Westdorp is a village in the

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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 17 km northwest of Emmen.

History

The village was first mentioned between 1381 and 1383 as "to Westorpe", and means "western village" as viewed from Ees. Westdorp was home to 95 people in 1840. In 2002, a subsidy of €450,000 was granted to repair an ''hunebed'' (

dolmen A dolmen, () or portal tomb, is a type of single-chamber Megalith#Tombs, megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000 ...

) in Borger. The farmers of Westdorp gathered big boulders, the heaviest weight 8 tonnes, and built their own ''hunebed'' in the village square. The municipality did not know what to make it of it, but did grant a building permits afterwards.

References

Populated places in Drenthe Borger-Odoorn {{Drenthe-geo-stub