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Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Photo: Hans Peter Schaefer, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kleve (also Cleves or Kleff) is a town and a district (Kreis) in the Lower Rhine region of Western Germany.
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"new game garden"
"forest garden"
Kleve's main landmark was begun in the 11th century as a spur castle, but later transformed into a more comfortable and representative Baroque residence. Its most characteristic item is a weather vane in form of a swan (heraldic animal and crest of the Dukes of Cleves), hence the name. It houses the Kleve district court, a geological museum, showing mineralogical and paleontologic exhibits from the Lower Rhine area, as well as a photo exposition.
Art museum with collections of works by Rhineland artists Ewald Mataré and Joseph Beuys, medieval, Renaissance and Baroque works, as well as pieces of contemporary art, graphics and applied arts.
Collection of paintings by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, who used to live in this house with his family, as well as other Dutch romantic artists of his circle.
St Mary of the Immaculate Conception
Very modest Gothic hall church without a steeple, that used to be the monastic church of a Minorites monastery.
Church of the Assumption of Mary
Kleve's Gothic, three-aisled main parish church.
Trinity Church
Small Lutheran church in the predominantly Catholic town, consecrated in 1621.
St Willibrord's Church
Romanesque church dating back to the 11th century, in the suburb of Kellen, 2.5 km northeast of the city centre.
This quiet cemetery is the final resting place of 7672 soldiers who fought for the Commonwealth. It is the largest of the 15 Commonwealth cemeteries in Germany.
Romantic watercastle that gets close to the prototype of a fairytale castle.
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By bus
From Nijmegen in the neighbouring Netherlands, there are hourly buses to Kleve (taking about 50 minutes from one central station to another).
Getting around in Kleve is best done on foot or on the bike. Many radial routes going into the city have dedicated cycleways making cycling easy and convenient.
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