Winschoten
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 Groningen
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| local community |
 Oldambt
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Area - land - water |
22.23 km 2 20.06 km 2 2.17 km 2 |
| Residents | 18,130 (Jan. 1, 2017) |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 9 ' N , 7 ° 2' E |
| Important traffic route |
     
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| prefix | 0597 |
| Postcodes | 9665, 9671-9672 |
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Winschoten ( ) is a place and a former municipality in the Dutch province of Groningen , which has been the seat of the new municipality of Oldambt since January 1, 2010 . Today the place has 18,130 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) and an area of 22.23 km². Winschoten is known as the mill and rose town .
Location and economy
Winschoten is located about 35 km east of the city of Groningen , on the A7 (E22) motorway to Leer (East Friesland) and Oldenburg . The former municipality has a train station on the Leer – Groningen railway line . There are also good roads to Veendam and Stadskanaal from here . To the east of Winschoten is the former municipality of Reiderland with the health resort Neuschanz .
Winschoten is not only the supply and administrative center of the municipality of Oldambt , but also a center of the cardboard and packaging industry. The Philips group has a glass factory in town. There is also a small shipyard and several small factories of machine parts. Rose bushes are grown in the area.
history
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Winschoten developed in the 13th century as a settlement on the trade route from Groningen to Münster , which crossed a stream here and where there were hostels. Even before the year 1600 it was counted among the towns , although it was not granted town charter until 1825 . In the Eighty Years War it was a fortress .
But it was only with the reign of Napoleon that Winschoten gained importance: in 1803 and 1811 it received courts. The city was industrialized in the 19th century (railway connection in 1868), which not only led to prosperity, but also to social unrest, as the contrasts between rich and poor were very clear. In the city there are several villas that rich farmers from the area had built between 1850 and 1910. A humanistic grammar school has existed in the city since 1832 .
As early as 1835 there was a riot against an increase in property tax. Later Winschoten, like the surrounding towns, became a stronghold of socialism , and later even of communism in the Netherlands. In 1973 Winschoten hit the headlines across the country because for the first time there was a strike by women who demanded the same wages as men for the same work from their employer, the Optilon zipper factory. The strike itself was unsuccessful, but it was an important starting point for the development of the Dolle Mina women's movement in the Netherlands.
Until the Second World War , Winschoten was home to the largest Jewish community in the Netherlands after Amsterdam . During the Second World War , almost all of the city's 500 Jews were deported to Auschwitz and other extermination camps via the Westerbork transit camp . Since then there are only a few Jews left.
Blauwestad tourist development project
To the north of Winschoten is the area of the Blauwestad ( Blue City ), one of the most spectacular landscape projects since the IJsselmeer polder was drained : a new lake, canal-traversed new residential areas with plenty of riverside properties and an extensive nature area. The heart of the project is the artificial lake with a size of over 200 hectares.
traffic
The railway bridge over the Ems is destroyed by a ship collision. The planned new building will not be finished before 2022. Arriva regional trains run hourly to and from Bad Nieuweschans on the Leer – Groningen railway line and every half hour to Groningen, as well as a replacement rail service to Leer in Germany.
Sights and events
- The Run Winschoten has been held in September since 1976 , an ultramarathon over 100 km.
- The Adrillen (= All Saints' Day) fair takes place on the first Monday in November.
- The old, now reformed church, in Romano-Gothic style was built in the 13th century.
- The St. Vitus Church (Sint-Vituskerk) in neo-Gothic style dates from the late 19th century. Winschoten was under the rule of the Corvey Monastery in the Middle Ages . The remains of this Sicilian saint are kept in Corvey ; so the inhabitants chose Saint Veit as their patron saint . Sankt Veit can also be seen on the city arms.
- The city has the largest rosarium in the Netherlands.
- There are still three completely preserved windmills in the city center .
politics
Distribution of seats in the municipal council
| Political party | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | |
| PvdA | 7th | 7th | 6th | 9 |
| GroenLinks | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| VVD | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| CDA | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| ChristenUnie | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| D66 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - |
| SP | - | 1 | - | - |
| Algemeen Ouderen Verbond / Unie55 + | - | 0 | - | - |
| Nieuwe Communist Partij-NCPN | 0 | - | - | - |
| Community concerns | 0 | - | - | - |
| total | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th |
photos
Winschoten, church tower
Mill mountain
Mill Dijkstra
Mill of Eden
Well-known sons and daughters of the city
- Hendrik Leendert Heijkoop (1906–1995), tax advisor, preacher, Bible teacher, author of the Brethren movement and co-founder of the Winschoten Conference
- Fre Meis (1921–1992), communist trade unionist and politician, he was not born here, but felt connected to the city
- Arie Haan (* 1948), national soccer player , later soccer coach
- Henriëtte Weersing (* 1965), volleyball national team player
Town twinning
- Fröndenberg in Germany (until August 2017)
- Płońsk (Plhnen) in Poland
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on June 28, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1994–2002 2006 , accessed on June 28, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Winschoten ends - Fröndenberg's twin town ends friendship