Museums and city gates of Enkhuizen

  • The Netherlands
  • North Holland
  • Enkhuizen
  • 5.00 km (Approximately 01:14 u)
  • Hiking route 637513

Museums and city gates of Enkhuizen

  • The Netherlands
  • North Holland
  • Enkhuizen
  • 5.00 km (Approximately 01:14 u)
  • Hiking route 637513

The beautiful old Enkhuizen is a picture with its canals and harbors. This walk takes you across the well-preserved fortress wall where you see beautiful city gates. You will also pass a few interesting small museums.

Nice museums
The route starts at Stationscafé de Haven van Enkhuizen, in the beautiful old station building from 1886. In the city you will find special museums, such as the Enkhuizer Almanac Museum, at the fish auction. In this small museum you can view all kinds of special archive items from the almanac. The Bottle Ship Museum is also a nice museum: here you can view miniature ships in bottles, in an old lock keeper's house from the seventeenth century.

Monumental city gates
This beautiful historic walking route also leads you past the special city gates of Enkhuizen. For example, you will find water gates from the sixteenth century here, which provided access to the city via the water. Enkhuizen is so connected to the water that a gate had to be made in the fortress wall at water level. For example, you will discover De Oude Gouwsboom, the Boerenboom, but also the city gate the Koepoort. This detached monumental building is slightly younger: it dates from 1649. A picture!

Directions

# Description Distance
Stationsplein, 1601 EN, Enkhuizen, North Holland, The Netherlands 0.00 km
Enkhuizer Almanak Museum (De Enkhuizer Visafslag, 1601GC, Enkhuizen, North Holland, The Netherlands) 0.37 km
Flessenscheepjes Museum (1601GH, Enkhuizen, North Holland, The Netherlands) 0.55 km
Waterpoort de Oude Gouwsboom (Oude Gouwsboom, 1601 RW, Enkhuizen, North Holland, The Netherlands) 2.53 km
Waterpoort de Boerenboom (1601 RW, Enkhuizen, North Holland, The Netherlands) 3.25 km
Koepoort (Koepoort, 1601 RW, Enkhuizen, North Holland, The Netherlands) 3.49 km

Sights

Enkhuizer Almanak Museum

De Enkhuizer Visafslag
1601GC Enkhuizen

The Enkhuizer Almanak Museum was opened in 1995 at the fish auction of Enkhuizen. In the small museum you can view all kinds of special archival documents from the almanac.

Flessenscheepjes Museum


1601GH Enkhuizen

In the Bottle Ship Museum you can, as the name of the museum suggests, view a collection of miniature ships in bottles. The museum is located in an old lockkeeper's house from the 17th century.

Waterpoort de Oude Gouwsboom

Oude Gouwsboom
1601 RW Enkhuizen

The Oude Gouwsboom is one of the two water gates in Enkhuizen. These water gates were built around 1600 as part of the rampart. Both gates were used for the last time in 1945.

Waterpoort de Boerenboom


1601 RW Enkhuizen

The Boerenboom is one of the two water gates in Enkhuizen. These water gates were built around 1600 as part of the rampart. Both gates were used for the last time by water traffic in 1945.

Koepoort

Koepoort
1601 RW Enkhuizen

The Koepoort is a city gate that was built in 1649. For a long time this was the western entrance gate to Enkhuizen, but nowadays traffic drives around the gate instead of underneath to relieve the city gate.

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