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Hengelo

Hengelo is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region, in the province of Overijssel.

Hengelo
Hengelo · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Hengelo is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region, in the province of Overijssel. It is part of a larger urban area that also includes Enschede, Borne, Almelo and Oldenzaal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hengelo

4 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
    De Grolsch Veste

    De Grolsch Veste, previously known as Arke Stadion, is the stadium of football club FC Twente. It is located in Enschede, Netherlands, at the Business & Science Park, near the University of Twente.

    4.4 km · football stadium in Enschede, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Twente

    The University of Twente ˈtʋɛntə]; abbr. UT) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands.

    4.8 km · university in Enschede, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion

    Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Hengelo, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for athletics meets, especially the annual Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, and also was the venue for the European Athletics Junior Championships in July 2007.

    1.7 km · multi-use stadium in Hengelo, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Twickel Castle

    Twickel is a protected historic country estate with 81 complex parts near Delden in the hamlet of Deldeneresch, in the municipality of Hof van Twente in the province of Overijssel in The Netherlands. The moated castle forms the center.

    5.3 km · castle in Delden, Overijssel · 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
    Museum Hengelo

    Beekstraat 51,.

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

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Ziesta BBQ Restaurant

    Marskant 8,.

  2. 02
    Square Hengelo

    Burgemeester Jansenplein 40,.

  3. 03
    Eetcafé de Buurman

    Beursstraat 2,.

  4. 04
    Intenzo

    Enschedesestraat 7,.

  5. 05
    Grieks Restaurant Delphi

    Drienerstraat 12,.

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

Go there

Getting to Hengelo

Airports
Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 63 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 86 km · Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 96 km
Stations
Hengelo railway station, 400 m · Enschede Kennispark railway station, 4.4 km · Delden railway station, 5.3 km · Hengelo Gezondheidspark railway station, 2.2 km · Borne railway station, 4.8 km
  • Groningen → Hengelo
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €14–19
  • Eindhoven → Hengelo
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · €17–23
  • Amsterdam → Hengelo
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €15–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hengelo

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you need to use a connecting bus or ferry from within the Netherlands, use 9292.

From Wikivoyage: Enschede, 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

    166 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    569 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    587 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    698 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    798 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hengelo

  • Bornemunicipality and village in the Netherlands4.8 km
  • Deldentown in Overijssel5.6 km
  • Deurningenvillage in Dinkelland, Netherlands5.3 km
  • Oelehamlet in Hengelo (Overijssel), Netherlands3.7 km
  • Twekkelohamlet in Enschede and Hengelo, Netherlands3.9 km