Roodeschool
Roodeschool is a community situated in the northeast of Groningen province in the Netherlands and forming part of the municipality of Het Hogeland.
Roodeschool is a community situated in the northeast of Groningen province in the Netherlands and forming part of the municipality of Het Hogeland. It had a population of around 860 in January 2017.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Menkemaborg
This historic, brick mansion still boasts lovely gardens, moats and promenades.
- 02Verhildersum
- 03Jacobus de Meerderekerk
- 04Walfriduskerk
11th-century church with a Romanesque style clock tower that is leaning more than the tower of Pisa.
- 05Windmill 'De Vier Winden'
Windmill 'De Vier Winden' (The Four Winds) is an old windmill that can still be used, built in 1864.
- 06Windmill 'De Goliath'
Relatively large polder windmill, used for drainage of reclaimed land.
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Things to do
Go mudflat hiking. Pieterburen is a starting place for guided mud walks on the bottom of the Wadden Sea, at low tide. If you enjoy hiking, set out on the most popular Dutch long distance walking route, the Pieterpad. It starts right here at Hotel Waddenweelde in Pieterburen and runs all the way south to the Sint-Pietersberg in Maastricht. The first stage runs from Pieterburen to Winsum.
- 01Albatros
Zoutkamp (At the fishing museum), k4@visserijmuseum.com.
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Where to eat
- 01't Schathoes
Good quality restaurant located in the Menkemaborg.
- 02Azzurra
The town's Italian restaurant gets rather good reviews, especially for its pizzas.
- 03Rose Garden
Bij de Buren van Pieter, Hoofdstraat 82, Pieterburen,.
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Getting to Roodeschool
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 35 km · Bremen (BRE), 141 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 156 km
- Stations
- Roodeschool railway station, 500 m · Uithuizermeeden railway station, 3.1 km
- Amsterdam → Roodeschool171 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · €21–30
- Rotterdam → Roodeschool227 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · €27–38
- Eindhoven → Roodeschool237 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · €28–40
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Roodeschool
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 Roodeschool. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIn summer, there are daily ferry crossings (also for cars) to the German island of Borkum and the German town of Ditzum.
- Go nextThere is a ferry service for people and bicycles (but no cars) to Emden in Germany.
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