De Westereen
De Westereen is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 5,000 in 2017.Photo: Baykedevries, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 5,060 residents
- Description: village in Dantumadeel, Netherlands
- Postal code: 9271
Places of Interest
Highlights include De Westereen railway station and Skierstins.
De Westereen railway station
Railway station
Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
De Westereen is a railway station located in De Westereen, Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 October 1885 and is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between Leeuwarden and Groningen.
Skierstins
Castle
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.
The Skierstins is a medieval Stienhús built c. 1300 out of brick in Feanwâlden. It is the only remaining Stienhús in Friesland and is listed as Rijksmonument, number 11700 and is rated with a very high historical value. Skierstins is situated 3½ km southwest of De Westereen.
Johanneskerk van Veenwouden
Church
Johanneskerk van Veenwouden is a church, which is situated 3½ km southwest of De Westereen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sweagerbosk and Twijzelerheide.
Sweagerbosk
Village
Sweagerbosk is a village in Noardeast-Fryslân municipality in the province Friesland of the Netherlands. It had a population of around 638 in January 2017.
Twijzelerheide
Village
Photo: Willemjans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Twijzelerheide is a village in Achtkarspelen in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 1800 in 2017. A dialect of Wood Frisian, Westereendersk dialect, is spoken in this village.
De Falom
Village
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.
De Falom is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of 235 in 2017.
De Westereen
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Dantumadiel Municipality, Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.25647° or 53° 15′ 23″ northLongitude
6.03887° or 6° 2′ 20″ eastPopulation
5,060Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 48291277OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“De Westereen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دي فيسترين”
- Asturian: “De Westereen”
- Catalan: “De Westereen”
- Cebuano: “De Westereen”
- Chinese: “De Westereen”
- Danish: “De Westereen”
- Dutch: “De Westereen”
- Dutch: “Zwaagwesteinde”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دى فيسترين”
- Finnish: “De Westereen”
- French: “De Westereen”
- German: “De Westereen”
- Irish: “De Westereen”
- Ladin: “De Westereen”
- Lithuanian: “De Vesterynas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “De Westereen”
- Northern Frisian: “De Westereen”
- Persian: “وسترین”
- Russian: “Де-Вестерен”
- Ukrainian: “Де-Вестерен”
- Western Frisian: “De Westereen”
- Western Frisian: “De Westerein”
- “De Westereen”
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