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Toverland
Dutch indoor-outdoor theme park in Limburg offering a mix of thrill rides and family attractions in themed areas.
12 km · about 20 min drive
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Ysselsteyn
Limburg, Netherlands · Europe
About Ysselsteyn
Ysselsteyn is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Merselo, 46km from Sint-Janskathedraal.
Ysselsteyn is in Limburg, Netherlands, with about 2,300 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Merselo, about 5 km away.
Ysselsteyn is a village in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands. It was established in 1921 and named after its designer, Hendrik Albert van IJsselsteyn, then Minister of Agriculture. Ysselsteyn has an extensive hog raising industry.
The Catholic St Oda Church is a square aisleless church with ridgeRead more
turret. In 1944, it was damaged by war and rebuilt in 1947. In 1975, a carillon was built next to the church.
Ysselsteyn's main object of interest is the Ysselsteyn German war cemetery at Timmermansweg 73, which covers about 28 hectares (69 acres) and contains the graves of 31,598 German war dead, most of whom who died in the Netherlands during World War II.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Ysselsteyn?
Within an hour or so of Ysselsteyn: Toverland (12 km), DAF Museum (29 km), Thorn (37 km), Sint-Janskathedraal (46 km).
Are there any good drives near Ysselsteyn?
The nearest famous roads are Houtribdijk, Baraque de Fraiture and Brouwersdam.
Where is Ysselsteyn?
Ysselsteyn is in Limburg, Netherlands, about 5 km from Merselo.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 2,260
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- Limburg
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Coordinates
- 51.4900, 5.8972
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Worth the detour from Ysselsteyn
5 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
DAF Museum
Eindhoven museum charting Dutch truck maker DAF, from quirky Variomatic-transmission city cars to giant race trucks, displayed near the original 1928 workshop.
29 km · about 35 min drive
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Thorn
The 'white village' of Limburg: an entire former abbey-principality of whitewashed brick lanes and cobbles beside the Maas, painted white in the Napoleonic era to dodge a window tax and kept that way ever since.
37 km · about 40 min drive
cathedral
Sint-Janskathedraal
The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.
46 km · about 55 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.
46 km · about 55 min drive
Driving in Netherlands
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€2.04/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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