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Weeze

Weeze

Weeze is a municipality in the Lower Rhine (Niederrhein) region, located in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, specifically in the district of Kleve and the Düsseldorf region.

Plan a trip to Weeze From Düsseldorf
Get in

Getting to Weeze

  1. 01
    Airport Weeze

    Also known as "Flughafen Niederrhein" (which is what the IATA code refers to), this former British airbase is now a focus city for Ryanair and also served by Freebird Airlines and Sky Express.

  2. 02
    Bahnhof Weeze
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Schloss Wissen

    Moated castle in neo-Gothic design, dating back over 500 yeas.

  2. 02
    Schloss Kalbeck

    Castle built in the 1300, not accessible to the public.

  3. 03
    Haus Hertefeld
  4. 04
    Saint Cyriakus

    Churches have stood in its spot since at least 900AD, the current building is a reconstruction after being destroyed by allied shelling at the end of WW2.

  5. 05
    Weeze War Cemetery

    The final resting place of the 2016 German soldiers that fell in their pointless resistance to the allied forces invading in late February 1945.

Do

Things to do

Two notable music festivals are held on the grounds of the airport every year

  1. 01
    Parookaville

    One of Europe's largest EDM festivals, held annually in mid July on the grounds of a former RAF base next to Weeze airport.

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