The birthplace of Heinrich Heine marks the Dusseldorf house associated with the city's most famous writer. Heine, born here in 1797, became one of Germany's great poets and essayists, and his sharp, restless voice still gives the city a literary claim beyond its art museums and Rhine promenades.
The stop is brief, but it fits naturally into a walk through the old centre, especially for visitors interested in German literature or Dusseldorf's 19th-century history.