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Archaeological site · Coevorden · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Archaeological site Klinkenberg in Coevorden

Klinkenberg is an archaeological site in Coevorden, Drenthe. This place has a story in the app. Within 70 m you'll find a bench.

Archaeological site Klinkenberg in Coevorden
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The story

Story · Klinkenberg

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You're standing at the Klinkenberg, just outside the village of Gees in Drenthe. See that grassy mound? It's not just a lump in the landscape. It's what remains of a motte castle, a medieval stronghold built on a man-made hill of earth.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

Photos

2 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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Facilities near Klinkenberg

The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies. No water point, public toilet, bike pump or food stand within 1 km.

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Photo: Onderwijsgek · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
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Photo: Encyacht · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
Openluchtmuseum Ellert en Brammert
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Photo: Tim Strater from Rotterdam, Nederland · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
Gold Rush
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Gold Rush · 14.6 km

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Photo: Druyts.t · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons

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