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Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Altena

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

Altena
Altena · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Altena 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
  2. 02
    Protestant 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) → Altena
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €10–14
  • Düsseldorf → Altena
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €9–12
  • Büren → Altena
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €11–16
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    286 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    587 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    623 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    631 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    812 km

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Around it

Next door to Altena

Altena is 28 km from Dortmund, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.