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Paterswolde

Paterswolde is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe.

Paterswolde
Paterswolde · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Paterswolde is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Tynaarlo, and lies about 8 km south of city of Groningen. Paterswolde and Eelde has merged into a single urban area, and are often referred to as Eelde-Paterswolde, however they remain separate villages.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Paterswolde

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
    International Wooden Shoe Museum Eelde

    The International Wooden Shoe Museum Eelde is a museum in Eelde, the Netherlands, for clogs, clog-making equipment and machinery. It has the largest collection of wooden footwear in the world.

    1.3 km · museum · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wall House II

    Bye House is a historic building in Groningen, Netherlands, that was designed by John Hejduk. It is one of his few realized designs.

    3.8 km · house designed by John Hejduk in Groningen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Paterswolde

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 4 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 136 km · Bremen (BRE), 149 km
Stations
Groningen Airport Eelde, 3.4 km
  • Amsterdam → Paterswolde
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · €19–26
  • Rotterdam → Paterswolde
    196 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · €24–34
  • Eindhoven → Paterswolde
    203 km · quickest by road, 3h 56m · €24–34
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Paterswolde

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe airport offers (multiple) daily flights to and from Copenhagen, London-Southend, and Munich, and various other scheduled and charter flights to and from cities and holiday destinations in Southern Europe.

From Wikivoyage: Tynaarlo, 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

    107 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    509 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    605 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    796 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    797 km

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

Around it

Next door to Paterswolde

  • Eeldevillage in Tynaarlo, Netherlands1.9 km
  • Windevillage in Tynaarlo, Netherlands3.7 km
  • Eelderwoldevillage in Tynaarlo, Netherlands3 km
  • De Polhamlet in Noordenveld, Netherlands4 km
  • Oosterbroekhamlet in Tynaarlo, Netherlands2.7 km