Over spelled
| province |
 Overijssel
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| local community |
 Loser
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| Residents | 4,125 (Jan 1, 2017) |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 14 ' N , 7 ° 2' E |
| Important traffic route |
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| prefix | 053 |
| Postcodes | 4826, 7581, 7585-7586 |
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Overdinkel is a village in the municipality of Losser in the Dutch province of Overijssel .
geography
The place Overdinkel in the border triangle Netherlands-Lower Saxony-North Rhine-Westphalia is ten kilometers east of the city of Enschede , directly on the border with Germany and counted 4,125 inhabitants in 2017. The neighboring town of the border village on the German side is the city of Gronau (Westphalia) .
history
The name of the place is the Dinkel , which flows in an arc about 1.5 kilometers west of Overdinkel towards the north.
Like the nearby cities of Enschede , Nordhorn and Gronau , Overdinkel was shaped by the textile industry, which offered many jobs from the second third of the 19th century to the 1970s. At the beginning of the era, the workforce came to Overdinkel mainly from Friesland and Drenthe . In 1907 the village already had 1,600 inhabitants. The newcomers brought the Dutch Reformed or Protestant denomination to the traditionally Catholic area. The Catholic Church was built in 1907 and the Dutch Reformed Church in 1909.
The Catholic Church is dedicated to Saint Gerardus Majella , of whom a relic is kept in the church. Every year since 1912 there has been a procession in honor of the saint (on the 1st Sunday after October 16, the day of remembrance of St. Gérard).
Transport links
Overdinkel is 10 kilometers away from the Dutch Autobahn 35 ( Rijksweg 35 ) and the German Autobahn 31 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on April 1, 2018 (Dutch)