Wijchen

Wijchen is a town in , and has about 33,800 residents. Wijchen is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near the hamlet .
wijchen.nl
  • Type: Town with 33,800 residents
  • Description: city in Wijchen, Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 6601-6605

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wijchen railway station and De Oude Molen.

Railway station
Photo: PiusImpavidus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wijchen is a railway station located in , . The station was opened in 1881 and is located on the Tilburg–Nijmegen railway. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Windmill
Photo: Havang(nl), Public domain.
is a windmill.

Windmill
Photo: Havang, Public domain.
is a tower mill in , , , which was built in 1887 and is in working order. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alverna and Leur.

Village
is a in the municipality of in the province of in the . As of 2021, it had a population of 2,525. The village is named after the monastery founded there in 1887, which in turn is named after , the mountain in where Francis of Assisi is said to have received the stigmata on 17 September 1224.

Village
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a village, which is situated 2½ km northwest of Wijchen.

Village
or Balgoy is a village in , , near the river . It belongs to the municipality. Until 1923, was a separate municipality. is situated 3 km south of Wijchen.

Wijchen

Latitude
51.80717° or 51° 48′ 26″ north
Longitude
5.72617° or 5° 43′ 34″ east
Population
33,800
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL WCH
Open location code
9F37RP4G+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2717911208
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2744514
Wiki­data ID
Q15981302
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Wijchen” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Wijchen”
  • Catalan: “Wijchen”
  • Cebuano: “Wijchen”
  • Chinese: “Wijchen”
  • Dutch: “Wijchen”
  • Esperanto: “Viĥeno”
  • Esperanto: “Wijchen”
  • French: “Wijchen”
  • German: “Wijchen”
  • Hebrew: “ויכן”
  • Indonesian: “Wijchen”
  • Irish: “Wijchen”
  • Italian: “Wijchen”
  • Japanese: “ヴァイヘン”
  • Ladin: “Wijchen”
  • Limburgan: “Wieche”
  • Limburgan: “Wijchen”
  • Lithuanian: “Veichenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wijchen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wijchen”
  • Russian: “Вийчен”
  • Russian: “Вихен”
  • Spanish: “Wijchen”
  • Swedish: “Wijchen”
  • Ukrainian: “Віхен”
  • Welsh: “Wijchen”
  • Western Frisian: “Wijchen”
  • “Wijchen”

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