Lauwerzijl
Lauwerzijl is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. As of 2021, it had a population of 195. Until 1990 the village belonged to the former municipality of Oldehove, then until 2019 to the former municipality of Zuidhorn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 205 residents
- Description: village in Westerkwartier, Netherlands
- Postal code: 9885
Places of Interest
Highlights include De Pol and Munnekezijlstermolen, Munnekezijl.
Munnekezijlstermolen, Munnekezijl
Windmill
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The Munnekezijlstermolen is a smock mill in Munnekezijl, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1856 and is in working order. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument.
Visserijmuseum Zoutkamp
Museum
Photo: Wutsje, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visserijmuseum Zoutkamp is situated 3 km north of Lauwerzijl.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Munnekezijl and Krabburen.
Munnekezijl
Village
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Munnekezijl is the easternmost village in Noardeast-Fryslân, Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of 488 in January 2017. Before 2019, the village was part of the Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland municipality.
Krabburen
Hamlet
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Krabburen is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ km west of Lauwerzijl.
Zoutkamp
Village
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Zoutkamp is a village in the municipality Het Hogeland which is part of the province Groningen in the Netherlands. The village started as a sconce. During the Dutch Revolt, it was the site of the Battle of Zoutkamp. Zoutkamp is situated 3 km north of Lauwerzijl.
Lauwerzijl
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Westerkwartier, Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.31181° or 53° 18′ 43″ northLongitude
6.29757° or 6° 17′ 51″ eastPopulation
205Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL LWIOpen location code
9F58876X+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 48364450OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Lauwerzijl” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Lauwerzijl”
- Catalan: “Lauwerzijl”
- Chinese: “Lauwerzijl”
- Dutch: “Lauwerzijl”
- French: “Lauwerzijl”
- Irish: “Lauwerzijl”
- Luxembourgish: “Lauwerzijl”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lauwerzijl”
- Ukrainian: “Лауверзейл”
- Western Frisian: “Lauwerssyl”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lauwerzijl”. Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.