Schwerte
Schwerte is a town in the district of Unna, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Schwerte is a town in the district of Unna, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Schwerte
6 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.
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- 02Große Kirche Aplerbeck
The Große Kirche Aplerbeck is a Protestant church in Aplerbeck, now part of Dortmund, Germany. It was built from 1867 to 1869 in Gothic Revival style, designed by Christian Heyden.
5.5 km · Protestant church in Gothic Revival style · Wikipedia - 03St. Georg, Aplerbeck
St. Georg is a church and Protestant parish in Aplerbeck, now part of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
5.3 km · Protestant Romanesque church · Wikipedia - 04Mahnmal Bittermark
The Mahnmal Bittermark is a memorial place in Bittermark, a borough in the city of Dortmund, Germany. The place commemorates about 300 people killed by the Gestapo in Bittermark city forest and in the Rombergpark between March 7 and April 12, 1945.
6 km · memorial place in Dortmund · Wikipedia - 05Magnet Museum
The Magnet Museum is a private museum in Dortmund-Aplerbeck, owned by the company Tridelta. The exhibition provides an overview of historical and current applications of the permanent magnet in electrical engineering.
4.7 km · museum · Wikipedia - 06Husen Castle
Husen Castle is a medieval tower house of a castle in the Dortmund borough of Syburg in North Rhine-Westphalia. The origins of the site go back to the 13th century.
5.1 km · Medieval tower house of a castle · Wikipedia
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Getting to Schwerte
- Airports
- Dortmund (DTM), 9 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 58 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 71 km
- Stations
- Schwerte (Ruhr) station, 700 m · Dortmund-Aplerbeck Süd station, 4.4 km · Dortmund-Aplerbeck station, 5 km · Dortmund-Sölde station, 5.7 km
- Düsseldorf → Schwerte60 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €7–10
- Köln (Cologne) → Schwerte73 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €9–12
- Büren → Schwerte70 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · €8–11
- 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 Schwerte
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 Schwerte. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextNetherlands and Belgium border North-Rhine Westphalia, and there are many transportation options to get there, even for a day trip {| | |align=Eastern Netherlands | | |- align=center |Southern Netherlands | | |Lower Saxony |- align=center | |colspan=2| | |- align=center |Wallonia (Belgium) | | |Hesse |- align=center | | |Rhineland-Palatinate | |}
From Wikivoyage: North Rhine-Westphalia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Schwerte
Schwerte is 10 km from Dortmund, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Syburghuman settlement in Germany5.9 km
- Wichlinghofenhuman settlement in Germany5.2 km
- Ergstehuman settlement in Germany3.1 km
- Geiseckehuman settlement in Germany3.6 km
- Villigsthuman settlement in Germany2.4 km
- Bürenbruchpart of Ergste, a district of Schwerte2.8 km