Weststellingwerf Municipality
Weststellingwerf is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It borders both Drenthe and Overijssel. It is one of the municipalities of Friesland where the spoken language is not West Frisian; instead, Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken here.Photo: Martijnvanvulpen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: former grietenij with 26,100 residents
- Description: municipality in Friesland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Weststellingwerf”
- Neighbors: De Fryske Marren and Heerenveen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wolvega railway station and Oudheidkamer Weststellingwerf.
Wolvega railway station
Railway station
Wolvega is a railway station in Wolvega, Netherlands. The station opened on 15 January 1868 and is on the Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway. The services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
Oudheidkamer Weststellingwerf
Museum
Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oudheidkamer Weststellingwerf is a museum.
Victoria Park
Athletics track
Wolvega, is the capital and largest town in the municipality of Weststellingwerf in the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands. It had a population of around 13,090 in 2021.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wolvega and Oldeholtpade.
Wolvega
Town
Photo: Martijnvanvulpen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wolvega, is the capital and largest town in the municipality of Weststellingwerf in the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands. It had a population of around 13,090 in 2021.
Oldeholtpade
Village
Oldeholtpade is a village in Weststellingwerf in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 1,020 in 2017. The village was first mentioned in 1204 as "Holenpathe juxta Liennam1", and means "old low-lying path".
De Blesse
Village
Photo: Willemjans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
De Blesse is a village in Weststellingwerf in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 800 in 2017. Its windmill, De Mars, was rebuilt in 1997. Before 1956, the village was called Blesse. De Blesse is situated 4 km south of Weststellingwerf Municipality.
Weststellingwerf Municipality
- Category: municipality of the Netherlands
- Location: Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Weststellingwerf Municipality” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Weststellingwerf”
- Albanian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Arabic: “فيستستيلينجفيرف”
- Aragonese: “Weststellingwerf”
- Armenian: “Վեստստելինգվերֆ”
- Asturian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Basque: “Weststellingwerf”
- Catalan: “Weststellingwerf”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Weststellingwerf”
- Chinese: “Weststellingwerf”
- Chinese: “西斯泰灵韦夫”
- Chinese: “西斯泰靈韋夫”
- Danish: “Weststellingwerf”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Weststellingwerf”
- Dutch: “Weststellingwerf”
- Esperanto: “Weststellingwerf”
- Finnish: “Weststellingwarf”
- Finnish: “Weststellingwerf”
- French: “Weststellingwerf”
- German: “Weststellingwerf”
- German: “Wolvega”
- Hakka Chinese: “Weststellingwerf”
- Hungarian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Indonesian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Irish: “Weststellingwerf”
- Italian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Japanese: “ウェストステリングウェルフ”
- Javanese: “Weststellingwerf”
- Kurdish: “Weststellingwerf”
- Ladin: “Weststellingwerf”
- Limburgan: “Weststellingwerf”
- Low German: “Weststellingwarf”
- Luxembourgish: “Weststellingwerf”
- Malay: “Weststellingwerf”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Weststellingwerf”
- Northern Frisian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Weststellingwerf”
- Norwegian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Persian: “وستاستلینگورف”
- Polish: “Peperga”
- Polish: “Weststellingwerf”
- Portuguese: “Weststellingwerf”
- Romanian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Russian: “Вестстеллингверф”
- Saterfriesisch: “Weststellingwerf”
- Spanish: “Weststellingwerf”
- Swedish: “Weststellingwerf”
- Turkish: “Weststellingwerf”
- Ukrainian: “Вестстеллінгверф”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ اسٹیلنگ ورف”
- Venetian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Vietnamese: “Weststellingwerf”
- Volapük: “Weststellingwerf”
- Waray (Philippines): “Weststellingwerf”
- Western Frisian: “Weststellingwerf”
- Zeeuws: “Weststelliengwerf”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Nijeholtwolde and Sonnega.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include De Nieuwe Aanleg and Windlust.
Friesland: Must-Visit Destinations
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