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Rijkerswoerd

Rijkerswoerd is a new city district in Arnhem, Netherlands, located in the southeastern part of the city between the 'Huissensedijk, A325 / Nijmeegseweg' and the community of Elst.

Rijkerswoerd
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The place

Rijkerswoerd is a new city district in Arnhem, Netherlands, located in the southeastern part of the city between the 'Huissensedijk, A325 / Nijmeegseweg' and the community of Elst. The city district consists of four neighbourhoods: Rijkerswoerd-East, Rijkerswoerd-Middle, Rijkerswoerd-West and 'de Overmaat', where various enterprises are located. Rijkerswoerd is surrounded on three sides by a 'buffer' zone and fields. In Rijkerswoerd are about 5200 houses that accommodate over 13.000 inhabitants. The city district was completed in 2001 with the apartment complex 'Het Bastion'. There are shops, elementary schools, a sports park and an educational farm, 'De Korenmaat'.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rijkerswoerd

10 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.

    2.1 km · football stadium in the city of Arnhem, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Netherlands Open Air Museum

    The Netherlands Open Air Museum is a national open-air museum located in Arnhem. It focuses on the culture associated with the everyday lives of ordinary people, and demonstrating the old way of life in the Netherlands.

    7.4 km · open air museum in Arnhem, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pannerdens Kanaal

    The Pannerdens Kanaal is a canal in the Netherlands that was dredged between 1701 and 1709 to cut off a large, shallow bend of the river Rhine for improving river traffic and water regulation. The canal begins at the Pannerdensche Kop, where the Boven-Rijn splits into the Waal and the Pannerdensch Kanaal.

    9.8 km · canal in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Eusebius' Church, Arnhem

    St. Eusebius church also known as the Eusebiuskerk or the Grote Kerk, at 93 metres is the largest church, and the largest building in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

    4.1 km · church · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Royal Burgers' Zoo

    Royal Burgers' Zoo is a 45-hectare zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands, and is one of the biggest zoos in the country. Arnhem is a city that lies partially in the Veluwe, a nature park in the east of the Netherlands.

    7.4 km · zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Doornenburg Castle

    The Doornenburg Castle is a Dutch castle from the 13th century. The castle is located in the eastern part of the province of Gelderland, near the village of Doornenburg.

    9.2 km · museum in Doornenburg, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Doorwerth Castle

    Doorwerth Castle is a medieval castle situated on the river Rhine near the city of Arnhem, Netherlands.

    7.5 km · castle in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    John Frost Bridge

    John Frost Bridge is the road bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem, in the Netherlands. The bridge was inaugurated after the end of World War II, and is named after Major-General John Dutton Frost, who commanded the British forces that reached and temporarily defended the pre-existing Rijnbrug at the same location during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944.

    3.8 km · bridge spanning the Neder-Rijn in Arnhem, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    6.3 km · Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery in The Netherlands · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Monnikenhuize

    Monnikenhuize [ˈmɔ.nɪk.ən.ˌɦœy̯.zə] was a multi-use stadium in Arnhem, Netherlands. It was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of SBV Vitesse.

    6.2 km · building in 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.

Go there

Getting to Rijkerswoerd

Airports
Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 42 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 65 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 87 km
Stations
Arnhem Centraal railway station, 4.6 km · Arnhem Zuid railway station, 3 km · Arnhem Presikhaaf railway station, 6.1 km · Arnhem Velperpoort railway station, 5 km · Duiven railway station, 8.5 km
  • Weeze → Rijkerswoerd
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €5–8
  • Düsseldorf → Rijkerswoerd
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €13–19
  • Greven → Rijkerswoerd
    444 km · quickest by road, 7h 22m · €55–75
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Not yet researched

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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 Rijkerswoerd. 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

    160 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    519 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    637 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    672 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    734 km

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Around it

Next door to Rijkerswoerd

Rijkerswoerd is 55 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Arnhemcity, municipality and capital of province Gelderland, the Netherlands4.7 km
  • Overbetuwemunicipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands4.1 km
  • Duivenmunicipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands8.9 km
  • Westervoortmunicipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands5.8 km
  • Lingewaardmunicipality in Gelderland, Netherlands4.9 km
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