Recklinghausen is a town of 114 000 in the northern Ruhr with a relatively well-preserved, attractive old town.
Understand
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[edit]By plane
[edit]The next international airport is Düsseldorf Airport. Dortmund Airport offers budget flights to the Mediterranean and eastern europe.
By train
[edit]- 1 Recklinghausen Hauptbahnhof (Central Station), Europaplatz. Central station, served by regional and local trains, in addition to occasional daily IC and ICE. The station has lifts.
- 2 Recklinghausen Süd station (along Hochlarmarkstraße, Bus stop RE Süd Bf Lines 201, 210, NE1). Small regional stop, no facilities except ticket machine, just platforms.
Get around
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Map of Recklinghausen
Public transport is run by VESTISCHE in accordance to VRR tariffs. The central bus station is right in front of the Hauptbahnhof, on Europaplatz. A customer service centre can be found here too. Local buses serve the city and adjacent cities and towns. Tickets can be bought from bus drivers, bring cash.
See
[edit]- 1 Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen. A museum of Eastern Orthodox religious icons.
- 2 Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Große-Perdekamp-Str. 25-27 (just outside the Hauptbahnhof). Tu-Su and holidays 10:00-18:00. Art exhibition. €5.00, reduced €2.50.
- 3 Recklinghausen substation (Umspannwerk), Uferstr. 2-4 ("Hochlarmarkstr." Buses SB20, 201, NE1, NE5). Tu-Su 10:00-17:00. Also serves as a museum, deals with the history and relation of electricity with the industry and development of the Ruhr area. Part of the industrial Heritage Route. Standard €4.00 reduced €2.50.
- 4 Museum Jerke.
- 5 Saint Peter church (Propsteikirche St. Peter), Kirchplatz 2a (north of the market in the old town). The oldest church in the city. The church probably stands on the site of a former Carolingian royal court and parts of it date back to 1247. Originally late Romanesque, it was later expanded in the Gothic style and houses several sights, including the late Gothic tabernacle, the war-damaged corpus of Christ and the baroque high altar. This is one of the reasons why the church, which has a two-bay, three-aisled late Romanesque hall with a transept that is only wider than the nave by the thickness of the wall and a 75-meter-high tower, is considered one of the most beautiful in the region. The attentive observer may notice when looking at the west side of the tower that an old cannonball from the First World War is still stuck in the walls.
- 6 Ruhrfestspielhaus, Otto-Burrmeister-Allee 1 (Festival Hall / Arenbergstrasse). Theatre erected in the 1950s in the Bauhaus style of architecture. Built as the "home" of the Ruhr Festival, it has developed into an extraordinary cultural centre since its opening in 1965, in which many exhibitions, performances and other events take place outside of the festival season. The house on the "green hill" by the city garden presents itself as part of the Bauhaus architecture with simple and functional lines and right angles.
Do
[edit]- 1 Trainingsbergwerk Recklinghausen. You can do a guided tour of this former training mine.
- 2 Ruhrfestspielhaus.
- 3 Mollbeck public pool (Freibad Mollbeck), Nesselrodestr. 8 (Stop Freibad Mollbeck bus 220). M-Sa 07:00-20:00 So 07:30-20:00. Adult €3.50, children to 15yrs €2.50.
Buy
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[edit]- 1 Hotel Garni (Grafenwall), Grafenwall 11, 45657 Recklinghausen, ☏ +49 2361 25334, [email protected]. Check-in: 13:00 - 23:00, check-out: 11:00.
- 2 Hotel Albers, Markt 3. Small family-run hotel in the middle of the town centre
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[edit]Go next
[edit]- Bochum, partying, the german mining museum and a huge university
- Essen, Zollverein Mine is designated UNESCO world heritage, plenty of green space
- Düsseldorf, capital of NRW state, japanese community, fashion and shopping
- Cologne, home of the famous cathedral, carnival and vibrant queer community