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Heelsum

Heelsum is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland.

Heelsum
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The place

Heelsum is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Renkum, west of Arnhem.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Heelsum

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
    Doorwerth Castle

    Doorwerth Castle is a medieval castle situated on the river Rhine near the city of Arnhem, Netherlands.

    3 km · castle in 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 Heelsum

Airports
Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 50 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 65 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 77 km
Stations
Wolfheze railway station, 3.8 km
  • Eindhoven → Heelsum
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €8–11
  • Amsterdam → Heelsum
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €9–12
  • Rotterdam → Heelsum
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €10–14
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Heelsum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWageningen can be reached by car from highway A12, which passes to the north, A15, which passes to the south and can be reached by a ferry over the Rhine, and the A50, which passes to the east.

From Wikivoyage: Wageningen, 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

    153 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    511 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    640 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    679 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    725 km

If you know how people move in Heelsum – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Heelsum

Heelsum is 45 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Renkummunicipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands2.2 km
  • Heterenvillage in Overbetuwe, Netherlands2.8 km
  • Doorwerthvillage in Renkum, Netherlands3 km
  • Wolfhezevillage in Renkum, Netherlands3.7 km