Westerwolde Municipality
Westerwolde is a municipality in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. The municipalities of Bellingwedde and Vlagtwedde have merged into the new municipality of Westerwolde on 1 January 2018.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bourtange, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 24,700 residents
- Description: municipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Westerwolde”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bourtange Fortress and Lieftinghsbroek.
Bourtange Fortress
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
Fort Bourtange is a fort in the village of Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands. It was built under orders of William the Silent and completed in 1593. Its original purpose was to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen, which was controlled by the Spaniards during the time of the Eighty Years' War.
Lieftinghsbroek
Nature reserve
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.
Lieftinghsbroek is a nature reserve, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Westerwolde Municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bourtange and Westerwolde.
Bourtange
Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Established during the Eighty Years' War, the fortified town of Bourtange is a charming destination in the Westerwolde region of the Northern Netherlands, right on the border with Germany.
Westerwolde
Westerwolde is a region in the southeast of in Groningen province in the Netherlands. The region consists of the municipalities of Vlagtwedde and Bellingwedde, that plan to merge and become the municipality of Westerwolde in 2018.
Veelerveen
Village
Veelerveen is a linear village with a population of around 720 in the municipality of Westerwolde in the Netherlands. Veelerveen is situated 4 km northwest of Westerwolde Municipality.
Westerwolde Municipality
- Location: Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Westerwolde Municipality” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Westerwolde (munisipaliteit)”
- Afrikaans: “Westerwolde”
- Asturian: “Westerwolde”
- Balinese: “Westerwolde”
- Catalan: “Westerwolde”
- Chinese: “韋斯特沃德”
- Chinese: “韋斯特沃爾德”
- Chinese: “韦斯特沃尔德”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Westerwolde”
- Dutch: “Westerwolde (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Westerwolde”
- Esperanto: “Westerwolde”
- French: “Westerwolde”
- German: “Westerwolde”
- Indonesian: “Westerwolde”
- Irish: “Westerwolde”
- Italian: “Westerwolde”
- Kurdish: “Westerwolde”
- Limburgan: “Westerwolde”
- Low German: “Westerwoolde (gemainte)”
- Low German: “Westerwoolde”
- Luxembourgish: “Westerwolde”
- Minangkabau: “Westerwolde”
- Northern Frisian: “Westerwolde (Gemeend)”
- Northern Frisian: “Westerwolde”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Westerwolde”
- Persian: “وسترولد”
- Polish: “Westerwolde”
- Portuguese: “Westerwolde”
- Russian: “Вестерволде”
- Slovenian: “Westerwolde”
- Spanish: “Westerwolde”
- Swedish: “Westerwolde”
- Turkish: “Westerwolde”
- Ukrainian: “Вестерволде”
- Venetian: “Westerwolde”
- Western Frisian: “Westerwâlde (gemeente)”
- Western Frisian: “Westerwâlde”
- Zeeuws: “Westerwolde”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Stobben and Poldert.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bourtange Fortress Museum and Bakoven.
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