Luttelgeest is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

province of

Flevoland Flevoland () is the twelfth and youngest province of the Netherlands, established in 1986, when the southern and eastern Flevopolders, together with the Noordoostpolder, were merged into one provincial entity. It is in the centre of the countr ...

. It is a part of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

Noordoostpolder Noordoostpolder (; en, "North-East Polder") is a polder and municipality in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Formerly, it was also called '' Urker Land''. Emmeloord is the administrative center, located in the heart of the Noord ...

, and was created in 1950 as one of ten planned villages around the new city of Emmeloord.

Name

Luttelgeest is named after a no longer existing village with the same name, which used to be near

Kuinre Kuinre ( Low Saxon: ''De Kuunder'') is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It was a separate municipality until 1973, when it became a part of IJsselham, which in turn merged into the municipality of Steenwijkerland in 2001. Kuinre i ...

, Overijssel. The oldest appearance of the name was in 1379. The meaning of the name translated to English is ''Little Geest'', where '

geest Geest is a type of landform, slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark. It is a landscape of sandy and gravelly soils formed as a glacial outwash plai ...

' is a type of landform. The village of

Lutjegast Lutjegast () is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in Groningen, Netherlands. It had a population of around 1,125 in January 2017. History The name ''Lutjegast'' originates from Gronings in which ''lutje'' means small or little and ...

in Groningen has a different variant of the same name.

History

In 1942, Camp Luttelgeest was opened for the workers on the

. In 1949, the plan for the village was approved, and it was founded in 1950. During the construction, the remains of two castles belonging to

were excavated. The oldest castle was built by

Prince-bishop of Utrecht The Bishopric of Utrecht ( nl, Sticht Utrecht) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, in the present-day Netherlands. From 1024 to 1528, as one of the prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire, it w ...

in the 12th century, and was destroyed in 1196 by the

Count of Holland The counts of Holland ruled over the County of Holland in the Low Countries between the 10th and the 16th century. House of Holland The first count of Holland, Dirk I, was the son or foster-son of Gerolf, Count in Frisia (Dijkstra suggests ...

. It was rebuilt in 1204 and destroyed in a flood in 1375. In 1378, a castle was built closer to Kuinre, and demolished between 1531 and 1536, because it no longer served a strategic purpose. The village has been laid out on a triangular pattern, and is surrounded by a green circle.

Public transportation

There is no railway station in Luttelgeest, but the nearest stations are in Kampen and

Steenwijk Steenwijk (; Low German: ''Steenwiek'', ''Stienwiek'' English: ''Stenwick'') is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Steenwijkerland. It is the largest town of the municipality. Steenwijk received c ...

Sports

The basketball team and football club

SV Tonego Sportvereniging Tot Ons Nut En Genoegen Opgericht or simply SV Tonego is a Dutch sports club from Luttelgeest. From 1980 to 1988, the basketball team was located in Haaksbergen as Hatrans Haaksbergen and played in the professional Dutch Basketball ...

is located in Luttelgeest.

Gallery

File:Voorzijde van boerderij - Luttelgeest - 20409863 - RCE.jpg, Farm in Luttelgeest File:Luttelgeest-Orchideeënhoeve DSCN5780WCm.jpg, Orchids in Luttelgeest File:Kuinre imp 178.JPG, Reconstruction of a gate of the former castle File:Kerk met zadeldak, ronde toren met achtzijdige spits - Luttelgeest - 20410318 - RCE.jpg, Josef Church

References

External links

*
Official site
(in Dutch) {{Authority control Populated places in Flevoland Noordoostpolder 1950 establishments in the Netherlands