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Beerta
Beerta (; ) is a village and former municipality with a population of 2,205 in the municipality of Oldambt in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. In the 20th century, Beerta was a communist stronghold. In 1933, the municipal council was dismissed by the government, and was ruled by a until 1935. Between 1982 and 1990, Beerta was the only municipality with a communist mayor. Etymology Beerta means "place with houses" (English: neigh''boor''hood; Frisian: '' buorren'') The name was sometimes explained as relating to the 12th century which was lost in a flood, however the monastery has been excavated in Hesel, East Frisia, Germany, in 1988. History The Dollart is a bay in the Wadden Sea which was gradually expanding in size. Around 1600, it peaked at around . Beerta was located on higher ground, and became a peninsula in the bay. The village dates from the 11th century. The expanding Dollart implied that parts of Beerta were moved to higher ground. The Saint Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nieuw-Beerta
Nieuw-Beerta () is a village with a population of 120 in the municipality of Oldambt in the east of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute has a weather station in the village. History The village was first mentioned in 1660 as Beerter hamrick, and meant "the village dorp belonging to he village of Beerta". In 1822, it was first mentioned as Nieuw-Beerta (New Beerta) to distinguish it from Beerta. Nieuw-Beerta is a road village which developed on the dike after the Uiterdijken were ''polder A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrology, hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as levee, dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclamation, Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a ...ed'' in 1657. The first church was built in 1665, and rebuilt in 1689. The current church dates from 1856. Several villas and farms were built in Jugendstil. Nieuw Bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanneke Jagersma
Johanna "Hanneke" Jagersma (; born 1 November 1951) is a Dutch former politician. She was member of the Communist Party of the Netherlands from 1974 to 1989 and mayor of Beerta from 1982 to 1990. She now works for Humanitas, a Dutch care organisation. Early life Johanna Jagersma was born on 1 November 1951 in Wymbritseradiel in the Netherlands. She studied at the mulo, the havo, and the social academy. She became a member of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) in 1974. She worked from 1975 until 1982 as coordinator for elderly care in the municipalities of Finsterwolde, Nieuweschans, and Beerta.Beerta: eerste CPN-burgemeester (in Dutch), ''Leidse Courant'', 1982. Retrieved 20 June 2016. Politics Jagersma was a member of the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldambt (municipality)
Oldambt () is a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality with a population of in the province of Groningen (province), Groningen in the Netherlands. It was established in 2010 by merging the municipalities of Reiderland, Scheemda, and Winschoten. It contains the city of Winschoten and these villages: History The name "Oldambt" from "Ol dambt" meaning "the old fill" is derived from land reclamation efforts, starting after the catastrophic Dollart, floodings of the 13th century. The municipality of Oldambt was established 1 January 2010, as a merger of the former municipalities of Reiderland, Scheemda and Winschoten. Geography Oldambt is located at in the northeast of the province of Groningen (province), Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands on the border with Germany. Near Bad Nieuweschans is the Extreme points of the Netherlands, easternmost point of the Netherlands. The municipality falls within the region of Oldambt (region), Oldambt and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groningen (province)
Groningen ( , ; ; ; ) is the northeasternmost provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands. It borders on Friesland to the west, Drenthe to the south, the Germany, German state of Lower Saxony to the east, and the Wadden Sea to the north. As of January 2023, Groningen had a population of about 596,000, and a total area of . Historically the area was at different times part of Frisia, the Francia, Frankish Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Dutch Republic, the precursor state of the modern Netherlands. In the 14th century, the city of Groningen became a member of the Hanseatic League. The provincial capital and the largest city in the province is the Groningen, city of Groningen (231,299 inhabitants). Since 2016, René Paas has been the King's Commissioner in the province. A coalition of GroenLinks, the Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party, ChristianUnion, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, Democrats 66, and Christian Democratic Appeal forms the exec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reiderland
Reiderland () is a former municipality in the province Groningen in the northeastern Netherlands, which was founded in 1990 during a large municipal reorganisation. The former municipalities Finsterwolde and Bad Nieuweschans were abolished and added to Beerta. In 1992, the new municipality was given its current name. In 2010 it joined in the municipality Oldambt. Politics Reiderland was one of the few municipalities in the Netherlands that still had communist councillors after the dissolution of the Communist Party of the Netherlands in 1989. (As of 2006, it was one of only four Dutch municipalities to have any, the other three being Heiloo, Scheemda and Lemsterland.) The New Communist Party of the Netherlands was in fact the largest party in Reiderland from 1990 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2006. Finsterwolde and Beerta, which was the only town in the Netherlands that ever had a communist mayor, had long been communist strongholds. In the 1998 municipal election, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of The Netherlands
The Communist Party of the Netherlands (, , CPN) was a communist party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1909 as the Social Democratic Party (Netherlands), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and merged with the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical People's Party (Netherlands), Evangelical People's Party in 1991, forming the GroenLinks. Members opposed to the merger founded the New Communist Party of the Netherlands. History Foundation In 1907, Jan Ceton, Willem van Ravesteyn, and David Wijnkoop of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands), Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) founded ' ("The Tribune"), a magazine in which they criticized the party leadership. They maintained orthodox Marxism, Marxist views and expected a proletarian revolution. They opposed the leadership of the SDAP, who were more oriented towards more a Marxist revisionism, revisionist ideology and a parliamentary and reformism, reformist political stra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellingwolde
Bellingwolde (; Gronings dialect, Gronings: ''Bennewolle'') is a village with a population of 2,655 people in the municipality Westerwolde (municipality), Westerwolde in the Netherlands. It is situated in the southeast of the region Oldambt (region), Oldambt, in the north of the region Westerwolde (region), Westerwolde, and in the east of the province Groningen (province), Groningen, at the border with Germany. The settlement dates back to the 11th century. It flooded multiple times until the 16th century. In the 18th and 19th century agriculture prospered and large farmhouses were built. It was a separate municipality until it merged with Wedde into Bellingwedde in 1968. Bellingwolde has a state protected village area with several monumental farmhouses. Other attractions are the Magnuskerk, Magnus Church, the Rechthuis (Bellingwolde), Law House, Veldkamps Meuln, Veldkamp's Mill, and Museum de Oude Wolden. There are four primary schools and a secondary school in the village. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finsterwolde
Finsterwolde () is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen, about 7 km northeast of the city of Winschoten. Finsterwolde was a separate municipality until 1990, when it was merged with Beerta into Reiderland. In 2010 Reiderland merged into the municipality Oldambt. The old municipality of Finsterwolde included six small nearby or connecting settlements. These are also taken into account in the population estimate of 2008, without which the actual population, purely based on the centre and new developments, would be 1250. The village is known for the Galery Waalkens. History The town was named "Little Moscow" by ''Time'' magazine in 1950, because communists have always had the majority of the votes since 1933. In July 1951, the elected municipality council was replaced by a , who ruled Finsterwolde until September 1953.: "de laatste regeringscommissaris in Finsterwolde, dat was begin jaren vijftig, van juli 1951 tot september 1953 om precies te zijn." Born in Finste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nieuweschans
Bad Nieuweschans (; ; ; also Lange Akkeren) is a village in the north-eastern Netherlands on the border with Germany. It forms part of the municipality of Oldambt. Nieuweschans means "new fortification ( sconce)". In 2009, the word Bad (" spa") was prefixed to the name of the village to promote it as a tourist destination. History Bad Nieuweschans is located in a part of the Dollart which was flooded during the 13th century. In the 1550s, the Dollart was reclaimed by large-scale poldering. In 1626, the area around Oudeschans was poldered, and a settlement appeared in the Nieuwenschans area which was originally called ''Lange Akkeren''. The fortification of Nieuweschans was built in 1628, during the Eighty Years' War. The sconce was a pentagon surrounded by earthen walls and canals. The fortification was still in use during the French occupation. In 1815, the garrison was disbanded, and between 1870 and 1907, the fortifications were dismantled. In 1974, Bad Nieuweschans was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blauwestad
Blauwestad () is a village in the municipality of Oldambt in the Netherlands. It is situated on the east bank of the Oldambtmeer in the east of the province of Groningen. History After the Oldambtmeer was created in 2005, the village of Blauwestad () started to be developed. The first inhabitants settled in the village in 2006. Geography Blauwestad is located at in the municipality of Oldambt in the east of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. (in Dutch), Municipality of Oldambt. Retrieved 15 May 2016. Blauwestad is north of , east of |
Winschoten
Winschoten (; ) is a city with a population of 18,518 in the municipality of Oldambt (municipality), Oldambt in the northeast of the Netherlands. It is the largest city in the region of Oldambt (region), Oldambt in the province of Groningen (province), Groningen which has 38,213 inhabitants. Winschoten received its City rights in the Netherlands, city rights in 1825. It was a separate Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality until it was merged into Oldambt in 2010. The seat of government of Oldambt is in Winschoten. There are three windmills and several churches in Winschoten. There is a Winschoten railway station, railway station with direct connections to Groningen and Leer, Lower Saxony, Leer (Germany), although due to the reconstruction of the Friesenbrücke trains to Germany will stop at Weener until 2024. Winschoten has an important role as a shopping centre for the region of Oldambt. In the province of Groningen, it is the second-largest shopping destination and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
