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Veelerveen

Veelerveen is a linear village with a population of around 720 in the municipality of Westerwolde in the Netherlands.

Veelerveen
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The place

Veelerveen is a linear village with a population of around 720 in the municipality of Westerwolde in the Netherlands.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Veelerveen

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
    Wedderborg

    The Wedderborg x]; Borough of Wedde) is a borg, a type of castle in Groningen, in the village of Wedde in the Netherlands. The building has 14th, 15th, and 16th-century elements and is currently used as a hotel and restaurant.

    3.9 km · castle in the 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 Veelerveen

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 37 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 109 km · Bremen (BRE), 111 km
  • Amsterdam → Veelerveen
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · €23–33
  • Eindhoven → Veelerveen
    212 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · €31–44
  • Rotterdam → Veelerveen
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · €27–38
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Veelerveen

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIn addition, there is the so-called 'small-scale public transportation network', connecting several of the villages in the region with minibuses and also including minibus route 510 which serves as a city bus in Veendam and Wildervank (1x/hour during daytime Mondays-Saturdays).

From Wikivoyage: Veenkoloniën, 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

    145 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

    635 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    784 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    831 km

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

Around it

Next door to Veelerveen

  • Vriescheloovillage in Westerwolde, Netherlands2.1 km
  • Hebrechtvillage in the Netherlands3.6 km
  • Veelehamlet in Westerwolde, Netherlands2.6 km
  • Weitehamlet in Westerwolde, Netherlands3.6 km