museum
Zollverein Coal Mine
A Bauhaus-styled colliery and UNESCO icon of the Ruhr, now a striking park of red walkways, museums and a winter ice rink.
9 km · about 15 min drive
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Bottrop
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Europe
About Bottrop
Bottrop is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Grafenwald, 9km from Zollverein Coal Mine.
Bottrop is in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with about 120,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Grafenwald, about 5 km away.
Bottrop (German pronunciation: [ˈbɔtʁɔp] ) is a city in west-central Germany, on the Rhine–Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck, and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and rail center and contains factories producing coal-tarRead more
derivatives, chemicals, textiles, and machinery. Bottrop grew as a mining center beginning in the 1860s, was chartered as a city in 1921, and bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II. In 1975, it unified with the neighbouring communities of Gladbeck and Kirchhellen, but Gladbeck left it in 1976, leading to Kirchhellen becoming a district of Bottrop as Bottrop-Kirchhellen. It is also twinned with Blackpool, England.
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What is there to see near Bottrop?
Within an hour or so of Bottrop: Zollverein Coal Mine (9 km), Wuppertal Schwebebahn (34 km), Classic Remise Düsseldorf (37 km).
Where is Bottrop?
Bottrop is in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, about 5 km from Grafenwald.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 119,909
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 51.5239, 6.9285
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Germany
ADAC roadside assistance: +49 89 22 22 22. No general speed limit on some autobahn sections but advisory 130 km/h.
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Worth the detour from Bottrop
3 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Wuppertal Schwebebahn
The world's oldest electric suspension railway glides above the Wupper River, a 1901 engineering marvel still in daily use.
34 km · about 40 min drive
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Classic Remise Düsseldorf
A magnificent classic car centre in a restored locomotive roundhouse filled with rare vehicles, workshops, and automotive lifestyle shops.
37 km · about 45 min drive
Driving in Germany
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.78/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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