25 km around Düsseldorf

Castles, windmills and towers near Düsseldorf

For a city this size, Düsseldorf has a lot of castles nearby: 37 within 25 km, and not just Schloss Jägerhof at 1 km. Schloss Eller is 5.8 km out, Schloss Kalkum 9.1 km, Burg Linn 15.8 km and Schloss Dyck 17.9 km, with the Dycker Mühle from 1756 at 17.3 km. The Rheinturm, 1.4 km from the center, is the obvious viewpoint.

Windmills are the Lower Rhine's thing and 14 of them made the list, the Geismühle and the Teloy-Mühle included. Fewer people know about the 20 historic towers, from the Schlossturm on the riverbank to the Pfefferbüchse at 12.4 km. Reach one for the first time in RLQuest and it goes down as your first find.

37 Castles and palaces25 Viewpoints21 Archaeological sites20 Historic towers18 Ruins14 Windmills12 Bunkers10 Monuments

Where the places are

Each hexagon covers a little over 5 square kilometers. The brighter it glows, the more places are inside it. The numbers mark the highlights listed below; the dot in the middle is the center of Düsseldorf.

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Worth the trip around Düsseldorf

The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.

Places by type

A selection for each type, best known first. The number next to each heading counts everything RLQuest knows within the radius.

Castles and palaces 37

  • Schloss Landsberg18 km
  • Schloss Pesch12 km
  • Kaiserpfalz9.1 km
  • Schloss Dyck18 km
  • Burg Linn16 km
  • Schloss Jägerhof1.0 km
  • Schloss Liedberg18 km
  • Schloss Neersen21 km
  • Schloß Oefte20 km
  • Schloss Rheydt21 km
  • Schloss Heltorf13 km
  • Schloss Myllendonk20 km

and 22 more

Viewpoints 25

  • Rheinturm1.4 km
  • QOMO1.4 km
  • Ausblick Medienhafen1.7 km
  • Schöne Aussicht4.4 km
  • Rather Blick5.6 km
  • Hafenbecken 16.4 km
  • Rennbahn-Blick6.5 km
  • Ratinger Blick6.8 km
  • Wasservögel, Biotopbereich Silbersee7.2 km
  • Blick ins Ruhrgebiet7.5 km
  • Kölner Bucht9.8 km
  • Seeblick9.9 km

and 13 more

Ruins 18

  • Alte Hammer Brücke3.6 km
  • Schloßruine Haus Meer8.8 km
  • Grundmauern der Kapelle der schwarzen Muttergottes11 km
  • Ruine der Burgkapelle21 km

and 11 more

City gates 6

  • Obertor6.5 km
  • Hamtor6.9 km
  • Das Hamtor6.9 km
  • Rheintor12 km
  • Südtor13 km
  • Tor zur Vorburg16 km

Windmills 14

  • Heidbergmühle11 km
  • Osterather Windmühle13 km
  • Braunsmühle11 km
  • Ehemalige Kleinenbroicher Windmühle15 km
  • Breuermühle12 km
  • Fischelner Mühle17 km
  • Liffersmühle17 km
  • Bussmühle18 km
  • Elfrather Mühle21 km
  • Lohmühle24 km

and 1 more

Lookout towers 4

  • Rettungswachturm 314 km
  • Rettungswachturm 214 km
  • Rettungswachturm 114 km
  • Aussichtsturm Wolfsberg17 km

Historic towers 20

  • Pfefferbüchse12 km
  • Wasserturm Dahl25 km
  • Schlossturm0.7 km
  • Wyenturm24 km
  • Bornefeldscherturm24 km
  • Wachttoerngen25 km
  • Windmühlenturm6.6 km
  • Kehlturm6.5 km
  • Blutturm6.7 km
  • Trinsenturm9.6 km
  • Kornsturm9.7 km
  • Dicker Turm9.8 km

and 7 more

Watermills 5

  • Helpensteinmühle12 km
  • Rindsberger Mühle18 km
  • Mühle Kamper20 km

Archaeological sites 21

  • Haus Bürgel12 km
  • Motte Kyburg9.7 km
  • Fossa Sanguinis6.1 km
  • Burg Wevelinghoven17 km
  • Motte Haus Neuenberg11 km
  • Garather Motte13 km
  • Wallburg Ziegwebersberg20 km

and 14 more

Monuments 10

  • Menhir von Kaiserswerth8.8 km
  • Historisches Steinbrückenkreuz18 km
  • Kriegsdenkmal21 km

and 7 more

Beaches and swimming spots 5

  • Paradiesstrand2.0 km
  • Strabeach13 km
  • Strandbad Wolfssee18 km

and 2 more

Summits 22

  • Stinkesberg12 km
  • Vollrather Höhe22 km
  • Wolfsberg17 km
  • Liedberg18 km
  • Sandberg11 km
  • Schellberg6.2 km
  • Meider Rodelhügel11 km
  • Vorstenberg11 km
  • Wahler Berg11 km
  • Langer Berg12 km
  • Taubenberg13 km
  • Kretzberg13 km

and 10 more

Bunkers 12

  • Bilker Bunker1.9 km
  • Winkelbunker5.2 km
  • Bunker Fungendonk16 km
  • Maubes Bunker16 km
  • Bunker am Südwall19 km
  • Bunker am Deutschen Ring19 km
  • Bunker Blumenplatz (nicht zugänglich)20 km
  • Splitterschutzzelle (Ein-Mann-Bunker)21 km
  • Flak-Stellung21 km

and 3 more

How Düsseldorf turns into a game

RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:

1

Places become quests

Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.

2

Being first pays off

If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.

3

The map fills in

Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.

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Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. As of 2026-09-30. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.