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Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Wermelskirchen

Wermelskirchen is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, southeast of Remscheid.

Wermelskirchen
Wermelskirchen · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wermelskirchen is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, southeast of Remscheid. It is home to one of Europe's biggest live Christmas trees.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wermelskirchen

5 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
    Burg Castle

    Burg Castle, located in Burg an der Wupper, is the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a popular tourist attraction. Its early history is closely connected to the rise of the Duchy of Berg.

    4.7 km · Castle in Solingen, NRW, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Müngsten Bridge

    The Müngsten Bridge is the highest railway bridge in Germany. The bridge is 107 metres high and spans the valley of the river Wupper, carrying the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway between the cities of Remscheid and Solingen.

    5.9 km · railway bridge in Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Eschbach Dam

    The Eschbach Dam was the first dam to be built in Germany for drinking water supply. It is located in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

    1.5 km · dam in Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Brodtberg

    The Brodtberg, at 378.86 m above sea level, is the highest hill in Remscheid and the region of Düsseldorf in Germany. Despite that, it is not particularly prominent; for example the nearby quarter of Lennep lies at elevations of up to 370 metres.

    4 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Teo Otto Theater

    Teo Otto Theater is a theatre in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

    4.1 km · theatre in Remscheid, Germany · 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 Wermelskirchen

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 32 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 35 km · Dortmund (DTM), 49 km
Stations
Remscheid-Lennep station, 5.5 km · Remscheid Central Station, 3.3 km · Remscheid-Güldenwerth station, 4.3 km
  • Dortmund → Wermelskirchen
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · €7–9
  • Weeze → Wermelskirchen
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €13–18
  • Büren → Wermelskirchen
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wermelskirchen

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    281 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    572 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    599 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    653 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    803 km

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Around it

Next door to Wermelskirchen

Wermelskirchen is 13 km from Wuppertal, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Remscheidcity in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany3.7 km