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Weidevenne

Weidevenne is a district of Purmerend in the Netherlands, west of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal across from the De Gors district.

Weidevenne
Weidevenne · Sneeuwvlakte
The place

Weidevenne is a district of Purmerend in the Netherlands, west of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal across from the De Gors district. Its 14,451 inhabitants mainly live in terraced houses. The population of Purmerend is expected to grow to 90,000, mainly due to the continuing expansion of Weidevenne. In November 2007 the district celebrated its tenth anniversary.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Weidevenne

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
    Melkwegbrug, Purmerend

    The Milky Way Bridge, or Melkwegbrug, is a pedestrian/cycling bridge in Purmerend, Netherlands. It was designed by NEXT Architects and opened in 2006.

    1.2 km · bridge in Purmerend, 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 Weidevenne

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 24 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 69 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 120 km
Stations
Purmerend Weidevenne railway station, 600 m · Purmerend railway station, 1.2 km · Purmerend Overwhere railway station, 2.5 km
  • Rotterdam → Weidevenne
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €9–13
  • Eindhoven → Weidevenne
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · €14–19
  • Groningen → Weidevenne
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €18–25
  • 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 Weidevenne

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBikes can be hired at the bike shop near the Museum De Speeltoren or from Zag Zag (see below.) Canoes can also be hired from Zag Zag (see below).

From Wikivoyage: Monnickendam, 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

    86 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    476 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    639 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    676 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    741 km

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

Around it

Next door to Weidevenne

Weidevenne is 14 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.