--- title: "Leersum – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Leersum, The Netherlands: Leersum is a town in the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the Dutch province of Utrecht. Nearby: Utrechtse Heuvelrug…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leersum" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leersum.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Dorpsstraat_te_Leersum%2C_RP-T-1899-A-4161.jpg/1920px-Dorpsstraat_te_Leersum%2C_RP-T-1899-A-4161.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands · The Netherlands # Leersum Leersum is a town in the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the Dutch province of Utrecht. ![Leersum](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Dorpsstraat_te_Leersum%2C_RP-T-1899-A-4161.jpg/1920px-Dorpsstraat_te_Leersum%2C_RP-T-1899-A-4161.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Leersum · Rijksmuseum The place Leersum is a town in the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It lies about 7 km east of Doorn and 9 km west of Veenendaal. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leersum), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Leersum 3 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. Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park is a national park in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It covers the southern part of the Utrecht Hill Ridge. 1.8 km · national park in the Dutch province of Utrecht · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrechtse_Heuvelrug_National_Park) 2. Amerongen Castle Amerongen Castle was built between 1674 and 1680, on the site of a medieval castle that had been burned down by the French in 1673. The gardens still contain historic elements such as a conservatory dating from the 1890s. 2.9 km · castle in Amerongen, province of Utrecht, Netherlands · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerongen_Castle) 3. Andrieskerk The Andrieskerk is a nowadays Protestant church in the Dutch village of Amerongen. 2.8 km · church building in Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Netherlands · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrieskerk) 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. Go there ## Getting to Leersum **Airports:** Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 56 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 63 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 67 km\ - Amsterdam → Leersum 54 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · €7–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amsterdam-to-leersum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amsterdam&to=Leersum) - Eindhoven → Leersum 64 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €83–142 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eindhoven-to-leersum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eindhoven&to=Leersum) - Rotterdam → Leersum 66 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rotterdam-to-leersum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rotterdam&to=Leersum) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Leersum) 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 Leersum 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 Leersum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in This will lead you onto the N229, which will get you directly into the city after crossing the Nederrijn river via a small ferry which runs the year round from 06:30-22:30, and charges a mere €0.50 for a single transit across the river. From [Wikivoyage: Wijk bij Duurstede](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wijk_bij_Duurstede), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 143 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 490 km 3. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 652 km 4. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 688 km 5. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 704 km If you know how people move in Leersum – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cleersum&title=Leersum&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fleersum), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Leersum Leersum is 23 km from [Utrecht](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/utrecht), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Utrechtse Heuvelrug](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/utrechtse-heuvelrug) municipality in the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands 3.1 km - [Maarsbergen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/maarsbergen) farm village in the Netherlands 4.9 km - [Eck en Wiel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eck-en-wiel) village in Buren, Netherlands 5.6 km - [Overberg](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/overberg) farm village in the Netherlands 5 km - [Elst](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/elst) village in the province of Utrecht, The Netherlands 5.6 km - [Darthuizen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/darthuizen) human settlement in the Netherlands 2.5 km [The place page for Leersum](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/leersum) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on The Netherlands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-NL) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leersum, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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