Valkhof Park. The Valkhof is a park in Nijmegen in the Dutch province of Gelderland, on the edge of the center on a small hill overlooking the Waal.
It is not clear where the name comes from. It is alleged that Louis the Pious kept falcons in the courtyard of the court; others see it as corruptions of Frankenhof, Vahalenhof or even Waalhof.
The park is directly connected via a footbridge to the Kelfkensbos square, under which lies a parking garage and to which Museum Het Valkhof is located, with the Hunner Park behind it. The park has been known in recent years as the main location of the De Affair music festival. In 2007, that festival introduced a stage roof that was specially made to measure for the Barbarossa ruin.
Before the common era, the moraine in the river country was already inhabited, as evidenced by archaeological finds from the late Bronze Age, but the inhabitants were expelled by the Romans, who built a castrum there, which probably existed from 12 BC. until the Batavian Revolt in 69 - 70 AD. Tacitus tells how Julius Civilis destroyed his own castle by fire and retreated to the Betuwe. Finds of Roman remains indicate that Romans must have lived there until the fourth century, even though there probably was no Roman fortress.
Because Charlemagne is said to have built a palace near Nijmegen, the city of Nijmegen is sometimes referred to as the imperial city. Charlemagne was ther
It is not clear where the name comes from. It is alleged that Louis the Pious kept falcons in the courtyard of the court; others see it as corruptions of Frankenhof, Vahalenhof or even Waalhof.
The park is directly connected via a footbridge to the Kelfkensbos square, under which lies a parking garage and to which Museum Het Valkhof is located, with the Hunner Park behind it. The park has been known in recent years as the main location of the De Affair music festival. In 2007, that festival introduced a stage roof that was specially made to measure for the Barbarossa ruin.
Before the common era, the moraine in the river country was already inhabited, as evidenced by archaeological finds from the late Bronze Age, but the inhabitants were expelled by the Romans, who built a castrum there, which probably existed from 12 BC. until the Batavian Revolt in 69 - 70 AD. Tacitus tells how Julius Civilis destroyed his own castle by fire and retreated to the Betuwe. Finds of Roman remains indicate that Romans must have lived there until the fourth century, even though there probably was no Roman fortress.
Because Charlemagne is said to have built a palace near Nijmegen, the city of Nijmegen is sometimes referred to as the imperial city. Charlemagne was ther
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