Blauwestad
Blauwestad is a new build village, created in a large made lake, with luxery houses along the lakeside in the municipality of Oldambt in the Netherlands.
Blauwestad is a new build village, created in a large made lake, with luxery houses along the lakeside in the municipality of Oldambt in the Netherlands. It is situated on the east bank of the Oldambtmeer in the east of the province of Groningen.
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Worth seeing in and around Blauwestad
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.
- 01Oldambtmeer
Oldambtmeer tˌmeːr]; English: Oldambt Lake) is an artificial lake of more than 800 hectares in the municipality of Oldambt in the Netherlands, created by flooding fallow land that had previously been reclaimed.
1.1 km · lake in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Blauwestad
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 31 km · Bremen (BRE), 118 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 123 km
- Stations
- Winschoten railway station, 3.1 km · Scheemda railway station, 3.7 km · Heiligerlee railway stop, 2.7 km
- Amsterdam → Blauwestad169 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · €22–31
- Rotterdam → Blauwestad222 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · €27–38
- Eindhoven → Blauwestad219 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · €34–47
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Blauwestad
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 Blauwestad. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIn addition, there is the so-called 'small-scale public transportation network', connecting several of the villages in the region with minibuses and also including minibus route 510 which serves as a city bus in Veendam and Wildervank (1x/hour during daytime Mondays-Saturdays).
From Wikivoyage: Veenkoloniën, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Blauwestad
- Oldambtmunicipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands1.9 km
- Winschotentown in Oldambt, Netherlands1.9 km
- Heiligerleevillage in Oldambt, Netherlands1.9 km
- Westerleevillage in Oldambt, Netherlands3.9 km