Rheine
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Rheine is in Münsterland.
Understand
Rheine is a town of some 75,000 inhabitants in the northwestern corner of the Münsterland region, right on the border with Lower Saxony and just 30 km east of the border with the Netherlands.
Get in
Intercity trains from Berlin, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf and Cologne call every two hours. Moreover there are hourly regional trains from Münster, Osnabrück, Emden and the Ruhr.
Rheine has an intersection on Autobahn A 30 that links Amsterdam with Hannover. Arriving from Cologne or the Ruhr area, you may take the Autobahn A 1 until the exit at Greven or A 31.
Rheine has an intersection on Autobahn A 30 that links Amsterdam with Hannover. Arriving from Cologne or the Ruhr area, you may take the Autobahn A 1 until the exit at Greven or A 31.
See
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address: Bentlager Weg 130Former monastery established in 1437, later transformed into a castle. Now houses an art exhibition as well as overnight accommodation.
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address: Tiefe Straße 22Former Carolingian royal manor, dating back to the 9th century, established during Charlemagne's war against the Saxons, and therefore considered the oldest part of Rheine. It was continually transformed and redisigned and now has a mostly baroque style. It houses an art and history museum.
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Saline Gottesgabe
address: Salinenstraße 101Saltworks have been documented in Rheine for about a thousand years. Naturzoo RheineLong-standing zoo whose main attraction is a "monkey forest", inhabited by barbary macaques, which may be entered by visitors who are not separated from the animals by panes or fences. The zoo's focus is on teaching environmental backgrounds and coherences rather than just exhibiting animals.
St Dionysius churchLate-gothic hall church from the 15th century.
St Antonius basilicaImposing 19th-century Romanesque revival basilica, its 102.5-metre-high steeple is the highest in the Münsterland region.
Megalithic tombPrehistorical gravesite from the 4th millenium BC, covered by a mound.
Sleep
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phone: +49 5971 80800address: Humboldtplatz 8 48429 Rheine
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phone: +49 59 71 16 18 0address: Heiliggeistplatz 1a, 48431 Rheine
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phone: +49 5971 13205address: Salinenstraße 101 48432 Rheine
Go next
- Bad Bentheim, 22 km to the west
- Münster, 43 km to the south
- Osnabrück, 46 km to the east
- Enschede, Netherlands, 45 km to the west