ancient ruins
Hunebedcentrum
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.
32 km · about 35 min drive
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Slochteren
Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
About Slochteren
Slochteren sits on the route: 10 minutes from Siddeburen, 32km from Hunebedcentrum.
Slochteren is in Groningen, Netherlands, with about 2,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Siddeburen, about 5 km away.
Slochteren (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈslɔxtərə(n)] ) is a village and former municipality with a population of 15,546 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. On 1 January 2018, Slochteren merged with Hoogezand-Sappemeer and Menterwolde, forming the municipality Midden-Groningen.
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municipality can be characterized as a chain of small villages dividing a mostly agricultural polder landscape, and a connected string of mostly artificial wetlands and lakes called the 'Roegwold'. An area reclaimed from farmland not too long ago in an effort to bring back a piece of local landscape mimicking a time prior to human intervention, and in doing so also providing a resting place and breeding ground for bird populations. Having an agricultural background for at least a thousand years, besides farmers and farm workers, the community houses for the most part commuters to nearby towns like Hoogezand, Groningen and Delfzijl. The mansion, or 'borg', the Fraeylemaborg (A stronghold of the local land holding Groninger nobility) is also located in Slochteren, the oldest parts of which date back to the middle ages, and so does it's distinctly long and narrow, once privately owned, forest, 'Slochterbos', housing some of the provinces oldest trees, after most had been cut down by ancient settlers.
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What is there to see near Slochteren?
Within an hour or so of Slochteren: Hunebedcentrum (32 km), TT Circuit Assen (34 km), Fort Bourtange (35 km).
Are there any good drives near Slochteren?
The nearest famous roads are Afsluitdijk and Houtribdijk.
Where is Slochteren?
Slochteren is in Groningen, Netherlands, about 5 km from Siddeburen.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 2,055
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- Groningen
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Coordinates
- 53.2208, 6.8055
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Worth the detour from Slochteren
3 notable places within an hour's drive.
racetrack
TT Circuit Assen
The Cathedral of Speed -- the only circuit to have hosted a MotoGP round every year since the championship began in 1949.
34 km · about 40 min drive
photogenic
Fort Bourtange
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.
35 km · about 40 min drive
Driving in Netherlands
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€2.04/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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