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Höntrop, Wattenscheid — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Höntrop is a district of Wattenscheid within Bochum, the Ruhr city on the Ruhr Heights between the rivers Ruhr and Emscher.
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Where to stay in Höntrop
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Wattenscheid sets the terms here. Höntrop is one of its districts, and a traveller weighing a bed in this part of the Ruhr will find the rooms gathered in Bochum proper, near the Ruhr University Bochum and the central streets, rather than out among these houses. The Bergbauwanderweg Wattenscheid gives the area its one obvious reason to walk.
Evangelische Kapelle Höntrop and a Neuapostolische Kirche stand among the residential blocks, which is the scale of what the district puts in front of a visitor.
Few places to stay in Höntrop — most visitors book in Wattenscheid or Bochum nearby.
About Höntrop
What are the main landmarks in Höntrop?
Three entries, and no more. The Bergbauwanderweg Wattenscheid carries the mining past of this part of the Ruhr in its own name, while Evangelische Kapelle Höntrop and a Neuapostolische Kirche account for the district's church buildings. Bochum holds the bigger draws, among them the Ruhr University Bochum and the Bochum University of Applied Sciences.
Walkers get the better of it here.
What is the history of Höntrop?
The record starts with Bochum. Höntrop reaches it as a district of Wattenscheid, and what surrounds the entry there is the larger city's account: second largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund, and part of the region of Arnsberg. The Bergbauwanderweg Wattenscheid keeps mining in the local vocabulary.
Fourth largest in the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg, Bochum grew at the centre of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, and none of that expansion left Höntrop a charter of its own.
Where is Höntrop?
Wattenscheid's Höntrop shares the ground Bochum stands on, the Ruhr Heights hill chain between the Ruhr to the south and the Emscher to the north.
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What is the best area to stay in Höntrop?
Wattenscheid: arrivals keeping to Wattenscheid rather than crossing into Bochum's centre. Bochum city centre: visits built around the Ruhr University Bochum or the Bochum University of Applied Sciences.
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Updated August 2026