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Where you are moving from and to, when, and roughly what is coming with you. It takes about two minutes, it costs nothing, and you are not committed to anything at the end of it.
In Duisburg the Rhine, the port or a motorway roadworks site often lies between two addresses. Anyone who compares several moving companies quickly sees which one knows the route and which has only counted the kilometres.
Duisburg is longer than you think: from Walsum in the north to Mündelheim in the south it is a good twenty kilometres, and the Rhine flows right through the middle. Anyone moving here should therefore look at the map first and only then at the distance.
Rheinhausen, Homberg, Baerl and Rumeln-Kaldenhausen lie on the left bank of the Rhine, the larger part of the city on the right. Between them there are only a few bridges, and each of them is a bottleneck in rush hour. A move from Hochfeld to Rheinhausen looks like a stone's throw on the map and can still take an hour in the late afternoon. Then there is the port: around Ruhrort, Meiderich and Kaßlerfeld many lorries are on the road, and on the A40 and the A59 roadworks are part of daily life. A moving company that drives in Duisburg regularly plans route and time of day around that.
The districts themselves differ greatly too. In Duissern, Neudorf, the Dellviertel and Hochfeld there are old buildings with high ceilings and narrow stairwells, and a lift is the exception. At the Innenhafen and in newer developments, by contrast, there is an underground car park and a lift, but often fixed rules from the property management about when loading and unloading are allowed. In the south, in Buchholz, Huckingen, Großenbaum or Rahm, detached and terraced houses predominate: here the van usually stands right outside the door, but cellar, garage and garden furniture are added.
There is no standard price for a move in Duisburg. A quote follows the effort, and that depends above all on these points:
The more precisely you state these things, the closer the quote is to the later invoice amount. How to go about it is shown in How to fill in a moving request properly. What lies behind the individual items is explained in Calculating moving costs.
In Duissern, Neudorf, the Dellviertel and Hochfeld parking is scarce. A no-parking zone outside both houses saves time and distance there. It is applied for at the City of Duisburg; the road traffic authority is responsible. Allow around two weeks, because the signs have to be put up some days beforehand. Many moving companies handle that for a surcharge.
Large parts of Duisburg belong to the Ruhr low-emission zone. Vehicles need the green sticker there. With a moving company that is a given; with a hired van you should check.
Duisburg lies at the seam between the Ruhr area and the Lower Rhine. Many moves lead to Moers, Krefeld, Oberhausen, Mülheim or Düsseldorf, and moving companies from those cities work in Duisburg just as well. Anyone who searches only in their own city therefore easily overlooks a suitable quote. At the start of term in April and October it is mainly small transports that are in demand around the campus in Neudorf; anyone moving something larger is most likely to find a free date in those weeks in the middle of the month.
Where you are moving from and to, when, and roughly what is coming with you. It takes about two minutes, it costs nothing, and you are not committed to anything at the end of it.
Every request is read by a person before it goes anywhere. It then reaches the companies whose service area covers your pick-up address — you do not have to find them or ring round.
Each one arrives by email with a link to your own page. Compare the prices, read what each company says it includes, and ask them anything before you decide.