Ommen

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Ommen municipality
Flag of Ommen Municipality
flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Ommen
coat of arms
province OverijsselOverijssel Overijssel
mayor Hans Vroomen ( CDA )
Seat of the municipality Ommen
Area
 - land
 - water 		181.98  km 2
179.99 km 2
1.99 km 2
CBS code 0175
Residents 17,828 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 98 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 52 ° 31 '  N , 6 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '  N , 6 ° 25'  E
Important traffic route N36 N48 N340 N341 N347 N348
prefix 0523, 0529, 0572
Postcodes 7730-7739, 8145-8149
Website Homepage of Ommen
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Ommen ( listen ? / I ) is a municipality in the Dutch province of Overijssel with 17,828 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019). Audio file / audio sample

geography

Geographical location

Ommen is about 20 kilometers east of Zwolle and 35 kilometers northeast of Deventer . It lies on the banks of the Vechte , not far from the mouth of the Regge tributary .

Community structure

The municipality consists of the town of Ommen, the village of Lemele (about 600 inhabitants) and several smaller towns, including: Vilsteren, Beerze, Eerde and Beerzerveld.

history

Ommen received city ​​rights in 1248 . It remained a small settlement around a toll bridge. A ski jump was built north of the Vechte during the Eighty Years War in 1628 . Instead of this "Ommerschans" came in 1820 a labor camp for beggars and vagrants from the major cities of Holland . In the - never very successful - institution these people were supposed to learn the farming trade.

In the 1920s, Ommen was known worldwide because the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti held his meetings at the nearby Eerde Castle as part of the Order of the Star in the East , which sometimes drew 3,000 listeners to Ommen. After Krishnamurti had returned the Eerde Castle, which he had no longer used for a long time, to the van Pallandts family in 1931, they rented it to the Quakers, who set up a school here for persecuted children from Germany.

Near Castle Eerde was after the occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 by the Nazis , the prison detention Erika furnished. Mainly "black marketeers" and resistance fighters came to this camp . Jews were usually not interned here. From here numerous prisoners were taken to German concentration camps and murdered there. The camp was notorious for the brutality of the camp personnel, which included a member of the Waffen-SS Herbertus Bikker (1915–2008), “the executioner of Ommen”. After the liberation in 1945, the camp served for some time to intern members and sympathizers of the now banned NSB .

The current municipality of Ommen was newly formed on May 1, 1923 through the merger of the previous municipalities of Ambt Ommen and Stad Ommen .

Ommen municipality

  • Ommen, town hall

  • Ommen, mill: de Bestmenermolen

  • Ommen, mill: de molen op Den Oordt

  • Ommen, mill: molen de Konijnenbelt

  • Vilsteren, Mïhle (de Vilsterse molen)

  • Eerde moated castle

Town twinning

German partner community of Ommen is Recke . The partnership is maintained with a partnership day, which is celebrated every two years alternately in Ommen and then again in Recke. Mutual visits by groups from both municipalities take place throughout the year.

Economy and Infrastructure

It is on the local railway Zwolle - Mariënberg - Emmen . The N34 Zwolle - Coevorden  - Emmen - Groningen road runs along the north bank of the Vechte; traffic jams often occur when driving through town . A new bypass road (N 340) for through traffic is expected to be completed in 2014 [obsolete] .

The main sources of income are agriculture and tourism. There is also some industry. The US-American clothing manufacturer Carhartt is based in Ommen with a factory.

tourism

Ommen has a wooded area that attracts many tourists. There are several campsites and hotels. In addition, water sports are possible on the rivers mentioned above. In the city center there is a 15th century church and a tin figure museum . Eerde Castle is about four kilometers to the southeast and now houses an international school.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Ommen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Province of Overijssel: Veelgestelde varsh N340 (nl)
  3. ↑ www.eerde.nl