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Middelstum
Village in Groningen, Netherlands

Middelstum

Middelstum is a village with a population of 2,419 in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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It is located in the municipality of Eemsdelta.

Get in

Getting to Middelstum

There are several expressways and key trunk roads leading into the Hogeland region. From Groningen city, there are the N46 expressway to the Eemshaven port in the northeast (via among others Bedum, Middelstum and Roodeschool) and the N361 trunk road to the port of Lauwersoog in the northwest (via Winsum).

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Menkemaborg

    This historic, brick mansion still boasts lovely gardens, moats and promenades.

  2. 02
    Verhildersum
  3. 03
    Jacobus de Meerderekerk
  4. 04
    Walfriduskerk

    11th-century church with a Romanesque style clock tower that is leaning more than the tower of Pisa.

  5. 05
    Windmill 'De Vier Winden'

    Windmill 'De Vier Winden' (The Four Winds) is an old windmill that can still be used, built in 1864.

  6. 06
    Windmill 'De Goliath'

    Relatively large polder windmill, used for drainage of reclaimed land.

Do

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.

  1. 01
    Albatros

    Zoutkamp (At the fishing museum), k4@visserijmuseum.com.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    't Schathoes

    Good quality restaurant located in the Menkemaborg.

  2. 02
    Azzurra

    The town's Italian restaurant gets rather good reviews, especially for its pizzas.

  3. 03
    Rose Garden

    Bij de Buren van Pieter, Hoofdstraat 82, Pieterburen,.

How locals move

Getting around Middelstum the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

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