Railway monument
Railway monument is a memorial in Nijmegen, Gelderland. Railway monument is situated nearby to the tourism office Infocentrum WO2, as well as near the theater building Lindenberg Nijmegen Culture House.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: 19th-century sculpture in Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Inscription: “Eendracht maakt macht - ter herinnering aan den bouw van den spoorweg Nijmegen-Cleve door Nijmeegs Burgerij - geopend 8 augustus 1865”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lindenberg Nijmegen Culture House and Museum Het Valkhof.
Lindenberg Nijmegen Culture House
Theater building
Photo: De Lindenberg Nijmegen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lindenberg Nijmegen Culture House, founded in 1972, was a project opened by the Netherlands Minister of Culture, Piet Engels. It is a cultural house in Nijmegen, Netherlands, on the Ridderstraat next to the Valkhof Museum.
Museum Het Valkhof
Museum
Photo: Ellywa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Valkhof Museum is an archaeology and art museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The museum has existed since 1999, created as a merger between the G. M. Kam museum of archaeology and the Commanderie van St. Museum Het Valkhof is situated 180 metres east of Railway monument.
Velorama
Museum
Photo: EvaK, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Velorama is the only bicycle museum in the Netherlands. It is located along the Waal River in the city of Nijmegen. The museum was founded in 1981 from the private collection of G.F. Velorama is situated 190 metres northeast of Railway monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lent and Ubbergen.
Lent
Village
Lent is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Nijmegen, about 2 km north of that city, on the north bank of the Waal river.
Ubbergen
Village
Photo: Arjandb, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Ubbergen is a village and former municipality in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. On 1 January 2015 it merged into the enlarged municipality of Groesbeek, renamed Berg en Dal from 1 January 2016. Ubbergen is situated 2½ km southeast of Railway monument.
Nijmegen-Noord
Suburb
Photo: Orange2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nijmegen-Noord is a suburb, which is situated 3 km north of Railway monument.
Railway monument
- Categories: sculpture, monument, and historic site
- Location: Nijmegen, Gelderland, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.84708° or 51° 50′ 50″ northLongitude
5.8689° or 5° 52′ 8″ eastInception
1884Open location code
9F37RVW9+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 2468558750OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q2645424
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to German—“Railway monument” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “De engel”
- Dutch: “rijksmonumentnummer 523055”
- Dutch: “Spoorwegmonument (Nijmegen)”
- Dutch: “Spoorwegmonument Nijmegen-Kleve”
- Dutch: “Spoorwegmonument”
- German: “Eisenbahn-Denkmal”
- German: “Eisenbahndenkmal”
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