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Where to Stay in Emmen, Provincie Drenthe
Emmen is the largest city of Provincie Drenthe, where Wildlands and a scatter of hunebedden numbered D38 to D47 account for most visits.
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Where to stay in Emmen
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.

Angelslo
Angelslo, a village annexed by Emmen, is one of that city's neighbourhoods in the Dutch province of Drenthe.Where to stay →
Emmerhout
Emmerhout is a neighbourhood of Emmen in Drenthe, its landmark list made up of burial-mound terrains and the coded entries D46 and D47.Where to stay →Hotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
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Beside Wildlands
Wildlands takes a full day with Rimbula River and Serenga Safari inside the same gate, so a bed within walking distance is the difference between one journey and three.Find hotels in Beside WildlandsNights that want the Grote Kerk, the Zuiderkerk and the AGA Museum on footEmmen centre by the Grote Kerk
The Grote Kerk, the Zuiderkerk and the Nederlands Hervormde Kerk stand in the same core as the AGA Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art, which puts every indoor entry in one walk.Find hotels in Emmen centre by the Grote KerkDrivers touring the hunebedden outward from D38Noordbarge and the Boswachterij edge
De Fabriek at Noordbarge is the listed entry outside the built-up core, and a stay that way suits a day spent between Hunebed D38 in Boswachterij Emmen and the burial-mound terrains. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Noordbarge and the Boswachterij edgeHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in Emmen
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Museums & Galleries
3- Noordeind 21, Emmen Heritage
- Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art
- De Fabriek, Noordbarge
Churches & Religious Sites
3- Grote Kerk Heritage
- Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Emmen Heritage
- H. Pauluskerk Heritage
Castles & Historic Sites
8- D45 Heritage
- D43 Heritage
- D41 Heritage
- D46 Heritage
- D42 Heritage
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- D44 Heritage
- D47 Heritage
- Hunebed D38 in Boswachterij Emmen Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
1- Oude Zuidbargerstraat 6, Emmen Heritage
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About Emmen
The zoo is the reason most people come.
What is Emmen known for?
Wildlands carries that traffic, and the names attached to it, Rimbula, Rimbula River, Serenga Safari, are entries the register lists alongside it rather than apart from it. Stone marks the rest. Hunebed D38 stands in Boswachterij Emmen, and D41 through D47 give the municipality a run of megalithic monuments nothing else on the list can match.
The AGA Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art are the two indoor entries.
What are the main landmarks in Emmen?
Eight hunebedden appear on the register. D41, D42, D43, D44, D45, D46 and D47 are entered by number alone, while Hunebed D38 is placed in Boswachterij Emmen and named for it. Wildlands is the modern counterweight.
Rimbula, Rimbula River and Serenga Safari belong to it, and the Grote Kerk, the Zuiderkerk and the AGA Museum fill in the town's own built stock.
What is the history of Emmen?
The oldest thing here is stone. Hunebed D38 in Boswachterij Emmen and the numbered chambers from D41 to D47 are the entries the register places first, and not one of them carries a date of any kind. Burial mounds sit alongside them.
Three separate terrains are recorded, one holding a single grafheuvel, one holding one and probably two, and one holding seven, which is the sort of detail a survey leaves behind rather than a chronicle. Emmen's own start date is nowhere recorded. Nothing in the sources fixes when Emmen itself began, and the gap between the mounds and the first church entry stays unbridged.
Churches arrive without dates too. The Grote Kerk, the Zuiderkerk and the Nederlands Hervormde Kerk are entered as separate buildings, which is the mark of a town where more than one congregation built for itself. Industry left one name.
De Fabriek at Noordbarge is the only entry that reads as a works rather than a house or a place of worship, and Noordeind 21 and Oude Zuidbargerstraat 6 stand for the ordinary older street stock beside it. Wildlands is the newest layer. Rimbula, Rimbula River and Serenga Safari are entries of the attraction rather than of the town, and the Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art and the AGA Museum sit in the same recent bracket.
Where is Emmen?
Woodland is the one landform named. Boswachterij Emmen appears in the register only because Hunebed D38 stands inside it, and that makes it the single piece of terrain the sources put a name to anywhere around the town. Water goes unrecorded.
Nothing in the record names a stream, a lake, or a coast for Emmen itself, which leaves the burial-mound terrains and a temperate northern position in Provincie Drenthe as the whole of the physical description.
What is the climate of Emmen?
The record offers no weather agent. Neither a sea nor an upland nor a wind system is named for Emmen, so a temperate inland position in the northern hemisphere is all the sources will carry. The outdoor list is long.
Wildlands, Boswachterij Emmen and the hunebed sites from D41 to D47 are visits a wet day rearranges, while the AGA Museum and the Grote Kerk are the indoor fallbacks.
How do you get to Emmen?
The sources name no railway at all. Emmen appears without a station, a line, a terminal, or a numbered road, which leaves Provincie Drenthe around it as the only frame for describing an approach. Wildlands is the usual destination.
Most arrivals aim at the zoo, and reaching Hunebed D38 in Boswachterij Emmen or De Fabriek at Noordbarge means a local road out of the built-up core afterwards.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Emmen?
Beside Wildlands: Family stays built around Wildlands and its Serenga Safari. Emmen centre by the Grote Kerk: Nights that want the Grote Kerk, the Zuiderkerk and the AGA Museum on foot. Noordbarge and the Boswachterij edge: Drivers touring the hunebedden outward from D38.
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Updated September 2026



