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Bemmel

Bemmel is a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland.

Bemmel
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The place

Bemmel is a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It is located in the Betuwe region, and falls under the municipality of Lingewaard. The town is situated between the major cities of Arnhem and Nijmegen, and is bordered by the Waal river in the south. Bemmel has a population of 12,161.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bemmel

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Maas–Waal Canal

    The Maas–Waal Canal is a canal in the Netherlands that connects the river Meuse to the river Waal. The channel is about 13.5 kilometres long and runs from Weurt to the south and ends at Heumen.

    5.7 km · canal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Velorama

    The Velorama is the only bicycle museum in the Netherlands. It is located along the Waal River in the city of Nijmegen.

    5.1 km · museum in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Museum Het Valkhof

    The Valkhof Museum is an archaeology and art museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The museum has existed since 1999, created as a merger between the G. M. Kam museum of archaeology and the Commanderie van St.

    5.3 km · archeological and art museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kronenburger park

    The Kronenburgerpark is a park in the center of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It is close to the Central Railway Station and the Lange Hezelstraat.

    5.7 km · The Kronenburger park in Nijmegen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nijmegen railway bridge

    The Nijmegen railway bridge is a truss bridge spanning the River Waal in the Netherlands, connecting the city of Nijmegen to the town of Lent.

    5.1 km · bridge in Netherlands · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    De Kinkelenburg

    Kinkelenburg Castle is a castle in Bemmel, north of Nijmegen, in the municipality of Lingewaard in the Dutch province of Gelderland.

    200 m · castle in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Steven's Church

    The Great Church or St. Stephen's Church colloquially called Steven's Church, is the oldest and largest church in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

    5.4 km · Protestant church in Nijmegen, The Netherlands · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    De Oversteek

    De Oversteek, also called Stadsbrug, is a road bridge over the river Waal in the Netherlands. Opened in 2013, it is situated immediately to the west of Nijmegen city centre.

    5.3 km · bridge in Nijmegen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Poelwijk

    Poelwijk Castle is an estate and former castle located to the south of the town of Gendt, part of the municipality of Lingewaard in the Dutch province of Gelderland. The moat and a residential tower of the castle have been preserved.

    5.3 km · monumental building · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Lindenberg Nijmegen Culture House

    The Lindenberg Nijmegen Culture House, founded in 1972, was a project opened by the Netherlands Minister of Culture, Piet Engels. It is a cultural house in Nijmegen, Netherlands, on the Ridderstraat next to the Valkhof Museum.

    5.2 km · theatre building in Nijmegen, Netherlands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bemmel

Airports
Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 36 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 61 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 90 km
Stations
Elst railway station, 3.9 km · Nijmegen Lent railway station, 3.9 km
  • Eindhoven → Bemmel
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €8–11
  • Amsterdam → Bemmel
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €11–15
  • Rotterdam → Bemmel
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bemmel

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bemmel. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inNijmegen is probably one of the easiest places in the Netherlands to hitch from.

From Wikivoyage: Nijmegen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    166 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    518 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    641 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    667 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    735 km

If you know how people move in Bemmel – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bemmel

Bemmel is 57 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nijmegenmunicipality in Gelderland, Netherlands5.4 km
  • Overbetuwemunicipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands4.2 km
  • Lingewaardmunicipality in Gelderland, Netherlands1 km
  • Huissentown in Lingewaard, Netherlands5.3 km
  • Elstvillage in Overbetuwe, Netherlands4.8 km
  • Gendttown in Lingewaard, Netherlands5.5 km