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

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).
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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.
- 01Hengsteysee
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 - 02
- 03Klusenberg
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 - 04Syberg
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 - 05Mahnmal 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 - 06Sigiburg
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 - 07Husen 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
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Getting to Syburg
- Airports
- Dortmund (DTM), 13 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 52 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 67 km
- Düsseldorf → Syburg54 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €7–9
- Köln (Cologne) → Syburg66 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €8–12
- Greven → Syburg380 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · €49–70
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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 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.
- 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.
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Next door to Syburg
Syburg is 10 km from Dortmund, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wichlinghofenhuman settlement in Germany2.9 km