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Herzogenrath

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

Herzogenrath
Herzogenrath · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Rolduc

    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
  2. 02
    Gemeentelijk 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
  3. 03
    GaiaZOO

    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
  4. 04
    Rodahal

    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
  5. 05
    Continium

    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

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
    Burg Rode Herzogenrath

    Burgstraße 5,.

  2. 02
    St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Church.
  3. 03
    Buck Rider Statue

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

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Eis Café Calvi
  2. 02
    Eiscafé Peppone Cafe

    Roermonder Str.

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

Go there

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 → Herzogenrath
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · €8–11
  • Köln (Cologne) → Herzogenrath
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · €7–10
  • Weeze → Herzogenrath
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €14–20
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    278 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    521 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    552 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    722 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    753 km

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

Around it

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