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.
12 km · about 25 min drive
Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
Stadskanaal is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Gasselternijveen, 12km from Hunebedcentrum.
Stadskanaal is a town located in Groningen, Netherlands. With a population of 20,000, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Stadskanaal 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 Stadskanaal to your route.
Stadskanaal (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌstɑtskaːˈnaːl] ) is a town and municipality in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. It was named after the canal Stadskanaal which literally means "City Canal" and it is a linear village. In the Gronings dialect the town is called "Knoal" and the locals areRead more
called "Knoalsters".
From 1800 until 1900 this area was ideal for its peat mining, and so the canal came to ship all the peat to Groningen, the capital of the province. With industrialization, many of Stadskanaal's peat colony features, as well as many of its characteristic shophouses, were lost. The town now has 19,060 inhabitants (2023), making it one of the largest towns in the province. Together with Nieuw-Buinen, located across the provincial Drenthe border (the straight-line Semslinie), it forms a double core with just under 24,000 inhabitants. The Stadskanaal municipality overall has a population of 32,715.
The municipality of Stadskanaal was created on 1 January 1969, by merging the former municipality of Onstwedde with part of the former municipality of Wildervank.
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Stadskanaal is located in Groningen, Netherlands, Europe. The coordinates are 52.9895 latitude, 6.9504 longitude.
Stadskanaal has a population of approximately 20,000 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.
12 km · about 25 min 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.
16 km · about 20 min drive
racetrack
The Cathedral of Speed -- the only circuit to have hosted a MotoGP round every year since the championship began in 1949.
29 km · about 35 min drive
April to October
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