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Doetinchem

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

Doetinchem
Doetinchem · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    De 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

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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Stadsmuseum

    Burgemeester van Nispenstraat 2 (Follow signs directing to the Catharinagarage),.

  2. 02
    Stadscentrum Doetinchem

    The city centre still has a lot of buildings that survived the three bombings of March 1945.

  3. 03
    Openbaar Vervoer en Speelgoedmuseum
  4. 04
    Stadion de Vijverberg

    Football stadium of not only de Graafschap (Jupiler League (Dutch Secondary League)).

  5. 05
    De Walmolen

    IJsselkade 30 (Located where the Gaswal, IJsselkade and C.

  6. 06
    Kasteel de Kelder

From Wikivoyage: Doetinchem, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

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.

  1. 01
    Stadsbrouwerij Doetinchem

From Wikivoyage: Doetinchem, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Stadscafé Simons

    Simonsplein 8 (south east of the Catherinachurch.),.

  2. 02
    Restaurant MyWereld Doetinchem

    Havenstraat 146 (just north of Exit #4, Doetinchem (A18).),.

  3. 03
    Het Borghuis

    Burgemeester van Nispenstraat 4,.

  4. 04
    Eterij & Tapperij 't Raedthuys

    Raadhuisstraat 14,.

  5. 05
    Gringo's

    Grutstraat 15a,.

From Wikivoyage: Doetinchem, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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 → Doetinchem
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €12–16
  • Amsterdam → Doetinchem
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €13–18
  • Maastricht → Doetinchem
    131 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · €17–24
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Not yet researched

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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Around it

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