Gotta admit, I really do like Arnhem! Btw if you want to keep track, the building with the odd virus and micro-biology sculptures on the walls and sidewalk is one side of Eusebius Church, which we’ve shared a few times before.
We’ve shared views of Arnhem’s Eusebius churchseveral times before. This was my second trip up to the top of the tower that was rebuilt following a competitive design bid process after the church’s partial destruction at the end of WWII. As you see both above and below, Arnhem lies on what’s called the “Lower Rhine” here, or the Nederrijn, one of two main shipping channels that run from the Rhine’s entry into NL over to the west. During the allied advance in late 1944 and early 1945, this city and its inhabitants were very heavily affected by the tides of war. Here I’m showing you some views looking out the windows high up in the tower, with a sense of the panels explaining history and what you see out the windows. I highly encourage visitors with enough time to get down to this region for its mix of history, beautiful parks, and as always here, great bike trails and museums, public transit and so on :-).
Sam and I both agreed that this grand entrance to Casteel Middachten (Middachten Castle) looks rather royal indeed. As part of our Veluwe-Zoom and Central-Gelderland exploration, we spent a lovely few hours exploring its glorious gardens, without going inside the building itself.
This is your orientation photo. All shots in the gallery (in full view – otherwise series of top to bottom photos without design) below are from inside Arnhem’s Eusebius Church, especially within its spire which was destroyed in late 1944 and early 1945. Look closely about the midpoint of the thinner part of the spire above, and you will see a glass box extruding from the tower. There’s another on the opposite side, which you can’t see here – and all the photos below show those as seen from inside looking out.
Sam and I spent a few days last week exploring the Veluwe Zoom & surroundings, and I finally got him over to see this church and several other historically-significant and lovely parts of Arnhem, many of which I’ve shown you in past posts from 2022 visit. We both agree Arnhem’s a great city.
During my lovely bike holiday in Gelderland last year, I showed you many parts of this photo from ground level. I took this photo during a December flight from Amsterdam to Doha (en route to Bangladesh, for the trip from which you’re still seeing Longest Beach photos, fyi), when I noticed the clouds had cleared enough to show me: from the left to center, the first branches of the Rhine after it enters NL (further explanations in last year’s post), and at the bottom some of the hilly landscapes of the Veluwe Zoom national park, of which we showed many posts including this one, last year. In the gallery below is a zoomed-in view that shows a bit more detail of the hilly park landscapes. Rest of the photos are all from the NL and DE parts of that flight.
Yes, these are both a bit of a stretch, so we’ll rest this series ’til I’m around more legit art in nature again. Above left, nature outside at the far end of one of the galleries from the Kröller-Müller in Hoge Veluwe, and right an artistic spider web and spider in a window at the fort in Pannerden. The sign says “warning, might bite,” but of course it’s an arts & crafts project very possibly made by a kid – it’s a very kid-friendly fort with lots of activities going on.
(so much world, so little time....) 