Niehove
Niehove is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in Groningen, Netherlands.
Niehove is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in Groningen, Netherlands. The village was located on the island of Humsterland in the former Lauwerszee from c. 800 until c. 1500. It is a terp village with two ring roads and the church in the middle. The village is a protected site. In 2019, Elsevier Weekblad named Niehove the most beautiful village of the Netherlands.
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Worth seeing in and around Niehove
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.
- 01Ludgeruskerk
Ludgeruskerk or Liudgerkerk is a church located in Oldehove, Groningen, a village in the north of the Netherlands. It is a Romanesque-Gothic structure from the Middle Ages, dedicated to Ludger.
2.4 km · church building in Oldehove, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Schathoes
The Piloersemaborg x]; Borg of Piloersema) is a 17th-century borg in the village of Den Ham in Groningen in the Netherlands. It currently houses a restaurant.
3.7 km · building in Den Ham, Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Niehove
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 24 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 153 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 156 km
- Amsterdam → Niehove142 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · €18–26
- Rotterdam → Niehove199 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · €25–34
- Eindhoven → Niehove214 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · €27–37
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No local-transport research exists yet for Niehove
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 Niehove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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