Eelde
 flag |
 coat of arms |
| province |
 Drenthe
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| local community |
 Tynaarlo
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Area - land - water |
12.92 km 2 12.61 km 2 0.31 km 2 |
| Residents | 6,885 (Jan. 1, 2018) |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 8 ' N , 6 ° 34' E |
| Important traffic route |
 
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| prefix | 050 |
| Postcodes | 9321, 9493, 9496-9497, 9617, 9725, 9756, 9761, 9765 |
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Eelde is a village in the Netherlands in the province of Drenthe and part of the municipality of Tynaarlo . It is about ten kilometers south of the city of Groningen .
The Groningen Airport Eelde is located in the area of town south of the village and is home to a flying school and a weather station. The so-called Paterswoldse Meer is a nearby lake with a variety of water sports .
Up until the dissolution of the municipality of Eelde, there were partnerships with Wardenburg in Lower Saxony . The partnership is continued by the municipality of Tynaarlo, into which Eelde was merged in 1998.
politics
Until the municipality was dissolved, the following distribution of seats had been made since 1982:
| Political party | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994 | |
| Gemeentebelangen Eelde | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4th |
| PvdA | 4th | 5 | 4th | 3 |
| D66 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| VVD | 4th | 4th | 3 | 3 |
| CDA | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| PEP | 0 | - | - | - |
| total | 13 | 15th | 15th | 15th |
Attractions
- Eelde has a remarkable wooden shoe museum , the International Wooden Shoe Museum .
- In the middle of the village there is a remarkable old church.
- East of the Paterswolde district is Gut Lemferdinge, which dates back to 1447 and has a large park. From 1912 the theologian, Christian socialist and pacifist Louis Adriën Bähler (1867–1941) lived there . Today the manor Lemferdinge owned by the foundation Drentse Landschap , the landscape of the province of Drenthe .
Born in Eelde
- Menso Alting (1541–1612), important preacher and theologian of the Reformation period
Web links
Commons : Eelde - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Eelde-Paterswolde - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Website of the municipality of Tynaarlo (Dutch, English)
- Website of the Wooden Shoe Museum (Dutch, English)
- Website of Groningen Airport Eelde (Dutch, German, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2018 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on September 16, 2018 (Dutch)
- ^ Entry about the partner communities on the homepage of the community of Wardenburg . Retrieved April 29, 2019.
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council , accessed on September 16, 2018 (Dutch)