Brühl
Brühl is a town in the Rhineland, Germany.
Brühl is a town in the Rhineland, Germany. It is located in the district of Rhine-Erft, 20 km south of the Cologne city center and at the edge of the Rhineland Nature Park, a famous nature reserve. With the palaces of Augustusburg and Falkenlust, both UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the moated castle of Schallenburg, the lake district within the Kottenforest, and the Phantasialand amusement park, it ranks among the most important tourist destinations in the Rhineland. With its numerous universities, museums, art galleries, local government offices, and manufacturing companies, the former electoral residence is also an important regional hub between Cologne and Bonn.
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Worth seeing in and around Brühl
5 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.
- 01Phantasialand
Phantasialand is a theme park in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that attracts approximately 2 million visitors annually. It was opened in 1967 by Gottlieb Löffelhardt and Richard Schmidt.
4 km · amusement park · Wikipedia - 02Rhineland Nature Park
Rheinland Nature Park is a nature park in North Rhine-Westphalia, situated between Bergheim, Kerpen, Erftstadt, Euskirchen, Königswinter, Bornheim, Bonn, Brühl, Hürth, Frechen and Pulheim. It covers an area of about 880 km2.
3.7 km · nature park in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Bleibtreusee
Bleibtreusee is an artificial lake on the grounds of the former open-pit lignite mine in Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. At an elevation of its surface area is 74.2 ha.
2.9 km · lake in Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Friedhof Trenkebergstraße
Friedhof Trenkebergstraße is a cemetery in Cologne, Germany. The cemetery is 4,600 m2 and offers space for 790 graves.
3.5 km · cemetery in Cologne, Germany · Wikipedia - 05Schlosspark Augustusburg
The Schlosspark is the park of Schloss Augustusburg, a Baroque palace in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The garden was first designed in Baroque style by Dominique Girard, and established in 1728.
1.2 km · park of Augustusburg Palace in Brühl, Rhineland, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brühl
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 17 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 52 km · Maastricht Aachen (MST), 80 km
- Stations
- Brühl station, 1 km · Kierberg station, 1 km · Hürth-Kalscheuren station, 4.8 km · Erftstadt train station, 5.5 km · Sechtem station, 5.8 km
- Düsseldorf → Brühl45 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · €6–8
- Dortmund → Brühl86 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €11–16
- Weeze → Brühl101 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Brühl
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Next door to Brühl
Brühl is 12 km from Köln, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.