Between Lek & Linge
Between Lek & Linge surprises you with a diverse range of culture and heritage. With one of the oldest cities in the county of Holland, Ameide, Vrijstad Vianen and the Glass City of the Netherlands, Leerdam there is plenty to do between Lek & Linge.
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Hendrik van Brederode built a summer residence in the year 1560 for his wife Amalia, Countess of Nieuwenaar. He named this castle located in the Vi...
Amaliastein
For centuries the Great Church dominates the skyline of Leerdam. It is the oldest building in the city, the tower dates from the 13th century.
Grote Kerk
At first, drainage was performed by windmills. In the 19th Century, the windmills were replaced by steam-powered pumping stations, which in turn ma...
Gemaal de Biezen
The post and telegraph office was situated on the ground floor of Voorstraat 106 in Vianen between 1911 and 1975.
Oude postkantoor
The oldest traces of habitation in the immediate surroundings of Vianen are not in the town itself, but just outside the current hamlet of Helsding...
Buurtschap Helsdingen
The Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is situated between Achterstraat and Brederodestraat. The church was built between 1877 an...
Katholieke kerk Vianen
Opposite the guesthouse chapel, at Kerkstraat no. 2, lies the former Vianen weigh-house. The 17th Century building was restored between 1975 and 19...
De Waag
What began in 1971 as a collection of bridge magazines and books is now the world's one and only museum wholly devoted to the classic card game.
Museum van het Kaartspel & Bridgemuseum
Batestein Castle was commissioned by Gijsbert van Beusichem in the year 1370, after it was decided that Vyanen Castle no longer met the needs of th...
Kasteel Batestein
After a fire in the year 1540, the church (de Grote Kerk) was rebuilt in its current form almost immediately (as a combination of a hall church and...
Grote kerk Vianen
Between 1335 and 1336, Heilwich van Vianen and her husband Willem van Duivenvoorde granted various town rights to Vianen. They also ordered Vianen...
Stadskern Vianen
Before the arrival of today’s care homes, the elderly could go to live in Old Men’s Homes and Old Women’s Homes. These houses were built from the 1...
Oude Mannenhuis
In the year 1829, Sparrendreef General Cemetery was opened in Vianen. This cemetery consisted of 3 parts separated by hedges, namely the general ce...
Algemene begraafplaats Sparrendreef
Like many other villages and towns in the region, the origins of Zijderveld go back to the Middle Ages. The village was built at a crossroads of pe...
Dorpskern Zijderveld
Behind the Lek Dike in Everdingen lies the 19th Century Petrus and Pauluskerk. Together with the presbytery and coach house, a school building and...
Kerk en Pastorie Everdingen
Leerdam's origins as a fortified city are still evident in the south ramparts with their ‘mouse towers’.
Zuidwal met muizentorens
Together with Everstein Castle, it was Hagestein Castle in Gasperden (now Hagestein) that formed the centrepiece of this line of defence. The castl...
Kasteelterrein Hagestein
Come see Leerdam's working windmill every Saturday afternoon! Ter Leede is open Saturdays from 13.00 - 16.00, provided the windmill is turning (als...
Molen ter Leede
On Stadhuisstraat, the layout of the mediaeval building complex can still be clearly seen. At the front is the old town hall, behind it the former...
Gasthuiskapel
Step inside the Jukebox Gallery and take a trip back to the fifties and sixties.
Jukebox Gallery
Jan Blankenweg, Jan Blankenbridge and the Jan Blanken funerary monument at the general cemetery on Sparrendreef: the name of Jan Blanken can be fou...
Grafmonument Jan Blanken
The church in Zijderveld was built at the junction of Kerkweg and Dorpsweg. Just like many other churches in the region, it was built on a mound-li...
Kerk Zijderveld
The Jewish cemetery on Sparrendreef, two Stolpersteine on Voorstraat and the former synagogue at no. 6 Bakkersstraat: these are the still visible r...
Voormalige synagoge Vianen