Aalden is a village in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

and it is part of the

Coevorden Coevorden (; ; ) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Drenthe, in the east of Netherlands, the Netherlands. During the ...

municipality in

Drenthe Drenthe () is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and the German state of Lower Saxony to the east. As of Jan ...

History

Aalden developed in the Middle Ages on higher sand ground. The oldest part developed around a triangular

village green A village green is a commons, common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common pasture, grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock, often at the edge of a rural settlement, used for ...

without a church. It was first mentioned in 1332 as Alede. The etymology is unclear. Nowadays, it forms a single urban area with

Zweeloo Zweeloo is a village in the municipality of Coevorden, located in the province of Drenthe, in northeastern Netherlands. Zweeloo was a separate municipality from 1819 to 1998, when it was merged with Coevorden.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "R ...

. In 1840, it was home to 116 people. The Jantina Hellingmolen is a

gristmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

from 1891 and is still in service on a voluntary basis.

Gallery

File:Aalden, Kerkstraat 16 - De Drieklank-2014-002.JPG, Protestant church File:Overzicht - Aalden - 20369896 - RCE.jpg, Farms in Aalden File:Overzicht van de voorgevel - Aalden - 20424969 - RCE.jpg, House in Aalden File:Horses in the mist (11343404096).jpg, Horses in the mist

References

Coevorden Populated places in Drenthe {{Drenthe-geo-stub