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Overbetuwe

Overbetuwe is a municipality in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.

Overbetuwe
Overbetuwe · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Overbetuwe is a municipality in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. It was formed on 1 January 2001 as a merger of three former municipalities: Elst, Heteren and Valburg. Overbetuwe is bordered in the north by the river Rhine and in the south by the river Waal. The town hall is located in Elst, the largest town in the municipality. Since 2021 it has been part of the Arnhem-Nijmegen Green Metropolitan Region (Dutch: Groene Metropoolregio Arnhem-Nijmegen, which aids planning and development in the region's eighteen municipalities.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Overbetuwe

One place 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
    Schoonderlogt estate

    Schoonderlogt estate is a 17th century country house in Elst, Netherlands.

    3.4 km · 17th century country house in Elst, 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.

Go there

Getting to Overbetuwe

Airports
Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 40 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 61 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 86 km
Stations
Elst railway station, 300 m
  • Weeze → Overbetuwe
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €7–10
  • Düsseldorf → Overbetuwe
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €14–20
  • Greven → Overbetuwe
    379 km · quickest by road, 6h 18m · €48–65
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Overbetuwe

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 Overbetuwe. 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

    162 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    516 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    641 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    670 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    731 km

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

Around it

Next door to Overbetuwe

Overbetuwe is 53 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Lingewaardmunicipality in Gelderland, Netherlands3.9 km
  • Elstvillage in Overbetuwe, Netherlands800 m
  • Ressenvillage in Lingewaard, Netherlands3.2 km
  • Lijndenhamlet in Overbetuwe, Netherlands2.3 km
  • Aamhamlet in Overbetuwe, Netherlands1.1 km