Herzogenrath
Herzogenrath is a municipality in the district of Aachen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Herzogenrath is a municipality in the district of Aachen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It borders the Dutch town of Kerkrade, the national border in one section running along the middle of a main road and even directly through the centre of the cross-border Eurode office complex.
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Worth seeing in and around Herzogenrath
5 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.
- 01Rolduc
Rolduc is a medieval abbey located on the edge of the town of Kerkrade in the far south-east of the Netherlands. It is today a Roman Catholic seminary with an affiliated conference center.
1.3 km · monastery in Kerkrade, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide
The Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide is a stadium situated in Kerkrade, Netherlands. It is the former stadium of Roda JC, who since 2000 play in the Parkstad Limburg Stadion.
4.4 km · football stadium in Kerkrade, Limburg, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03GaiaZOO
GaiaZOO is a Dutch zoo located in Kerkrade. It opened in 2005 as GaiaPark with approximately 80 different species.
3.6 km · zoo in Kerkrade, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Rodahal
Rodahal is a 4,500-capacity event and concert venue located in Kerkrade, Netherlands. It opened in 1966 and was designed by Dutch architect Laurens Bisscheroux.
2.6 km · concert and multi-purpose hall in Kerkrade, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 05Continium
Discovery Museum is a provincial science- and industry-based museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands, that explores the connections between people, industry, science, technology, and society. The center combines elements of a science museum and an industrial heritage museum, aiming to show how scientific and technological developments influence everyday life and the environment.
3 km · museum in Kerkrade, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Burg Rode Herzogenrath
Burgstraße 5,.
- 02St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Church.
- 03Buck Rider Statue
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Where to eat
- 01Eis Café Calvi
- 02Eiscafé Peppone Cafe
Roermonder Str.
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Getting to Herzogenrath
- Airports
- Maastricht Aachen (MST), 24 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 66 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 73 km
- Stations
- Herzogenrath station, 600 m · Kohlscheid railway station, 4.3 km · Eygelshoven railway station, 4.6 km · Eygelshoven Markt railway station, 4.4 km · Chevremont railway station, 3 km
- Düsseldorf → Herzogenrath62 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · €8–11
- Köln (Cologne) → Herzogenrath61 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · €7–10
- Weeze → Herzogenrath85 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €14–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Herzogenrath
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 Herzogenrath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAlso, Liège (Lüttich) airport (( in Belgium is 45min by car and has some charter flights.
- Get inThere are several convenient possibilities to hitchhike to and from Aachen.
From Wikivoyage: Aachen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Herzogenrath
- Kerkrademunicipality in Limburg, the Netherlands2.3 km
- Würselentown in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5 km
- Alsdorfmunicipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany4.4 km
- Nieuwenhagenvillage in Landgraaf, Netherlands5.9 km
- Rimburgvillage in Landgraaf, Netherlands5.7 km