Location: Kleve
Top Things to do in Kleve
The 10 Best Things to Do in Kleve, Germany
Cleves (German: Kleve; Dutch: Kleff, Kleef; French: Clèves; Latin: Clivia) 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. Today, Cleves is the capital of the district of Cleves in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The city is home to one of the campuses of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences.
Restaurants in Kleve
1. Historische Gartenanlagen
Overall Ratings
4 based on 62 reviews
Reviewed By bommelstein - Utrecht, The Netherlands
Situated next to Cleve "Zoo". Nice place for a walk near downtown Cleve. Parking is no problem. The arboretum is rich in shadow , The lanes to walk in the historical park (layed out by a Nassau relative) lead towards a hill where more trails eventually lead up to a tower (you have to cross a street to reach the top) from where one can see Kalkar, Elten. Need a rest? A nearby restaurant within the park serves good foo and has , of course, toilets.
2. Britischer Ehrenfriedhof
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 24 reviews
Reviewed By Me_n_my_rucksack - Yorkshire, United Kingdom
This cemetery is set in a forest to the south of Kleve.
One of the largest Commonwealth Cemeteries in Germany it, generally, is divided into 2 halves. To the RHS as one enters the graves are those of casualties from the closing months of the war as the Allies entered Germany. Generally Army graves with the occasional Airman the casualties here all fell within a few months of each other in 1945.
To the left are the graves of Airmen who were shot down throughout WW2. There are groups of 3, 4 or 5 headstones from individual aircraft for example. The graves here are of aircrew who dies between 1939 and 45. There are many Dambuster crews burried here.
The groundskeepers do an incredible job - the grass graves and flowers are kept in a beautiful state.
Lots of places to sit and contemplate this was a moving stop during our tour of Germany. If you are in the area please go along and pay respects.
3. Tiergarten Kleve
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 78 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
The current animal park has wide range of about 300 animals, mainly old pet breeds and a number of European predators such as owls and Eurasian lynx. Furthermore: a rare albino donkey, boar, Przewalski's horses, a basin with seals, sheep and cattle, Bulgarian long-haired goats, fallow deer, screw-horned goats, pets from the Asian and African and South American and Australian continent: camel, lama, kangaroes, pigmeegoats, corsac fox, raccoons, mink, ferrets, etc.
4. B.C. Koekkoek Haus
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 13 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
In 1847 the landscape painter had this city Palace build as a residence and Studio. Past his death his widow sold this artist's home. The format of the bel-etage and many details in the stairwell are still original. The House withstood in a miraculous way the bombing during WW II on Cleves, when its surrounding buildings were totally destroyed. Period 1945-1960 used as City Hall, when a new town hall was built was Haus Koekkoek used as urban museum which displays the large collection of work of Koekkoek and other landscape painters of his period, romantic painters from Cleves, as well as paintings in connection with the Kleve history. On the top floor changing Exhibitions, at the ground floor a museum shop. Since 2006 stands on the Koekkoekplatz a bust depicting the artist at 41-year-old age, at the height of his fame.
5. Lohengrinbrunnen
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 35 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
Helas, in winterseason the Fountains are shut down, never the less still beautifull. This Fountain (made by K. H. Seemann) is intertwined with the magical Lohengrin sage, which is about the first Klever whose origin dates back to the time of a Princess named Beatrix (Beatrice), who lived in the Swan Castle some 1000 years ago. Her father had died so she was forced to marry. During a walk along the Rhine at the foot of the mountain (at present named Kermisdahl) she was approached by a Swan who wore a gold chain around its neck and pulled behind it a boat on which a Knight stood. Barely a foot ashore told her he had come to defend her country. Beatrice fell in love with him and wanted to marry him. He said “Yes” under the condition: to never ask about his name or origin. The couple was happy and had three sons who, over time, became curious and tried to gather information from their mother: "from where originates our father? Ask him then!" She hesitated but nevertheless did ask the forbidden question to her Swan Knight. With a sad face he replied: "my name is Elias (Helias) and I come from the earthly paradise". Immediately the Swan appeared and disappeared with the Knight. Beatrice died a few months later of a broken heart.
6. Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Overall Ratings
4 based on 13 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
The Museum Kurhaus Kleve dates back to the heyday period of Spa "Bad Cleve". Built in 1845-1872 in two departments and is located next to the 17th century Amphitheatre. Past WW I the building was in disrepair, early 1990 renovation of the Spa, converted to museum (typographer and designer Walter Nikkels and architect Heinz Wrede), by this conversion the balance between old and new as well as the Spa facilities remained preserved. Since April 1997, the museum presents artwork from the middle ages to the present, but the emphasis lies on contemporary art from 1950 to the present period. Amongst this permanent collection also the artistic legacy of Ewald Mataré (1887-1965, sculptor classic modernism), as well as a new climax: the authentic Studios of Joseph Beuys in the so-called "Friedrich-Wilhelm-bad".
7. Castle Schwanenburg
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 51 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
Of this former fortress is the "Schwanenturm" open to visitors, and during tours for groups also its Spike. The saga of this castle is associated with Knight of the Swan Lohengrin, supposedly the ancestor of the Dukes of Cleves. Once the building was called "the fortress of Cleves" but after its 17th century renovation is the Swan Castle since then actually a baroque castle. Remains of the ornated Knights' Hall were integrated into the portals on the courtyard and are preserved, 12th century and 15th century the former castle rampart was wall built as well as the double seat toilet (flushing included, state of the art in that period!) integrated into the Spiegelturm. In WW II destroyed by a bombraid, only the Swantower has been reconstructed. Today the castle houses the Court of Justice.
8. St. Maria Himmelfahrt
Overall Ratings
4 based on 12 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
In 1341 count Dietrich IX moved stift Monterberg (Kalkar) to Kleve and replaced the Johanniskirche by a new Collegiate Church, in 1356 the choir was consecrated, completed in 1426. Heavily damaged in 1794 during the invasion of French revolutionary troops, destroyed again during WW II, reconstruction in 1951. In the enormous space massive pillars of trachyte support arches and vaults, thus simultaneously dividing the enormous Church Hall in a nave and two aisles. Beautiful is the restored Marian-altar in the choir (H. Douverman) and the crusifix-altar in the aisle at the right handside (created mid-16th century in Antwerp). Furthermore the epitaph in the choir of the right handside aisle, the Ducal Tomb, the northern entrance hall and the main altar.
9. Kriegsgraeberstaette Donsbrueggen
Overall Ratings
4 based on 7 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
2381 Deceased from WW II have found their final restingplace at this site, fallen or died in Kleve hospitals, soldiers who came from all parts of the German Empire, victims of the bombing of Kleve on 7 October 1944 and foreign workers who died when they were deployed at the so-called "Westwall". In 1946 the “Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge” (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) started to search for scattered graves in this region, 1948 construction of this cemetery on the Donsbrügger Heide, 1950 inauguration. The deceased rest in double rows, the rough hewn cross groups made from green Anröchter dolomite remind to medieval conciliation crosses. A 6 meter high central crypt above a tomb holding the remains of 40 unknown fallen. A narrow gate leads to the crypt, narrow casemate-Windows spread a muted light, internal masonry from green dolomite, the floor paved with brown-red hard burned stone. On the walls names of the deceased are attatched to “Solnhofen limestone” plates (under each window a double panel), as well as a large half-relief crucifixion group made from Franconian Muschelkalk (shellbearing limestone). Google Maps: 51.792107,6.090374
10. Tourist Info
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3 reviews
Reviewed By Peter H
Bei einer Shopping - Tour durch das schöne Bocholt, ist mir am 01.12.2017, zum ersten mal die Touristen Information auf der Nordstraße aufgefallen.
Ich habe vorher gar nicht gewusst, das es diese Touristen - Information hier gibt.
Sie ist optisch gut als solche zu erkennen, und doch, hatte ich sie bis jetzt nicht wahr genommen.
Wir kommen aus Duisburg, und haben unsere Fahrräder am Auto immer bei uns.
Bis jetzt, sind wir immer kreuz und quer, mit unseren mitgebrachten Fahrrädern, durch die schöne Landschaft gefahren.
Jetzt wo wir wissen das man gezielt schöne Stellen Anfahren kann, werden wir uns, im Frühjahr hier in der Bocholter Touristen Information, die passen den Infos einholen.
Schön das es so etwas für Gäste, in der Stadt Bocholt gibt.
Nur ein paar Meter vom schönen Rathaus-Platz, auf der Nord-Straße gelegen, direkt an einer Straßenecke ist die Touristen-Info zu finden.
Die Stadt Bocholt soll schon mehrmals mit dem Preis der Fahrradfarerfreundlichsten Stadt, ausgezeichnet worden sein. Dieses Privileg, werden wir erkunden, und sicherlich auch für Gut befinden..
Anfang nächsten Jahres, werden wir gezielt mit dem Fahrrad die ländlichen sehenswerten Gebiete um Bocholt erkunden.
Das ist ein Versprechen, denn hier kann man wirklich gut Einkaufen und danach noch die schöne Natur erkunden. Wir, sind gerne hier zu Gast.
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