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Borough of Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Syburg

Syburg is a borough of the city of Dortmund in the Ruhr district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Syburg
Syburg · Thomas Hummel
The place

Syburg is a borough of the city of Dortmund in the Ruhr district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Since 1929, it has been a borough of Dortmund, located in the city's south. It is part of the Hörde district (Stadtbezirk).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Syburg

7 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
    Hengsteysee

    The Hengsteysee is a reservoir on the Ruhr river between the cities of Hagen, Dortmund and Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was built in 1929 and is one of five reservoirs on the Ruhr.

    2.2 km · reservoir · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Peter

    Church in Dortmund, Germany

    400 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Klusenberg

    The Klusenberg is, at 254.33 m above NHN, the highest elevation on the territory of the city of Dortmund. The Klusenberg part of the Ardey Hills lies west of the Hohensyburg.

    1.2 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Syberg

    The Syberg is a hill in the Ruhr in the southern part of Dortmund, 240 m above sea level, which is part of the Ardey Hills. The Syberg is home to the Sigiburg, the Vincke Tower, a monument to Emperor William I and other points of interest.

    600 m · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.6 km · memorial place in Dortmund · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sigiburg

    The Sigiburg was a Saxon hillfort in Western Germany, overlooking the River Ruhr near its confluence with the River Lenne. The ruins of the later Hohensyburg castle now stand on the site, which is in Syburg, a neighbourhood in the Hörde district of Dortmund.

    600 m · castle ruin in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.4 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 Syburg

Airports
Dortmund (DTM), 13 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 52 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 67 km
  • Düsseldorf → Syburg
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €7–9
  • Köln (Cologne) → Syburg
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €8–12
  • Greven → Syburg
    380 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · €49–70
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Syburg

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAirports that serve this area, both within and outside it include the following: Dortmund Airport () is the region's international airport, with scheduled service to several European cities and sizeable holiday charter traffic.

From Wikivoyage: Ruhr, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-11.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    267 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    601 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    617 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    619 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    828 km

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Around it

Next door to Syburg

Syburg is 10 km from Dortmund, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.