De Wolden

De Wolden municipality

flag	coat of arms
province	Drenthe
mayor	Roger de Groot ( CDA )
Seat of the municipality	Zuidwolde
Area  - land  - water	226.35  km 2 224.68 km 2 1.67 km 2
CBS code	1690
Residents	24,114 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density	107 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates	52 ° 40 ′  N , 6 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′  N , 6 ° 25 ′  E
Important traffic route
prefix	0522, 0523, 0528
Postcodes	7705, 7921, 7924-7927, 7932-7933, 7935, 7957-7958, 7961, 7963-7964
Website	Homepage of De Wolden

Manor house Echten

Wieker mill

De Wolden ( listen ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the northeastern Dutch province of Drenthe . It has 24,114 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019) and an area of ​​226 km².

geography

location

The municipality is located in the south of the province of Drenthe, between Meppel and Hoogeveen . The municipality is crossed by the A28 motorway Zwolle - Hoogeveen - Assen - Groningen and a railway line between these cities. But there is no train station. Staphorst ( province of Overijssel ) is located southwest of De Wijk .

Local division

The community comprises 17 official districts ( kernels ). The seat of the municipal administration is in Zuidwolde.

District	Residents
Zuidwolde	6,203
ruins	3,552
de Wijk	2,913
Ruinerwold	2,851
Koekange	2,281
Alteveer	859
Oosteinde	756
Kerkenveld	693
Away	624
Linden tree	615
Veeningen	593
Drugterops	564
Koekangerveld	395
Real ones	339
Ansen	284
Berghuizen	161
Eursinge	105

Other, unofficial districts (41 farmers ) are:

Anholt Poor pasture Bazuin Benderse Blijdenstein Bloemberg Braamberg Buitenhuizen Bultinge

De Oude Tol De stacks De Stuw De Tip Dickninge Dijkhuizen Drug Thin

Eemten Engeland Gijsselte Haalweide Hoge Linthorst Kraloo Lubbings Lunssloten

Middelveen Nolde Oosterwijk Oshair Oud Veeningen Couple land Pieperij Rheebruggen

Schottershuizen Schrapveen Steenbergen Struikberg Ten Arlo Vuile Riete Wemmenhove Witteveen

History; Name declarations

• Alteveer: The name comes from: al te ver (German: too far), namely from Zuidwolde.
• de Wijk: The place was first mentioned in 1176; There are two “havezaten” (mansions) in the village: Dunninge and Dickninge, which had housed a Benedictine monastery from 1325 to around the Reformation in the 16th century .
• Echten: The place was first mentioned in a document in 1181; the name comes from either "real" - that is a higher Mr impaired yard - or "real" (= night ), because in the 12th century a disobedient Squire to have been banished here as a punishment. A noble family then settled here, called themselves Van Echten and did a lot of good for their subjects in the village for centuries.
• Koekange: The name comes from Koe-gang, Kuh-Weidegang, meadow. The settlement, first mentioned in 1141, is a "veenkolonie", a colony of peat cutters and their masters from the province of Groningen.
• Ruins: The undoubtedly much older town of Ruynen was first mentioned in a document in 1139; Otto von Ruins is named as the servant of the bishop of Utrecht (who was then ruler of all of Drenthe and Overijssel). He had a Benedictine monastery founded in ruins, which later moved to De Wijk.
• Zuidwolde: Little is known of the history because the village archive was lost in a fire in 1824. The first mention of it comes from 1275.

politics

Municipal council

Local elections 2018

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

37.9

18.6

14.8

8.5

8.1

6.2

6.0

n. k.

GB

VVD

CDA

PvdA

GL

D66

CU

DKN

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

+0.5

+1.5

-0.4

+0.5

+1.8

-1.2

-0.9

-1.6

GB

VVD

CDA

PvdA

GL

D66

CU

DKN

After the elections in 1997, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018, the 19 seats of the municipal council were distributed among the individual parties and groups as follows:

Party / group	1997	2002	2006	2010	2014	2018
Community concerns	4 seats	6 seats	5 seats	6 seats	8 seats	8 seats
VVD	5 seats	4 seats	4 seats	4 seats	3 seats	4 seats
CDA	4 seats	4 seats	4 seats	4 seats	3 seats	3 seats
PvdA	4 seats	3 seats	4 seats	2 seats	2 seats	1 seat
GroenLinks	-	1 seat	1 seat	1 seat	1 seat	1 seat
D66	0 seats	0 seats	-	1 seat	1 seat	1 seat
ChristenUnie	-	1 seat	1 seat	1 seat	1 seat	1 seat
DaadKrachtig Nederland	-	-	-	-	0 seats	-
Algemeen Belang De Wolden	1 seat	-	-	-	-	-
Ouderenpartijen		-	-	-	-	-
RPF	1 seat	-	-	-	-	-
GPV		-	-	-	-	-
total	19 seats	19 seats	19 seats	19 seats	19 seats	19 seats

Mayor and alderman

The following people belong to the College van burgemeester en wethouders ( German  "College of Mayors and Aldermen" ):

mayor

• Roger de Groot ( CDA ) (Appointed: April 28, 2012)

Alderman

• Jan ten Kate (community affairs)
• Mirjam Pauwels ( VVD )
• Jan van 't Zand (Gemeentebelangen)

Community Secretary

• Nanne Kramer

economy

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

Daughters and sons of the church

• Frits Slomp (1898–1978), pastor and resistance fighter, born in Ruinerwold

Attractions

Marienkirche ruins

• Everywhere in the municipality you can admire picturesque, thatched, old farmhouses in Saxon style during a bike tour . The tourist office in ruins publishes leaflets with bike tour routes. The community is rich in campsites.
• Ruins is a very popular village with tourists. On the cozy village square of Brink there is a beautiful church built in 1423 as well as several small restaurants and the museum farm Pasmans Huus . The village also has a garden that was created by an artist around 1975 and is open to tourists (Tuinen van Ruins).
• To the northeast of ruins is the Dwingelderveld nature park , a beautiful heather area where the shepherd still walks around with the flock of sheep. A visitor center has been set up in the south-west of the heath.
• The beautiful forest "Boswachterij ruins" (forest ruins), which is very suitable for hiking, lies between the ruins and the southern Echten.
• In Ruinerwold and Oosteinde there is the Dr. De Larijweg, a 7 km long road that has been lined with around 1400 pear trees for decades .
• A quiet but varied area of ​​the municipality is the "valley" of the Reest stream on the border with Overijssel . Here, too, you can cycle and hike well.
• The beautiful village of Echten has a beautiful castle (Huis te Echten) that was built around 1400 and renovated in the 18th century, but the inside cannot be visited. It actually houses a psychiatric clinic .

Web links

Commons : De Wolden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality (Dutch)
• Website of the Dwingelderveld National Park (Dutch, German, English)
• Tuinen vanüsten ( Memento from December 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
2. ↑ Over de gemeente Gemeente De Wolden, accessed on September 9, 2018 (Dutch)
3. ↑ Results of the local elections: 1997–2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on September 9, 2018 (Dutch)
4. ↑ Samenstelling college van B&W Gemeente De Wolden, accessed on September 9, 2018 (Dutch)