Bocholtz
Bocholtz is a town in the Dutch province of Limburg.

Bocholtz is a town in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is a part of the municipality of Simpelveld, and lies about 7 km southwest of Kerkrade. Until 1982, it was a separate municipality.
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Worth seeing in and around Bocholtz
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.
- 01Parkstad Limburg Stadion
The Parkstad Limburg Stadion kstɑt ˈlɪmbʏrx ˌstaːdijɔn], Ripuarian: [ˈpɑʁəkʃtɑt ˈlembøʁəç ˌʃtaːdijɔn]) is a football stadium in Kerkrade, completed in 2000. With a present-day capacity of 19,979 seats, the stadium was officially opened on 15 August 2000 with a friendly between Roda JC and Real Zaragoza.
4.2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide
The Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide is a stadium situated in Kerkrade, Netherlands. It is the former stadium of Roda JC, who since 2000 play in the Parkstad Limburg Stadion.
5.2 km · football stadium in Kerkrade, Limburg, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03St. Benedictusberg Abbey
St. Benedictusberg Abbey, also Mamelis Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery established in 1922 in Mamelis, a hamlet which administratively falls within Vaals, Netherlands.
3.1 km · monastery in Mamelis near Lemiers, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Saint Paul's Church, Vaals
The Saint Paul's Church is a Roman Catholic church building in Vaals, Netherlands. The neogothic cross shaped church was built in 1891-1893 by Johannes Kayser, replacing an earlier Saint Paul's Church nearby.
5.6 km · church in Vaals, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 05James the Greater Church
The James the Greater Church is a Roman Catholic church, located on the Pastoor Neujeanstraat 6 in Bocholtz, Netherlands. First mentioned in the 14th century, the current church was built in 1869 by Pierre Cuypers.
100 m · church in Bocholtz, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 06Sint-Remigiuskerk
The Saint Remigius Church is a Roman Catholic church building in Simpelveld, The Netherlands. It is a neoroman cross shaped church with three naves, a tower with a waisted top, and a round apse.
2.3 km · church in Simpelveld, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 07Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij
The Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij or ZLSM is a heritage railway operating from its main station of Simpelveld to Schin op Geul and Kerkrade in the south of the Netherlands. It also runs across the border from Simpelveld to Aachen-Vetschau and has an extensive collection of stock.
2.4 km · heritage railway in southern part of the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 08Saint Bernard Church
The Saint Bernard Church is a Roman Catholic church building in Ubachsberg, Voerendaal, Netherlands. Patron saint for the church is Bernard of Clairvaux.
5.5 km · church in Ubachsberg, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 09Vrouwenheide
The Vrouwenheide is a hill in the Netherlands and former heath land, just south of Ubachsberg in the municipality of Voerendaal. With a height of 218 metres above NAP it is one of the highest points in the European part of the Netherlands.
4.8 km · hill in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 10Continium
Discovery Museum is a provincial science- and industry-based museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands, that explores the connections between people, industry, science, technology, and society. The center combines elements of a science museum and an industrial heritage museum, aiming to show how scientific and technological developments influence everyday life and the environment.
6 km · museum in Kerkrade, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bocholtz
- Airports
- Maastricht Aachen (MST), 19 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 75 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 80 km
- Stations
- Kerkrade Centrum railway station, 5.9 km · Kohlscheid railway station, 5 km
- Eindhoven → Bocholtz78 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €10–14
- Rotterdam → Bocholtz162 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · €23–32
- Amsterdam → Bocholtz189 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · €22–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bocholtz
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 Bocholtz. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Mamelis a 15 minutes walk uphill is also an option with a separated walking path next to the road.
- Go nextAs the old German city of Aachen is just a stone's throw away, it makes for a great day trip.
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Next door to Bocholtz
- Vaalsmunicipality in the Netherlands5.6 km
- Simpelveldmunicipality in Limburg, the Netherlands2.4 km
- Vijlenvillage in Vaals, Netherlands4.4 km
- Eysvillage in Gulpen-Wittem, Netherlands4.8 km
- Lemiersvillage in Vaals, Netherlands3.8 km
- Ubachsbergvillage in Voerendaal, Netherlands5.6 km