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Ede, kerk in het centrum
Ede-Wageningen Railway Station, The Netherlands
Ede, street view from the Maanderplein with monumental lantern
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Ede

Gelderland, Netherlands · Europe

About Ede

Ede is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Bennekom, 14km from Hoge Veluwe National Park.

Ede is in Gelderland, Netherlands, with about 68,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bennekom, about 4 km away.

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What is there to see near Ede?

Within an hour or so of Ede: Kröller-Müller Museum (13 km), Hoge Veluwe National Park (14 km), Posbank (25 km), Rietveld Schröder House (35 km).

Are there any good drives near Ede?

The nearest famous roads are Houtribdijk, Afsluitdijk and Brouwersdam.

Where is Ede?

Ede is in Gelderland, Netherlands, about 4 km from Bennekom.

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Quick Information

Population
67,670
Continent
Europe
Country
Netherlands
Region
Gelderland
Timezone
Europe/Amsterdam
Coordinates
52.0333, 5.6583

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in Netherlands

Police
112
Ambulance
112
Fire
112
Non-emergency police
0900-8844
Driving side
right

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Worth the detour from Ede

8 notable places within an hour's drive.

museum

Kröller-Müller Museum

Museum deep inside Hoge Veluwe National Park holding the world's second-largest Van Gogh collection plus a 25-hectare sculpture garden with Rodin, Moore and Dubuffet; free white bicycles carry you there through the park.

13 km · about 25 min drive

national park

Hoge Veluwe National Park

Cycle free white bikes across heath, dune and forest to the Kröller-Müller museum's Van Goghs in this vast wild park.

14 km · about 25 min drive

photogenic

Posbank

Rolling heathland hills of Veluwezoom National Park reached by a scenic drive up the Beekhuizenseweg, in late August the moors turn purple, and misty sunrises here are the most photographed in the Netherlands.

25 km · about 30 min drive

museum

Rietveld Schröder House

Gerrit Rietveld's radical 1924 Utrecht house, the purest built statement of De Stijl with its sliding walls and Mondrian palette: UNESCO-listed and visitable on pre-booked tours.

35 km · about 40 min drive

cathedral

Dom Tower of Utrecht

The Netherlands' tallest church tower at 112 metres, standing detached from its cathedral in central Utrecht.

37 km · about 45 min drive

cathedral

Sint-Janskathedraal

The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.

45 km · about 50 min drive

cathedral

St. John's Cathedral, 's-Hertogenbosch

Brabantine Gothic cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch, noted for hundreds of stone figures straddling its flying buttresses.

45 km · about 50 min drive

landmark

Naarden-Vesting

The best-preserved star fortification town in Europe, a double-moated six-pointed star of 17th-century ramparts enclosing a grid of gabled streets, 25 minutes from Amsterdam yet ignored by most itineraries.

45 km · about 50 min drive

Driving roads near Ede

3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.

  • 69 kmHoutribdijkA 26 km dike road (N302) running straight across the water between Enkhuizen and Lelystad, splitting the IJsselmeer from the Markermeer with sea views on both sides.

Driving in Netherlands

Drives on
the right
Petrol
~€2.04/litre
Motorway tolls
None

When to drive here

April to October

Nearby Destinations

Other places to explore near Ede.

Bennekom

🇳🇱 Netherlands

4 km awayPop. 15,160

Lunteren

🇳🇱 Netherlands

6 km awayPop. 12,510

Veenendaal

🇳🇱 Netherlands

7 km awayPop. 61,271

Wageningen

🇳🇱 Netherlands

7 km awayPop. 35,433

Renkum

🇳🇱 Netherlands

8 km awayPop. 9,421

Rhenen

🇳🇱 Netherlands

10 km awayPop. 18,061

Opheusden

🇳🇱 Netherlands

11 km awayPop. 5,460

Scherpenzeel

🇳🇱 Netherlands

13 km awayPop. 8,820

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