Eesergroen is a village in the Dutch province of

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 ...

. It is a part of the municipality of

Borger-Odoorn Borger-Odoorn () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the northeastern Netherlands in the province of Drenthe. The local Hunebedcentrum Borger features several megaliths (or 'hunebeds') associated with the Neolithic and mesolit ...

, and lies about 16 km northwest of Emmen. The village was first mentioned in 1942 as "Eesergroen of Eesgroen", and means "trees belonging to Ees. In 1882, the first house was built to cultivate the wilderness. In 1930, a canal was dug and the large scale cultivation of the area started. In 1917, the Maranatha chapel was built by the Rechtzinnig Hervormde Kerk, a Christian fundamentalist congregation. It was decommissioned in 1975 and is now used by an auto workshop. In 1956, a church was built by the Vrijzinnig Hervormde Kerk, a

liberal Christianity Liberal Christianity, also known as liberal theology and historically as Christian modernism (see Catholic modernism and fundamentalist–modernist controversy), is a movement that interprets Christian teaching by prioritizing modern knowle ...

congregation. It was decommissioned in 1969, and now serves as a holiday home.

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Populated places in Drenthe Borger-Odoorn 1882 establishments in the Netherlands {{Drenthe-geo-stub