Dinkelland

Spelt country ( listen? / I ) is a municipality of the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands. It was created on 22 March 2001 from the merger of the municipalities Denekamp, Ootmarsum and Weerselo. It has 26 047 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). Their total area is 176.81 km ².

Places

  • Denekamp ( council offices )
  • Ootmarsum
  • Weerselo
  • Rossum (not to be confused with Rossum at 's- Hertogenbosch )
  • Saasveld
  • Deurningen
  • Noord Deurningen
  • Ootmarsum
  • Lattrop
  • Tilligte
  • 't pin

Location and economic

The community forms the northeastern part of the Twente region. It borders the German communities Nordhorn, location and New house in the county of Bentheim. Denekamp is halfway between Oldenzaal and Nordhorn.

The population lives off tourism and agriculture ( livestock ). In Denekamp also commuters who work in Oldenzaal live.

History

Denekamp

Denekamp was in a church register of 1276 Demnichem called and was first mentioned as an independent parish with its own church and its own pastor. From the original first church evolved, after extensions in 1350 and in 1436, built from Bentheim sandstone in early Gothic style St. Nicholas Church, the learned some significant enhancements to the 20th century, so in 1911 the addition of a large domed.

Until 1818 Denekamp was, together with the parishes and Ootmarsum Tubbergen To School Office Ootmarsum when it was together with the villages Agelo, Breklenkamp, Nutter, Ootmarsum and Lattrop an independent village. 1949 small German base areas were added to the municipal area of ​​the municipality Denekamp in the context of post-war border corrections. In the 1990s, the church lost a part of the peasantry small Angelo to the community Ootmarsum. On 1 January 2001 the municipalities Denekamp, Ootmarsum and Weerselo merged to form a Samtgemeinde which bore the name of community Denekamp to 31 May 2002 and on 1 June 2002 was named municipality spelled country.

Ootmarsum

Ootmarsum, called in the Middle Ages Othmar home said to have been founded in 126 AD by a legendary king Othmar or Ottmar. It is clear that the town already existed at the time of the Ottos, and a large parish was formed. By 1300 Ootmarsum received by the Utrecht bishop the municipal law, it soon became walled, and a small fort. It was at the intersection of two trade routes, one of which ran from Flanders to Bremen. After the Eighty Years' War Maurice of Nassau, the city had conquered in 1602 for the Protestant Netherlands, the fortifications were razed. It fell to an insignificant place, as the development of transport and industry took place elsewhere. In 1900 the city was recognized as a picturesque townscape, and it came up with some tourism. The center was restored in the 1980s.

For main article → Ootmarsum

Weerselo

Weerselo was built around an old monastery and was repeatedly struck in the 14th century robber barons. They lived in Saasveld on the 1818 demolished castle Saterslo.

Attractions

The center of Ootmarsum with its church and the twisted alleys was restored in the 1980s. The base situated therein, open-air museum " Los Hoes " trying to convey from the old Low German hall house farms around an image in 2004 severely damaged by arson; on 23 March 2005 it was reopened after restoration. West of Ootmarsum, including typical Christmas and Easter customs have been preserved, there is a hill that allows a remote view of the town.

To the west of the Dinkel country still stands the statue of Henry.

West of Denekamp situated on the river spelled the 17th/18th. Century castle Singraven. It can be visited with a guide in the summer a few times a week, and is home to a lot of antique furniture. In the castle, in an old water mill, there is a restaurant. This double water mill was painted in the 17th century by Meindert Hobbema. The famous picture of this mill hangs in the Louvre in Paris.

In Denekamp, there is the oldest regional natural history museum in the Netherlands. The provincial museum of natural history, " Natura Docet " ( German: Nature teaches ) was founded in 1911 by " Meester Bernard Bernink " and is now run by a foundation. There is close cooperation with the Tierpark Nordhorn.

In Weerselo there is the district of " Het pen" ( a former pin ) with cottage from the 18th century and old trees. The Collegiate Church is the only remnant of a Benedictine monastery from the 12th century. Every Saturday is held here a " antique market ".

The municipality is crossed by the strongly meandering river Dinkel, there lead some small streams. There is spelled in the country, many small forests. It is one of the few areas in the Netherlands, where even built half-timbered farmhouses are ( from the 18th and 19th centuries ).

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891), painter
  • Willem Hendrik Dingeldein (1894-1953), natural and regional historian
  • Piet Stalmeier (1912-1990), musician
  • Ton Schulten ( born 1938 ), painter
  • Roméo Dallaire ( b. 1946 ), Canadian General
  • Hennie Kuiper ( born 1949 ), cyclist
  • Tom Veelers ( born 1984 ), cyclist
  • Marga Bult ( born 1956 ), singer and television presenter
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