Discover Voshövel: Golf, remembrance culture and regional cuisine

Voshövel offers a variety of reasons to visit: a freely accessible memorial stands on Heidhügel, the Weselerwald Golf Club provides public playing and practice facilities, and the Landhotel Voshövel combines landscape with regional cuisine. If different interests come together in your travel group, this allows you to plan a varied stay. When looking for a holiday apartment or holiday home in Voshövel, you can therefore first consider whether culture, golf, or a tour on foot and by bicycle should be the main focus.

The Memorial on Heidhügel

The Voshövel memorial is a freely accessible war memorial on Heidhügel. A bronze plaque commemorates the victims of war and violence. The memorial is also connected to a route linking the various memorials in the municipal area. A QR code serves as an audio station with additional information. This gives the site a direct connection to remembrance culture without requiring you to organise your visit around a lengthy guided tour or an extensive museum programme.

The aspect of heritage protection is also relevant to its historical classification: the Voshövel memorial was placed under heritage protection in 1994. According to the heritage protection authority, it contributes to documenting different architectural styles of memorials throughout the Lower Rhine region. Anyone interested in regional history and the design of places of remembrance can therefore not only view an individual memorial here, but also establish a connection with a larger memorial landscape.

Golf between Practice and Public Play

Golf enthusiasts can make the Weselerwald Golf Club a focus of their visit. The Redflaggolf Academy offers golf lessons there with swing analysis using TrackMan. The practice facilities at Weselerwald Golf Club can be used free of charge. This allows training and independent practice to be considered separately, without requiring you to make the same arrangements for both options.

The public 9-hole course at Weselerwald Golf Club is 2,158 metres long and has nine par-3 holes. It can be played without club membership. These details help you choose the right golf option: you can combine a round on the public course with a training session or focus exclusively on practice.

Landscape and Dining at the Landhotel Voshövel

The Landhotel Voshövel complex is nestled in a small valley with many streams, surrounded by greenery. The country hotel is also a dining stop along a circular route for hikers and cyclists. There is an e-bike charging station at the hotel. For an active day, you can therefore mark this place as a notable stop for refreshments without having to organise your entire stay around a single activity.

In the evening, the restaurant at the Landhotel Voshövel serves rustic and regional dishes. This adds a culinary reason to your travel plans: after a bike ride, a hike, or a day filled with cultural impressions, you can plan to enjoy regional cuisine there. The combination of valley, streams, green surroundings and dining options gives Voshövel its own character, distinguishing it from a stay focused exclusively on sport or history.

Choose the Right Base

Your planned daily schedule is the main factor when searching for accommodation. Those who want to focus on the memorial and regional history can structure their stay around cultural activities. Those who want to play or practise golf should consider the offerings at Weselerwald Golf Club as important reasons to visit. For hikers and cyclists, meanwhile, the circular route with its dining stop at the Landhotel is one of the specific options. When choosing your holiday apartment or holiday home, consider which of these priorities is most valuable for your travel group and which destinations you actually want to combine.

Discover More Destinations

If you would like to add more places to your travel plans, you can also discover Wesel, Rheinberg, Moers, Schermbeck, Xanten, Kamp-Lintfort, Hünxe and Dinslaken.

For the overarching travel overview: Wesel.