Hardenberg

( Listen? / I ) Hardenberg is a city and a municipality in the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands. With the surrounding villages, the city had a total of 59 588 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

Places

The most important of over twenty villages of this municipality are:

  • Hardenberg ( 18,000 inhabitants; seat of the municipal administration)
  • Balkbrug
  • Slagharen
  • Dedemsvaart
  • Gramsbergen
  • Bergentheim
  • Mariënberg
  • De Krim
  • Ane.

Location and economic

The municipality is located in the northeast of the province, on the Vecht, and bordered, among others, the communities Twenterand and Ommen and to the County of Bentheim on German ground area. The local railway Zwolle - Emmen holds in Hardenberg, Grams mountains and Mariënberg; here you can change to a different local railway and thus drive over Vriezenveen to Almelo. The channels Kanaal Almelo De Haandrik and Coevorden - Vechtkanaal make the municipality Hardenberg accessible for inland navigation. Spread on the town, there are many agricultural and small industrial enterprises ( the latter especially in the city of Hardenberg, has a small inland port ). Tourism is also important. In Balkbrug the Penitentiary Veldzicht is for mentally ill offenders.

Hardenberg itself offers a small car-free pedestrian mall with shops. Vis a vis the market square is the indoor and outdoor pools. In the adjacent river Vecht you can also swim.

Hardenberg has even smaller suburbs, the largest of which is " Baalder " with their own shopping.

Resident companies:

  • Attractiepark Slagharen

History

The city of Hardenberg was created as a Nienstede built after the year 754, and a chapel built in 1089 on a small hill along the Vecht Castle Hardenberg.

In 1227, the hamlet was Ane an important battle taking place between troops of the bishop of Utrecht and insurgents, mostly simple peasants, under the leadership of Rudolf, Count of Coevorden, Drenthe from. The troops of the bishop, who died himself on the battlefield, suffered a bitter defeat. A monument reminds of this war event.

Hardenberg was walled in 1230 by Wilbrand of Oldenburg and received by the Utrecht Bishop John IV of Arkel in 1362 the total municipal law. Remains of the wall are still preserved in the city center. Among other things, the Hardberger allowed each year for four annual fairs. The city was a trading center and port on the Vecht, agricultural products, and a stop on the route Zwolle - Bremen. On May 8, 1708 Hardenberg was almost completely destroyed by fire; historic buildings in the city are therefore barely survived.

The area came to a modest flower by attracting peat. A local gentleman who was financially interested in the peat, Baron van Western The President had, in 1809 the channel Dedemsvaart dig. Under his leadership began workers and small farmers in the 19th century to build the Fehnkolonien Dedemsvaart and Balkbrug. The canal was completed in 1853, but has been filled in after the Second World War largely to a street to make room.

Attractions

Located southwest of the city lies between Hardenberg and Ommen is a forest area with sand dunes ( Beerzer bulten, Holocene ) "De Oldemeyer " designed partly as a leisure park with a lake and adjoining campsite is. The Vecht Valley is crisscrossed with bike lanes and a popular destination for cyclists and hikers because of the long distance footpath crosses Pieterpad Hardenberg. In the village there are some small estates, in their parks you may wander.

In Dedemsvaart are the " Tuinen Mien Ruys ," accessible to the public gardens of the pattern known Dutch landscape architect Mien Ruys (since 2004 under monument protection). In Slagharen is the large amusement park " Pony Slagharen ", which, especially for families with children ( 6-14 years ) is attractive. Gramsbergen has a picturesque town with old houses and farms around the church.

Pictures

Hardenberg, mill: de Molle oils

Grams mountains, church

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Albert Ritzaeus Hardenberg (1510-1574), theologian of the Reformation period
  • Mien Ruys (1904-1999), landscape architect
  • Helen Tanger (born 1978 ), rower
  • Albert Timmer ( born 1985 ), cyclist
  • Christian Kist (* 1986), darts player

Those who worked in the community

  • Youssouf Hersi ( b. 1982 ), Dutch footballer, grew up in Dedemsvaart
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