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Usquert

Usquert is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen.

Usquert
Usquert · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Usquert is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Het Hogeland. It had a population of around 1,415 in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Usquert

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
    St. 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.

    1.9 km · Benedictine abbey · 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 Usquert

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 31 km · Bremen (BRE), 150 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 158 km
Stations
Usquert railway station, 600 m · Uithuizen railway station, 4 km · Warffum railway station, 3.5 km
  • Amsterdam → Usquert
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · €21–29
  • Rotterdam → Usquert
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · €27–38
  • Eindhoven → Usquert
    231 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · €28–39
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Usquert

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    110 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    489 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    619 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    796 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    806 km

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

Around it

Next door to Usquert

  • Uithuizenvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands3.8 km
  • Warffumvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands4 km
  • Kantensvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands4 km
  • Rottumvillage in Het Hogeland, Netherlands2 km
  • Doodstilhamlet in Het Hogeland, Netherlands3.9 km
  • Bethlehemhamlet in Het Hogeland, Netherlands1.9 km