Welcome to Emsdetten!

The town of Emsdetten is located in the district of Steinfurt near Greven and Rheine. You can reach Münster to the south in around 35 minutes by car and just 20 minutes by train. Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO) is just 20 minutes away by car, as is the district town of Steinfurt. Osnabrück is around 45 minutes away by car and the popular Dutch shopping city of Enschede is around 50 minutes away. You can reach the North Sea coast in around two and a half hours via the nearby A1 and A31 motorways.

From Emsdetten railway station, you can easily travel by train to Rheine, Cologne and Emden in East Frisia.

Tip: The Münsterland is a cycling region! 4500 kilometres of cycle paths offer you almost unlimited possibilities in the city and countryside: you can easily commute to work by bike and go on great tours with friends and family.

The heart of Emsdetten is the town centre with its shops, cafés, restaurants and a cinema. Around this city centre are extensive residential areas where most of the approximately 37,000 inhabitants live. Emsdetten also includes Ahlintel, Austum, Hembergen, Hollingen, Isendorf, Sinningen, Veltrup and Westum. These small, more rural districts and farming communities are each only a few minutes away from the city centre.

Even though rental and purchase prices are following the general property trend overall, there are still numerous niches to be discovered in Münsterland when it comes to building, buying or renting. Here you can find the average purchase and rental prices for a house or flat in rural Münsterland.

Would you like to rent a flat in Emsdetten? You can find the current rent index and a rental value calculator here. You can also find out whether municipal residential properties are for sale on the city's website.

Twice a week you can buy fresh food at the weekly market , and there are several supermarkets in the city. In the city centre, which was redesigned a few years ago, you can browse in bookshops, shoe and fashion shops with well-known brands and in small concept stores. And like almost everywhere in Münsterland, there are several specialist bicycle shops in Emsdetten where you can also buy accessories for your bike or e-bike.

Tip for bargain hunters: The Designer Outlet in Ochtrup is only 30 minutes away.

There are around 20 kindergartens and daycare centres available for childcare in Emsdetten. You can find all information on the registration process and the contact details of the daycare centres on the city website.

Your children can not only obtain all school-leaving qualifications at the schools in Emsdetten, but also enter vocational training:

• Six primary schools
• One lower secondary school
• Two secondary modern schools
• One grammar school
• One special school with a focus on language
• One vocational college

There are around 2,800 businesses and companies from a wide range of sectors in Emsdetten, including a particularly large number of metal and plastics processing companies. Another focal point is the textile industry: Emsdetten is home to terry towelling manufacturer Cawö Textil, speciality textiles manufacturer Schmitz-Werke and nonwovens manufacturer TWE, for example.

Major employers also include household goods manufacturer Emsa and Sander Pflege GmbH, which operates a care centre for the elderly and a day care facility in Emsdetten. Emsdetten is also home to the "Café Extrablatt" chain, where the first café was opened at the time.