By train

Stavoren station is the terminus of the railroad from Leeuwarden , Leeuwarden and from a train runs 1x per hour.
The Frisian Steam Train Company (FSM) had plans since 2010 tourist steam trains to run between Sneek and Stavoren. Probably not until 2012, the trains ride.

By Cars

Stavoren is not a highway or a provincial road . However it is close to the N359 from Leeuwarden through Bolsward to the A6 at Lemmer runs.

By water

The Ferry Enkhuizen  Stavoren founded in 1886 and now sails the MS Bep Glasius . The crossing of Stavoren to Enkhuizen takes about a half hour, the service speed only in the summer season, from April to October . There are two locks in Stavoren the shipping to and from the IJsselmeer accompany the Johan Friso Luis in 1966 and Sluis Stavoren . The latter is the old sea lock to lock the Zuiderzee in 1575 . There are plans to increase the capacity of the Johan Friso Luis enlarge.

By Bicycle

Stavoren is on the Hanseatic Cycle , a cycle inspired by the ancient Hanseatic League . The route begins at Zaltbommel and is partly along Lubeck , Nijmegen , Arnhem and the Frisian cities Stavoren, Hindeloopen and Bolsward . The route is also along Frankfurt an der Oder , Berlin and eventually enter through Sittard back to Zaltbommel . The route is over 3000 km long. For the entire route are GPS tracks available.

City Hall Stavoren, Lighthouse Stavoren, JL Hoogland Pumping Station, About Garden, The Female of Stavoren

City Hall Stavoren

The Town Hall Stavoren is a former town hall in Stavoren built around 1880 .At the municipal reorganization of 1984 the congregation raised Staveren and merged with the municipality Nijefurd . It lost its function Stavoren City Hall. In the town hall is now a hotel. The building is an official wedding site of the municipality Nijefurd.The building has two doors on the left door which gave access to the mayor's residence and the right door gave access to the town hall, with mayor and council chamber room

Lighthouse Stavoren

Lighthouse Stavoren is a cast iron lighthouse or light stand on the IJsselmeer in the port of Staveren . The two port piers are two corresponding port lights , one green and one red. These buildings are in 1885 and are built since 1999 under the monument . The tower has a height of 15.7 meters.In 2001 the lighthouse was restored, the tower was sandblasted and painted.

JL Hoogland Pumping Station

The JL Hoogland is an electric pumping station pumping station in Stavoren which was completed in 1966 . The building with an arched roof of the architect P. de Vries .In the hall are four screw pumps . The pumping station releases the water from the Frisian bosom of the IJsselmeer . The discharge capacity of the pumping station JL Highland is 6,000 m 3 per minute and a half times greater than that of the Woudagemaal. On 10 May 1967 , the pumping station was officially opened. It is located south of the Johan Friso Luis .Highland pumping station took over the task of the other pumping station in Friesland that water discharges to the lake, namely ir DF Woudagemaal to Lemmer . This pumping station have now only at very high water levels to jump.

About Garden

A garden is a garden on a public road or by water from the house is separated.A distinctive place with gardens on the Frisian town IJlst . About the gardens were used as pale . The proved long ago taken over by the municipality and the residents may use them provided that the leave was in original condition. In Stavoren the original gardens have now a long strip of grass between the road and the water.Also from the Zaan , the garden of knowledge, although few remain. There were not just about gardening field was used: the bleaching was near the house. As there are no high rising trees might find that the bleaching linen because the sun would keep focused wealthy Zaan Kanters in the 18th and 19th centuries on the other side of the ditches leafy on gardens, which are primarily decorative function had. Similar to gardens occur along the river Vecht in Utrecht .

The Female of Stavoren

The female or widow of Staveren van Staveren is a legend that in the 19th century, its present shape.One of the versions of the legend tells of a rich merchant widow in Stavoren who lived in a house with gold and silver walls, floors. They had more ships than all the merchants of the city together, and became richer by the day.Despite her wealth she was not happy, she wanted the most precious possession that could be found and sent to a skipper go out to get it. He came home after a long search with a cargo of grain from Danzig that he seemed more valuable than gold.

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