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Schoonoord

Schoonoord is a village in the Netherlands and it is part of the Coevorden municipality in Drenthe.

Schoonoord
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The place

Schoonoord is a village in the Netherlands and it is part of the Coevorden municipality in Drenthe. It has an altitude of about 20 meters (65 feet). The population was 2,219 with 970 households in 2004.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Schoonoord

One place 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
    Ellert en Brammert

    Ellert en Brammert is an open-air museum in Schoonoord expositing the way people lived in Drenthe at the time of the peat digging. It was named after a myth about the two giants Ellert and Brammert who prowled around the Ellertsveld.

    300 m · open-air museum in Schoonoord, 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.

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Getting to Schoonoord

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 32 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 102 km · Bremen (BRE), 138 km
  • Amsterdam → Schoonoord
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €19–26
  • Eindhoven → Schoonoord
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · €23–32
  • Rotterdam → Schoonoord
    185 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Schoonoord

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThere are many small and large destinations in the direct surroundings, making for good bike tour destinations, whether you're heading on or just want to have a good day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Westerbork, 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

    127 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    523 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    604 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    763 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    802 km

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Around it

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  • De Kielhamlet in Coevorden, Netherlands1.4 km