7 x Zoetermeer mysteries that you were most curious about this year

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Zoetermeer mysteries: we love them at indebuurt! But it’s not just us: your readers regularly email our editors with questions or mysterious matters. And after the solutions to those riddles have been published, we will see behind the scenes exactly which stories you enjoy.

That’s why we’ve listed the best-read mysteries of last year for you. Nice to tell during an oliebol with unsuspecting fellow citizens. Enjoy reading!

No longer a third city in South Holland

For years, we as Zoetermeer could brag about our third place in the ranking of the largest cities in South Holland. There is not much talk about it, but it appears that we have been overthrown by Leiden. Read all about it in the article below:

  • Congregation, Mysteries, Zoetermeers

For years, Zoetermeer has been in third place in the rankings as the municipality with the most…

Gap in the market

For a long time there was a large building site on the Market behind the Stadshart where nothing happened. This year the municipality constructed a temporary playground. Many Zoetermeer residents were curious about what would happen to the construction site. Read it below:

An ugly gaping hole has been visible on the Market for a long time. A construction site where…

Market Zoetermeer

Clingy girl

This is actually an older mystery about a girl on a sticker. In Zoetermeer, but also in Delft and The Hague, the sticker hangs on lampposts, bridges and other places. indebuurt found out who the girl is and why the sticker is everywhere. Have you ever seen it?

In fact, we have been seeing stickers with a blonde girl’s face on them for a few years now…

Sticker with girl

Mysterious water channels

In the Noord Aa area, in the De Leyens and Seghwaert districts, the municipality has constructed water channels in several places. What are those channels intended for? You can read all about it in the article below:

  • Church, Mysteries, Nature

An area with water channels has been created along the Zoetermeerse Plas, near Broekwegkade 17.

Water channels Zoetermeer

Vanished building

From one day to the next, the Van Leeuwenhoek building on Irelandlaan was suddenly razed to the ground. Did we miss something? indebuurt visited the construction site and asked a few questions. You can read the reason for the demolition and the new destination in the article below:

One moment there was an office building, two weeks later the Leeuwenhoek building on the…

Leeuwenhoek building Zoetermeer

Sign above the tunnel box

You zoom past it very quickly in the car, so you cannot read the sign above the tunnel box. That is why the editors got on their bikes to take a closer look at the sign above the Europa Tunnel. What you can read can be found in the article below:

Most motorists and motorcyclists enter the tunnel at 70 kilometers per hour, without also…

Tunnel box Zoetermeer

Zoetermeer abroad

Residents abroad live and walk through Zoetermeerstraat. We will tell you where exactly that is in Europe in the article below:

  • Enjoying Zoetermeer, Mysteries

Always nice when you come across something from Zoetermeer in another city or even in the…

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