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Velserbroek

Velserbroek is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland.

Velserbroek
Velserbroek · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Velserbroek is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Velserbroek

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
    BUKO Stadion

    Sportpark Schoonenberg k ˈsxoːnəbɛrx]), branded as BUKO Stadion for sponsorship reasons, is the home of Eredivisie club Telstar and Eredivisie Vrouwen club Telstar. It is located in Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands.

    2.7 km · football stadium in Velsen-Zuid, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castle Brederode

    Brederode Castle, also called the Ruins of Brederode, is located near Santpoort-Zuid. The castle was founded in the second half of the 13th century by William I van Brederode.

    2.6 km · castle ruins near Haarlem, NL · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Museum of the Mind Dolhuys

    Museum van de Geest was created in 2020 when Het Dolhuys, the national museum for psychiatry in Haarlem, the Netherlands, merged with the Outsider Art Museum from Amsterdam. Het Dolhuys had been founded in 2005 in the newly renovated former old-age home known as Schoterburcht, located just across the Schotersingel from the Staten Bolwerk park.

    5.1 km · Dutch national museum for psychiatry in Haarlem · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    De Adriaan

    De Adriaan is a windmill in the Netherlands that burnt down in 1932 and was rebuilt in 2002. The original windmill dates from 1779 and the mill has been a distinctive part of the skyline of Haarlem for centuries.

    5.8 km · mill museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Haarlem Stadion

    Haarlem Stadion is a stadium in Haarlem, Netherlands, and the home stadium of the Dutch amateur football club Haarlem Kennemerland. Formerly home of the defunct professional football club HFC Haarlem, the stadium is located in the north of Haarlem.

    2.8 km · stadium in Haarlem, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Flevum

    Flevum was a castrum and port of the Romans in Frisia, built when emperor Augustus wanted to conquer the German populated territories between the Rhine river and the Elbe river.

    2.1 km · Roman fort in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hoge vuurtoren van IJmuiden

    The hoge vuurtoren van IJmuiden is a round, cast-iron lighthouse in IJmuiden, Netherlands, designed by Quirinus Harder. It was built in 1878 by D.A. Schretlen & Co, a company in Leiden.

    5.8 km · lighthouse in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Lutherse Kerk

    The Lutherse kerk in Haarlem is a Lutheran church dating from the 17th century on the Witte Herenstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands.

    6 km · church in Haarlem · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Coomanshof

    The Coomanshof is a former hofje in Haarlem, Netherlands, on the Witte Heren straat. It was named the "mercerie" or cramersneringhe after the local merchant's guild that existed from 1407.

    6 km · building in Haarlem, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Waalse Kerk

    The Waalse kerk is a historical church dating from the 14th century on the Begijnhof in Haarlem, Netherlands.

    6 km · 15th century Walloon church on the Begijnhof in Haarlem, 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 Velserbroek

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 16 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 55 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 120 km
Stations
Haarlem railway station, 5.4 km · Haarlem Spaarnwoude railway station, 5.9 km · Driehuis railway station, 1.5 km · Bloemendaal railway station, 4 km · Santpoort Zuid railway station, 2.4 km
  • Rotterdam → Velserbroek
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · €8–11
  • Eindhoven → Velserbroek
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · €14–20
  • Groningen → Velserbroek
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · €20–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Velserbroek

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDFDS operate an overnight ferry from Newcastle, UK to IJmuiden, which is only about 30 minutes from Haarlem by local bus.
  • Get inFrom the ferry terminal, it is a walk to Planetenweg (bus stop Zwaanstraat).

From Wikivoyage: Haarlem, 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

    96 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    455 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    656 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    658 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    728 km

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

Around it

Next door to Velserbroek

Velserbroek is 17 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Beverwijkmunicipality in the Netherlands5.7 km
  • Velsenmunicipality in the Netherlands4.5 km
  • Bloemendaalmunicipality in the Netherlands4.1 km
  • IJmuidentown in Velsen, Netherlands3.7 km
  • Overveenvillage in Bloemendaal, Netherlands5.5 km
  • Driehuisvillage in Velsen, Netherlands1.9 km