Oer-Erkenschwick
Oer-Erkenschwick is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Oer-Erkenschwick is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km north-east of Recklinghausen, on the northern periphery of the Ruhrgebiet. When pronouncing the name, “Oer” should be pronounced like the German Ohr, not Ör.
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Worth seeing in and around Oer-Erkenschwick
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.
- 01Stimbergstadion
The Stimberg-Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home of SpVgg Erkenschwick.
200 m · football stadium · Wikipedia
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Getting to Oer-Erkenschwick
- Airports
- Dortmund (DTM), 29 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 52 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 62 km
- Stations
- Recklinghausen Central Station, 4.4 km
- Düsseldorf → Oer-Erkenschwick57 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · €8–11
- Greven → Oer-Erkenschwick379 km · quickest by road, 6h 12m · €49–70
- Weeze → Oer-Erkenschwick73 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · €10–14
- 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 Oer-Erkenschwick
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 Oer-Erkenschwick. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDatteln can be reached by motorboat or canoe on all four canals.
From Wikivoyage: Datteln, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Oer-Erkenschwick
Oer-Erkenschwick is 18 km from Bochum, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Recklinghausencity in Recklinghausen District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany4.5 km
- Recklinghausen Ifederal electoral district of Germany5.8 km