Waadhoeke
Waadhoeke is a municipality of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It was established 1 January 2018 and consists of the former municipalities of Franekeradeel, het Bildt, Menameradiel and parts of Littenseradiel, all four of which were dissolved on the same day.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 46,100 residents
- Description: municipality in Friesland, Netherlands
- Neighbors: Ameland and Terschelling
Places of Interest
Highlights include Franeker City Hall and Keatsmuseum.
Franeker City Hall
Town hall
Photo: Gouwenaar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Franeker City Hall is the city hall of the municipality of Franeker, Netherlands, one of the eleven historical cities of Friesland. The building dates from 1591–1594 and was built in Frisian renaissance style.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Franeker and Harlingen.
Franeker
Photo: Jan dijkstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Franeker is a city in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It is most notable for its Eise Eisenga Planetarium, the oldest still in operation, and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2023.
Harlingen
Photo: Jan dijkstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Although it is one of the eleven Frisian cities, Harlingen is perhaps the least Frisian of them all, and few people speak the Frisian language as their mother tongue.
Sexbierum
Village
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Sexbierum is a village in the municipality of Waadhoeke, in the central north of the Netherlands. Sexbierum is located in the province of Friesland and located about 7 kilometres north-east of Harlingen, about 7 kilometres north-west of Franeker. Sexbierum is situated 3½ km northwest of Waadhoeke.
Waadhoeke
- Location: Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Waadhoeke” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Waadhoeke”
- Asturian: “Waadhoeke”
- Bavarian: “Waadhoeke”
- Catalan: “Waadhoeke”
- Chinese: “瓦德胡克”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Waadhoeke”
- Dutch: “Waadhoeke”
- Esperanto: “Waadhoeke”
- French: “Waadhoeke”
- German: “Waadhoeke”
- Indonesian: “Waadhoeke”
- Irish: “Waadhoeke”
- Italian: “Waadhoeke”
- Kurdish: “Waadhoeke”
- Limburgan: “Waadhoeke”
- Low German: “Waddenhoeke”
- Northern Frisian: “De Waadhoeke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waadhoeke”
- Norwegian: “Waadhoeke”
- Persian: “واوادوکه”
- Polish: “Waadhoeke”
- Portuguese: “Waadhoeke”
- Russian: “Вадхуке”
- Saterfriesisch: “Waadhoeke”
- Slovenian: “Waadhoeke”
- Spanish: “Waadhoeke”
- Swedish: “Waadhoeke”
- Turkish: “Waadhoeke”
- Ukrainian: “Вадхуке”
- Venetian: “Waadhoeke”
- Western Frisian: “De Waadhoeke”
- Zeeuws: “Waedhoeke”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as ‘t War and Kiesterzijl.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sterne Slotland (It Sjûkelân) and Eise Eisinga Planetarium.
Friesland: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Leeuwarden, Heerenveen, Sneek, and Harlingen.
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