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Bocholtz

Bocholtz is a town in the Dutch province of Limburg.

Bocholtz
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Parkstad 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
  2. 02
    Gemeentelijk 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
  3. 03
    St. 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
  4. 04
    Saint 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
  5. 05
    James 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
  6. 06
    Sint-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
  7. 07
    Zuid-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
  8. 08
    Saint 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
  9. 09
    Vrouwenheide

    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
  10. 10
    Continium

    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

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.

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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 → Bocholtz
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €10–14
  • Rotterdam → Bocholtz
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · €23–32
  • Amsterdam → Bocholtz
    189 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · €22–31
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Vaals, 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

    282 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    514 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    549 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    730 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    748 km

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Around it

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