Uithuizen
Uithuizen is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen.

Uithuizen is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Het Hogeland. It had a population of 4,885 in January 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Uithuizen
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.
- 01Menkemaborg
The Menkemaborg x]; Menkema Borough) is a borg in the village of Uithuizen in Groningen in the Netherlands. Since 1927, the borg is a historic house museum.
900 m · building in Uithuizen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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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 Uithuizen
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 33 km · Bremen (BRE), 147 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 157 km
- Stations
- Uithuizermeeden railway station, 3.4 km · Uithuizen railway station, 300 m
- Amsterdam → Uithuizen166 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · €21–29
- Rotterdam → Uithuizen222 km · quickest by road, 4h 28m · €27–38
- Eindhoven → Uithuizen233 km · quickest by road, 4h 38m · €28–39
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Uithuizen
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 Uithuizen. 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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