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Adorp

Adorp is a village in the municipality of Het Hogeland, Netherlands.

Adorp
Adorp · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Adorp is a village in the municipality of Het Hogeland, Netherlands. It is located about 6 km north of Groningen. Until 1990, Adorp was a separate municipality, however the seat was in Sauwerd.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Adorp

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Space Research Organisation Netherlands

    Space Research Organisation Netherlands is the Dutch national institute for space research. It focuses on astrophysics, Earth observation, and exoplanetary research.

    3.8 km · national institute for space research in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

    The Kapteyn Astronomical Institute is the department of astronomy of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The institute is named after its founder, Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, who lived from 1851 to 1922.

    3.8 km · astronomical institute at the University of Groningen · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Adorp

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 18 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 149 km · Bremen (BRE), 152 km
Stations
Sauwerd railway station, 1.9 km
  • Amsterdam → Adorp
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · €19–27
  • Rotterdam → Adorp
    205 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · €25–35
  • Eindhoven → Adorp
    216 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · €26–37
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Adorp

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Adorp. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBus route 163 (only to connect to the ferry to Schiermonnikoog at Lauwersoog): from Groningen to Hogeland (Adorp, Wetsinge, Winsum, Ulrum, Lauwersoog).
  • Get inThere are ferry connections to and from the Hogeland with two of the Frisian Islands.
  • Go nextFrisian Islands — Hop on a ferry to one of the Frisian Islands.

From Wikivoyage: Hogeland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    103 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    502 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    609 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    796 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    797 km

If you know how people move in Adorp – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Adorp

  • Sauwerdvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands2.1 km
  • Noordwoldevillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands3.6 km
  • Oostumhamlet in Westerkwartier, Netherlands2.5 km
  • Dorkwerdvillage in the Netherlands3.1 km
  • Wetsingevillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands2.9 km
  • Harssenshamlet in Het Hogeland, Netherlands1.3 km