Ommen
Ommen is a municipality and a Hanseatic city in the eastern Netherlands. It is located in the Vecht valley of the Salland region in Overijssel. Historical records first name Ommen in the early 12th century and it was officially founded as a city in 1248.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 18,300 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Ommen Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nationaal Tinnen Figuren Museum and Ommen railway station.
Ommen railway station
Railway station
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Ommen is a railway station at Ommen, Netherlands. The station is located 1 km south of the town center. The station was opened on 15 January 1903 and is located on the Zwolle–Emmen railway.
Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Ommen
Church
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Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Ommen is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stegeren and Den Ham.
Stegeren
Hamlet
Stegeren is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is a part of the municipality of Ommen, and lies about 21 km north of Almelo. It was first mentioned in 1244 as Steyghere.
Den Ham
Village
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Den Ham is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Twenterand, about 15 km northwest of Almelo. Den Ham was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became a part of Vriezenveen.
Witharen
Village
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Witharen is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is a part of the municipality of Ommen, and lies about 19 km south of Hoogeveen. It was first mentioned in 1533 as "bij Witthaeren", and means "white sandy ridge".
Ommen
- Location: Overijssel, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Ommen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ommen”
- Arabic: “أومين”
- Armenian: “Օմեն”
- Asturian: “Ommen”
- Basque: “Ommen”
- Catalan: “Ommen”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Ommen”
- Chinese: “Ommen”
- Chinese: “奥门”
- Chinese: “奧門”
- Danish: “Ommen”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Ommen”
- Dutch: “Ommen (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Ommen”
- Esperanto: “Ommen”
- French: “Ommen”
- German: “Ommen”
- Hungarian: “Ommen”
- Indonesian: “Ommen”
- Irish: “Ommen”
- Italian: “Ommen”
- Japanese: “オメン”
- Japanese: “オンメン”
- Kurdish: “Ommen”
- Limburgan: “Ommen”
- Lithuanian: “Omenas”
- Low German: “Gemeen Ommen”
- Low German: “Ommen”
- Luxembourgish: “Ommen”
- Malay: “Ommen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ommen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ommen”
- Norwegian: “Ommen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ommen”
- Persian: “اومن”
- Polish: “Ommen”
- Portuguese: “Ommen”
- Romanian: “Ommen”
- Russian: “Оммен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Ommen”
- Slovenian: “Ommen”
- Spanish: “Ommen”
- Swedish: “Ommen”
- Turkish: “Ommen”
- Ukrainian: “Оммен”
- Venetian: “Ommen”
- Vietnamese: “Ommen”
- Volapük: “Ommen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ommen”
- Western Frisian: “Ommen”
- Zeeuws: “Ommen”
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