Wijchen
Wijchen is a town in Wijchen, Gelderland and has about 33,800 residents. Wijchen is situated nearby to the neighborhood Woezik, as well as near the hamlet Klispoel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 33,800 residents
- Description: village in Wijchen, Netherlands
- Postal codes: 6601-6605
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wijchen railway station and De Oude Molen.
Wijchen railway station
Railway station
Photo: PiusImpavidus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wijchen is a railway station located in Wijchen, Netherlands. The station was opened in 1881 and is located on the Tilburg–Nijmegen railway. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
Schoonoord
Windmill
Photo: Havang, Public domain.
Schoonoord is a tower mill in Alverna, Gelderland, Netherlands, 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.
Alverna
Village
Alverna is a village in the municipality of Wijchen in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. As of 2021, it had a population of 2,525. The village is named after the Alverna monastery founded there in 1887, which in turn is named after La Verna, the mountain in Tuscany where Francis of Assisi is said to have received the stigmata on 17 September 1224.
Leur
Village
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
Leur is a village, which is situated 2½ km northwest of Wijchen.
Balgoij
Village
Balgoij or Balgoy is a village in Gelderland, Netherlands, near the river Meuse. It belongs to the Wijchen municipality. Until 1923, Balgoij was a separate municipality. Balgoij is situated 3 km south of Wijchen.
Wijchen
- Categories: village, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Wijchen, Gelderland, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.80717° or 51° 48′ 26″ northLongitude
5.72617° or 5° 43′ 34″ eastPopulation
33,800Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL WCHOpen location code
9F37RP4G+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2717911208OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- 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”
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Localities in the Area
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