Oude Westen

Oude Westen is a neighborhood of , adjacent to the city center. The neighborhood was created in the late 19th century when the territory of the district belonged to the then municipality .
Tap on a place
to explore it

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Rotterdam Centraal railway station.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Municipal is an art museum in in the . The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen.

Railway station
Rotterdam Centraal station is the main railway station of the city in , Netherlands. The station received an average of 112,000 passengers daily in 2019.

Museum
Photo: Wikifrits, Public domain.
The is a museum dedicated to the Dutch painter and sculptor Hendrik Chabot in in the . The museum is housed in a monumental villa in the , near the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Middelland and C.S. kwartier.

Quarter
Photo: Hanhil, Public domain.
Delfshaven is a borough of , Netherlands, on the right bank of river . It was a separate municipality until 1886. The town of Delfshaven grew around the port of the city of .

Neighborhood
is the central neighborhood of , , immediately surrounding Rotterdam Centraal Station. The neighborhood has access to a major harbor in Rotterdam, and is also called the Central District of Rotterdam.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood of , .

Oude Westen

Latitude
51.91805° or 51° 55′ 5″ north
Longitude
4.46625° or 4° 27′ 59″ east
Population
9,440
Open location code
9F36WF98+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 587759191
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Wiki­data ID
Q3255261
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Oude Westen from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Dutch to French—“Oude Westen” goes by many names.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Chinatown and Cool.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Gerrit Sterkmanplein and Toni Koopmanplein.

Rotterdam: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Centrum, Capelle en Noordoost, Albrandswaard, and Port of Rotterdam.

Curious Quarters to Discover

Uncover intriguing quarters from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Oude Westen”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.