Doetinchem
Doetinchem is a city and municipality in the east of the Netherlands.

Doetinchem is a city and municipality in the east of the Netherlands. It is situated along the Oude IJssel river in a part of the province of Gelderland called the Achterhoek. The municipality had a population of 58,270 in 2021 and consists of an area of 79.66 km2 (30.76 sq mi) of which 0.61 km2 (0.24 sq mi) is water. This makes Doetinchem the largest town in the Achterhoek.
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Worth seeing in and around Doetinchem
One place 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.
- 01De Vijverberg
Stadion De Vijverberg x]; English: The Pond Hill) is the football stadium in Doetinchem, Netherlands. It has a capacity of 12,600 seats.
1.4 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Stadsmuseum
Burgemeester van Nispenstraat 2 (Follow signs directing to the Catharinagarage),.
- 02Stadscentrum Doetinchem
The city centre still has a lot of buildings that survived the three bombings of March 1945.
- 03Openbaar Vervoer en Speelgoedmuseum
- 04Stadion de Vijverberg
Football stadium of not only de Graafschap (Jupiler League (Dutch Secondary League)).
- 05De Walmolen
IJsselkade 30 (Located where the Gaswal, IJsselkade and C.
- 06Kasteel de Kelder
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Things to do
Once a year a street theatre event called Buitengewoon is held. It offers a wide variety of big and small street theatre groups which perform in the city centre for several days. Huntenkunst is an event that is more focused at artworks. It is held once every two years around the Houtkamphal. The committee of the event wants to ensure quality of all submissions.
- 01Stadsbrouwerij Doetinchem
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Where to eat
- 01Stadscafé Simons
Simonsplein 8 (south east of the Catherinachurch.),.
- 02Restaurant MyWereld Doetinchem
Havenstraat 146 (just north of Exit #4, Doetinchem (A18).),.
- 03Het Borghuis
Burgemeester van Nispenstraat 4,.
- 04Eterij & Tapperij 't Raedthuys
Raadhuisstraat 14,.
- 05Gringo's
Grutstraat 15a,.
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Getting to Doetinchem
- Airports
- Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 42 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 82 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 86 km
- Stations
- Doetinchem railway station, 1 km · Doetinchem De Huet railway station, 3 km
- Eindhoven → Doetinchem81 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €12–16
- Amsterdam → Doetinchem106 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €13–18
- Maastricht → Doetinchem131 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · €17–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Doetinchem
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 Doetinchem. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Doetinchem
- Villa Bouchinahuman settlement800 m
- Overstegendistrict of Doetinchem in Gelderland, Netherlands800 m
- Oosseldneighbourhood of Doetinchem, the Netherlands2.1 km
- City centredistrict of Doetinchem in Gelderland, Netherlands800 m
- De Huetdistrict of Doetinchem in Gelderland, Netherlands2.8 km