Reiderland
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 coat of arms |
| province |
 Groningen
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| local community |
 Oldambt
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Area - land - water |
156.72 km 2 97.95 km 2 58.77 km 2 |
| Residents | 6,963 (Dec 31, 2009) |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 10 ′ N , 7 ° 5 ′ E |
| Important traffic route |
   
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| prefix | 0597 |
| Postcodes | 9684-9689, 9691-9694 |
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Reiderland ( ) is a former municipality, now a part of the large municipality of Oldambt in the Dutch province of Groningen . Until the merger with Scheemda and Winschoten on January 1, 2010 to form the new municipality of Oldambt, Reiderland was an independent municipality with 6,963 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2009) and an area of 156.72 km² . The municipality of Reiderland itself was still very young at the time of the merger; it was only established in 1990. In that year, the old municipalities of Beerta , Finsterwolde and Nieuweschans were merged. The resulting new municipality of Beerta has been called Reiderland since 1992 . The region of the same name in the east, the Rheiderland (with "h"), has been politically separated from the municipality or municipalities since the province of Groningen joined the Netherlands in 1594.
places
- Beerta, former seat of the municipal administration (approx. 2300 inhabitants)
- Finsterwolde (German Finsterwalde , about 2400 inhabitants)
- Bad Nieuweschans (German Bad Neuschanz , about 1650 inhabitants)
- Drieborg (German Dreiburg , about 450 inhabitants)
- Nieuw-Beerta (about 250 inhabitants)
- and a few smaller hamlets , including Nieuwe Statenzijl .
Location, economy and transport
Reiderland is located in the extreme northeast of the province of Groningen and borders the Dollart and Bunde in East Friesland , Lower Saxony (also the state border), located in the Rheiderland region. The Dutch A7 motorway merges into the 280 federal motorway after the border . The railway line Leer – Groningen has a station in Bad Nieuweschans (today part of Reiderland), which however is no longer important as a border station in a united Europe .
The main sources of income are:
- tourism, especially in the spa town of Bad Nieuweschans,
- agriculture and
- the cardboard factory of the company Smurfit Kappa Triton .
There is also Klokken- en Kunstgieterij Reiderland .
history
The region belonged to the old Rheiderland landscape until the 15th century . It was badly hit by storm surges. While the eastern villages came under the control of the later county of East Friesland around 1430, the remaining western villages turned to the city of Groningen. The parishes of Winschoten , Westerlee , Beerta , Ulsda , Osterreide and Westerreide were assigned to the district of Wold-Oldambt ; Bellingwolde , Blijham and Houwingaham were incorporated as an independent domain of Westerwolde .
In 1628, on behalf of the governor Ernst Casimir von Nassau-Dietz, a border fortress (Nieuweschans, Neuschanz) was built on the new Groningen - Bremen road on East Frisian soil. The fortress was built with practically no legal basis. The East Frisians did not receive compensation for it until many years later. It was of strategic importance in the Eighty Years War and survived several attacks in the centuries that followed, but was razed around 1815 .
In the 20th century a noticeable political situation developed in this region. The working conditions of agricultural workers on the farms of large farmers, as well as those in the cardboard and other industries, caused great dissatisfaction among the workers , which found expression in communist or radical socialist majorities in the local councils. See also under: Winschoten .
Around 1970, an underground spring with healing water was discovered near Nieuweschans. As a result of this discovery, the old fortress village was completely restored, a thermal bath was built and Nieuweschans became a unique health resort in the Netherlands . The name was also adapted accordingly: Since April 1, 2009, Nieuweschans has been officially called Bad Nieuweschans ( Bad Neuschanz ).
Sightseeing and tourism
The following sights and tourist destinations characterize the municipality:
- The thermal bath (Fontana) in Bad Nieuweschans
- The beautifully restored fortifications of Nieuweschans
- Inside the fortress village of Nieuweschans one of the former railway works, which houses a stage, exhibition rooms, a restaurant and a room for weddings
- In Bad Nieuweschans the glass blazerij Old Ambt , where glass artist Johan de Vries produces hand-blown, handicrafts
- In Bad Nieuweschans and Beerta the old churches worth seeing (built in 1751 and 1506 respectively).
- As an excursion and recreation region of the Dollart and the adjacent Wadden Sea
- And the international Dollart route for cyclists, on which Bad Nieuweschans is located.
politics
Allocation of seats in the municipal council:
| Political party | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | |
| PvdA | 4th | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Reiderland community concerns | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| SP | - | - | 2 | 3 |
| Nieuwe Communist Partij-NCPN | 7th | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| GroenLinks | - | - | 0 | 0 |
| total | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Web links
- Website of the Dollart Tourist Route (German, Dutch)
- Website of the thermal baths Fontana Bad Nieuweschans (German, Dutch, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand 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)