Lower Saxony, Germany · Europe
Leer sits on the route: 10 minutes from Jemgum, 55km from Hunebedcentrum.
Leer is in Lower Saxony, Germany, with about 34,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Jemgum, about 7 km away.
Leer (Ostfriesland) (German pronunciation: [leːɐ̯ ʔɔstfʁiːslant]) is a railway station in the town of Leer in Lower Saxony, Germany. The railway station is situated on the Emsland Railway between the railway stations of Emden and Papenburg and it is the railway terminus on the Oldenburg–Leer railway after the railwayRead more
station of Augustfehn. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, WestfalenBahn and Arriva (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn).
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Within an hour or so of Leer: Fort Bourtange (31 km), Hunebedcentrum (55 km).
The nearest famous roads are Afsluitdijk.
Leer is in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 7 km from Jemgum.
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ADAC roadside assistance: +49 89 22 22 22. No general speed limit on some autobahn sections but advisory 130 km/h.
Full driving guide for Germany2 notable places within an hour's drive.
photogenic
1593 star fortress village in remote Groningen restored to its 1742 form: a living five-pointed star of moats, bastions and wooden drawbridges with a cobbled marketplace at its heart, most striking from the ramparts or the air.
31 km · about 35 min drive
ancient ruins
Museum in Borger beside D27, the largest of the Netherlands' 5,000-year-old hunebed dolmens: 22-metre granite burial chambers older than Stonehenge, scattered along the Drenthe hondsrug ridge.
55 km · about 65 min drive
April to October
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