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Niezijl

Niezijl, historically Bomsterzijl, is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Niezijl
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The place

Niezijl, historically Bomsterzijl, is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. The village is located between Grijpskerk and Zuidhorn on the N355, the trunk highway from Leeuwarden to Groningen. As of 2021, Niezijl had a population of 420. The village is intersected by two canals, the Niezijlsterdiep and the Hoerediep.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Niezijl

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 22 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 151 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 155 km
Stations
Grijpskerk railway station, 3 km
  • Amsterdam → Niezijl
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · €18–25
  • Rotterdam → Niezijl
    195 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · €24–33
  • Eindhoven → Niezijl
    211 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · €26–36
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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 Niezijl. 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

    91 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    512 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    597 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    785 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    785 km

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