Bottrop
Bottrop is a city in west-central Germany, on the Rhine–Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bottrop is a city in west-central Germany, on the Rhine–Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck, and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and rail center and contains factories producing coal-tar derivatives, chemicals, textiles, and machinery. Bottrop grew as a mining center beginning in the 1860s, was chartered as a city in 1921, and bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II. In 1975, it unified with the neighbouring communities of Gladbeck and Kirchhellen, but Gladbeck left it in 1976, leading to Kirchhellen becoming a district of Bottrop as Bottrop-Kirchhellen. It is also twinned with Blackpool, England.
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Worth seeing in and around Bottrop
10 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.
- 01University of Duisburg-Essen
The University of Duisburg-Essen is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the university was awarded 194th place in the world.
8.9 km · university in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Essen Minster
Essen Minster, since 1958 also Essen Cathedral, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese of the Ruhr", founded in 1958. The church, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Blessed Virgin Mary, stands on the Burgplatz in the centre of the city of Essen, Germany.
9.9 km · cathedral · Wikipedia - 03Golden Madonna of Essen
The Golden Mother of Good Counsel of Essen is the eldest Roman Catholic sculpture of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The image is a wooden core covered with sheets of thin gold leaf and is part of the treasury of Essen Cathedral in Germany.
9.9 km · sculpture of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus in Essen Cathedral, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Essen Abbey
Essen Abbey was a community of secular canonesses for women of high nobility that formed the nucleus of modern-day Essen, Germany. A chapter of male priests were also attached to the abbey, under a dean.
9.9 km · monastery · Wikipedia - 05Schloss Borbeck
Borbeck Castle is a Baroque moated castle in the Essen district of Borbeck. From the 14th century onward it served as the preferred residence of the prince-abbesses of the Essen Abbey, and it acquired its present external appearance during the 18th century.
6.4 km · castle · Wikipedia - 06Stadion Essen
Stadion an der Hafenstraße, known as Stadion Essen until 2022, is a stadium in Essen, Germany. Located in the borough of Bergeborbeck, it has a capacity of 20,650 spectators.
5.6 km · stadium in Essen, Germany · Wikipedia - 07Essen Cathedral Treasury
The Essen Cathedral Treasury is one of the most significant collections of religious artworks in Germany. A great number of items of treasure are accessible to the public in the treasury chamber of Essen Minster.
9.9 km · Church treasury · Wikipedia - 08Rhine–Herne Canal
The Rhine–Herne Canal is a 45.6-kilometre-long transportation canal in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with five canal locks. The canal was built over a period of eight years and connects the harbour in Duisburg on the Rhine with the Dortmund-Ems Canal near Henrichenburg, following the valley of the Emscher.
9.3 km · canal in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia - 09Westfield Centro
Westfield CENTRO is a shopping mall in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It forms part of a large commercial development called the Neue Mitte.
4.9 km · shopping mall in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia - 10Nordsternpark
Nordsternpark is a park in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
7.6 km · park in Gelsenkirchen, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bottrop
- Airports
- Düsseldorf (DUS), 28 km · Dortmund (DTM), 48 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 55 km
- Stations
- Oberhausen Central Station, 7.4 km · Mülheim-Styrum station, 9.7 km · Essen-Frohnhausen station, 8.3 km · Oberhausen-Sterkrade station, 5.7 km · Essen-Altenessen station, 7.4 km
- Dortmund → Bottrop37 km · quickest by road, 59 min · €4.5–7
- Weeze → Bottrop52 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · €7–9
- Köln (Cologne) → Bottrop66 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Bottrop
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 Bottrop. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe only practical way to get from there to Duisburg is by ordering a minibus airport transfer, as there is no direct train connection.
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Next door to Bottrop
Bottrop is 10 km from Essen, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Oberhausencity in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany7.8 km
- Gladbecktown in Recklinghausen District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany6.6 km
- Essen City Halltownhall of the City of Essen9.8 km
- Borbeck-Mittedistrict of Essen, Germany5.9 km
- Altendorfhuman settlement in Germany8 km
- Bedingradehuman settlement in Germany6.5 km