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Nuenen

Nuenen is a town in the municipality of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten in the Netherlands.

Plan a trip to Nuenen From Maastricht

From 1883 to 1885, Vincent van Gogh lived and worked in Nuenen. In 1944, a battle was fought there during Operation Market Garden. The local dialect is called Peellands. In 2009, Nuenen had a population of 22,437.

Get in

Getting to Nuenen

From the junction on highway A270 between Eindhoven and Helmond, it’s 1 km north to Nuenen centre. Bus number 121 and 122 leave from Eindhoven central bus terminal to Nuenen. Bus 22 drives between Eindhoven and Helmond via Nuenen.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Windmill de Roosdonck
  2. 02
    Watermill at Opwetten
  3. 03
    Van Gogh

    This is a Waterstaatskerk (Reformed Church) from 1824.

  4. 04
    Van Gogh Village Museum

    A unique feature of Nuenen and the surroundings is that it can be viewed as an Outdoor Museum with many reminders of Van Gogh.

  5. 05
    Nune Ville

    Berg 24.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Eindhoven Zoo
Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Restaurant de Lindehof

    Beekstraat 1,.

  2. 02
    Restaurant Olijf

    Heuvel 1,.

  3. 03
    De Watermolen van Opwetten

    Opwettenseweg 203,.

  4. 04
    Tong Ah

    Park 45,.

  5. 05
    Restaurant Goesting

    Park 61,.

How locals move

Getting around Nuenen the local way

  • Get inEindhoven Airport is mostly served by low-cost carriers Ryanair, Transavia and Wizzair, and by holiday charter specialists.
  • Get aroundThere are shared cars of Greenwheels and MyWheels in the city, however you can only rent them if you are registered resident in the Netherlands.

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

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.