Altena
Altena is a town in the district of Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Altena is a town in the district of Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The town's castle is the origin for the later Dukes of Berg. Altena is situated on the Lenne river valley, in the northern stretches of the Sauerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Altena
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Altena Castle
Altena Castle is a medieval hill castle in the town of Altena in North Rhine-Westphalia. Built on a spur of Klusenberg hill, the castle lies near the Lenne in the Märkischer Kreis.
600 m · Castle in Altena, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Protestant Church Ihmert
The Protestant Church Ihmert is the only church building in Ihmert, North Rhine-Westphalia, and belongs to the Protestant parish Ihmert–Bredenbruch. Located in the Ortsteil Im Hasberg, it was consecrated in 1931.
6 km · church · Wikipedia
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Getting to Altena
- Airports
- Dortmund (DTM), 25 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 61 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 63 km
- Köln (Cologne) → Altena64 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €10–14
- Düsseldorf → Altena63 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €9–12
- Büren → Altena68 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €11–16
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Altena
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Altena. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Altena
Altena is 28 km from Dortmund, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Märkischer Kreisdistrict in central North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5.3 km
- Nachrodt-Wiblingwerdemunicipality in the Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany4.7 km