Herten
Herten is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Herten is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated in the industrial Ruhr Area, some 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Recklinghausen.
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Getting to Herten
- Airports
- Dortmund (DTM), 34 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 43 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 69 km
- Stations
- Recklinghausen Central Station, 5.2 km · Recklinghausen Süd station, 6 km · Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord station, 5.9 km
- Düsseldorf → Herten49 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €7–9
- Weeze → Herten65 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · €9–12
- Greven → Herten388 km · quickest by road, 6h 1m · €48–65
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Herten
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 Herten. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextIts lush green setting has long been a popular day trip and short stay destination for the city dwellers of Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne and other large cities in the region.
From Wikivoyage: Bochum, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Herten
Herten is 14 km from Bochum, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Recklinghausencity in Recklinghausen District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5 km