Jipsinghuizen (;

Gronings Gronings (; gos, Grunnegs or Grönnegs), is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. Gronings and the strongly related varieties in East Fr ...

: Jipsenhoezen ) is a hamlet in the

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province of

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. It is a part of the municipality of Westerwolde, and lies about 28 km northeast of Emmen. The statistical area "Jipsinghuizen", which also can include the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 150. Jipsinghuizen used to be part of the municipality of

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, but merged into Westerwolde in 2017. In 1665, the Battle of Jipsinghuizen was fought between Münster and the Dutch Republic.

Battle of Jipsinghuizen

In 1665,

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, the

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, secretly constructed a road from

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, Lower Saxony to

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, Groningen through the moor as part of a planned invasion of Groningen. The population panicked and fled, and von Galen took Sellingen on 20 September. 1,800 men were stationed at Jipsinghuizen, to await the arrival of the remainder of the army. The

city of Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen (province), Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of t ...

was alarmed and an army of 500 to 600 soldiers was dispatched to the region. In the early morning of 26 September, the troops led by Willem Nierop attacked. About 300 soldiers of Münster were killed, and the remainder fled back to Walchum. Later, Münster managed to take Westerwolde via

Drenthe Drenthe () is a provinces of the Netherlands, 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 (province), Groningen to the north, and the G ...

and Oldambt, but was attacked by the

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under command of John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen. On 18 April 1666, von Galen was forced to accept the , a humiliating peace treaty drawn up by

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. Münster promised eternal peace, the return of all conquered territories and in particular

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, and a reduction of its army to 3,000 men. The eternal peace did not last, and von Galen returned in 1672.

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* {{Authority control Populated places in Groningen (province) Westerwolde (municipality)