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District of Leverkusen, Germany · North Rhine-Westphalia

Opladen

Opladen, now a district of Leverkusen, used to be the capital of the Rhein-Wupper-Kreis (Rhine-Wupper-District) until 1975.

Opladen
Opladen · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Opladen, now a district of Leverkusen, used to be the capital of the Rhein-Wupper-Kreis (Rhine-Wupper-District) until 1975. Opladen station is located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast from Cologne on the railway to Wuppertal. It is also on the Autobahn A3. Population (1905) was 6338, (1975) 42,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Opladen

4 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.

  1. 01
    BayArena

    BayArena is a football stadium in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been the home ground of Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 1958.

    3.3 km · football stadium in Leverkusen, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Museum Morsbroich

    The Morsbroich Museum or Morsbroich Castle Municipal Museum is a German museum of modern art situated in Leverkusen, 20 km north of Cologne.

    3.6 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ostermann-Arena

    Ostermann-Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Leverkusen, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 3,500 people.

    3.2 km · indoor sporting arena in Leverkusen, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Leverkusen-Bürrig water tower

    Water Tower Leverkusen-Bürrig is a 72-metre-high water tower built in 1978 in Leverkusen-Bürrig. It has a water reservoir of two chambers each of 4000 cubic metres, with a diameter of 42 metres.

    3.9 km · tower · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Opladen

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 24 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 30 km · Dortmund (DTM), 65 km
Stations
Leverkusen-Rheindorf station, 3.7 km · Leverkusen-Küppersteg station, 3.1 km · Leverkusen-Manfort, 4 km · Opladen station, 600 m
  • Dortmund → Opladen
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · €8–12
    GuideToday
  • Weeze → Opladen
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · €11–15
    GuideToday
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Opladen
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
    GuideToday
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Opladen

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    282 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    564 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    585 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    668 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    797 km

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

Around it

Next door to Opladen

Opladen is 16 km from Köln, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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