Welcome to Rheine!

Rheine is located in the district of Steinfurt and borders Lower Saxony to the north and the Tecklenburg region to the east. Münster is around 50 minutes away by car and Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO) is 35 minutes away. Osnabrück is 40 minutes away by car, and the Dutch shopping city of Enschede is 45 minutes away. It takes half an hour to reach the district town of Steinfurt . The nearby A31 motorway takes you to the sea in just over two hours.

The city also has a railway station. From here you can travel to Münster, Osnabrück, Cologne, Berlin, Amsterdam, East Frisia and the North Sea coast with various regional express lines or the IC. The regional trains between Rheine and Münster also stop at Rheine-Mesum station.

Tip: Münsterland is a cycling region! 4,500 kilometres of cycle paths offer you almost unlimited possibilities in the city and in the countryside: you can commute to work comfortably by bike and go on great tours with friends and family.

The approximately 80,000 inhabitants of Rheine - the Rheinenser - live in 19 very different neighbourhoods: City centre, Dutum, Dorenkamp, Hörstkamp, Wadelheim, Schleupe, Bentlage, Wietesch, Schotthock/Baarentelgen, Altenrheine, Stadtberg, Eschendorf, Rodde/Kanalhafen, Südesch, Gellendorf, Elte, Mesum, Hauenhorst and Catenhorn.

The historically grown city centre is one of the smaller districts with a good 2,600 residents, the largest being Eschendorf with a good 11,000, Dorenkamp with just under 10,000 and Schotthock/Baarentelgen with around 9,500 inhabitants. A good 8,600 people live in the district of Mesum. The smallest neighbourhood is Catenhorn (600 inhabitants).

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 Rheine? You can find the current rent index here. Affordable housing is provided by the Rheine housing association.
If you want to build a house, you may be able to apply for a subsidy through the housing subsidy programme.

In Rheine you can shop and buy extensively: In the pedestrian zone you will find lots of fashion and shoe shops with well-known brands, small boutiques and concept stores, bookshops and specialised shops, with many cafés and restaurants in between. Outside the city centre there are several specialist bicycle shops offering bicycles, e-bikes, accessories and advice.
You can find everything under one roof in the Emsgalerie shopping centre: on around 17,000 square metres you can browse in more than 50 stores.
Want more? The Designer Outlet Ochtrup is only half an hour away by car.

There are more than 40 kindergartens and day care centresin Rheine. You can use the Kitaplaner to find contact details, the educational concept and further information about all the facilities. Here you can also search directly for free places. Other childcare options are offered by day care centres.

In Rheine, your children can not only complete all school-leaving qualifications , but can also start vocational training or even study at a university of applied sciences. In the city there are:

• 16 primary schools
• Three special schools (focus on: Language + emotional/social development, learning, mental development).
• One school for the sick (children in in-patient treatment)
• One Waldorf school
• Two secondary schools
• One comprehensive school
• Two Realschulen (one of which is an evening school)
• Four grammar schools (including one evening grammar school)
• Five vocational colleges/vocational schools/training centres for nursing and health professions
• One university of applied sciences

The many small and large companies in Rheine offer jobs to around 30,000 people, for example in the focus sectors of nutrition, healthcare, mechanical engineering, textiles and wind energy. The largest employers are the Mathias Foundation, which runs the Mathias Hospital Rheine and the Jakobi Hospital as well as other hospitals in the area, the frozen food manufacturer apetito AG and the Caritas Association Rheine. Other well-known companies in the area include KTR Kupplungstechnik GmbH, the mechanical engineering company Windhoff Bahn- und Anlagentechnik and the Hardy Schmitz Group, a service provider and wholesaler in the electrical engineering sector.

By the way: You can find out what's happening in and around Rheine in the Rheine Podcast. It talks about exciting projects, creative people and local employers.