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City in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Photo: J. Wellem, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bergisch Gladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with a population of 113,000 (2022).
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Affenfelsen
The town hall of Bensberg.
The town hall of Bergisch Gladbach.
Bensberg Palace
The largest paper museum in Germany. It shows how paper was made in earlier centuries. You can make paper yourself there.
By plane
The nearest airport is Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN) in Cologne, accessible from Bergisch-Gladbach directly by bus route 400.
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Köln (Cologne) · International · CGN
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