Ooststellingwerf Municipality
Ooststellingwerf is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It is one of the municipalities of Friesland where Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken rather than West Frisian.
- Type: former grietenij with 25,500 residents
- Description: municipality in Friesland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Neighbors: Heerenveen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hoofdbrug and Bonifatiuskerk, Makkinga.
Bonifatiuskerk, Makkinga
Church
De Weyert
Windmill
De Weyert is a smock mill in Makkinga, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1925 and is in working order. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 31725. De Weyert is situated 4 km west of Ooststellingwerf Municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oosterwolde and Langedijke.
Oosterwolde
Town
Langedijke
Village
Langedijke is a village consisting of about 290 inhabitants in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf in 2017 in the east of Friesland, the Netherlands. The village was first mentioned in 1408 as Langedijc, and means "long dike".
Makkinga
Village
Makkinga is a village in the Dutch municipality of Ooststellingwerf in the province of Friesland. On 1 January 2017, it had 1,040 inhabitants. Makkinga is known among transportation planners and engineers as the first community to introduce the concept of shared space, which means the removal of traffic controls in the high street to encourage safer interaction between vehicles and pedestrians. Makkinga is situated 4 km west of Ooststellingwerf Municipality.
Ooststellingwerf Municipality
- Category: municipality of the Netherlands
- Location: Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.9826° or 52° 58′ 58″ north
Longitude
6.2752° or 6° 16′ 31″ east
Population
25,500
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL OOL
Open location code
9F48X7MG+33
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Ooststellingwerf Municipality” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Albanian: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Arabic: “أوستستالينجفيرف”
- Aragonese: “Eaststellingwerf”
- Aragonese: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Armenian: “Օստստելինգվերֆ”
- Asturian: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Basque: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Belarusian: “Астстэлінгверф”
- Catalan: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Ooststellingwerf”
- Chinese: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Chinese: “东斯泰灵韦夫”
- Chinese: “东斯特灵韦尔夫”
- Danish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Dutch: “Eaststellingwerf”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Ooststellingwerf”
- Dutch: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Esperanto: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Finnish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- French: “Ooststellingwerf”
- German: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Hebrew: “אוסטסטלינוורף”
- Hungarian: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Indonesian: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Irish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Italian: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Japanese: “オーストステリングウェルフ”
- Javanese: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Kurdish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Ladin: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Limburgan: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Low German: “Ooststellingwarf”
- Luxembourgish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Malay: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Northern Frisian: “Eaststellingwerf”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Norwegian: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Persian: “اوستاستلینگورف”
- Polish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Portuguese: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Romanian: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Russian: “Остстеллингверф”
- Saterfriesisch: “Eaststellingwerf”
- Spanish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Swedish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Turkish: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Ukrainian: “Остстеллінгверф”
- Urdu: “اوست اسٹیلنگ ورف”
- Venetian: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Vietnamese: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Volapük: “Ooststellingwerf”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ooststellingwerf”
- Western Frisian: “Eaststellingwerf”
- Zeeuws: “Oôststelliengwerf”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Buttinga and Hoog-Duurswoude.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tiesengabos and Kuunderbos.
Friesland: Must-Visit Destinations
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