4-Bed Detached House with Hot Tub, Solar & Garage — Vacation Home in Emmerich am Rhein



Landdrost-Blaauboer-Straße 21, 46446 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany, Emmerich (Germany)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 119m² Floor area
€498,500
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
119m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand in the kitchen on a Saturday morning and you'll understand immediately why people fall for Emmerich am Rhein. The smell of fresh bread drifts up from the Bäckerei on Reeser Straße, the Nolte kitchen catches the early light through the garden-facing windows, and somewhere a church bell counts out the hour. It's unhurried. Real. This is a town that hasn't tried to reinvent itself for tourists, and that's precisely what makes it so quietly compelling as a base for a second home in Germany's Lower Rhine region.
The house on Landdrost-Blaauboer-Straße sits at the end of a calm residential street flanked by mature trees. Built in 2008 and substantially updated through 2024, the property covers 119 square metres across two full living levels, with a 391 square metre plot that gives the garden genuine breathing room. The street itself is the kind of place where neighbours wave from driveways and children cycle unsupervised. If you've been chasing that particular version of European life — the one where daily existence feels both spacious and rooted — this neighbourhood delivers it.
The garden is where this property really earns its place as a vacation home or second residence. Fully enclosed, newly landscaped, and designed to be low-maintenance, it wraps around a covered terrace that you'll use in April just as readily as August. A hot tub with glass filter, UV lamp, and its own dedicated canopy sits at the back — on a clear autumn evening with a glass of Rhineland Riesling, it's an entirely different kind of evening than you'd have in a city apartment. Exterior lighting circuits, multiple power points, and a groundwater irrigation pump mean the garden keeps itself looking sharp without demanding weekends of your time.
Through the main entrance, the hallway is calm and practical, with a guest WC renovated in 2019 and a utility room that absorbs the clutter of daily life before it reaches the living spaces. The ground floor opens into a bright living and dining area with direct access to both the garden and the covered veranda. Large windows do serious work here — the space feels genuinely open, not just marketed as such. The built-in wood-burning stove is not decorative. On a grey November afternoon when the Rhine mist rolls in from the west, it pulls the whole room together.
The kitchen, fitted with a complete Nolte installation in 2024, runs Siemens and Miele appliances throughout: induction hob, steam oven, large-capacity dishwasher. For a vacation home, this matters more than people initially expect. You're not going out every night; you're cooking long dinners with family, experimenting with asparagus from the Niederrhein markets in May, or slow-roasting something while everyone's out on bikes. A connected utility room, accessible from both kitchen and garage, adds a kitchenette with water supply — useful as a laundry station, prep overflow, or a practical pass-through when unloading from the car after a weekend away.
Upstairs, four rooms divide sensibly between master bedroom, two further bedrooms, and a dressing room — though the layout adapts easily depending on how you use the house. The bathroom, renovated in 2021-22, has underfloor heating, a walk-in shower, and finishes that feel considered rather than rushed. The master bedroom has air conditioning, which proves its worth during July and August when temperatures along the Rhine push into the low thirties. Wooden floors throughout the bedrooms give the upper level a warmth that tiles never quite manage.
For buyers thinking carefully about running costs — and you should — this house is genuinely efficient. An LG air-to-air heat pump installed in 2016 drives the underfloor heating throughout the building. A 4.41 kWp solar array on the roof, running since 2013, handles a significant slice of the electricity demand, with surplus fed back to the grid via Stadtwerke Emmerich. Energy consumption sits at just 33 kWh per square metre per year. For a 119 sqm house, that's low. A Grünbeck water softener, WiFi-controlled electric shutters on all windows, and a pre-wired EV charging circuit in the meter cupboard round out a technical spec that would cost considerably more to install from scratch.
The garage — 3 by 9 metres, fully tiled, insulated in 2021, with an electric sectional door — connects directly to the living area and the garden. It fits a car with workshop space to spare, and the running water connection makes it genuinely multi-purpose. For a second home owner, secure internal garage access is a practical consideration that's easy to overlook until you're unloading luggage in the rain.
Now, Emmerich itself. The town sits on the Rhine just 10 kilometres from the Dutch border, and that proximity shapes its character in interesting ways. The Emmerich Rhine Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in Germany — you can walk it. The weekly market on the Stadtgarten sells produce that travels very short distances to get there. Cyclists will find this region transformative: the LF4 Rhine cycle route runs right through town, and on a weekend you can pedal north toward Nijmegen through polders and dyke paths, or south toward Kleve and the Reichswald forest. The Hohe Mark Westmünsterland nature park is within 30 kilometres for longer trail days.
Culturally, Kleve — just 15 kilometres by car or a direct bus — gives access to the Museum Kurhaus Kleve with its collection of modern and contemporary art, and to the Schwanenburg castle overlooking the town. Xanten, another 25 kilometres south, is home to one of the most intact Roman archaeological parks in northern Europe, the Archäologischer Park Xanten. These aren't destinations you'll exhaust in a single visit.
The Dutch border means Arnhem and Nijmegen are realistic day trips. Amsterdam is under two hours by car via the A3. Düsseldorf International Airport is roughly 65 kilometres south, serviced by the A3 motorway. For buyers flying in from London, Paris, or Scandinavia, the logistics are genuinely convenient. Emmerich also has its own train station with direct services to Düsseldorf and Oberhausen, meaning you can arrive without a car when you want to.
The Niederrhein climate runs mild and green — winters are cold but rarely harsh, summers warm without the sustained heat of southern Germany. The landscape is flat and wide, the sky enormous, the light in late afternoon across the Rhine plains genuinely unlike anywhere else in Germany. Tulip season in April spills across from the Dutch fields nearby, and the Christmas markets in Kleve and Emmerich in December have the unhurried quality that the larger city markets have long since lost.
From a purchase perspective, Germany's property market remains more straightforward for international buyers than many European alternatives. Ownership rights are clear, the notarial process is transparent, and there are no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing residential property. At 498,500 euros for a move-in-ready, energy-efficient four-bedroom house with garage, solar, and a fully fitted kitchen less than a year old, the value holds up well against comparable properties in this part of North Rhine-Westphalia. Rental income potential is solid — the proximity to the Dutch border and the cycling and nature tourism infrastructure means consistent short-stay demand outside of your own usage periods.
Key features at a glance:
- 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom across 119 sqm of living space on a 391 sqm plot
- Nolte kitchen with Siemens and Miele appliances installed 2024
- Hot tub with glass filter, UV lamp, and dedicated canopy
- Air-to-air heat pump (LG, 2016) with full underfloor heating throughout
- 4.41 kWp rooftop solar system with grid feed-in contract
- Energy demand of just 33 kWh/sqm/year
- Bathroom fully renovated 2021-22 with underfloor heating and walk-in shower
- Master bedroom air conditioning
- 3 x 9m insulated garage with electric door, tiled floor, and running water
- WiFi-controlled electric shutters on all windows
- Pre-wired EV charging circuit in meter cupboard
- Grünbeck water softening system
- Covered outdoor terrace and enclosed, landscaped garden
- 10km from Dutch border; 65km from Düsseldorf International Airport
- Move-in ready condition throughout
If you're looking for a second home in Germany that combines practical efficiency with a genuinely liveable neighbourhood and quick access to both the Dutch coast and Düsseldorf, this house on Landdrost-Blaauboer-Straße is worth your full attention. Get in touch with the Homestra team today to arrange a private viewing or to request the full technical documentation — this kind of turnkey, well-invested property at this price point doesn't sit on the market for long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 119m²
- Price per m²
- €4,189
- Garden size
- 391m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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