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Renkum

Renkum is a municipality and town in the eastern Netherlands.

Renkum
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The place

Renkum is a municipality and town in the eastern Netherlands.

The municipality had a population of 31,417 in 2021 and has a land area of 45.95 km2 (17.74 sq mi). Renkum is situated along the river Rhine. The municipality of Renkum is part of the Stadsregio of Arnhem-Nijmegen.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Renkum

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.

  1. 01
    GelreDome

    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
  2. 02
    Arnhem 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
  3. 03
    Airborne 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
  4. 04
    Museum 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
  5. 05
    TenneT 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
  6. 06
    Sonsbeek

    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

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 Renkum

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 → Renkum
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €8–11
  • Amsterdam → Renkum
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · €9–12
  • Rotterdam → Renkum
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Renkum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Wageningen, 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

    155 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    517 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    635 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    677 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    732 km

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

Around it

Next door to Renkum

Renkum is 51 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Oosterbeekvillage in Renkum, Netherlands400 m
  • Drielvillage in Overbetuwe, Netherlands3.7 km
  • Doorwerthvillage in Renkum, Netherlands3.8 km
  • Heveadorpvillage in Renkum, Netherlands2.7 km
  • Eldenvillage in Arnhem, Netherlands3.6 km
  • Het Dorpneighborhood in Arnhem, the Netherlands2.2 km