Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Herten

Herten is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Every way there

Düsseldorf → Herten
49 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €7–9
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Weeze → Herten
65 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · €9–12
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Greven → Herten
388 km · quickest by road, 6h 1m · €48–65
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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 Herten, 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 Herten has

YScheduled flightsDortmund (DTM), 34 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 100 timetable feeds for this country, 7 with real-time
YFerriesferry terminal, 21 km; 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.

51.600°, 7.133°

It is situated in the industrial Ruhr Area, some 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Recklinghausen.

How locals move

Getting around Herten 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: Ralf Roletschek (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.