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Doodstil

Doodstil is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen.

Doodstil
Doodstil · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Doodstil is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Het Hogeland. The hamlet is known for its name which seemingly translates to "dead silent". Doodstil is located along the Boterdiep. In 2005, it won the election for beautiful place name of the Netherlands.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Doodstil

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
    Menkemaborg

    Building in Uithuizen, the Netherlands

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Juliana's Abbey

    Benedictine abbey

    3.6 km · 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 Doodstil

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 31 km · Bremen (BRE), 146 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 156 km
Stations
Uithuizen railway station, 2.1 km
  • Amsterdam → Doodstil
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · €21–29
  • Rotterdam → Doodstil
    220 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · €27–38
  • Eindhoven → Doodstil
    232 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · €28–39
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Doodstil

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 Doodstil. 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

    113 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    486 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    622 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    800 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    809 km

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

Around it

Next door to Doodstil

  • Uithuizenvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands1.8 km
  • Kantensvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands3.8 km
  • Rottumvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands3.6 km
  • Startenhuizenvillage in Eemsdelta and Het Hogeland, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Oldenzijlvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands2.9 km
  • Eppenhuizenvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands1.7 km