Katharinenhof Kranenburg, Kranenburg

Name: Katharinenhof Kranenburg
Address: Muehlenstrasse 9, Kranenburg, 47559, Germany

#1 among attractions in Kranenburg

Museum, Top attraction, Historical place, Monastery

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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. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 51°47'20"N, 6°0'28"E

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Muehlenstrasse 9Kranenburg 47559 Germany

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Nearby attractions include: Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Klever Reichswald, Zelem Castle, B.C. Koekkoek-Haus.

5 miE
Specialty museum, Museum, Art museum
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
129 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...
3 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Klever Reichswald
78 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.
2.3 miNE
Forts and castles
Zelem Castle
59 min walk • 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.
5.6 miE
Specialty museum, Museum
B.C. Koekkoek-Haus, Kleve
142 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.
5.5 miE
Church
Collegiate Church, Kleve
141 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...
5 miE
Outdoor activities, Park, Zoo
Tiergarten, Kleve
128 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.
4.6 miSE
Cemetery
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
118 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.
~510 ftNW
Church
Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Kranenburg
3 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.
5.4 miE
Church
Kleine Evangelische Kirche, Kleve
138 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...
~230 ftS
Historical place, Tower
Mühlenturm, Kranenburg
2 min walk • The mill tower was part of the city fortifications of Kranenburg built from 1395 and served as the city windmill until World War I. Today, the building is used as a museum.
5.1 miE
Town, Park
Forstgarten, Kleve
131 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.