Leverkusen

Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen and Bayer Cross Leverkusen.

Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen

Shopping center

Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen is a shopping center.

Bayer Cross Leverkusen

Photo: H005, Public domain.

Bayer AG is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world.

Leverkusen-Manfort station

Railway station

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Leverkusen-Manfort station is a through station in the district of Manfort of the city of Leverkusen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was named after the nearby town of Schlebusch and opened on 25 August 1867 on the Gruiten–Köln-Deutz railway, which was completed between the former Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company station in Mülheim and Opladen by the BME on 1 May 1868.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Opladen and Chorweiler.

Opladen

Suburb

Opladen, now a district of Leverkusen, used to be the capital of the Rhein-Wupper-Kreis until 1975. Opladen station is located 15 kilometres northeast from Cologne on the railway to Wuppertal. Opladen is situated 4 km north of Leverkusen.