Stitswerd
Stitswerd is a village in the municipality of Het Hogeland, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Stitswerd is a village in the municipality of Het Hogeland, Groningen, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 45 in January 2017. Stitswerd is located on a wierde near the estuary of the former river Fivel.
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Worth seeing in and around Stitswerd
3 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.
- 01Boterdiep
Boterdiep is a canal in the Province of Groningen in the Netherlands. It was intended for the inland navigation.
3.9 km · canal in Groningen, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Kardingermaar
The Kardingermaar is a maar in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. It is, for the most part, the border between the municipalities of Bedum and Ten Boer.
2.8 km · canal in Groningen, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03St. Juliana's Abbey
Saint Juliana's Abbey was a Benedictine abbey dedicated to Juliana of Nicomedia in Rottum in the present-day Netherlands. The abbey was probably founded between 1195 and 1210 by monks from the Benedictine Werden Abbey in Germany.
2.9 km · Benedictine abbey · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stitswerd
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 27 km · Bremen (BRE), 150 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 155 km
- Stations
- Warffum railway station, 3.9 km
- Amsterdam → Stitswerd159 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · €21–29
- Rotterdam → Stitswerd215 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · €27–38
- Eindhoven → Stitswerd227 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · €28–39
- 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 Stitswerd
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 Stitswerd. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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