Hamm

Worth seeing in and around Hamm

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
   Glaselefant

   The Glaselefant is a landmark in Hamm, Germany. The former coal-washing building in the Maximilian colliery was reconstructed as a walk-in sculpture by the artist and architect Horst Rellecke for Hamm's horticultural Regional Garden Show in 1984.

   4.2 km · landmark in Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hamm

Airports

Dortmund (DTM), 23 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 51 km · Paderborn Lippstadt (PAD), 55 km

Stations

Hamm (Westf) Hbf, 900 m · Hamm-Heessen station, 3.3 km

• Greven → Hamm

  127 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €15–20
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• Büren → Hamm

  53 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · €7–10
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• Düsseldorf → Hamm

  88 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hamm

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 Hamm. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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