Northern Netherlands
Groningen
Midden-Groningen

Foxhol

Foxhol is a village in the province of . It is part of the municipality of . In 1842, the potato starch factory Eureka was founded in Foxhol by Willem Albert Scholten.
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  • Type: Village with 945 residents
  • Description: village in Midden-Groningen, Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Fokshol”
  • Postal code: 9607

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kropswolde railway station and Martenshoek railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Erik Baas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kropswolde is an unstaffed railway station in Foxhol near in the . The station was opened on 1 May 1868 and is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between and in the province of .

Railway station
Photo: Smiley.toerist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Martenshoek is an unstaffed railway station in in the . The station opened on 1 Jan 1905 and is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between Groningen and Nieuweschans. The services are operated by Arriva.

Windmill
Photo: Quistnix, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a windmill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kropswolde and Kolham.

Village
Photo: Willemjans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the province of . It is located in the municipality of , about 3 km southwest of the town of Hoogezand and 5 km northeast of the town of Zuidlaren.

Village
is a village in the province of . It is part of the municipality of . In 1959, natural gas was discovered at . Later, it was revealed that Groningen gas field was the largest natural gas field in Europe.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in the municipality of , in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the .

Foxhol

Latitude
53.1672° or 53° 10′ 2″ north
Longitude
6.72119° or 6° 43′ 16″ east
Population
945
United Nations Location Code
NL FOX
Open location code
9F585P8C+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 48093539
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2755853
Wiki­data ID
Q1870773
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Foxhol” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Foxhol”
  • Catalan: “Foxhol”
  • Chinese: “Foxhol”
  • Dutch: “Foxhol”
  • Esperanto: “Foxhol”
  • French: “Foxhol”
  • Irish: “Foxhol”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Foxhol”
  • Polish: “Foxhol”
  • Ukrainian: “Фоксгол”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Foxham and Borgweg.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include MFC De Klabbe and Nationaal Busmuseum.

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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 “Foxhol”. Photo: Hardscarf, CC0.