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Ossenzijl

Ossenzijl is a village in the municipality Steenwijkerland of the Dutch province of Overijssel.

Ossenzijl
Ossenzijl · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ossenzijl is a village in the municipality Steenwijkerland of the Dutch province of Overijssel. It started as a sluice owned by the Osse family. It is an entry point to the Weerribben-Wieden National Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ossenzijl

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 56 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 96 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 135 km
  • Groningen → Ossenzijl
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €9–12
  • Amsterdam → Ossenzijl
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €11–15
  • Rotterdam → Ossenzijl
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · €17–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ossenzijl

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere are no cars allowed in most of the interesting parts of the park, and the main way to get around is by foot, bike, boat or canoe.
  • Get aroundCanoe trip - and excellent way to explore the many waterways and lakes.
  • Get aroundCanoes are inexpensive to rent and available from several places.

From Wikivoyage: Weerribben-Wieden National Park, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    81 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    550 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    567 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    747 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    766 km

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