3-Bed Detached House with 969m² Garden & Basement in Emmerich am Rhein



's-Heerenbergerstrasse 148, Emmerich am Rhein, Germany, Emmerich (Germany)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 155m² Floor area
€429,000
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
155m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand in the living room on a Saturday morning, sunlight pouring through the floor-to-ceiling glass façade, and the garden outside looks like it belongs in a different era — mature trees casting dappled shade over a well-kept lawn, a covered terrace waiting for your coffee, birdsong instead of traffic. That's what life at 's-Heerenbergerstrasse 148 feels like before the day has even begun. Emmerich am Rhein doesn't make headlines the way the Rhine gorge towns do, and that's precisely the point. It's a real, functioning town on Germany's western edge — unhurried, practical, deeply livable — and this house sits right at the heart of what makes it work as a second home or a permanent base for anyone crossing between Germany and the Netherlands.
The plot alone — 969 square metres — tells you something unusual is on offer here. In a region where land comes at a premium and gardens often amount to a strip of grass between fences, this is genuinely generous outdoor space. There's room for children to disappear for entire afternoons. Room for a kitchen garden if that's your thing. Room for a long table of friends under the partially covered terrace on a warm June evening, the smell of grilled food drifting out toward the garden house at the far end. The property has been kept in good condition, and while the kitchen is ready for someone to make it their own, the bones of the house — underfloor heating, solid construction, aluminum double-glazed windows with shutters throughout — are exactly what you want to inherit.
Inside, the ground floor delivers 155 square metres of living space arranged around a central logic that makes daily life easy. The hallway is wide enough to feel like a real entrance rather than a corridor. The living and dining room opens generously toward that glass façade, and on grey Rhine-country winter afternoons, the open fireplace in the adjacent sitting room pulls you in the way good fireplaces always do. Three bedrooms sit on this same level, one of them fitted with air conditioning for the warmer months — and summers here do get warm, with July and August regularly reaching the high twenties. Both bathrooms are on the ground floor, one with a full suite including a bathtub, double washbasin, bidet, and shower, the other a practical second wet room. The retro detailing in both has a certain personality that new-builds simply don't replicate.
Up through the retractable staircase, the fully insulated attic opens into roughly 80 square metres of uninterrupted space, lit by skylights. Artists, architects, anyone who works from home and needs a room that doesn't feel like a converted bedroom — this space solves that problem immediately. It could just as easily become a proper guest suite with a little investment, adding a fourth sleeping area for when the family arrives in summer.
Then there's the basement, and this is where the property genuinely separates itself from comparable houses in the area. Around 100 square metres running beneath the footprint of the house, accessed both from inside and through a side entrance that opens directly onto the garden. An integrated garage with an electric door takes one section. The remaining rooms are the kind of flexible space that buyers routinely pay architects good money to create — workshop, home office, music room, wine cellar, gym. The basement has its own entrance, which also makes it viable as an independent workspace for anyone running a small business from home.
Emmerich am Rhein itself sits on the Rhine just before it crosses into the Netherlands, and this geography gives it a particular character. The river is always close — you can cycle along the Rhine dyke path within minutes of leaving the front door, heading east toward Kleve or west toward Nijmegen across the border. The weekly market on Buttermarkt fills up with local produce on Thursdays. The Rheinpromenade is a genuine gathering place, especially in the evening hours of summer when the water catches the light. For shopping beyond the local shops, Kleve is 15 kilometres away, and the Dutch city of Nijmegen — with its Roman history, independent restaurant scene, and excellent Saturday market on Grote Markt — is around 30 kilometres west. Düsseldorf is under an hour by car or train, and Düsseldorf Airport connects this corner of the Lower Rhine to most of Europe without the complexity of a major hub.
The climate here is firmly Atlantic-influenced: mild, green, genuinely four-seasoned. Winters are cold but not harsh, and snow when it comes rarely stays long. Spring arrives properly in March with the Rhine-side willows turning yellow-green. Autumn is the best-kept secret — October light on the river, apple season in the surrounding orchards, cycling routes through the Reichswald forest near Kleve with almost no one else on the paths.
For international buyers, Germany's property purchase process is transparent and well-regulated. Notary-conducted transfers, straightforward land registry procedures, and no residency requirement for ownership make this an accessible entry point into the German market. The property's solar panels, groundwater pump, and the Viessmann oil heating system (installed 2005, reliably maintained) keep running costs sensible. Two dedicated parking spaces on the plot are a practical detail that matters more than it sounds in a town of this size.
As a vacation home in Emmerich am Rhein or a second home base for frequent Germany-Netherlands crossings, this property works on multiple levels. The scale of the basement and attic also opens serious short-stay rental potential for anyone considering holiday letting when not in residence — the flexibility of space means it can host larger groups without cramping.
Key features at a glance:
- Detached house on a 969m² landscaped plot with mature trees and garden house
- 155m² ground floor living area plus 100m² basement and 80m² insulated attic (335m² total usable space)
- 3 bedrooms on the ground floor, one with air conditioning
- 2 full bathrooms with retro character fittings
- Large open-plan attic with skylights — ideal as studio, workspace, or future guest suite
- Versatile multi-room basement with independent side entrance and integrated garage (electric door)
- Underfloor heating, open fireplace, and two air conditioning units for year-round comfort
- Solar panels and groundwater pump for reduced operating costs
- Viessmann oil-fired central heating system, double-glazed aluminum frames with shutters throughout
- Partially covered terrace and well-maintained lawn, ideal for outdoor entertaining
- On-plot parking for two cars
- Cycling distance to the Rhine dyke path and Emmerich town centre
- 30km from Nijmegen, 15km from Kleve, under 1 hour to Düsseldorf Airport
- Good condition — move-in ready, with kitchen offering scope for personalisation
- No residency requirement for international buyers; straightforward German conveyancing process
Properties with this footprint, on plots of this size, in a well-connected Rhine border town don't come to market often. If you've been looking for a second home in Germany that gives you space without compromise — room for work, for guests, for hobbies, for long summer evenings outside — this is the one to look at seriously. Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to get detailed documentation sent directly to you. The garden looks best in person.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 155m²
- Price per m²
- €2,768
- Garden size
- 969m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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