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Genhout

Genhout is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg.

Genhout
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The place

Genhout is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Beek, and consists of two former settlements: the village Groot Genhout and the hamlet Klein Genhout. Since 2005, the two settlements are no longer distinguished. It is located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north-east of Maastricht.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Genhout

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
    Jansgeleen Castle

    Jansgeleen Castle, now erroneously called Sint-Jansgeleen or Sint Jansgeleen, was a medieval castle in the little village of Spaubeek, in the Dutch province of Limburg. Spaubeek is located in the municipality of Beek, about 3 km south of the town of Geleen.

    2.6 km · castle in Spaubeek, 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 Genhout

Airports
Maastricht Aachen (MST), 4 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 66 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 77 km
Stations
Maastricht Aachen Airport, 3.9 km · Beek-Elsloo railway station, 3.1 km · Spaubeek railway station, 2.7 km
  • Eindhoven → Genhout
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · €8–11
  • Rotterdam → Genhout
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · €21–29
  • Amsterdam → Genhout
    173 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · €20–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Genhout

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 Genhout. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundWhile that is more expensive for single journeys, it's a good option for day trips.
  • Get aroundSome of the smaller hamlets are served by minibuses, but they leave from the regular platforms at e.g.
  • Go nextThe German city of Aachen is just at the other side of the border and makes a great day trip.

From Wikivoyage: South Limburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-01.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    267 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    501 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    564 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    728 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    733 km

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Around it

Next door to Genhout

  • Beekmunicipality in the Netherlands2.1 km
  • Ulestratenvillage in Meerssen, Netherlands3.8 km
  • Schimmertvillage in Beekdaelen, Netherlands2.5 km
  • Spaubeekvillage in Beek, Netherlands1.9 km
  • Neerbeekvillage in Beek, Netherlands2.5 km
  • Grijzegrubbenhamlet near Nuth in Beekdaelen, Netherlands3.5 km