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Remscheid
City in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Remscheid

Remscheid is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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It is, after Wuppertal and Solingen, the third-largest municipality in Bergisches Land, being located on the northern edge of the region, on the south side of the Ruhr area.

Get in

Getting to Remscheid

The nearest airports are Düsseldorf and Cologne/Bonn. Autobahn A1 has two exits in Remscheid and a rest stop next to the Eschbachtalsperre reservoir. There are two train stations in Remscheid, served by a S-Bahn from Wuppertal, where other regional services and ICE stop, and by a regional RE service from Düsseldorf, which is an important railway hub served by regional and long-distance trains to both domestic and…

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    Remscheid Hauptbahnhof

    Modern stop on S-Bahn S7 Wuppertal - Remscheid - Solingen and Regional train RE47 Düsseldorf - Solingen - Remscheid.

  2. 02
    Remscheid-Lennep

    Small stop on S7 and RE47 services near Lennep district.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Müngsten Bridge

    At 107 m (351 ft) the highest railroad bridge in Germany, opened in 1897.

  2. 02
    Deutschen Röntgen-Museum
  3. 03
    Eschbachtalsperre
  4. 04
    City Hall
  5. 05
    Water Tower Remscheid

    Old brick water tower constructed 1881-1883 and still in use.

  6. 06
    Lennep Town Centre

    Medieval town that got wealthy from textiles, lots of restored old houses, churches.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Sven Teschke (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.