Wildervank
Wildervank is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen.
Wildervank is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Veendam, about 3 km south of the centre of Veendam itself. It was founded in 1647 by Adriaan Geerts Wildervanck as a peat colony in the Wildervankster bog. Wildervank was a separate municipality until 1969, when the area was divided between Veendam and Stadskanaal.
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Worth seeing in and around Wildervank
2 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.
- 01De Langeleegte
De Langeleegte is a multi-use stadium in Veendam, Netherlands. It was the home ground of football club SC Veendam from 1954 until their dissolvement in 2013.
2.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Veenkoloniaal Museum
Veenkoloniaal Museum is a regional museum in the village of Veendam in the Netherlands. The museum shows not only the history of the peat district in Groningen.
2.7 km · museum in Veendam, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wildervank
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 20 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 119 km · Bremen (BRE), 129 km
- Stations
- Veendam railway station, 2.8 km
- Amsterdam → Wildervank154 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €21–29
- Rotterdam → Wildervank206 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · €25–35
- Eindhoven → Wildervank205 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · €25–35
- 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 Wildervank
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 Wildervank. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Wildervank – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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