Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Deventer, Netherlands

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Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 1.9 km
Ascend 11 m
Descend 16 m

Explore Deventer in Netherlands with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Deventer

Sight 1: Museum EICAS

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Museum EICAS is a Dutch museum of contemporary art in Deventer. Museum EICAS focuses on a wide audience and takes the art of the Zero and Zero movement as its starting point. From there, the connection is made with contemporary non-figurative, investigative and innovative artists for exhibitions and activities such as concerts and lectures.

Wikipedia: Museum EICAS (NL), Website, Mastodon

70 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Grote of Lebuïnuskerk

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The Great Church or St. Lebuinus Church is the main church building of the Dutch city of Deventer, Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Lebuïnuskerk, Deventer (EN)

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Proosdij van het kapittel van Lebuinus

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The Proosdij in Deventer is the oldest stone house in the Netherlands. Architectural historical research has shown that the oldest core of the building dates from around the year 1130. The house is located on the Sandrasteeg and the Stromarkt, in the center of the old city of Deventer.

Wikipedia: Proosdij (Deventer) (NL), Url

322 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Broederenkerk

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The Broederenkerk, officially the Roman Catholic St. Lebuïnus Church, is a church in Deventer, built between 1335 and 1338 by order of Eleanor of England, then Duchess of Guelders. Before the church was built, a monastery had already been founded on that site around 1300 by the Friars Minor Franciscans. Although the friars left the monastery and church for good in 1579, the informal but well-established name of the almshouse is a reminder of their centuries-long presence. From 1579 to 1799 the church building was used, with a short interruption, by Deventer Protestants.

Wikipedia: Broederenkerk (Deventer) (NL), Website

417 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Wilhelminafontein

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On the Brink in Deventer there is a Wilhelmina fountain. The monument was unveiled in 1898 on the occasion of the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina. The monument was designed by the Deventer city architect J.A. Mulock Houwer. In 1893 a fountain had already been planned in honour of the completion of the Deventer water pipe, but lack of money forced the construction to be abandoned. In 1898 the opportunity arose to install a fountain. The monument - the cast-iron parts of which were cast by Nering Bögel - limps along these two lines. Contrary to what the inscription on the pedestal suggests, the monument contains no further references to the monarch. On the pedestal is the Maid of the City of Deventer, made by Wilhelmus Gerhardus van Poorten. It has a laurel leaf and a shield on which the city's coat of arms is printed.

Wikipedia: Wilhelminafontein (Deventer) (NL)

930 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 6: Bolwerksmolen

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Bolwerksmolen Johan Weenink / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Bolwerksmolen is a sawmill in Deventer on the west bank of the IJssel river, near the Wilhelmina Bridge. The mill was registered in the register of national monuments in 1968.

Wikipedia: Bolwerksmolen (NL)

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