Welcome to Lüdinghausen!

Lüdinghausen is about 35 minutes by car southwest of Münster in the Coesfeld district between Dülmen and Nordkirchen. The ExpressBus X90 takes you to Münster's city centre in just under 40 minutes. Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO) and the district town of Coesfeld can be reached in 40 minutes. In the south, the city borders on the Ruhr region; Dortmund, for example, is only 50 minutes away. Düsseldorf is just under an hour and a half away. By train you can travel from Lüdinghausen directly to Dortmund, Gronau and Enschede.

Tip: The 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.

Most of the approximately 25,000 inhabitants live in the core town, while Seppenrade is home to about 6900 people. The heart of Lüdinghausen is the charming old town with numerous small and larger shops and plenty of restaurants. To the northwest, a spacious park adjoins the town centre, where you can stroll between two historic moated castles.
The small district of Seppenrade lies to the west on the other side of the Dortmund-Ems Canal, about five minutes by car from the centre of Lüdinghausen.

Even though rental and purchase prices overall are following the general real estate trend, there are still numerous niches to be discovered in Münsterland for building, buying or renting. In the rural area of Münsterland, the average rental price per square metre is between five and seven euros, the average purchase price for flats and houses per square metre is 2100 euros.

You can find out whether urban housing plots are currently for sale on the city's website. There you can also sign up for a list of interested parties.

The old town of Lüdinghausen is a great place for shopping and strolling: In addition to a bookshop, a gift shop and various other specialist shops, you will also find individual boutiques and concept stores with a special selection. A number of cafés, ice cream parlours and restaurants invite you to take a break. There are also restaurants and some specialist shops in Seppenrade. You can get everything for your tour by bike or e-bike in various bike shops.

You can get groceries in supermarkets and bakeries in both districts, and there is also a markettwice a week in the centre of Lüdinghausen.

Around 19 kindergartens and day-care centres in Lüdinghausen take care of the smallest residents. Do you prefer day care? The youth welfare office of the district of Coesfeldcan help you find childminders.

The educational opportunities in Lüdinghausen cover all school types and qualifications:

• Three primary schools (one of which is in Seppenrade)
• One secondary school
• One secondary school
• One secondary school
• Two grammar schools
• One vocational college

More than 2000 businesses and companies are registered in Lüdinghausen. Some of the larger ones are based in the extensive commercial and industrial area on the banks of the Dortmund-Ems Canal to the west of the town centre. For example, a large bakery, metal construction companies, haulage firms and plastics manufacturers are located there. The largest and best-known companies include the Maggi factory Lüdinghausen of Nestlé Deutschland AG, the grain and cereal distillery eal Euro-Alkohol GmbH and Askari Sport GmbH, a mail-order company for fishing and hunting accessories.