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Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Gladbeck

Gladbeck is a town in the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Gladbeck
Gladbeck · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Gladbeck is a town in the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gladbeck

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.

  1. 01
    Movie Park Germany

    Movie Park Germany is a theme park in Bottrop-Kirchhellen in western Germany, 50 kilometres north of Düsseldorf, with an area of 40 hectares. It consists of 7 areas based on movies and TV series.

    5.9 km · theme park in Bottrop, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wittringen Castle

    Wittringen Castle or Wittringen House is a moated castle in Gladbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

    1.3 km · castle · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tetrahedron in Bottrop

    The Tetrahedron in Bottrop is a walkable steel structure in the form of a tetrahedron with a side length of sixty metres, resting on four nine-metre-tall concrete pillars. It is located in Bottrop, Germany, on top of the mine dump Halde Beckstraße and serves as the town's landmark.

    4.4 km · sculpture and observation tower in Bottrop · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Horst Palace

    Horst Castle, located in the Horst district of Gelsenkirchen, is recognized as one of Westphalia's oldest and most significant Renaissance buildings. During its construction in the 16th century, it ranked among the largest four-winged castle complexes north of the Alps, significantly influencing the architectural style of the Lippe Renaissance.

    5.3 km · Palace in Gelsenkirchen, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mathias-Stinnes-Stadion

    Mathias-Stinnes-Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Essen, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    5.6 km · football stadium in Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Gladbeck

Airports
Düsseldorf (DUS), 34 km · Dortmund (DTM), 45 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 57 km
Stations
Gladbeck West station, 1.2 km · Bottrop-Boy station, 3.3 km
  • Dortmund → Gladbeck
    34 km · quickest by road, 50 min · €4.5–6
  • Weeze → Gladbeck
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · €8–11
  • Köln (Cologne) → Gladbeck
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · €9–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gladbeck

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 Gladbeck. 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

    233 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    585 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    619 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    624 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    808 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gladbeck

Gladbeck is 13 km from Essen, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bottroplarge city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5.6 km