Ruhrort
Ruhrort is a district in the borough of Homberg/Ruhrort/Baerl within the German city of Duisburg situated north of the confluence of the Ruhr and the Rhine, in the western part of the Ruhr area.
Ruhrort is a district in the borough of Homberg/Ruhrort/Baerl within the German city of Duisburg situated north of the confluence of the Ruhr and the Rhine, in the western part of the Ruhr area. Ruhrort has the largest river harbour in the World, with quays extending nearly 40 kilometres along the river, and it is the principal inland shipping port in Germany.
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Worth seeing in and around Ruhrort
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.
- 01Trams in Duisburg
The Duisburg tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Duisburg, a city in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Opened in 1881, the network has been operated since 1940 by the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft and is integrated into the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr.
3.4 km · tram system in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Museum Küppersmühle
Museum Küppersmühle is a Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art based in Duisburg's Inner Harbour. It houses the Ströher Collection.
3.4 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia - 03Lehmbruck Museum
The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Center for International Sculpture is a museum in Duisburg, Germany, designed and built between 1957 and 1967. Sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, after whom the museum is named, make up a large part of its collection.
3.7 km · art museum in Duisburg, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Theater Duisburg
The Theater Duisburg is located in Duisburg, Germany and is one of two opera houses where performances are given by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The other is the Opernhaus Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf.
3.6 km · opera house in Duisburg, one of the venues of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein · Wikipedia - 05PCC-Stadion
The PCC-Stadion is a football stadium in Homberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the home ground of the women's Bundesliga side MSV Duisburg—continuing the tradition of the FCR 2001 Duisburg—and men's fourth division side VfB Homberg.
2.2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 06Rhine Orange
Rheinorange is a sculpture erected in 1992 in Duisburg-Neuenkamp, Germany. It is located at the point where the Ruhr flows into the Rhine at 'Rheinkilometer 780', i.e.
1 km · sculpture erected in Duisburg-Neuenkamp in 1992 · Wikipedia - 07German Inland Waterways Museum
The German Inland Waterways Museum is located in Ruhrort, Duisburg at the nucleus of Duisburg-Ruhrorter ports, which today make up the largest European inland harbour complex. The museum was founded in 1974 with the purchase of the museum ship Oscar Huber.
500 m · museum in Germany · Wikipedia - 08Schwanentorbrücke
The Schwanentorbrücke is a vertical-lift bridge in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that crosses the Duisburg Inner Harbour. The bridge can be vertically raised to allow cargo ships to access the inner city, and lowered to allow cars, trains and pedestrians to cross.
2.8 km · Bridge in Germany · Wikipedia - 09Die Säule
Die Säule is a theatre in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
3.5 km · Die Säule is a theatre in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. · Wikipedia - 10Theater am Marientor
Theater am Marientor is a theatre in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
3.5 km · theatre in Duisburg, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ruhrort
- Airports
- Düsseldorf (DUS), 19 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 44 km · Dortmund (DTM), 61 km
- Stations
- Duisburg-Ruhrort railway halt, 300 m · Duisburg-Meiderich Süd station, 3.6 km · König-Heinrich-Platz, 3.7 km · U-Bahnhof Duissern, 4 km · Auf dem Damm station, 3 km
- Weeze → Ruhrort43 km · quickest by road, 1h · €5–7
- Dortmund → Ruhrort50 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · €6–8
- Köln (Cologne) → Ruhrort59 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €7–10
- 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 Ruhrort
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 Ruhrort. 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 Ruhrort
Ruhrort is 3 km from Duisburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Duisburgcity in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany3.3 km
- Homberg/Ruhrort/Baerlhuman settlement in Germany3.6 km
- Meiderichneighbourhood of Meiderich-Beeck, a quarter of Duisburg, Germany2.7 km
- Beeckerwerthhuman settlement in Germany3 km
- Duisburg IIfederal electoral district of Germany3.7 km