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Oppum, Krefeld — Area Guide & Where to Stay
A Stadtteil of Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, Oppum is marked by four parish churches and by the Fernmeldeturm Krefeld standing among its streets.
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Where to stay in Oppum
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Oppum trades nightlife for quiet. A bed here means a residential quarter of Krefeld whose fixed points are churches, so travellers who want dinner and a choice of hotels on one street usually book nearer the city core. The Fernmeldeturm Krefeld is the marker.
If you are arriving by car, the streets around the Auferstehungskirche and Pax Christi Church take parking far more easily than the centre does.
Few places to stay in Oppum — most visitors book in Krefeld nearby.
About Oppum
What are the main landmarks in Oppum?
Steeples and one mast. The Auferstehungskirche and Pax Christi Church are two of the four church addresses that account for almost everything named within Oppum, and the rest of the quarter is street after street of housing. Then there is the tower.
Fernmeldeturm Krefeld is the exception, a mast rather than a place of worship, and it gives Oppum a mark on the map of Krefeld that its housing alone would not.
What is the history of Oppum?
No founding year attaches to Oppum in the record, so what the quarter documents about itself is carried by its fabric: four parish churches, the housing between them, and the Fernmeldeturm Krefeld above the lot. The city sets the frame. Krefeld lies in North Rhine-Westphalia, and Oppum is recorded as one of its Stadtteile, a unit of the city's own administrative division rather than a separate town with its own charter.
Where is Oppum?
Oppum covers about six square kilometres of temperate ground within Krefeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia, with the Fernmeldeturm Krefeld rising from it.
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What is the best area to stay in Oppum?
Oppum: car-based nights in sight of the Fernmeldeturm Krefeld. Krefeld city core: hotels and evening food outside the Auferstehungskirche streets.
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Updated September 2026