age readable only in what stands there: the Augustinerinnenkloster Essen, the Katholisch-Apostolische Kirche and the parish dedicated to Mariä Empfängnis. The city holds the older record.
What the borough keeps of its own past is a roll of religious houses and churches rather than a founding year.
Where is Holsterhausen?
Roughly three square kilometres of Essen belong to Holsterhausen, ground picked out from a distance by the Fernsehturm Essen.
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What is the best area to stay in Holsterhausen?
Essen: visitors weighing the Essen centre against a borough of churches and a television tower.
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Updated August 2026