Herdecke
Herdecke is a town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
Herdecke is a town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located south of Dortmund in the Ruhr Area. Its location between the two Ruhr reservoirs Hengsteysee and Harkortsee has earned it the nickname Die Stadt zwischen den Ruhrseen.
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Worth seeing in and around Herdecke
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.
- 01FernUniversität in Hagen
The University of Hagen is a public research university that is primarily focused on distance teaching. While its main campus is located in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the university maintains more than 50 study and research centers in Germany and throughout Europe.
5 km · public research university that is primarily focused on distance teaching based in Hagen, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Hengsteysee
The Hengsteysee is a reservoir on the Ruhr river between the cities of Hagen, Dortmund and Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was built in 1929 and is one of five reservoirs on the Ruhr.
2.5 km · reservoir · Wikipedia - 03Osthaus-Museum Hagen
The Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum is an art museum in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The center of the museum is a building whose interior was designed by Henry van de Velde to house Karl Ernst Osthaus' art collection, open to the public as the Museum Folkwang.
5.6 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia - 04
- 05Klusenberg
The Klusenberg is, at 254.33 m above NHN, the highest elevation on the territory of the city of Dortmund. The Klusenberg part of the Ardey Hills lies west of the Hohensyburg.
3.6 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia - 06Syberg
The Syberg is a hill in the Ruhr in the southern part of Dortmund, 240 m above sea level, which is part of the Ardey Hills. The Syberg is home to the Sigiburg, the Vincke Tower, a monument to Emperor William I and other points of interest.
4.3 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia - 07Sigiburg
The Sigiburg was a Saxon hillfort in Western Germany, overlooking the River Ruhr near its confluence with the River Lenne. The ruins of the later Hohensyburg castle now stand on the site, which is in Syburg, a neighbourhood in the Hörde district of Dortmund.
4.3 km · castle ruin in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia - 08Theater Hagen
Hagen Theatre is a performance venue in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It offers musical theatre, ballet, plays, children's and young people's theatre, and concerts by the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen.
5.1 km · theatre and opera hosue in Hagen, Germany · Wikipedia - 09Husen Castle
Husen Castle is a medieval tower house of a castle in the Dortmund borough of Syburg in North Rhine-Westphalia. The origins of the site go back to the 13th century.
5.4 km · Medieval tower house of a castle · Wikipedia - 10Ischelandstadion
Ischelandstadion is a multi-use stadium in Hagen, Germany. It is used as the stadium of SSV Hagen and Türkspor Dortmund matches.
4.4 km · stadium · Wikipedia
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Getting to Herdecke
- Airports
- Dortmund (DTM), 18 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 48 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 63 km
- Stations
- Hagen Central Station, 4.6 km · Wetter (Ruhr) station, 3.6 km · Hagen-Wehringhausen station, 5.3 km · Hagen-Heubing station, 5.3 km · Dortmund-Löttringhausen station, 5.8 km
- Düsseldorf → Herdecke50 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · €6–8
- Köln (Cologne) → Herdecke63 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · €8–11
- Greven → Herdecke325 km · quickest by road, 4h 58m · €41–60
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No local-transport research exists yet for Herdecke
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 Herdecke. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAirports that serve this area, both within and outside it include the following: Dortmund Airport () is the region's international airport, with scheduled service to several European cities and sizeable holiday charter traffic.
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Next door to Herdecke
Herdecke is 13 km from Dortmund, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.