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.