Discover Nature, History and Culture in Issum

For your trip to Issum, several themes can be clearly distinguished: Volkspark Oermter Berg, with activities for families; places connected with Jewish history; and cultural offerings at Oermter Berg and at His-Törchen Museum. These highlights can help you plan your stay around the interests you want to pursue.

Playgrounds and animal enclosures at Volkspark Oermter Berg

Volkspark Oermter Berg has many playgrounds for children. The park also has animal enclosures with red deer, fallow deer and mouflons. This means that play areas and animal enclosures are side by side within the same park. If you are travelling with children or want to make animals the focus of your outing, these features offer a practical guide when choosing places to visit.

At the top of Oermter Berg are two barbecue huts with plenty of space for families. Along with the playgrounds and animal enclosures, they offer another family-friendly feature for those including the park in their travel plans.

Jewish history and culture in Issum

A visit to the former synagogue, the mikveh and the schoolhouse in Issum will tell you about the life, rites and symbols of a rural Jewish community. The visit connects these three named places with a cultural and historical theme: the buildings themselves, as well as the community’s way of life and religious practices, are at the heart of it.

His-Törchen Museum of Local History and Art in Issum hosts changing exhibitions on various topics. If you want to plan your museum visit around a particular exhibition, it may be helpful to check what is on before you go.

Schönstattzentrum Niederrhein is in the southern part of Oermter Berg and has its own chapel. The centre at Oermter Berg also has its own Stations of the Cross trail. The conference centre at Schönstattzentrum Oermter Marienberg was newly built in 2016 and 2017. It has a cafeteria and four event rooms of different sizes. The chapel and Stations of the Cross trail give the centre a religious focus; the conference centre adds event rooms and a cafeteria to the picture.

Cycling in the wider travel destination of Kleve

For a broader overview of the wider travel destination of Kleve, the regional cycling information offers a dedicated focus. The district of Kleve has more than 1,500 kilometres of cycle paths and numerous themed routes. A pocket planner shows all the junctions in the district of Kleve when unfolded and includes useful information about how the district-wide junction system works. This provides an overview of the network as a whole alongside information about individual routes.

One such route is the 128-kilometre Niers Cycle Route. It is signposted and runs from the source of the Niers in Mönchengladbach through the districts of Viersen and Kleve to the municipality of Gennep in the Netherlands. The information about the district-wide network and the Niers Cycle Route offers different planning perspectives: the pocket planner covers the junction system in the district of Kleve, while the route description gives the course of this particular signposted route.

The landscape information also relates to the district of Kleve, including picturesque riverbanks, green meadows and extensive forests. This regional context complements the specific places to visit in Issum without conflating them with the cycling information or landscapes of the entire district.

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