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Biessum

Biessum is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen.

Biessum
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The place

Biessum is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Eemsdelta, and lies about 25 km northeast of Groningen.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Biessum

One place 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
    Nicolaïkerk

    The Nicolaïkerk k]; English: Nicholas Church) is a Romano-Gothic hall church in Appingedam in the Netherlands. The church is used by the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

    3 km · church in Appingedam · 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 Biessum

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 32 km · Bremen (BRE), 130 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 144 km
Stations
Delfzijl railway station, 1.9 km · Delfzijl West railway station, 800 m · Appingedam railway station, 2.3 km
  • Amsterdam → Biessum
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · €21–30
  • Rotterdam → Biessum
    226 km · quickest by road, 4h 29m · €28–39
  • Eindhoven → Biessum
    231 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · €28–39
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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 Biessum

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 Biessum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIn summer, there are daily ferry crossings (also for cars) to the German island of Borkum and the German town of Ditzum.
  • Go nextThere is a ferry service for people and bicycles (but no cars) to Emden in Germany.

From Wikivoyage: Delfzijl, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    127 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    479 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    633 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    816 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    816 km

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

Around it

Next door to Biessum

  • Delfzijlcity in Eemsdelta, Netherlands1.4 km
  • Farmsumvillage in Eemsdelta, Netherlands2.4 km
  • Holwierdevillage in Eemsdelta, Netherlands3.1 km
  • Krewerdvillage in Eemsdelta, Netherlands3.8 km
  • Uitwierdehamlet in Eemsdelta, Netherlands800 m
  • Amsweerhamlet in Eemsdelta, Netherlands2.8 km