De Wolden

( Listen? / I ) De Wolden is a municipality in the northeastern Dutch province of Drenthe. It has 23,754 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013) and an area of 226 km ².

Geography

Location

The municipality is located in the south of the province of Drenthe Meppel and Hoogeveen between. The municipality is crossed by the motorway A28 Zwolle - Hoogeveen - Assen - Groningen and a railway line between these cities. A train station is not exist. Southwest of De Wijk is Staphorst ( Overijssel ).

Local structure

The community includes 17 official districts ( Dorpen ). The seat of the municipality is located in Zuidwolde.

Further, not official districts (41 hamlets) are:

  • Anholt
  • Armweide
  • Bazuin
  • Benderse
  • Blijdenstein
  • Bloemberg
  • Braamberg
  • Buitenhuizen
  • Bultinge
  • De Oude Tol
  • De stack
  • De Stuw
  • De Tippe
  • Dickninge
  • Dijkhuizen
  • Drogt
  • Dunnigen
  • Eemten
  • Engeland
  • Gijsselte
  • Haalweide
  • Hoge Linthorst
  • Kraloo
  • Lubbinge
  • Lunssloten
  • Middelveen
  • Nolde
  • Oosterwijk
  • Oshaar
  • Oud Veeningen
  • Paardelanden
  • Pieperij
  • Rheebruggen
  • Gravel Huizen
  • Schrapveen
  • Steenbergen
  • Struikberg
  • Ten Arlo
  • Vuile Riete
  • Wemmenhove
  • Witteveen

History; name declarations

  • Alteveer: The name comes from: from, from Zuidwolde: al te ver ( too far German ).
  • De Wijk: The town was first mentioned in 1176; in the village are two " havezaten " ( mansions ): Dunninge and Dickninge, which had housed a Benedictine monastery in the 16th century since 1325 to about the Reformation.
  • Real: The place was first mentioned in 1181; the name comes either "real" of - which is a higher -hearing Mr. Hof - or "real" ( = night ), because in the 12th century a disobedient squire said to have been banished here as punishment. A noble family settled here then, calling Van rights and did centuries much good for their subjects in the village.
  • Koekange: The name comes from Koe output, cow pasture, meadow. The settlement was first mentioned in 1141, is a " veenkolonie " a colony of turf cutters and their masters from the province of Groningen.
  • Ruins: The undoubtedly much older place Ruynen was first mentioned in 1139; a spark of ruins is as a servant of the bishop of Utrecht ( the then Lord over all Drenthe and Overijssel was ) called. He was found in ruins of a Benedictine monastery, which moved to De Wijk later.
  • Zuidwolde: From the story is little known because the village archive was lost in a fire in 1824. The first mention dates back to 1275th

Policy

  • Mayor Roger de Groot (CDA )
  • Assistant: Jan ten Kate ( Gemeentebelangen )
  • Assistant: Henk Lammers (CDA )
  • Assistant: Mirjam Pauwels (VVD )

Economy

The economy of the municipality is based on three pillars: agriculture, tourism and small businesses.

Attractions

  • In the village you can admire during a bike ride a picturesque thatched, old farms in Saxon type. The Tourist Office in ruins are out leaflets with cycling routes. The community is rich in campgrounds.
  • Ruins is a very popular with tourists village. At the cozy village Brink a beautiful, built in 1423 church stands as well as several small restaurants and the museum farm Pasmans Huus. The village also has a scale around 1975 by an artist garden area, which is open to tourists ( van Tuinen ruins ).
  • Northeast of ruins lies the nature park Dwingelderveld, a beautiful moorland, where the shepherd still walking around with the sheep. In the southwest of Heath a visitors center has been established.
  • Between Ruins and the southern, located on the railroad rights of the beautiful, very suitable for hiking forest is " Boswachterij Ruins" ( Forest Ruins ).
  • In Ruinerwold and Oosteinde there is the Dr. De Larijweg, a 7 km long road that is already decades lined with pear trees, about 1400.
  • A quiet, but varied area of the municipality is the "valley " of the stream Reestdal on the border of Overijssel. Again you can ride well and walking.
  • The beautiful village of rights has a nice, built in 1400 and renovated in the 18th century castle ( Huis te rights ), but which can be not visible from the inside. Namely, it houses a psychiatric clinic.
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