# Visitors to The Passion in Ootmarsum must buy €7.50 ticket

> Visitors to next year's The Passion on the Kerkplein in Ootmarsum must buy a ticket, and residents of the Overijssel town get priority.

Society · published 2026-11-05 21:22 · https://nlnow.nl/a/the-passion-in-ootmarsum-charges-7-50-entry-for-first-time/

The Passion will charge visitors for the first time. A ticket for next year's edition in Ootmarsum costs €7.50. The event takes place on the town's historic Kerkplein square and will be broadcast live on NPO 1, as in earlier editions. Organiser KRO-NCRV announced the ticket requirement on its website.

**Why it matters**

- Entry to The Passion in Ootmarsum costs €7.50. Earlier editions were free.
- Residents of Ootmarsum get priority in ticket sales.
- People who have already booked a hotel get no such priority.

KRO-NCRV says space in the historic centre is limited and only a "limited number" of tickets will be sold. "With tickets we can plan well in advance for the number of visitors and make sure the event runs safely and pleasantly," the broadcaster says on its website.

It calls the €7.50 "a modest charge to cover the administrative and organisational costs of welcoming and looking after the public on site". Because every location is different, it says, each edition needs a different approach.

The Passion has been organised since 2011. This year it was held in a village for the first time, Dwingeloo in Drenthe, which has about 4,000 inhabitants. Ootmarsum has about 4,500. The location was announced in September by the Poaskearls, who traditionally walk through Ootmarsum's streets to announce Easter.

## Background

- **The Passion**: The Passion is a live open-air Easter stage production about the last days of Jesus, staged in a Dutch town and broadcast live on NPO 1. Each edition is performed in a different location, and the broadcast is a well-known part of the Easter period in the Netherlands.
- **KRO-NCRV (Katholieke Radio Omroep - Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging)**: KRO-NCRV is a Dutch broadcasting association (omroep) that makes radio and television programmes for the public broadcasting system (NPO). It is the organiser of The Passion and is responsible for the production and broadcast of the event.
- **Poaskearls**: The Poaskearls are a traditional group in Ootmarsum, a town in the Dutch province of Overijssel, who walk through the town's streets at Easter to make announcements. Among these, they publicly announce the yearly location of The Passion.

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