Ridderkerk
Ridderkerk is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.
Ridderkerk is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of 46,671 in 2021 and covers an area of 25.26 km2 (9.75 sq mi) of which 1.54 km2 (0.59 sq mi) is covered by water.
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Worth seeing in and around Ridderkerk
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.
- 01Van Brienenoordbrug
The Van Brienenoord Bridge is a large twin tied-arch motorway bridge in the Netherlands. Located at the east side of Rotterdam, it crosses the New Meuse, a major distributary of the river Rhine.
5.6 km · bridge in Rotterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02De Gorzen
The Gorzen is a nature park in the Dutch province of South Holland, located on the eastside of Ridderkerk, between the New Veer and the New harbor. The nature- and recreational park The Gorzen is a former dumpsite with a total area of 40 acres.
1.7 km · park in Ridderkerk, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ridderkerk
- Airports
- Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 15 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 50 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 71 km
- Stations
- Rotterdam Lombardijen railway station, 4.9 km · Barendrecht railway station, 3.5 km
- Amsterdam → Ridderkerk59 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · €9–13
- Eindhoven → Ridderkerk77 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €10–14
- Maastricht → Ridderkerk137 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · €19–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ridderkerk
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 Ridderkerk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA day pass is available which includes coupons for a return ride on the Driehoeksveer ferry and entrances to the Museummolen and Wisboomgemaal.
- Get inJust cross a river via a bridge or by a ferry (take off at Papendrecht), then take a ride for about 15km.
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Ridderkerk is 10 km from Rotterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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