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Hengelo
Municipality in Overijssel, Netherlands

Hengelo

Hengelo is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region, in the province of Overijssel.

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It is part of a larger urban area that also includes Enschede, Borne, Almelo and Oldenzaal.

Get in

Getting to Hengelo

= = Getting from Amsterdam to Hengelo could not be any more straightforward. To do so, simply head for the A1, which you use to drive towards Amersfoort. Simply follow the A1 past Barneveld, Apeldoorn and Deventer until the A1 merges with the A35 near Borne, and then separates ways again shortly after.

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    Hengelo Train Station

    The large train station services international; intercity trains from Amsterdam Centraal via Amersfoort and Deventer to Berlin Ostbahnhof via Osnabrück and Hannover.

See

Worth seeing

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    Museum Hengelo

    Beekstraat 51,.

Eat

Where to eat

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    Ziesta BBQ Restaurant

    Marskant 8,.

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    Square Hengelo

    Burgemeester Jansenplein 40,.

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    Eetcafé de Buurman

    Beursstraat 2,.

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    Intenzo

    Enschedesestraat 7,.

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    Grieks Restaurant Delphi

    Drienerstraat 12,.

How locals move

Getting around Hengelo the local way

  • Get inIf you need to use a connecting bus or ferry from within the Netherlands, use 9292.

From Wikivoyage: Enschede, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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