4-Bed House on Forest Edge in Emmerich am Rhein – Second Home Near Dutch Border



Unter den Eichen 19, D-46446 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany, Emmerich (Germany)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 225m² Floor area
€579,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
225m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a Saturday morning and the air already smells like pine resin and cut grass. The Hüthum forest starts where the garden ends. There's no road noise — just wood pigeons, maybe the distant toll of a church bell from across the border, and the particular silence that only comes when you've put real distance between yourself and city life. This is Unter den Eichen 19, and once you've spent a weekend here, ordinary life feels a bit harder to go back to.
Built in 2000 using the Hebelhaus aerated concrete method — a construction technique that German builders have trusted for decades for its thermal mass and acoustic performance — the house was put up without shortcuts. The walls are solid. The roof is solid. The whole structure has that quiet heft you only notice when you stop and realize you can't hear your neighbor's television, or the rain on the roof, or the wind that's apparently been gusting all afternoon. Underfloor heating runs throughout the ground floor, which means on a grey November evening the house is warm before you've even thought to turn anything up. That kind of low-effort comfort is hard to put a price on.
At 225 square meters of living space, plus 13 square meters of internal storage and another 13 of external, the house simply doesn't run out of room. The living area is the kind of space architects draw and clients rarely get: a fully glazed façade facing the garden, French doors, a sliding panel, and the whole back wall just opens up in summer into the terrace. The light in here on a June afternoon is extraordinary — it moves across the room as the day progresses, the laurel hedges catching it differently at different hours. In winter, the same glass wall frames a garden that turns silver and still, the trees at the forest edge standing bare and dramatic against flat Rhine-country skies.
The kitchen is a Bulthaup — not an entry-level one either — fitted with high-quality appliances and connected to a utility room that handles laundry, muddy boots, and everything else that doesn't belong in the main living space. There's a dedicated office on the ground floor, which matters enormously if you're the kind of buyer who works remotely a few days a week or manages business from home. The entrance hall is proper-sized, with a cloakroom and guest WC, the kind of layout that absorbs a family arriving with bags and coats without the house feeling chaotic.
Upstairs, a gallery landing with a glass facade connects four bedrooms, a walk-in closet, and a large bathroom with both shower and bathtub, a window, natural light. Four real bedrooms. That's the detail international buyers come back to — the flexibility to host family, give kids their own space, run one room as a study, and still have a proper guest room.
The garden runs to 961 square meters in total. There's a terrace, a lawn, the laurel boundary that gives the whole plot a sense of enclosure without being hemmed in, and then the trees begin. The forest isn't a view from a distance — it's right there. The plot sits at the very edge of it, which means one side of the house has no neighbors coming, ever. Just trees. That kind of location, in this part of the lower Rhine, is genuinely rare.
Practical infrastructure is solid throughout. The double steel carport dates from 2015, wired with ceiling spotlights. There are two garden sheds — one works well as a workshop, the other for garden tools and bikes. Electrically operated shutters cover the windows. A Viessmann central heating boiler with storage tank handles hot water and heat. Hardwood window frames with insulating glazing. The house has been maintained carefully; after 25 years it still reads as well-built rather than worn.
Emmerich am Rhein itself deserves more attention than it typically gets. The Rhine promenade is genuinely good — wide, lined with terraces, the river broad and slow-moving here, barges passing with a low diesel thrum. The town market on Saturdays has proper regional produce: Niederrhein asparagus in spring, Gouda from just across the border. Speaking of which, 's-Heerenberg is literally across the border — the castle there, Huis Bergh, is one of the best-preserved medieval fortresses in the Netherlands and open to visitors year-round. The Montferland forests between Emmerich and Doetinchem are threaded with cycling routes; the Achterhoek regional network alone gives you hundreds of kilometers of marked paths through farmland and woodland. Schloss Anholt, about 25 minutes east, has a moat-surrounded park that's worth the drive in any season. Schloss Moyland, closer to Kleve, houses a significant Joseph Beuys collection and holds outdoor sculpture events in summer.
For Dutch buyers in particular, this property represents a calculation worth making seriously. Comparable detached houses with this footprint, this plot size, and this construction quality in the Arnhem or Nijmegen commuter belt regularly list at €800,000 and above. The A18 to Doetinchem takes around 20 minutes. Arnhem via the A12 is roughly 35. Amsterdam is under two hours by car, just over 90 minutes from Duisburg by train. The border here has been functionally open for decades and daily life across it is genuinely seamless for those who know the area.
As a vacation home or second residence, the property ticks every box international buyers working through due diligence tend to care about. Germany's property purchase process is transparent and well-regulated. Notarial deed transfer, land registry entry, Grunderwerbsteuer — the acquisition costs are predictable. The rental market in the lower Rhine region is stable, and a property of this size and condition would attract long-term tenants easily if rental income is part of the ownership plan.
Key features at a glance:
- 225 m² of living space on a 961 m² plot at the Hüthum forest edge
- Built in 2000 using the Hebelhaus aerated concrete method for superior insulation
- Full underfloor heating throughout the ground floor
- Premium Bulthaup kitchen with high-spec appliances and adjoining utility room
- 4 bedrooms, 1 large bathroom with shower and bathtub, dedicated ground-floor office
- Fully glazed living area facade with French doors opening to the garden terrace
- Hardwood window frames with insulating glazing and electrically operated shutters
- Viessmann central heating boiler with hot water storage
- Double steel carport (2015), spacious driveway, two garden sheds
- Laurel hedge boundaries, mature trees, private lawn and terrace
- Direct forest-edge location — one boundary is woodland, no future development possible
- 5 minutes to Emmerich am Rhein town center and Rhine promenade
- Under 20 minutes to 's-Heerenberg and the Dutch border
- Quick access to A3, A18, and A12 motorways connecting to the Netherlands and Ruhr
- Move-in ready condition with careful maintenance record throughout
This is a property you need to walk through, not just scroll past. The photographs give you the bones; the house gives you the rest — the weight of the walls, the quality of the light, the particular quiet of a forest-edge morning. Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a private viewing and experience Unter den Eichen 19 for yourself.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 225m²
- Price per m²
- €2,573
- Garden size
- 961m²
- 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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