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The Volkspark is a park in Enschede from 1872 . It is the oldest Volkspark in the Netherlands, founded after the English example. A bequest from Hendrik Jan van Heek made it possible to furnish the park on the former Goolkate estate . The largest part was designed in English landscape style by Dirk Wattez, designer of many gardens in Twente . Characteristic of Wattez's work are the strongly meandering serpentine ponds. His son Pieter restored much of his work and also used sight axes.Address : Parkweg, 7513 CN Enschede, Netherlands
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Rijksmuseum TwentheA beautiful museum, which was founded in 1927 by textile industry Baron Jan Bernard Van Heek. He donated his own private collection and the museum building to the government, thus making it a national museum. Now the museum has become focused on 18th-century art as well as contemporary works, with the collection of Art & Project, a former art gallery owned by Geert van Beijeren and Adriaan van Ravesteijn
Museum De MuseumfabriekThe Museum Factory is a museum in Enschede that was called TwentseWelle before May 2018. The Museum Factory is a family museum where the future is discovered through learning, playing, working, thinking, experimenting and dreaming. The exhibitions inspire young and old to learn and to invent, try and assemble things themselves. That can be done in the factory. The historical collections of the museum are always the great source of inspiration.
Recreation The RutbeekThe Rutbeek is a Dutch recreation area, located in East Overijssel in the municipality of Enschede. Around a large pond with an irregular shape and an area of 40 hectares is a recreation area with an area of 120 hectares. The water depth of the lake is on average three, and a maximum of five meters. The distance of a walk around the water is four to five kilometers. The Rutbeek consists of a swamp and five different beaches.
Museum Buurtspoorweg (Station Boekelo)The Museum Buurtspoorweg operates a museum railway between Haaksbergen and Boekelo in Overijssel . The foundation was established on February 21, 1967 and on June 23, 1989, it was the first railway company besides the Nederlandse Spoorwegen to obtain a transport concession for the Haaksbergen – Boekelo section.
Attractiepark de WaarbeekDe Waarbeek is an amusement park of 3.4 hectares , located near the Twente city of Hengelo .The park is mainly aimed at families with children between the ages of three and twelve. There are forty-four rides that are mostly old-fashioned in character, such as the Hully Gully . The main attraction of the park is the Toboggan Track : a roller coaster that is considered to be one of the oldest working steel roller coasters in the world.
LonnekerbergThe Lonnekerberg is an elevation in the municipality of Enschede in the Dutch province of Overijssel . The hill, with a height of sixty meters above NAP , is located northeast of the Twente village of Lonneker and east of the former Twenthe airport. Its nature reserve covers 141 hectares and is owned by Landscape Overijssel . Production forest with different types of coniferous wood that was planted in the time of Bledenstein and afterwards is gradually being transformed into mixed forest .
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OverijsselOverijssel is a province of the Netherlands located in the eastern part of the country. Its capital city of Zwolle boasts a rich history, but the town of Enschede takes the crown for being the province’s largest city. Overijssel features a number of picturesque natural reserves, including De Weeribben.
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