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Rhenen
City and Municipality in Utrecht, Netherlands

Rhenen

Rhenen is a municipality and a city in the central Netherlands.

The municipality also includes the villages of Achterberg, Remmerden and Elst. The town lies on the southernmost part of the chain of hills known as the Utrecht Hill Ridge, where this meets the river Rhine. Because of this Rhenen has significant elevation changes across the town.

Get in

Getting to Rhenen

Rhenen is located in between the A12 and A15 highways, which connect to The Hague and Oberhausen in the A12's case, and Rotterdam and Nijmegen in the A15's case. When travelling using the A12, use exit 23a (Veenendaal) and head south using the N223, which will get you directly to Rhenen, running alongside the railway for the last bit.

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    Rhenen SPR
See

Worth seeing

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    Ouwehands Dierenpark

    Grebbeweg 111 (Ouwehands Dierenpark 44 45 50 80 X80 ),.

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    Militair Ereveld Grebbeberg
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    Cunerakerk

    Kerkplein 1,.

Do

Things to do

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    Bowling Rhenen

    Groeneweg 58, gastland@optisport.nl.

Eat

Where to eat

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    De Koning van Denemarken

    Utrechtsestraat 2,.

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    Sal do Mar

    Frederik van de Paltshof 9,.

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    Brasserie van Toor

    Molenstraat 2, info@bb-vantoor.nl.

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    Tambo

    Herenstraat 33, Info@tambdodiner.nl.

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    Het Oude Gemeentehuis

    Herenstraat 47, receptie@restauranthetoudegemeentehuis.nl.

How locals move

Getting around Rhenen the local way

  • Get inWageningen can be reached by car from highway A12, which passes to the north, A15, which passes to the south and can be reached by a ferry over the Rhine, and the A50, which passes to the east.

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

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