Remscheid - Remscheid

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Remscheid
federal stateNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Residents
110.994 (2019,2019)
height
365 m, 328 m
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Remscheid

Remscheid is an independent city in the administrative district of Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia. A popular name for the city is "Seestadt auf dem Berge".

Townships

  • Old Remscheid
  • south
  • Lennep
  • Luettringhausen

background

getting there

By plane

The closest airports are Dusseldorf and Cologne.

By train

With the S7 in Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr VRR easily accessible

By bus

  • The 1 Long-distance bus stop in Remscheid is located in the Lennep district on Robert-Schumacher Strasse not far from the Remscheid-Lennep train station.
  • Line 260 via Wermelskirchen, Burscheid, Leverkusen and Cologne-Mülheim to Cologne main station.

In the street

The A 1 federal motorway runs directly through the urban area of ​​Remscheid in the Cologne - Dortmund section.

mobility

Map of Remscheid

Tourist Attractions

  • 1  German X-ray MuseumGerman X-ray Museum in the encyclopedia WikipediaGerman Röntgen Museum in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsGerman Roentgen Museum (Q1205953) in the Wikidata database
  • 2  Lennep Cloth MuseumLennep Cloth Museum in the Wikipedia encyclopediaLennep Cloth Museum in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryLennep Cloth Museum (Q2459113) in the Wikidata database
  • 3  German tool museumGerman Tool Museum in the Wikipedia encyclopediaGerman Tool Museum in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsGerman Tool Museum (Q1206099) in the Wikidata database
  • Museum Destille Frantzen
  • 4  Steffenshammer. Steffenshammer in the encyclopedia WikipediaSteffenshammer (Q2338826) in the Wikidata database.a blacksmith and grinding booth north of the district of Hasten in the village of Clemenshammer. It can be visited. A historical hiking trail leads through the area (Gelpe- and Saalbachtal) on the city limits of Schloss Burgzu Wuppertal-Ronsdorf and Wuppertal-Cronenberg, where other former hammer and grinding docks are located.
  • Historic old town of the eastern part of the city 5  w: Lennep
  • City park with 6  Bismarck Tower. in which the Dr. Hans Schäfer Observatory is housed. There is a Wikipedia page for this Bismarck Tower Remscheid.
  • 7  Eschbach dam. Eschbachtalsperre in the encyclopedia WikipediaEschbachtalsperre in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsEschbachtalsperre (Q896077) in the Wikidata database.oldest German drinking water dam. To the dam and the hiking trail around the Eschbach dam can be easily reached via the southern part of the Remscheid service station on Autobahn 1. The north and south parts of the service station are connected by a bridge.
  • 8  Tank dam. Tank dam in the Wikipedia encyclopediaTank dam in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsTank dam (Q2050235) in the Wikidata database.second oldest German drinking water dam.
Müngstener Bridge
  • 9  Müngstener Bridge. Müngstener Brücke in the encyclopedia WikipediaMüngstener Brücke in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsMüngstener Brücke (Q257027) in the Wikidata database.Highest railway bridge in Germany on the city limits Solingen. The steel arch valley bridge was completed in 1897. The bridge is on the Solingen - Remscheid - Wuppertal-Oberbarmen railway line and can be crossed there by regular rail traffic. You have a beautiful view of the bridge from the Wupper valley if you head south from the federal road 229 between Remscheid and Solingen.
Castle
Schloss Burg, NE view
  • 10  Castle. Schloss Burg in the encyclopedia WikipediaSchloss Burg in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsSchloss Burg (Q573688) in the Wikidata database.One of the main attractions of Remscheid. The castle on the Wupper was reconstructed from the late 19th century. The complex has been the ancestral seat of the counts and later dukes of Berg since the 12th century and is now the landmark of the Bergisches Land. It is also one of the largest castles in West Germany and the largest reconstructed castle complex in North Rhine-Westphalia.last change: May 2019

activities

To go biking

2 railway cycle paths invite you:

City tours

The Remscheider City Guide interest group has been offering guided tours since 2006. Topics are, for example: on the trail of the file cutter, on the tool route, into the old working-class district of Honsberg or into Lennep's old town with its historic half-timbered houses.[1]The leisure platform "378meters" offers "Bergische Experiences"[2]. During the guided tours you can visit real crime scenes in Lennep's old town, forge your own knife, drive a Segway, enjoy a modern Bergische coffee table or go on a geocaching treasure hunt through Remscheid.

shop

  • Avenue center

kitchen

nightlife

accommodation

  • Mercure Hotel Remscheid, Jägerwald 4, 42897 Remscheid, Germany. Tel.: (0)2191 60710, Email: . Last change: Aug. 2017 (information may be out of date)
  • Serways, Dam 1, 42859 Remscheid. Tel.: (0) 2191 9030. Last change: Aug. 2017 (information may be out of date)

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Work

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health

Practical advice

trips

literature

Web links

  1. ↑IG Remscheider city guide
  2. ↑Mountain experiences from 378 meters
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