Oosterbeek
Oosterbeek is a village in the eastern part of Netherlands.
Oosterbeek is a village in the eastern part of Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Renkum in the province of Gelderland, about 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Arnhem.
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Worth seeing in and around Oosterbeek
6 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.
- 01GelreDome
The GelreDome is a retractable roof and pitch football stadium in the city of Arnhem, Netherlands. Built from 1996 to 1998 at a cost equivalent to €75 million, it opened on 25 March 1998.
3.8 km · football stadium in the city of Arnhem, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
The Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, more commonly known as the Airborne Cemetery, is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Oosterbeek, near Arnhem, the Netherlands. It was established in 1945 and is home to 1,764 graves from the Second World War besides four later non-war graves and there are special memorials of two personnel buried elsewhere.
1.1 km · Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery in The Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein'
The Airborne Museum ‘Hartenstein’ in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands is dedicated to the Battle of Arnhem in which the Allied Forces attempted to form a bridgehead on the northern banks of the Rhine river in September 1944. Hartenstein served as the headquarters of the British 1st Airborne Division.
1.3 km · museum in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Museum Arnhem
Museum Arnhem is a museum of modern art, contemporary art, applied art and design in Arnhem, Netherlands, with art from the 20th century. The museum reopened its doors on 13 May 2022 after a major renovation that lasted more than four years.
2.9 km · modern art museum in Arnhem, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 05TenneT Toren
KEMA Toren is a 149-metre broadcasting tower built of reinforced concrete at Arnhem, Netherlands. It was built in 1969 by KEMA for communicating between high voltage substations throughout the Netherlands.
1.8 km · broadcasting tower in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 06Sonsbeek
Sonsbeek is an outdoor sculpture exhibition series founded in 1949, that takes place intermittently in Park Sonsbeek in Arnhem, the Netherlands. It was originally intended as a biennial exhibition, although that format has since been abandoned.
3.8 km · series of art exhibitions in Sonsbeek park, Arnhem, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein'
Utrechtseweg 232, info@airbornemuseum.nl.
- 02Airborne War Cemetery
Van Limburg Stirumweg 28 (from the Oosterbeek train station, follow the Van Limburg Stirumweg, which leads directly to the cemetery).
- 03Kasteel Doorwerth
Medieval castle on the banks of the river Rhine, first mentioned in writing in 1260.
- 04Duno Estate
A buitenplaats (summer estate) near the Doorwerth Castle.
- 05Oranje Nassau's Oord
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Things to do
Being a still largely forested area, and rather hilly by Dutch terms, Oosterbeek and its surroundings lend themselves well to hiking and cycling. Many of the estates that cover the non-urban area are publicly accessible.
- 01Renkums
- 02De Hemelse Berg
- 03Wolfheze's forests
Consisting of Wolfheze, Laag-Wolfheze, the Wolfhezer Bossen and the Bilderbergbossen, the area between Oosterbeek and Wolfheze is littered with pretty forests.
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Getting to Oosterbeek
- Airports
- Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 47 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 68 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 82 km
- Stations
- Arnhem Centraal railway station, 3.5 km · Arnhem Zuid railway station, 3.2 km · Oosterbeek railway station, 1.5 km
- Eindhoven → Oosterbeek66 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €8–11
- Amsterdam → Oosterbeek78 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €10–13
- Rotterdam → Oosterbeek94 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €11–15
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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 Oosterbeek. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inWageningen can be reached by car from highway A12, which passes to the north, A15, which passes to the south and can be reached by a ferry over the Rhine, and the A50, which passes to the east.
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Next door to Oosterbeek
Oosterbeek is 51 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.