Kerkrade
Kerkrade is a town and a municipality in the southeast of Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands. It forms part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 45,400 residents
- Description: municipality in Limburg, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Holz-Kerkrade”, “Kerkrade Municipality”, and “Kirchroa”
- Neighbors: Aachen, Heerlen, and Landgraaf
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide and GaiaZOO.
Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide
Stadium
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The Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide is a stadium situated in Kerkrade, Netherlands. It is the former stadium of Roda JC, who since 2000 play in the Parkstad Limburg Stadion. It is still in use for youth and Jong Roda JC matches.
GaiaZOO
Zoo
GaiaZOO is a Dutch zoo located in Kerkrade. It opened in 2005 as GaiaPark with approximately 80 different species. In 2014, the zoo had approximately 100 different species.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Herzogenrath and Landgraaf.
Herzogenrath
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herzogenrath is a municipality in the district of Aachen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It borders the Dutch town of Kerkrade, the national border in one section running along the middle of a main road and even directly through the centre of the cross-border Eurode office complex.
Landgraaf
Photo: Maurice van Bruggen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Landgraaf is a Dutch city in the south of the country, famous for hosting Pinkpop, said to be the longest running pop festival in the world. It's also home to one of the largest indoor ski pistes in Europe.
Heerlen
Photo: Timo Beil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Heerlen is a city in South Limburg in the southeast of the Netherlands. In Roman times, it was a settlement named Coriovallum, which hosted a bathhouse, now the Thermenmuseum.
Kerkrade
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kerkrade” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kerkrade”
- Albanian: “Kerkrade”
- Arabic: “كركرادة”
- Arabic: “كِركَرادة”
- Arabic: “كيركراده”
- Armenian: “Կերկրադե”
- Asturian: “Kerkrade”
- Basque: “Kerkrade”
- Bulgarian: “Керкраде”
- Catalan: “Kerkrade”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Kerkrade”
- Chinese: “Kerkrade”
- Chinese: “凯尔克拉德”
- Chinese: “科尔克拉德”
- Czech: “Kerkrade”
- Danish: “Kerkrade”
- Danish: “Kirchroa”
- Dutch: “gemeente Kerkrade”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Kerkrade”
- Dutch: “Kerkrade (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Kerkrade”
- Dutch: “Kirchroa”
- Esperanto: “Kerkrade”
- Esperanto: “Kerkrado”
- French: “Kerkrade”
- German: “Kerkrade”
- German: “Kirchrath”
- Hebrew: “קרקראדה”
- Hungarian: “Kerkrade”
- Hungarian: “Kirchrath”
- Indonesian: “Kerkrade”
- Irish: “Kerkrade”
- Italian: “Kerkrade”
- Japanese: “ケルクラーデ”
- Javanese: “Kerkrade”
- Kölsch: “Kirchroa”
- Korean: “케르크라더”
- Kurdish: “Kerkrade”
- Latin: “Roda Ecclesiae”
- Latin: “Roda”
- Latvian: “Kerkrade”
- Limburgan: “Kirchroa”
- Lithuanian: “Kerkradė”
- Low German: “Karkraode”
- Luxembourgish: “Kerkrade”
- Malay: “Kerkrade”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kerkrade”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerkrade”
- Norwegian: “Kerkrade”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kerkrade”
- Persian: “کرکراد”
- Persian: “کرکراده”
- Polish: “Kerkrade”
- Portuguese: “Kerkrade”
- Romanian: “Kerkrade”
- Russian: “Керкраде”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kerkrade”
- Scots: “Kerkrade”
- Slovak: “Kerkrade”
- Slovenian: “Kerkrade”
- Spanish: “Kerkrade”
- Swedish: “Kerkrade”
- Thai: “แกร์กราเดอ”
- Turkish: “Kerkrade”
- Ukrainian: “Керкраде”
- Venetian: “Kerkrade”
- Vietnamese: “Kerkrade”
- Volapük: “Kerkrade”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kerkrade”
- Welsh: “Kerkrade”
- Western Frisian: “Kerkrade”
- Zeeuws: “Kerkrade”
- “Kerkrade”
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