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Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Erkrath

Erkrath is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Erkrath
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The place

Erkrath is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Erkrath

One place 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
    Neanderthal Museum

    The Neanderthal Museum is a museum in Mettmann, Germany. It was established in 1996.

    2.5 km · museum in Mettmann, Germany · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Erkrath

Airports
Düsseldorf (DUS), 13 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 43 km · Dortmund (DTM), 58 km
Stations
Düsseldorf-Eller station, 5 km · Düsseldorf-Gerresheim station, 3.6 km · Hochdahl station, 2.1 km · Neanderthal, 2.7 km · Düsseldorf-Eller Mitte station, 5.6 km
  • Köln (Cologne) → Erkrath
    33 km · quickest by road, 54 min · €4.5–6
  • Dortmund → Erkrath
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €7–10
  • Weeze → Erkrath
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €9–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Erkrath

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 Erkrath. 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

    263 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    578 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    582 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    657 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    806 km

If you know how people move in Erkrath – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Erkrath

Erkrath is 9 km from Düsseldorf, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Mettmanntown in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany4.6 km
  • District 7city district of Düsseldorf, Germany3.8 km
  • Gerresheimcity district of Düsseldorf, Germany3.8 km
  • Ellercity district of Düsseldorf, Germany5.9 km
  • Unterbachcity district of Düsseldorf, Germany2.8 km
  • Ludenbergcity district of Düsseldorf, Germany5.1 km