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Glimmen

Glimmen is a village in the northeastern Netherlands.

Glimmen
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The place

Glimmen is a village in the northeastern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Groningen, about 10 kilometres from the city. It had a population of around 1,342 in 2021. The river Drentsche Aa flows past the village, nearby the Huis te Glimmen, a stately home on the site.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Glimmen

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 4 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 133 km · Bremen (BRE), 145 km
Stations
Groningen Airport Eelde, 3.9 km
  • Amsterdam → Glimmen
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · €19–27
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  • Rotterdam → Glimmen
    199 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · €24–34
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  • Eindhoven → Glimmen
    204 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · €24–34
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No local-transport research exists yet for Glimmen

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe airport offers (multiple) daily flights to and from Copenhagen, London-Southend, and Munich, and various other scheduled and charter flights to and from cities and holiday destinations in Southern Europe.

From Wikivoyage: Tynaarlo, 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

    111 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    507 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    608 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    796 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    800 km

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Next door to Glimmen

  • De Puntvillage in Tynaarlo, Netherlands3 km
  • Ydevillage in Tynaarlo, Netherlands3.5 km
  • Noordlarenvillage in Groningen, Netherlands3.2 km
  • Onnenfarm village in the Netherlands2.2 km
  • Oosterbroekhamlet in Tynaarlo, Netherlands2.5 km
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