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
Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
Slochteren sits on the route: 10 minutes from Siddeburen, 32km from Hunebedcentrum.
Slochteren is a town located in Groningen, Netherlands. With a population of 2,055, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Slochteren sits in Netherlands, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Amsterdam time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Slochteren to your route.
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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Slochteren is located in Groningen, Netherlands, Europe. The coordinates are 53.2208 latitude, 6.8055 longitude.
Slochteren has a population of approximately 2,055 people, making it a town in Netherlands.
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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.
32 km · about 35 min drive
racetrack
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
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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
April to October
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