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Molenlanden

Molenlanden is a municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands.

Molenlanden
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The place

Molenlanden is a municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. The municipality was created on 1 January 2019 by merging the municipalities of Giessenlanden en Molenwaard. It is located east of Rotterdam along and south of the Lek. The World Heritage Site of Kinderdijk is in the municipality. Its largest population centers are Nieuw-Lekkerland and Giessenburg.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Molenlanden

Airports
Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 26 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 49 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 62 km
  • Amsterdam → Molenlanden
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · €7–10
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  • Eindhoven → Molenlanden
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €9–12
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  • Maastricht → Molenlanden
    130 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · €18–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Molenlanden

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA day pass is available which includes coupons for a return ride on the Driehoeksveer ferry and entrances to the Museummolen and Wisboomgemaal.
  • Get inJust cross a river via a bridge or by a ferry (take off at Papendrecht), then take a ride for about 15km.

From Wikivoyage: Kinderdijk, 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

    157 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    443 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    658 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    685 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    695 km

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

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Next door to Molenlanden

Molenlanden is 22 km from Rotterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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