Mülheim
Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr and also described as "City on the River", is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany.

Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr and also described as "City on the River", is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home to many companies, and two Max Planck Institutes.
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Worth seeing in and around Mülheim
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.
- 01University of Duisburg-Essen
The University of Duisburg-Essen is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the university was awarded 194th place in the world.
9.5 km · university in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena
MSV-Arena, currently known for sponsorship purposes as the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena, is a football stadium in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, built in 2004. The stadium is the home of football club MSV Duisburg and American football club Rhein Fire.
7.5 km · football (soccer) stadium in Duisburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Museum Folkwang
Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1902.
8.6 km · museum in Essen, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Essen Minster
Essen Minster, since 1958 also Essen Cathedral, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese of the Ruhr", founded in 1958. The church, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Blessed Virgin Mary, stands on the Burgplatz in the centre of the city of Essen, Germany.
9.6 km · cathedral · Wikipedia - 05Golden Madonna of Essen
The Golden Mother of Good Counsel of Essen is the eldest Roman Catholic sculpture of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The image is a wooden core covered with sheets of thin gold leaf and is part of the treasury of Essen Cathedral in Germany.
9.6 km · sculpture of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus in Essen Cathedral, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
Landschaftspark is a public park located in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany. It was designed in 1991 by Latz + Partner, with the intention that it work to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it.
9.2 km · park in Duisburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 07Essen Abbey
Essen Abbey was a community of secular canonesses for women of high nobility that formed the nucleus of modern-day Essen, Germany. A chapter of male priests were also attached to the abbey, under a dean.
9.6 km · monastery · Wikipedia - 08Folkwang University of the Arts
The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in Essen in the Ruhr area, with additional facilities in Duisburg, Bochum, and Dortmund, and, since 2010, at the Zeche Zollverein, a World Heritage Site also in Essen.
9.6 km · German university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies · Wikipedia - 09Aalto Theatre
The Aalto Theatre is a performing arts venue in Essen, Germany, and is home to the city's opera company Aalto-Musiktheater and the ballet company Aalto Ballett. The Essener Philharmoniker serve as the venue's orchestra.
9.3 km · opera house in Essen, Germany · Wikipedia - 10Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
The Max Planck Institute for Coal Research is an institute located in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany specializing in chemical research on catalysis. It is one of the 86 institutes in the Max Planck Society.
1.2 km · research institute in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mülheim
- Airports
- Düsseldorf (DUS), 17 km · Dortmund (DTM), 52 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 55 km
- Stations
- Duisburg Central Station, 7.4 km · Essen Central Station, 9.5 km · Oberhausen Central Station, 5.6 km · Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof, 500 m · Essen Mülheim airfield, 4.7 km
- Dortmund → Mülheim42 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · €4.5–7
- Weeze → Mülheim52 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · €7–9
- Köln (Cologne) → Mülheim7 km · quickest by road, 27 min · €1–1.5
- 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 Mülheim
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 Mülheim. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe only practical way to get from there to Duisburg is by ordering a minibus airport transfer, as there is no direct train connection.
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Next door to Mülheim
Mülheim is 8 km from Duisburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Essencity in Ruhr Region, Düsseldorf Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany9.4 km
- Duisburgcity in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany8.4 km
- Oberhausencity in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5.2 km
- Werdenborough of Essen, Germany9.1 km
- Essen City Halltownhall of the City of Essen9.9 km
- Borbeck-Mittedistrict of Essen, Germany7.1 km