Lower Saxony, Germany · Europe
Papenburg is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Rhede, 44km from Hunebedcentrum.
Papenburg is in Lower Saxony, Germany, with about 34,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Rhede, about 10 km away.
Papenburg (German pronunciation: [ˈpaːpm̩bʊʁk] ; East Frisian Low Saxon: Papenbörg) is a city in the district of Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany, situated at the river Ems. It is known for its large shipyard, the Meyer-Werft, which specializes in building cruise liners.
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Within an hour or so of Papenburg: Fort Bourtange (17 km), Hunebedcentrum (44 km).
The nearest famous roads are Afsluitdijk and Houtribdijk.
Papenburg is in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 10 km from Rhede.
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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.
17 km · about 20 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.
44 km · about 50 min drive
April to October
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