De Gooyer

De Gooyer is a smock mill in Wolvega, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1916. It has been restored to working order. It is listed as a Rijksmonument.

Photo: Agnes Monkelbaan, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Industrial building
Description: windmill in Wolvega, Netherlands
Also known as: “De Gooijer” and “De Gooyer, Wolvega”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Oudheidkamer Weststellingwerf and Wolvega railway station.

Oudheidkamer Weststellingwerf

Museum

Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Oudheidkamer Weststellingwerf is a museum, which is situated 2½ km northwest of De Gooyer.

Wolvega railway station

Railway station

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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. Wolvega railway station is situated 3 km north of De Gooyer.

De Mars

Windmill

Photo: Willemjans, CC BY-SA 3.0.

De Mars is a smock mill in De Blesse, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1997 on the base of an earlier mill. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 527616. De Mars is situated 2 km southeast of De Gooyer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include De Blesse and Peperga.

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.

Peperga

Village

Photo: Jan dijkstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Peperga is a small village in Weststellingwerf in the province Friesland of the Netherlands. As of 2017, it has a population of 85 people, living in approximately 35 houses, and is characterized by detached houses, several businesses and a church.

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. Wolvega is situated 2½ km northwest of De Gooyer.

De Gooyer

Categories: windmill, grondzeiler, building, and industry
Location: Weststellingwerf Municipality, Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude

52.85619° or 52° 51′ 22″ north

Longitude

6.01953° or 6° 1′ 10″ east

Elevation

-2 metres (-7 feet)

Inception

1900

Open location code

9F48V249+FR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 529137119

OpenStreetMap feature

building=industrial

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=windmill

GeoNames ID

6949785

Wikidata ID

Q2157685

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Western Frisian—“De Gooyer” goes by many names.

Dutch: “De Gooijer”
Dutch: “De Gooyer”
Dutch: “rijksmonumentnummer 38882”
French: “De Gooijer”
Western Frisian: “De Gooyer”

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