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Municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Kranenburg

Kranenburg is a municipality in the district of Cleves in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Kranenburg
Kranenburg · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kranenburg is a municipality in the district of Cleves in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, 12 kilometres (7 mi) south-east of Nijmegen and 11 kilometres (7 mi) west of Cleves.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kranenburg

2 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
    Katharinenhof Kranenburg

    The Katharinenhof in Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was used from 1446 until 1802 as the home of a convent of sisters of the Catholic Church. After that time, the building served various uses.

    100 m · museum in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castle Zelem

    Burg Zelem or Zelem Castle was a knight's moated fortress located in the lowland areas left of the Rhine River between the villages Mehr and Niel in the present Gemeinde of Kranenburg.

    3.6 km · castle · 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 Kranenburg

Airports
Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 23 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 58 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 77 km
  • Düsseldorf → Kranenburg
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · €10–14
  • Dortmund → Kranenburg
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €13–18
  • Greven → Kranenburg
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €16–22
  • 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 Kranenburg

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inNijmegen is probably one of the easiest places in the Netherlands to hitch from.

From Wikivoyage: Nijmegen, 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

    179 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    523 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    644 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    654 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    742 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kranenburg

  • De Horstvillage in Berg en Dal, Netherlands3.2 km
  • Frasselthuman settlement in Germany2.3 km
  • Nütterdenhuman settlement in Germany3.9 km
  • Wylerhuman settlement in Germany3.3 km