Netherlands Consulate Aachen

About the honorary consulate in Aachen

Honorary consul Prof. Dr. Christiane Vaeßen represents the Netherlands in the Aachen border region, which shares a long frontier with Dutch Limburg. Meetings are arranged by phone.

Which Dutch office issues passports and visas?

Passports and ID cards: the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (appointment online) or a Dutch border municipality. At the embassy you pay by card only; cash and German Girocard-only cards are not accepted.

Contact details of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, as listed on its page in this directory:

• Address: Klosterstraße 50, 10179 Berlin, Germany
• Telephone: +49 30 20 95 60
• Email: bln@minbuza.nl
• Opening hours: Monday to Friday 09:00 – 12:30
• Website: www.netherlandsandyou.nl/web/deutschland

What can an honorary consul do?

An honorary consul is not a career diplomat but a local resident – often a business person or lawyer – appointed by the Netherlands and approved by the host country. Depending on the powers granted, the honorary consul can help Dutch citizens in an emergency (lost passport, accident, arrest), pass on applications and documents to the embassy, and certify signatures or life certificates. Passports and visas are not issued by an honorary consulate; they remain the responsibility of the embassy or a career consulate.

Other consulates and embassies in Aachen

4 other countries are represented in Aachen: Brazil (honorary), Côte d’Ivoire (honorary), France (honorary), Türkiye (honorary).

Dutch missions in Germany

Measured in a straight line from Aachen, the nearest other Dutch office is the Honorary Consulate in Cologne (about 64 km). The nearest embassy or career consulate is the Consulate General in Düsseldorf (about 70 km). Distances in brackets are straight-line distances from Aachen.

• Berlin (540 km) – Embassy of the Netherlands
• Düsseldorf (70 km) – Consulate General (North Rhine-Westphalia, Bremen, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland)
• Munich (490 km) – Consulate General (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg)
• Aachen – Honorary Consulate (Aachen, Düren, Heinsberg) (this page)
• Bremen (320 km) – Honorary Consulate (Bremen and north-western Lower Saxony)
• Frankfurt am Main (200 km) – Honorary Consulate (Hesse)
• Hamburg (410 km) – Honorary Consulate (Hamburg and surrounding districts)
• Hanover (310 km) – Honorary Consulate (most of Lower Saxony, Detmold region)
• Kiel (Flintbek) (470 km) – Honorary Consulate (most of Schleswig-Holstein)
• Kleve (110 km) – Honorary Consulate (Kleve district, northern Wesel district)
• Cologne (64 km) – Honorary Consulate (Cologne region)
• Leipzig (440 km) – Honorary Consulate (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia)
• Münster (170 km) – Honorary Consulate (Münster region)
• Nuremberg (390 km) – Honorary Consulate (Franconia and Upper Palatinate)
• Stuttgart (310 km) – Honorary Consulate (Baden-Württemberg)