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Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Schwerte

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

Schwerte
Schwerte · Michielverbeek
The place

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

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    St. Peter

    Church in Dortmund, Germany

    5.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Große 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
  3. 03
    St. 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
  4. 04
    Mahnmal 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
  5. 05
    Magnet 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
  6. 06
    Husen 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 → Schwerte
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €7–10
  • Köln (Cologne) → Schwerte
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €9–12
  • Büren → Schwerte
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · €8–11
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    269 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    603 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    612 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    625 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    829 km

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

Around it

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