Bourtange
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,140 residents
- Description: village in Westerwolde, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Boertange”
- Postal code: 9545
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bourtange Fortress and Vestingmolen Bourtange.
Bourtange Fortress
Castle
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westerwolde and Stakenborg.
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.
Stakenborg
Hamlet
Stakenborg is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Westerwolde, and lies about 33 km northeast of Emmen. The hamlet was first mentioned between 1851 and 1855 as Stakenburg, and is a combination of a thin pole and borg.
Wollinghuizen
Hamlet
Wollinghuizen is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Westerwolde, and lies about 29 km northeast of Emmen.
Bourtange
- Categories: fortified town, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Westerwolde Municipality, Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.0067° or 53° 0′ 24″ northLongitude
7.1921° or 7° 11′ 32″ eastPopulation
1,140Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL BTAOpen location code
9F59254R+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 47753352OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bourtange” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bourtange”
- Arabic: “حصن بورتانغي”
- Aragonese: “Bourtange”
- Arpitan: “Bourtange”
- Asturian: “Bourtange”
- Basque: “Bourtange”
- Bavarian: “Bourtange”
- Breton: “Bourtange”
- Catalan: “Bourtange”
- Chinese: “Bourtange”
- Chinese: “布爾坦赫要塞”
- Chinese: “鮑爾坦赫”
- Chinese: “鲍尔坦赫”
- Corsican: “Bourtange”
- Croatian: “Bourtange”
- Czech: “Bourtange”
- Danish: “Bourtange”
- Dutch: “Bourtange”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن بورتانجى”
- Esperanto: “Bourtange”
- Estonian: “Bourtange”
- Finnish: “Bourtange”
- French: “Bourtange”
- Friulian: “Bourtange”
- Galician: “Bourtange”
- German: “Bourtange”
- Hungarian: “Bourtange”
- Icelandic: “Bourtange”
- Ido: “Bourtange”
- Indonesian: “Bourtange”
- Interlingua: “Bourtange”
- Interlingue: “Bourtange”
- Irish: “Bourtange”
- Italian: “Bourtange”
- Kongo: “Bourtange”
- Ligurian: “Bourtange”
- Limburgan: “Bourtange”
- Low German: “Boertang”
- Low German: “Bourtange”
- Luxembourgish: “Bourtange”
- Malagasy: “Bourtange”
- Malay: “Bourtange”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bourtange”
- Minangkabau: “Bourtange”
- Narom: “Bourtange”
- Neapolitan: “Bourtange”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bourtange”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bourtange”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bourtange”
- Persian: “بورتانژ”
- Picard: “Bourtange”
- Piemontese: “Bourtange”
- Polish: “Bourtange”
- Portuguese: “Bourtange”
- Romanian: “Bourtange”
- Romansh: “Bourtange”
- Sardinian: “Bourtange”
- Saterfriesisch: “Bourtange”
- Scots: “Bourtange”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bourtange”
- Serbian: “Bourtange”
- Sicilian: “Bourtange”
- Slovak: “Bourtange”
- Slovenian: “Bourtange”
- Spanish: “Bourtange”
- Swahili: “Bourtange”
- Swedish: “Bourtange”
- Swiss German: “Bourtange”
- Ukrainian: “Бауртанге”
- Venetian: “Bourtange”
- Vietnamese: “Bourtange”
- Vlaams: “Bourtange”
- Volapük: “Bourtange”
- Walloon: “Bourtange”
- Welsh: “Bourtange”
- Western Frisian: “Bourtange”
- Wolof: “Bourtange”
- Zulu: “Bourtange”
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