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Ronsdorf

Ronsdorf is a district of the German city of Wuppertal.

Ronsdorf
Ronsdorf · Frank Vincentz
The place

Ronsdorf is a district of the German city of Wuppertal. It has a population of about 22,500. Ronsdorf was first mentioned in 1494, and in 1745 it received its town charter. It was founded a few years earlier by Elias Eller when he relocated the Zionites there from Elberfeld. Ronsdorf was made a part of Wuppertal in 1929.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ronsdorf

5 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
    University of Wuppertal

    The University of Wuppertal is a German scientific institution located in Wuppertal in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The university's official name in German is Bergische Universität Wuppertal or BUW, founded in 1972.

    3.8 km · German university · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Opernhaus Wuppertal

    The Opernhaus Wuppertal is a German theatre in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. It houses mostly performances of operas, but also plays, run by the municipal Wuppertaler Bühnen.

    3.8 km · opera house and theatre in Barmen, Wuppertal, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Friedrich Engels House

    Engels-Haus is a museum in Wuppertal, Germany, of the house where German philosopher and political theorist Friedrich Engels grew up. The museum is a constituent member of the Museum of Industrial Culture in Wuppertal.

    3.7 km · museum in Wuppertal, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Biblical Archaeological Institute

    The Biblical Archaeological Institute Wuppertal was established in 1999 by the Protestant Church of the Rhineland. It constitutes an institute of the “Protestant University of Wuppertal” as well as an associated institute of the University of Wuppertal and holds the right to award doctorates at both universities.

    2.6 km · Research institute of the University of Wuppertal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    University Library of Wuppertal

    The University Library of Wuppertal is a central service institution of University of Wuppertal in Wuppertal, Germany. The main building at main campus Grifflenberg holds five special libraries while both sub campuses Haspel and Freudenberg hold one special library each.

    3.8 km · University library in Wuppertal, Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ronsdorf

Airports
Düsseldorf (DUS), 31 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 41 km · Dortmund (DTM), 43 km
Stations
Wuppertal-Barmen station, 3.8 km · Wuppertal-Ronsdorf station, 1.3 km · Wuppertal-Unterbarmen station, 3.5 km · Remscheid-Lüttringhausen station, 3.6 km
  • Köln (Cologne) → Ronsdorf
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h · €5–7
  • Dortmund → Ronsdorf
    36 km · quickest by road, 1h · €5–8
  • Weeze → Ronsdorf
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · €12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ronsdorf

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 Ronsdorf. 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

    273 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    581 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    598 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    646 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    812 km

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Around it

Next door to Ronsdorf

Ronsdorf is 4 km from Wuppertal, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.