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Roodeschool
Village in Groningen, Netherlands

Roodeschool

Roodeschool is a community situated in the northeast of Groningen province in the Netherlands and forming part of the municipality of Het Hogeland.

Plan a trip to Roodeschool→From Amsterdam

It had a population of around 860 in January 2017.

Get in

Getting to Roodeschool

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 Roodeschool the local way

  • Get inIn summer, there are daily ferry crossings (also for cars) to the German island of Borkum and the German town of Ditzum.
  • Go nextThere is a ferry service for people and bicycles (but no cars) to Emden in Germany.

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