Midden-Drenthe

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Midden-Drenthe municipality
Flag of the municipality of Midden-Drenthe
flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Midden-Drenthe
coat of arms
province Drenthe Drenthe
mayor Mieke Damsma ( D66 )
Seat of the municipality Hatching
Area
 - land
 - water 		345.87  km 2
340.75 km 2
5.12 km 2
CBS code 1731
Residents 33,190 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 96 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 52 ° 52 ′  N , 6 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 52 ′  N , 6 ° 31 ′  E
Important traffic route A28 E232 N371 N373 N374 N381 N856
prefix 0593, 0592
Postcodes 7928, 7937-7938, 9411-9419, 9421-9423, 9431-9439, 9441-9442
Website Homepage of Midden-Drenthe
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Midden-Drenthe ( listen ? / I ), called Middenveld until 2000 , is a municipality in the province of Drenthe in the north-east of the Netherlands . It has 33,190 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019) and an area of ​​346 km². Audio file / audio sample

Local division

The place comprises a total of 29 districts. The seat of the municipal administration is in Beilen.

Districts with their population:

Hatching 9,030
Westerbork 4,560
Smilde 4,520
Bovensmilde 3,310
Hoogersmilde 1,460
Hooghalen 940
Nieuw-Balinge 790
Wijster 780
Hijken 640
Witteveen 460
Elp 370
Zwiggelte 250
Lieving / Makkum 200
Orange 200
Spier 200
Mantings 180
Holthe 150
Balinge 120
Drijber 110
Brunsting 100
Laaghalen 100
Orvelte 90
Garminge 80
Zuidveld 80
Eursinge 60

Further, unofficial districts with less than 40 inhabitants are:

  • Bruntinge
  • Hijkersmilde
  • Laaghalerveen

politics

Municipal council

Local elections 2018
 %
20th
10
0
16.3
16.0
15.6
13.1
12.9
10.1
8.3
7.7
n. k.
GBSBW
GB
RHN
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-5.7
+1.2
-1.5
+2.1
+4.6
-2.2
+0.5
+2.3
-1.4
GBSBW
GB
RHN

The parish council has been formed as follows since the parish was founded:

Political party Seats
1997 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
PvdA 7th 7th 9 7th 6th 4th
VVD 3 3 4th 4th 3 4th
CDA 6th 6th 5 5 4th 4th
Gemeentebel Smilde-Beilen-Westerbork a - 3 1 2 2 3
Gemeentebelangen b 2 2 1 1 2 3
D66 1 1 0 1 3 2
ChristenUnie - 0 1 1 2 2
GroenLinks 1 1 1 2 1 1
Red het Noorden - - - - 0 -
SP - - 1 - - -
Groepering Gemeentebelangen Smilde 2 - - - - -
Dorps concerns 1 - - - - -
RPF 0 - - - - -
GPV - - - - -
total 23 23 23 23 23 23
a Gemeentebel Smilde-Beilen-Westerbork emerged from the merger of the Dorpsbelangen party and the Groepering Gemeentebelangen Smilde.
b In 1997 the party Gemeentebelangen ran under the name "Gemeentebelangen Westerbork".

Mayor and alderman

In the 2018–2022 legislative period, the coalition consists of the CDA , Gemeentebelangen, PvdA and VVD parties . They each provide an alderman for the college . The following people belong to the college:

function Surname Political party annotation
Mayoress Mieke Damsma D66 in office since December 14, 2017
Alderman Dennis Bouwman PvdA -
Anique Snijders VVD -
Erjen Derks Community concerns -
Jan Schipper CDA -
Community Secretary Aline Pruntel - in office since January 2014

economy

traffic

The A28 motorway runs between the northern neighboring town of Assen and Hoogeveen . From Beilen train station (where express trains do not stop) there are two connections every hour to Zwolle and Groningen . Several bus routes operate in the municipality.

Industry and research

  • In Beilen there is a dairy products factory (DOMO), which is one of the most important in the Netherlands.
  • The VAM (Vuil Afvoer Maatschappij = garbage disposal company) is located in Wijster. This huge facility processes garden and kitchen waste from all over the Netherlands into garden compost .
  • Southeast of Dwingeloo, on the border with the municipality de Wolden , is the radio telescope Dwingeloo, and east of Hooghalen and the former concentration camp Westerbork The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), founded in 1970, renewed in 1996. This radio interferometer is one of the most important in Europe . It consists of fourteen sliding parabolic antennas each 25 meters in size for radio astronomical investigations. Ten of these antennas are permanently mounted, while two can be moved on rails at the eastern end of the array. A second pair of movable telescopes is located 1.4 kilometers east of it.

Others

Tourism and agriculture are also of economic importance.

history

Like all of Drenthe, the area of ​​this municipality was already inhabited in the Middle Stone Age. Later, Neolithic people built burial mounds and barrows here . The treasure of hatchets is an important deposit found in the late Roman Empire . In the early Middle Ages , "brinkdorpen", Angerdörfer , arose : all around a meadow with a pond (drinking trough ), which was intended for the cattle, was the thatched farms and the village church, for a long time the only stone building in the village. Beyond that lay the fields, and further out the forest. In the museum village of Orvelte , but also in Dwingeloo and Westerbork, you can still recognize this picturesque village image.

East of Hooghalen, near the railway Assen - Hoogeveen , Camp Westerbork, where the Dutch government foreigners, including from the terror of originated in the 1930s, Nazism in Germany escaped Jews , has housed. During the German occupation 1940–1945, this became the Westerbork transit camp . In Bovensmilde, at the end of May 1977, teachers and students were taken hostage in a primary school. The hostage-takers had to let their victims go after weeks of unsuccessful negotiations after military intervention. The television images of the children who were forced by the hostage takers to scream: “Van Agt [name of the Prime Minister at the time], we want to live!” Shocked the whole world. From 1998 to 2000 the community name was "Middenveld".

Attractions

Orvelte museum village - main street
Orvelte museum village - open-air museum
  • The open-air museum (museum village) Orvelte, where many artists have set up a studio or a gallery and old crafts are shown.
  • The memorial at the former Westerbork concentration camp.
  • The Planetron, a public observatory in the village of Dwingeloo.
  • The picturesque town centers of Dwingeloo and Westerbork
  • The many forest and heather areas, u. a. at Dwingeloo and around the former concentration camp and the radio observatory.
  • In Ruinerwold there is a 7 km long road with pear trees . Every year at the beginning of October there is a pear picking; the harvest is auctioned for charitable purposes. Such a pear avenue is unique in the Netherlands.

The community is rich in campsites and guest houses. The local tourist office provides hiking and cycling routes.

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Midden-Drenthe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 , accessed on September 15, 2018 (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1997–2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on September 15, 2018 (Dutch)
  4. ↑ Sociaal en ondernemend Midden-Drenthe (PDF) Gemeente Midden-Drenthe, accessed on September 15, 2018 (Dutch)
  5. ↑ What is the name of college van burgemeester en wethouders? Gemeente Midden-Drenthe, accessed September 15, 2018 (Dutch).
  6. ^ Nieuwe burgemeester in Midden-Drenthe. In: Rijksoverheid. October 9, 2017, accessed September 15, 2018 (Dutch).