Losser
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Losser | |
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Town and municipality | |
 Monumental former factory in Losser | |
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| Coordinates: 52°16′N 7°0′E / 52.267°N 7.000°ECoordinates: 52°16′N 7°0′E / 52.267°N 7.000°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Overijssel |
| Government | |
| • Body | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Jeroen Diepemaat (Template:Polparty) |
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| Demonym(s) | Lossernaar, Lossenaar |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | 7580–7589 |
| Area code | 053, 0541 |
| Website | www |
Losser (nl) is a town and municipality in the eastern Netherlands. It is on the German border, at the eastern end of the A1 motorway.
Population centres
[edit | edit source]- Beuningen
- De Lutte
- Glane
- Losser
- Overdinkel
Losser
[edit | edit source]The oldest known reference to Losser dates from the tenth century.[5] Originally, the village consisted of two separate parts. Both were almost completely destroyed when on 21 September 1665, troops from Münster set fire to them.[6]
One of the town's oldest buildings is the Martinustoren (St. Martin's Tower), dating from around 1500 and the only remaining part of a church demolished in 1903.
The district of Glane is home to the Mor Ephrem Monastery, the only Syriac Orthodox monastery in Europe. Originally founded in 1911 as the St Olaf monastery by Norwegian Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambery, it was converted into Syriac Orthodox monastery on 7 July 1984 and is the official diocesan headquarters of the Syriac Orthodox Diocese of the Netherlands.[7][8]
Geography
[edit | edit source]A few kilometers west of De Lutte, close to the border with Oldenzaal, lies the Tankenberg, a hill the top of which (85 m) is the highest point in the province. (For myths of the Tankenberg, see Tanfana.)
The municipality's most important body of water is the river Dinkel.
Sister cities
[edit | edit source]Losser is twinned with:
Notable people
[edit | edit source]- Pi de Bruijn (born 1942 in Losser) a Dutch architect
- Kim Kötter (born 1982 in Losser) a Dutch director, model and beauty pageant titleholder [9]
- Moniek Nijhuis (born 1988 in Overdinkel) a Dutch swimmer, competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics
Gallery
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Martin's Tower
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Reformed church
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Church: de Sint Martinuskerk
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Overdinkel, Rooms katholieke Kerk
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "College van B&W" [Board of mayor and aldermen] (in Dutch). Gemeente Losser. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
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- ↑ "Postcodetool for 7581AG". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality population
- ↑ Stenvert, R. et al. (1998). Monumenten in Nederland: Overijssel, p. 213–215, 240. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers. ISBN 90-400-9200-1.
- ↑ Buisman, J. (2000). Duizend jaar weer, wind en water in de lage landen: 1575–1675, p. 597. Franeker: Van Wijnen. ISBN 90-5194-136-6.
- ↑ "Syriac Orthodox Church in the Netherlands celebrates milestones at Mor Ephrem Monastery". Syriac Press. 29 October 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ↑ "Klooster – Kloostergeschiedenis | Mor Ephrem". morephrem.com. Klooster St. Ephrem De Syrier. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ↑ IMDb Database retrieved 04 October 2019
External links
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Media related to Losser at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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