Zelem Castle

#1235 among destinations in Germany

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Burg Zelem or Zelem Castle was a knight's moated fortress located in the lowland areas left of the Rhine River between the villages Mehr and Niel. ()

Local name: Haus Zelem Coordinates: 51°49'7"N, 6°1'54"E

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North Rhine-WestphaliaGermany

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Zelem Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Katharinenhof Kranenburg, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Klever Reichswald, XOX-Theater Kleve.

2.3 miSW
Museum, Historical place, Monastery
Katharinenhof Kranenburg, Kranenburg
59 min walk • The Katharinenhof in Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was used from 1446 until 1802 as the home of a convent of sisters of the Catholic Church. After that time, the building served various uses. Since 1961, the house serves as a museum.
4.3 miE
Specialty museum, Museum, Art museum
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
110 min walk • Museum Kurhaus Kleve is an art museum in Kleve on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia. It bears its name because of the building's original function, when Kleve was a spa resort, especially popular with wealthy Prussians and Dutch, as "Bad...
5.2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Klever Reichswald
133 min walk • The Klever Reichswald is an Imperial forest in North Rhine-Westphalia between the rivers Rhine and Meuse at the German–Dutch border. The forest is located in the municipal territory of Kleve, Goch, Kranenburg and Bedburg-Hau.
5.2 miE
Concerts and shows, Theater
XOX-Theater Kleve, Kleve
132 min walk • XOX-Theater Kleve is a theatre in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
4.9 miSE
Specialty museum, Museum
B.C. Koekkoek-Haus, Kleve
127 min walk • The Museum B.C. Koekkoek House is the former home of the Dutch painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and his family. The listed building in Kleve at Koekkoekplatz 1, formerly Kavarinerstraße 33, has been used as a museum since 1960.
5.1 miSE
Church
Collegiate Church, Kleve
129 min walk • Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary-a church in the city of Kleve, Germany, in the union country of North Rhine-Westphalia. Established in the Gothic style in the fourteenth and fifteenth century as a collegiate...
4.2 miE
Outdoor activities, Park, Zoo
Tiergarten, Kleve
107 min walk • The Kleve Zoo is a zoo in Kleve, Germany. It houses about 350 animals with a focus on mostly old, endangered domestic breeds. As part of the European Conservation Breeding Program, it also keeps kulans and lesser pandas.
5.8 miS
Cemetery
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
148 min walk • Reichswald Forest War Cemetery-War Cemetery of the British Community from World War II located in the Reichswald forest near the town of Kleve in the union country of Rhineland North-Westphalia in Germany.
2.3 miSW
Church
Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Kranenburg
58 min walk • The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Kranenburg is also a pilgrimage church to the Miraculous Cross and was a collegiate church under the patrocinium of St. Martin from 1436 to 1802.
5 miSE
Town, Church
Unterstadtkirche, Kleve
128 min walk • Kleve is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century onwards, Cleves was capital of a county and later a duchy.
4.9 miSE
Church
Kleine Evangelische Kirche, Kleve
126 min walk • The Kleine Evangelische Kirche is a church building in the district town of Kleve on the lower Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia. It belongs to the Protestant parish of Kleve. The church, which was consecrated in the name Trinitatiskirche on...