It is probably a compound of baar ('barren, infertile') or Dutch Low Saxon boar ('wild, inhospitable') and veld ('field').

[3] Bareveld is located on the Semslinie from 1615, a straight line between the Martini Tower in the city of Groningen and Ter Apel that was intended to put an end to the disputes of the time.

Based on a covenant from 1817 between the city of Groningen and the Drenthe peat markets from Eext to Valthe, it was not allowed to be crossed.

[2] In 1993 the line became a tourist railway of the Stadskanaal Rail Foundation (STAR), whose trains also stop in Wildervank.

There are concrete plans to reopen the route section between the Veendam and Stadskanaal stations for regular passenger transport in December 2024, but in March 2019 it was decided that the trains will pass Bareveld.