Voerendaal
Voerendaal is a municipality and a town in the southeastern Netherlands.
Voerendaal is a municipality and a town in the southeastern Netherlands.
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Worth seeing in and around Voerendaal
9 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.
- 01Open University of the Netherlands
The Open University of the Netherlands is a Dutch institution for distance learning at university level. It is an independent government-funded university and uses a variety of methods, including written materials, the Internet, and occasional evening seminars or day sessions.
1.9 km · university in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Kasteel Hoensbroek
Hoensbroek Castle or Gebrook Castle is one of the largest castles in the Netherlands. It is situated in Hoensbroek, a town in the province of Limburg.
3.9 km · castle in Hoensbroek, a district of the Dutch town of Heerlen. · Wikipedia - 03Ter Worm Castle
Ter Worm or Terworm Castle is a castle located in the municipality of Heerlen, Limburg Province, Netherlands. The castle is part of the Terworm estate.
1.3 km · castle in Heerlen, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Saint Bernard Church
The Saint Bernard Church is a Roman Catholic church building in Ubachsberg, Voerendaal, Netherlands. Patron saint for the church is Bernard of Clairvaux.
3.5 km · church in Ubachsberg, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 05Schunck
Schunck is the name of former fashion house and department store Firma Schunck in Heerlen, the Netherlands. It is also the name for the collection of buildings the firm has been housed in, one of which is known as the Glaspaleis, which is now a cultural centre and declared one of the 1000 most important buildings of the 20th century by the Union of International Architects.
3.3 km · museum in Heerlen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 06Sint-Pancratiuskerk
The Pancratiuskerk is a Roman Catholic church in Heerlen in the Netherlands.
3.3 km · church in Heerlen, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 07Schelmentoren
The Schelmentoren in Heerlen is a Medieval Building that has served as a defendable living tower for the Here van Are and their successors. As part of the Landsfort Herle, it served as a prison tower.
3.3 km · tower in Heerlen, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 08Monseigneur Schrijnen Retreat House
The Monseigneur Schrijnen Retreat House was designed by the famed architect Frits Peutz in 1932, and named after the 18th bishop of Roermond Laurentius Josephus Antonius Hubertus Schrijnen. It is located at the top of one of the steepest hills in Heerlen next to the Molenberg and surrounded by the Aambos.
4 km · building in Heerlen, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 09Ambachtsschool, Heerlen
The Ambachtsschool in Heerlen is a brick building with distinctive layers of marl. It is notable as one of the earliest vocational schools in the Netherlands.
2.9 km · school building in Heerlen, Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Voerendaal
- Airports
- Maastricht Aachen (MST), 12 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 74 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 74 km
- Stations
- Heerlen railway station, 3 km · Klimmen-Ransdaal railway station, 3.5 km · Hoensbroek railway station, 2.5 km · Voerendaal railway station, 500 m · Heerlen Woonboulevard railway station, 2 km
- Eindhoven → Voerendaal70 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · €9–12
- Rotterdam → Voerendaal153 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · €22–31
- Amsterdam → Voerendaal181 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · €21–30
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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 Voerendaal
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 Voerendaal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundWhile that is more expensive for single journeys, it's a good option for day trips.
- Get aroundSome of the smaller hamlets are served by minibuses, but they leave from the regular platforms at e.g.
- Go nextThe German city of Aachen is just at the other side of the border and makes a great day trip.
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Next door to Voerendaal
- Heerlenmunicipality in the Netherlands3.5 km
- Hoensbroekvillage and urban district in Heerlen, Netherlands3.7 km
- Ubachsbergvillage in Voerendaal, Netherlands3.5 km
- Heerlerheideurban district in Heerlen, Netherlands3.9 km
- Klimmenvillage in Voerendaal, Netherlands3.7 km
- Benzenradehamlet in Heerlen, Netherlands3.7 km