37 Sights in Maastricht, Netherlands (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Maastricht, Netherlands. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 37 sights are available in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Sightseeing Tours in Maastricht
Hell's Gate, once the Spray Gun Gate, the Takahashi Gate, all the gates on the windlass, the Gunpowder Tower Gate or the two towers, are the front gates in the Dutch urban grid. The port, part of the first medieval wall, sits at the pier at the southern end of the St Bernardus Channel, opposite the Plague House. The port dates back to the second quarter of the 13th century and is therefore the oldest surviving city gate in Holland.
2. Poort Waerachtig
The gate is a mesh gate located in the dock area, between Wharf Street and Cinder Peak Wharf. Originally called the port, it soon became a vague gate in the mouth of the people, and later became a real gate. The gate has three passages: the left and right one for pedestrians, and the middle one for wider and higher traffic. It lies between two parts in the late Middle Ages and between five titles. The neo-Gothic port, built between 1887 and 1988, is a breakthrough in the walls of the "new town" and leads to the newly built villa park. Between 1884 and 1885, a dam was laid at the junction of the ejector and the opening of the hatch-grid line of the passage. So, on the right (east), there is a boat swing, at the bottom of the first five titles, where the goose pond is called. The dam connects the new flora in the Eastern Bowl further with the Rhine Street and downtown. She was taken to the east as a pier and was named sint pieterskade in 1903. The ejectors passed through three siphons beneath the dam, but it turned out they were unable to treat water at high levels.
3. Buitengoed Slavante | Grand Café
Slavante is an area, also a street, on the east slope of the Sint-Pietersberg in the Dutch municipality of Maastricht. The area is best known for the Buitengoed Slavante, formerly Casino Slavante, a former outdoor club from 1846. The extension also includes remains of a 17th-century monastery, the baroque St. Anthony's Chapel, a vineyard, the Cellars Slavante and the entrance to the underground limestone quarries Zonneberg and Slavante. To the south of the extension used to be the main entrance Three Gates of the Slavante corridor system; just north of it are the Grotwoning De Kluis and the Grotwoning Greetje Blanckers. The high area offers a view over the river Maas and part of the Maas valley. On the Maas there is a jetty for tour boats.
4. Johannes de Doperkerk
The Johannes de Doperkerk, also called Sint-Jan Baptistkerk, is a church building in the Maastricht district Limmel. The church and its predecessors have traditionally served as the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of John the Baptist in the former village of Limmel northeast of Maastricht. The neo-Gothic church by architect Carl Weber from 1864 is not a national monument, but was placed on the municipal monument list of Maastricht in 2002. An 11th-century baptismal font is the most important object in the church from an art historical point of view.
5. Kloosterkerk Zusters Onder de Bogen
The Convent of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Charles Borromeo, commonly referred to as Convent of the Sisters Under the Arches, is a Roman Catholic monastery in the center of the Dutch city of Maastricht. The monastery is the mother house of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Charles Borromeo. The monastery is located in a number of historic buildings between the streets Sint Servaasklooster and Kommel. In the monastery garden is an important part of the remaining first, medieval city wall.
6. Sint-Martinuskerk
The Sint Martinuskerk or Sint-Maartenskerk is a neo-Gothic church building in the Dutch city of Maastricht. The building by architect Pierre Cuypers is located in the historic Wyck district, between the Rechtstraat and the river Maas. The church is one of the four Roman Catholic parish churches in the center of Maastricht and is dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. In the originally medieval church is the thirteenth-century statue of the Black Christ van Wyck, one of the popular devotions of Maastricht.
7. Sint-Petruskerk
The Church of St. Peter downstairs, officially St. Peter's Church, is a church building from 1938-39 in the Dutch city of Maastricht, located on the Sint Maternusstraat near Villapark. The building is used by the Roman Catholic parish of St. Peter, which has another parish church: the higher church of St. Peter above. The church of marlstone was designed by the well-known architect Frits Peutz as an early Christian basilica and has been a national monument since 1993.
8. Heilig Hart van Jezuskerk (Koepelkerk)
The Koepelkerk, officially Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, is a monumental domed church in the Dutch city of Maastricht. The church building is located a stone's throw from Maastricht Station on the corner of Scharnerweg and Heerderweg in Wyckerpoort in Maastricht-Oost. The church has been in use from the beginning as a Roman Catholic parish church of the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Since 2021, the building has also housed an Eritrean Orthodox faith community.
9. Cannerberg
The Cannerberg is a hill near Maastricht, which lies partly on Dutch and partly on Belgian territory. The hill is named after the town of Kanne, which lies just across the border in Belgium. The Cannerberg forms the western slope of the Jekerdal, opposite the Sint-Pietersberg. The ridge is a spur of the Haspengouws Plateau. Part of the hill was excavated between 1930 and 1939 for the construction of the Albert Canal, cutting off the ridge of the larger plateau.
10. Romeinse villa Meerssen-Onderste Herkenberg
The Roman villa Meerssen-Onderste Herkenberg, also called villa Herkenberg, is a site with the archaeological remains of a Roman villa near Meerssen in the Dutch province of Limburg. The villa was probably of the type villa rustica and was perhaps the largest in the current Netherlands. The villa site, which is partly protected as a national monument, is one of the many dozens of villa complexes that have been excavated on the loess soils of South Limburg.
11. Nieuwenhofpoortje
The Nieuwenhofpoortje, formerly also called Begijnenpoortje or poortje at the Zwingelput, is a poterne, a secondary gate in the city wall of the Dutch city of Maastricht. The gate was installed in the 14th century in the Nieuwenhofwal, part of the second medieval city wall of Maastricht and is located between the south end of the street Zwingelput (Jekerkwartier) and the pedestrian bridge over the southern Jekertak in the Stadspark Maastricht.
12. Villa Kruisdonk
Villa Kruisdonk was an estate with a country house built in 1880 near Rothem, then in the municipality of Meerssen, now near Nazareth in the northeast of the municipality of Maastricht. The estate is bordered by the Maastricht - Aachen railway line, the A2 Rijksweg, the Oude Rijksweg and the Kruisdonk road. Villa Kruisdonk is a national monument. The complex is not accessible to the public. The villa is part of the Geul & Maas Buitengoed.
13. Augustijnenkerk
The Augustijnenkerk is a baroque church building in the center of the Dutch city of Maastricht, located on the Kesselskade along the river Maas. The church was built in the 17th century as a monastery church for the Augustinian order. At the end of the 18th century, the monastery was dissolved and from that moment on the church fulfilled a multitude of functions. The Augustinian Church has been a national monument since 1966.
14. Antonius van Paduakerk
The Antonius van Paduakerk is a church building near Scharn in the Dutch city of Maastricht. The church serves as the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Saint Anthony of Padua in the former village of Scharn east of Maastricht. The traditionalist-looking church from 1938 is a municipal monument and holds a number of valuable art treasures. Part of the inventory has been protected as a national monument since 1966.
15. Kerk van de Allerheiligste Verlosser en H. Petrus
The Church of Saint Peter above, officially Church of the Most Holy Redeemer and Saint Peter, also called Saint Peter on the Mountain, is a Roman Catholic church built in 1875 in neo-Gothic style, located in the Maastricht district of Sint Pieter. The church is used by the parish of St. Peter, as is the church of St. Peter downstairs. The church of St. Peter above is a national monument.
16. Kasteel Meerssenhoven
Meerssenhoven Castle is a castle-like country estate and an estate in the northeast of the Dutch municipality of Maastricht. The 18th-century building complex and associated park has been preserved in a neat state and has formed a group of twelve national monuments since 2002. The estate in the Meerssenhoven neighborhood east of Itteren is part of the Buitengoed Geul & Maas.
17. Sint-Theresiakerk
St. Celicia Church is a church building in the mesh area of Dutch cities, located in the hot spring square near the grassland in the southwest. The Roman Catholic Diocese Church is named after the 19th century Spirit of Sacred Lisuez. phil Harmony in the southern Netherlands will be withdrawn from 2022. The artificial rock building in the early 1930s is a municipal monument.
18. La Petite Suisse
Mariënwaard is the name of an estate, a street and a hamlet in the Maastricht neighborhood Nazareth. In the hamlet of Mariënwaard there are some ordinary houses and two country estates that both belong to the Mariënwaard estate: La Grande Suisse and La Petite Suisse. In 2020, the estate as a whole is part of a country estate zone, the Buitengoed Geul & Maas.
19. Motte De Tombe
The Tombe is an originally early medieval motte on the Sint-Pietersberg in the south of the Dutch municipality of Maastricht. The remainder of the motte is located along the Van Schaikweg on the west flank of the Sint-Pietersberg on the edge of the ENCI forest. To the west of the motte is the Quarry de Tombe and to the south of the motte is the ENCI forest.
20. Museumkelder Derlon
The Derlon Museum Cellar is a small archaeological museum in the center of the Dutch city of Maastricht, where an important excavation from Roman times can be visited. The excavation has been protected as a national monument since 2004. The museum cellar is located in the basement of Hotel Derlon on the Onze Lieve Vrouweplein and is accessible on request.
21. Kasteel Borgharen
Borgharen Castle is a medieval castle located on the river Maas in the village of Borgharen in the north of the municipality of Maastricht. The castle, the castle farm, the tenant farm and the gardens, including various gates, fences, quay walls and bridges, form a cluster of national monuments. The castle is part of the Buitengoed Geul & Maas.
22. Sint-Walburgakerk
The Sint-Walburgakerk is a church building near Amby in the east of the Dutch city of Maastricht. The church has served for centuries as the church building of the Roman Catholic parish of Saint Walburga in the former village of Amby. The neo-Gothic church from 1867 is a municipal monument and holds a number of valuable art treasures.
23. Sint-Matthiaskerk
The Sint-Matthiaskerk, also called Sint-Matthiaskerk, is a Gothic church building in the center of the Dutch city of Maastricht, located on the Boschstraat in the Boschstraatkwartier. The church is one of the four Roman Catholic parish churches in the center of Maastricht and is dedicated to the holy apostle Mattias.
24. IJzeren Molen
The IJzeren Molen, also called Nieuwe Molen or Rothemermolen, is a watermill on a branch of the Geul, called the Kleine Geul or Geulke, in Rothem, municipality of Meerssen. The IJzeren Molen is part of the Buitengoed Geul & Maas, formerly called Landgoederenzone Maastricht-Meerssen. The mill is a national monument.
25. Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg
The Historisch Centrum Limburg (HCL) collects, manages and presents archives and collections of (government) institutions and private individuals in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is one of the Regional Historical Centres in the Netherlands. The HCL has locations in Heerlen and Maastricht.
Wikipedia: Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg (NL), Website
26. Het Heilig Hart van Jezuskerk
The Sacred Heart of Jesus Church is a Roman Catholic church building dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the village of Rothem in the Dutch South Limburg municipality of Meerssen. The building from 1929 by architect Jos Wielders has been a national monument since 1997.
27. Huis Eyll
The house yyll, also known as cronenhof, is a castle-like suburb located in the Met strie district. The 18th-century building has been an imperial monument since 1966, with its corresponding crown. Especially inside, petrus nicolas gagini is decorated with stucco.
28. Sint-Corneliuskerk
The Sint-Corneliuskerk, originally Sint-Martinuskerk, is a Roman Catholic church building at Kerkstraat 10 in Borgharen, in the municipality of Maastricht. The church is a municipal monument. A number of objects in the church have the status of national monument.
29. Ruïne Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg Castle Ruin is a ruin of a castle located on the Sint-Pietersberg south of the village of Sint Pieter in the Dutch municipality of Maastricht. The structure is located on the eastern edge of the mountain with the Slavante forest to the north of it.
30. Waalse kerk
The Walloon church, also called French church, is a church building in sober baroque style in the center of the Dutch city of Maastricht. The church is located on the Sint Pietersstraat in the Jekerkwartier, diagonally opposite the Oude Minderbroederskerk.
31. Kasteel Bethlehem
Bethlehem Castle is a castle in Maastricht, in the south of the Netherlands. It was built in the 12th century. It is one of the oldest castles in the Netherlands. Nowadays it serves as a hotel and as part of the Maastricht Hotel Management School.
32. Withuishof
The Withuishof is a neoclassical country house located on the outskirts of Scharn in the eastern part of the municipality of Maastricht. The house has been a national monument since 1967 and is counted as part of the Buitengoed Geul & Maas.
33. Vredeskapel
The Peace Chapel is a chapel in the town of Meerssen in the Dutch South Limburg municipality of Meerssen. The chapel is located on the Markt southwest of the Basilica of the Blessed Sacrament on the east side of the Proosdijpark.
34. Don Boscokerk
The Don Bosco church is a modern church building in the Dutch city of Maastricht, located at Kardinaal van Rossumplein 97 near Heugemerveld. The former Roman Catholic parish church has been in use as a Baptist church since 2017.
35. Sint-Janskerk
The Sint-Janskerk is a Gothic church in the center of the Dutch city of Maastricht. The Protestant Sint-Jan is situated next to the Roman Catholic Basilica of Saint Servatius on the Vrijthof, a unique sight in the Netherlands.
36. Petrus en Paulus
The Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk is the Roman Catholic parish church of Wolder, a village and neighborhood in the Dutch city of Maastricht. The neo-Gothic church building was officially consecrated on July 12, 1898.
37. Charles Eyck Park
The Charles Eyckpark is a city park along the Meuse on the edge of the Céramique district in the center of Maastricht. The fairly new park is named after the Limburg painter and sculptor Charles Eyck.
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