Bedum
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Bedum
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Former municipality | |
 Church in Westerdijkshorn | |
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| Coordinates: 53°18′N 6°36′E / 53.300°N 6.600°ECoordinates: 53°18′N 6°36′E / 53.300°N 6.600°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Groningen |
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| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Total | 8,650 |
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| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | 9781[1] |
| Area code | 050 |
| Website | www |
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Bedum (nl; Template:Langx gos) is a former municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by an unknown number of inhabitants (Template:Dutch municipality population) in Error, Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns. On 1 January 2019 it merged with the municipalities of De Marne, Eemsmond and Winsum to form the new municipality Het Hogeland.
Bedum is the site of three supermarkets, several pubs, and a leaning church tower, dubbed "the leaning tower of Bedum". Footballer Arjen Robben was born in Bedum (23 January 1984).
Bedum has a railway station - Bedum railway station.
The leaning tower
[edit]Bedum's 36-metre tower of the St Walfridus church has been calculated as now leaning at a greater angle than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. If both towers were the same height, Bedum's would have a greater displacement by 6 cm.[3]
Former population centres
[edit]Notable people
[edit]- Arjen Robben, professional footballer[4]
Gallery
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't Blauw Borgje in winter
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Bridge over Boterdiep
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Air watchtower in Bedum
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Topographic map of Bedum, June 2015
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- ↑ "Postcodetool for 9781JL". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- ↑ Dutch say Pisa no longer Europe's most leaning tower, Reuters, 28 August 2009
- ↑ "De Wiel Coerver Methode" (in Dutch). Vvjps.nl. Archived from the original on 21 April 2003. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
External links
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