Town hall of Essen, Germany

Essen City Hall

Essen City Hall is a 23-storey, 106 m (348 ft) skyscraper in Essen, Germany.

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Every way there

Dortmund → Essen City Hall
241 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · €29–41
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Weeze → Essen City Hall
164 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €22–31
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Köln (Cologne) → Essen City Hall
198 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · €23–32
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Essen City Hall, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Essen City Hall has

YScheduled flightsDüsseldorf (DUS), 26 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesStrandbad, 6 km, Weisse Flotte Baldeney GmbH; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Gelsenkirchen, 8 km.

51.458°, 7.016°

When completed on 1 July 1979, it was one of the tallest city halls in Europe and is currently the third tallest city hall in Germany after New Town Hall (Leipzig) and Hamburg City Hall.

How locals move

Getting around Essen City Hall the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Steffen Schmitz (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.