Discover Issum: Park and culture

If you choose Issum for a trip, you can combine family time outdoors with culture and regional discoveries. Volkspark Oermter Berg is home to playgrounds and animal enclosures, as well as two barbecue huts with plenty of space for families. A visit to the former synagogue, the mikveh and the schoolhouse offers insights into the life, rites and symbols of a rural Jewish community. The His-Törchen Local History and Art Museum offers a different focus with its changing exhibitions.

Playgrounds, animal enclosures and barbecue huts at Oermter Berg

Volkspark Oermter Berg has many playgrounds for children. There are also animal enclosures with red deer, fallow deer and mouflons. This means the park offers a range of options side by side: playgrounds for children and enclosures with three different animal species. When planning your trip, you can weigh up which of these will shape your day based on your family’s interests.

At the top of Oermter Berg are two barbecue huts with plenty of space for families. Alongside playgrounds and animal enclosures, these two clearly identifiable huts are another feature of the hill. Their number and location at the top of Oermter Berg give this part of the area another specific focus, without limiting visits to the park to a single activity.

Jewish life, exhibitions and the Schönstatt Centre

During a visit to the former synagogue, the mikveh and the schoolhouse, visitors learn about the life, rites and symbols of a rural Jewish community. For travellers who would like to include cultural history in their plans, this offers a different perspective from a visit focused on Volkspark.

The His-Törchen Local History and Art Museum in Issum presents changing exhibitions on a range of subjects. Its profile is defined by the variety of its changing exhibition themes, while a visit to the former synagogue, the mikveh and the schoolhouse explores a specific cultural-historical subject.

The Schönstatt Centre Niederrhein is located in the southern part of Oermter Berg and has its own chapel. The centre also has its own Way of the Cross. The Schönstatt Centre Oermter Marienberg includes a conference centre, newly built in 2016 and 2017. It has a cafeteria and four event rooms of different sizes. The chapel and Way of the Cross, and the conference centre with its rooms, are distinct features of the two Schönstatt centres mentioned.

Cycling and regional impressions in the wider Kleve destination

The wider Kleve destination also offers a regional setting for planning your trip. A pocket planner shows all the junctions in the Kleve district when unfolded and includes helpful information on how the district-wide junction system works. The Niers Cycle Route is a signposted route of a different kind: it is 128 kilometres long 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 Kleve district also has more than 1,500 kilometres of cycle routes and numerous themed routes. The junction system, themed routes and designated long-distance route thus offer different ways to orient yourself by bike.

The landscape of the Kleve district includes picturesque riverbanks, green meadows and extensive forests. Local traditions offer another way to experience the region: these include marksmen’s festivals, carnival and funfairs; the dates of individual events vary. Farm cafés in the district invite you to experience the freshness of produce directly from the producers. In the wider Kleve destination, landscapes, cycling, traditions and regional produce thus bring together a range of interests for your trip, while Issum’s specific offerings have their own focus.

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