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Wattenscheid

Wattenscheid is a Stadtbezirk of the German city of Bochum, in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Wattenscheid
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Wattenscheid is a Stadtbezirk of the German city of Bochum, in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until its incorporation into Bochum in 1975, Wattenscheid was an independent town with a long history dating back to its first recorded mention in 880. In the Middle Ages, it was a member of the Hanseatic League and later became known as a coal mining center during the industrialization of the Ruhr region. The last local coal mine closed in 1973.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Wattenscheid

Airports
Düsseldorf (DUS), 33 km · Dortmund (DTM), 33 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 69 km
  • Köln (Cologne) → Wattenscheid
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · €8–11
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  • Weeze → Wattenscheid
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €9–12
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  • Greven → Wattenscheid
    396 km · quickest by road, 6h 19m · €50–70
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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 Wattenscheid. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextIts lush green setting has long been a popular day trip and short stay destination for the city dwellers of Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne and other large cities in the region.

From Wikivoyage: Bochum, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    247 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    596 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    609 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    625 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    820 km

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Wattenscheid is 6 km from Bochum, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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