Hoornsterzwaag
Hoornsterzwaag is a small village in Heerenveen in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 830 in January 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 824 residents
- Description: village in Heerenveen, Netherlands
- Postal code: 8412
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bonifatiuskerk, Makkinga and De Weyert.
Bonifatiuskerk, Makkinga
Church
Photo: Pa3ems, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bonifatiuskerk, Makkinga is a church, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Hoornsterzwaag.
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 3½ km southeast of Hoornsterzwaag.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jubbega and Makkinga.
Jubbega
Village
Photo: Jan dijkstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jubbega is a village in the north of the Netherlands, located in the municipality of Heerenveen, Friesland. In 2021, it had a population of 3,255, mai… Jubbega is situated 3½ km west of Hoornsterzwaag.
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 3½ km southeast of Hoornsterzwaag.
Hemrik
Village
Photo: MGJ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hemrik is a village in the municipality of Opsterland in the east of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 770 in January 2017. The village was first mentioned in 1315 as Hemericke, and means village area. Hemrik is situated 4½ km northwest of Hoornsterzwaag.
Hoornsterzwaag
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Heerenveen, Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.99786° or 52° 59′ 52″ northLongitude
6.17005° or 6° 10′ 12″ eastPopulation
824Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
9F48X5XC+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 47731613OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2753599Wikidata ID
Q1993643
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Frisian—“Hoornsterzwaag” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Hoornsterzwaag”
- Cebuano: “Hoornsterzwaag”
- Chinese: “Hoornsterzwaag”
- Dutch: “Hoornsterzwaag”
- Dutch: “Hornsterzwaag”
- French: “Hoornsterzwaag”
- Irish: “Hoornsterzwaag”
- Low German: “Hoornsterzwaog”
- Luxembourgish: “Hoornsterzwaag”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hoornsterzwaag”
- Persian: “هورنسترزاواگ”
- Persian: “هورنسترزواخ”
- Ukrainian: “Горнстерзваг”
- Western Frisian: “Hoarnstersweach”
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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 “Hoornsterzwaag”. Photo: Willemjans, CC BY-SA 3.0.