Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Utrecht, Netherlands

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 6.4 km
Ascend 69 m
Descend 68 m

Explore Utrecht 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.

Activities in UtrechtIndividual Sights in Utrecht

Sight 1: Houtzaagmolen De Ster

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Houtzaagmolen De Ster Original uploader was Hans de Kroon at nl.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

Sawmill de Ster is the center of the Molenerf de Ster, the only completely preserved sawmill yard in the Netherlands. Molenerf de Ster consists of the windmill with sawmill, the miller's house, two servants' houses and three wood-drying sheds. The top of the mill reaches up to 20 meters. The blades are another 9 meters above that. The Star can be seen from far around.

Wikipedia: Houtzaagmolen De Ster (NL)

1534 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 2: Kathedrale Kerk van Ste. Gertrudis

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Kathedrale Kerk van Ste. Gertrudis pepijntje / CC BY-SA 3.0

St. Gertrude's Cathedral in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is the seat of the Archbishop of Utrecht and the mother church of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: St. Gertrude's Cathedral (EN), Website

388 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Buurkerk

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The Buurkerk is a former church building in Utrecht (city), Netherlands on the Buurkerkhof. The building is the location of the Museum Speelklok, and the entrance is on the Steenweg. It is one of the medieval parish churches of Utrecht, along with the Jacobikerk, the Nicolaïkerk and the Geertekerk.

Wikipedia: Buurkerk (EN)

4 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Museum Speelklok

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Museum Speelklok is a museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, specializing in self-playing musical instruments. Since 1984, it has been housed in the centre of Utrecht in a former church called Buurkerk. Among the instruments on display are music boxes, musical clocks, pianolas, barrel organs and a turret clock with a carillon, most of which are still able to play for visitors. The word speelklok means musical clock.

Wikipedia: Museum Speelklok (EN), Website

406 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Utrecht Archives Expo

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Utrecht Archives Expo Camera Obscura / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Utrecht Archives is a records department in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The Utrecht Archives manages the biggest and richest collection of documents about the history of the city and the province of Utrecht and its towns and people. With over 200 km of archives, images and 70.000 publications, the Archive is the major source of information for the history of Utrecht. The Utrecht Archives also disposes knowledge about legal supervision of archives in the field of analog as well as digital archive management. Besides, the national centre for ecclesiastical records is located in the Utrecht Archives together with the records of the Dutch Railways. The Utrecht Archives institution works closely together with other partners such as (local) governments, private individuals, partner institutions and other museums in Utrecht.

Wikipedia: Utrecht Archives (EN), Website

216 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Hugo Wstinc

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Hugo Wstinc was a Dutch jurist.

Wikipedia: Hugo Wstinc (NL)

166 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Verzetsmonument

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The resistance monument on Domplein in Utrecht is a war memorial in honor of the Dutch Resistance in the Second World War.

Wikipedia: Verzetsmonument Utrecht (NL), Website

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Pieterskerk

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St. Peter's Church is a Reformed and former Roman Catholic church in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands, dedicated to Peter the Apostle. It is one of the city's oldest churches. Its construction began in 1039 and it was inaugurated on 1 May 1048 by Bernold, Bishop of Utrecht. The church was the eastern end of Utrecht's "Kerkenkruis", of which the Domkerk the centre is. Characteristic of the Romanesque style in which it is built are the church's large nave pillars, each hewn from one piece of red sandstone, and the crypt under the choir. The building is now used by the Walloon Church.

Wikipedia: St. Peter's Church, Utrecht (EN)

338 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Janskerk

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Janskerk

The Janskerk is on the Janskerkhof in the Dutch city of Utrecht. She was founded shortly after 1040 by Bishop Bernold and dedicated to John the Baptist. She was one of the five chapter churches of the city in the Middle Ages. Twenty canons were connected to the chapter of Sint-Jan. The Proosdij was connected to this.

Wikipedia: Janskerk (Utrecht) (NL)

47 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Anne Frank

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Anne Frank brbbl / CC BY-SA 3.0

The statue of Anne Frank in the Janskerkhof in Utrecht is a statue of the German-Jewish girl Anne Frank who died during the Holocaust at the age of fifteen. Through her diary, Anne Frank has become the symbol of the victims of the Holocaust worldwide.

Wikipedia: Beeld van Anne Frank (Utrecht) (NL)

457 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

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The Stadsschouwburg is the largest theater building in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Designed in 1937 by the well -known architect Willem Dudok. The building is on the Lucasbolwerk, on the edge of the Utrecht city center. The Stadsschouwburg was opened on 3 September 1941 and then housed the Esplanade restaurant. The building was recognized around 2009 as a national monument after nomination in 2007 on the top 100 Dutch monuments 1940-1958.

Wikipedia: Stadsschouwburg Utrecht (NL), Website

7 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Muze

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Muze D.C. Goosen / CC BY 4.0

Muse is a sculpture by the goldsmith Leo Brom and the architect Willem Dudok that is attached to the façade of the Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.

Wikipedia: Muze (Stadsschouwburg Utrecht) (NL), Website

756 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 13: Joods Monument Utrecht

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The Jewish monument in Utrecht is a memorial for the Jewish victims of the Second World War from Utrecht. More than 1600 people were deported in 1942 and 1943, only 400 of them returned. Until 2015, Utrecht was the only major city in the Netherlands without a Jewish monument, other than Anne Frank's image at the Janskerkhof and a memorial stone at the Jewish cemetery. The monument was unveiled on 29 October 2015 by Mayor Jan van Zanen.

Wikipedia: Joods monument (Utrecht) (NL), Website

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Spoorwegmuseum

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The Railway Museum in Utrecht is the Dutch national railway museum. It was established in 1927 and since 1954 has been housed in the former Maliebaan station.

Wikipedia: Railway Museum (Netherlands) (EN), Website

1256 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 15: Exbunker

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Exbunker Fotodienst GAU (fotograaf)/ Het Utrechts Archief / CC BY-SA 4.0

The bunker in the Wilhelminapark was built in 1943 as a bomb-proof German personnel bunker in the Wilhelminapark in Utrecht. After 1945, the bunker was mainly an obstacle. Due to its cultural-historical value, it has been a municipal monument since 2001 and has been used as an exhibition space by visual artists since 2014.

Wikipedia: Bunker Wilhelminapark (NL), Website

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Wilhelminapark

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Wilhelminapark

Wilhelminapark is a city park in the Dutch city of Utrecht. It is one of the first parks in the Netherlands to be recognized as a national monument. The park is centrally located in Utrecht-Oost and east of Oudwijk. The surrounding neighborhood is called the Wilhelminaparkbuurt, while a street along the park is also called Wilhelminapark.

Wikipedia: Wilhelminapark (Utrecht) (NL)

327 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Holy Trinity Church

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The Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican parish church in the Utrecht district of Oudwijk on the Van Limburg Stirumplein near the Van Limburg Stirumstraat, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The first stone was laid on November 9, 1911 by the Anglican bishop for Northern Europe Herbert Bury. A year later the first church service was held and eventually the church was inaugurated on 2 June 1913.

Wikipedia: Holy Trinity Church (Utrecht) (NL), Website

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