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Klazienaveen

Klazienaveen is a town to the southeast of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe.

Klazienaveen
Klazienaveen · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Klazienaveen is a town to the southeast of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is located approx 5 km (3.1 mi) from the German border. Klazienaveen started as a peat colony owned by Willem Albert Scholten. It has been named after Klaassien Sluis, the wife of Scholten.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Klazienaveen

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
    King Willem-Alexander Canal

    The King Willem-Alexander Canal, named after King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, is a 6 km long canal in the northeastern Netherlands. The new canal through the Hondsrug is part of the larger Veenvaart project to draw more recreational boaters and tourists to the Veenkoloniën region in the provinces of Drenthe and Groningen.

    1 km · 6 km long canal in the northeastern Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Collectie Brands

    Museum Collectie Brands is a museum in Nieuw-Dordrecht, Drenthe. The museum contains a collection of over seventy thousand objects and books that were collected by Jans Brands during his lifetime.

    3.8 km · Museum in Nieuw-Dordrecht, the Netherlands · Wikipedia

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Getting to Klazienaveen

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 51 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 82 km · Bremen (BRE), 126 km
  • Groningen → Klazienaveen
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €7–10
  • Amsterdam → Klazienaveen
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · €19–26
  • Eindhoven → Klazienaveen
    176 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · €23–32
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No local-transport research exists yet for Klazienaveen

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    147 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    522 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    614 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    749 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    816 km

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Around it

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