{"id":23035,"date":"2015-07-28T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nladre-horikuchi.savviihq.com\/?p=23035"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:30:59","slug":"limburg-towns-with-a-double-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/blog\/limburgse-plaatsen-met-een-dubbele-naam\/","title":{"rendered":"Limburg places with a double name"},"content":{"rendered":"

A route planner always gets you there, right? Well, not quite<\/span>. <\/span>Imagine you accidentally <\/span>selects a place name that sounds similar and not your intended destination.<\/span>. There are indeed many place names <\/span>in Limburg with a double name,\u00a0<\/span>which also occur elsewhere in the country. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here follows the<\/span>An overview of place names in Limburg with similar spellings<\/span>urh (Limburgse plaatsnamen met een naamgenoot in Nederland). Aandacht alstublieft?<\/span><\/p>\n

Baarlo<\/span><\/h3>\n

Besides a village in the Limburg municipality of Peel en Maas, <\/span>Baarlo<\/span> also a hamlet in the Overijsselse municipality of Steenwijkerland. Pay attention <\/span>Dust <\/span>if you enter this name into your sat nav. <\/span><\/p>\n

Beek<\/span><\/h3>\n

Beek is the capital of the municipality of the same name in Limburg. But <\/span>the<\/span> is <\/span>also the name of <\/span>a village <\/span>in the municipality of Groesbeek in Gelderland and of a village centre in Montferland, also <\/span>in <\/span>Gelderland. Beek is furthermore one of the two cores that together form the village of Beek en Donk, in the Brabant municipality of Laarbeek. But <\/span>The Limburg Beek<\/span> may become <\/span>still the most<\/span> confused with the place of the same name in <\/span>Belgian<\/span> Limburg. <\/span>So pay extra close attention!<\/span><\/p>\n

Bergen<\/span><\/h3>\n

Bergen is a town and municipality in North Limburg, and also the name of a seaside resort and municipality in North Holland. <\/span>to look out for<\/span> if you want to go to the coast then <\/span>Miles away from Limburg. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kessel<\/span><\/h3>\n

Kessel is a place in the<\/span> Limburg<\/span> the municipality of Peel en Maas, but also a village that is part of the municipality of Oss, which you will know <\/span>which lies in Brabant<\/span>. <\/span>Don't be mistaken, because the two places are an hour's drive apart. <\/span><\/p>\n

Oostrum<\/span><\/h3>\n

Two places in the Netherlands couldn't be further apart. Besides the one in the Limburg municipality of Venray, there's also an Oostrum in Friesland. A tiny village<\/span>village with about 200 inhabitants, a good two and a half hours' drive from <\/span>his Limburg namesake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stein<\/span><\/h3>\n

Stein is the main town of the Limburg municipality of the same name, but there is also a hamlet in South Holland.<\/span> <\/span>that answers to the same name<\/span>. That last one is also known as the Land of Stein. <\/span><\/p>\n

Valkenburg<\/span><\/h3>\n

Valkenburg is a <\/span>Well-known <\/span>A Limburg tourist town in the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, but in the South Holland municipality of Katwijk there is also a Valkenburg. Just like in the province of Utrecht (municipality of Rhenen). <\/span><\/p>\n

As far as <\/span>we <\/span>to know, <\/span>are these<\/span> all Limburg place names with an identical name elsewhere in the country. Do you know of any more? <\/span>Please leave a comment. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Read more about fun\u00a0Day trips<\/a> met Adrem.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Met een routeplanner zit je altijd goed, toch? Nou, niet helemaal. Want stel je voor dat je per ongeluk een gelijkluidende plaatsnaam selecteert en niet je beoogde plaats van bestemming … Er zijn namelijk heel wat plaatsnamen in Limburg met een dubbele naam,\u00a0die ook elders in het land voorkomen. Hier volgt een overzicht van gelijkluidende […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-adrem-naar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41423,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions\/41423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}