By air

Nearest airports to Rhenen are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.
 Deelen (Arnhem) Airport (distanced approximately 23 km)
 Soesterberg Airport (distanced approximately 27 km)
 Utrecht Soesterberg Airport (distanced approximately 27 km)
 De Bilt Airport (distanced approximately 31 km)
 Volkel Airport (distanced approximately 36 km)
 

Cunera Church, Memorial Church, Within Mill, Pratt Burg, Ouwehand Zoo, Secrets Mountain

Cunera Church

Cunera the Church is the principal church of Rhenen . It is a relatively large church, arise due to the fact that Rhenen the Middle Ages an important pilgrimage was. The pilgrims came to the relics of Saint Cunera off, who were worshiped as the eighth century. The pride of the church is 81.8 meters high tower.The first church on this spot, dedicated to Peter , prior to the eleventh century were founded. In the eleventh century, the church dedicated to Cunera, of whom legend tells that one of the court of King Radboud in Rhenen had stayed. The present church dates from the aisled choir and transept of the first half of the fifteenth century, the ship is in the second half of the century greatly expanded to a three-aisled hall church .

Memorial Church

The Memorial Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Rhenen . The church is used by the Roman Catholic Faith Community St. St. Cunera , part of the Catholic Parish of Blessed Titus Brandsma.The Roman Catholic parish in Rhenen was founded in October 1943.The first priest was chaplain Verhoeven, after May 1940 in Rhenen continued to live. After the war he went back to the army and made with chaplains of the three Army components plan to establish a national memorial church. To realize this, the Memorial Church Foundation Fund was established. Through an action pictures and later, supported by the KRO radio, rural gravel action was needed fundraising. The church was designed by the winner of a contest, the architect Jules Kirch. The building he combined horizontal and vertical elements in the landscape with horizontal and vertical elements in the church, so the terms "fall" and "resurrection" of expression. The church was consecrated and inaugurated in 1959.

Within Mill

Inside the mill was a flour mill in the town Rhenen in the Dutch province of Utrecht .The mill was built in 1893 to replace a post mill in the same place. Various parts of the old mill in the new round stone mill processed. Already in the thirties of the twentieth century, the mill was shut and a café - restaurant decorated. For this purpose, the grinding stones removed. The mill was in the hood and a lookout was called the Mill called Panorama. The assertion of the mill served as a terrace.

Pratt Burg

Pratt Burg is an estate and mansion in the Utrecht Ridge at Rhenen in the Dutch province of Utrecht.Measuring over 430 acres of the estate, consisting largely of wood. On the estate in 1887 built a house with castle-like appearance surrounded by a garden in landscape style . It has since 1694 occupied by the family van Asch van Wyck .

Ouwehand Zoo

Ouwehand Zoo is a zoo in Rhenen in the Dutch province of Utrecht .The founder of the park, Cor Ouwehand , was from Rotterdam to Rhenen come to a cigar factory where to start. He decided, however, stop them and started in 1919 on the Grebbeberg a chicken farm . During that time visited many farmers that farm, many of them did not apply to the exotic chicken breeds , but for the other animals that lived there too such as raccoons , peacocks and pheasants .

Secrets Mountain

The Heimen Berg is a former ring Walburg at Rhenen in the Dutch province of Utrecht.In ancient times they had been the need to protect themselves against intruders from outside. Therefore, settlements often started at strategic locations, such as an elevated area or a ford of a river. This allowed the settlement affect the surrounding area.

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