Borger-Odoorn
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Borger-Odoorn | |
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| Monumental home in Tweede Exloërmond Monumental home in Tweede Exloërmond | |
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| Highlighted position of Borger-Odoorn in a municipal map of Drenthe Location in Drenthe | |
| Coordinates: 52°53′N 6°52′E / 52.883°N 6.867°ECoordinates: 52°53′N 6°52′E / 52.883°N 6.867°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Drenthe |
| Established | 1 January 1998[1] |
| Government | |
| • Body | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Jan Seton (Template:Polparty) |
| Area | |
| • Total | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| • Land | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| • Water | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| Elevation | Template:Infobox settlement/lengthdisp |
| Population | |
| • Total | Template:Dutch municipality population |
| • Density | Template:Infobox settlement/densdisp |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | Parts of 7800 and 9500 range |
| Area code | 0591, 0599 |
| Website | www |
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Borger-Odoorn (nl) is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands in the province of Drenthe.
The local Hunebedcentrum Borger features several megaliths (or 'hunebeds') associated with the Neolithic and mesolithic Funnelbeaker culture, as well as recreations of historical houses.
Population centers
[edit]Topography
[edit]File:Gem-BorgerOdoorn-OpenTopo.jpg
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, June 2015.
Notable people
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- Albert Meems (1888 in Nieuw-Buinen – after 1957) a Dutch spy for Germany in the Second World War
- Pieter van Boven (1898 – 1952) a Dutch fencer, competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Egbert Schuurman (born 1937 in Borger) a Dutch engineer, philosopher and politician
- Henk Nienhuis (1941 in Nieuw-Buinen – 2017) a Dutch footballer and manager.
- Henk G. Sol (born 1951 in Borger) a Dutch organizational theorist and academic
- Carsten de Dreu (born 1966 in Borger) Professor of Psychology at Leiden University and Behavioral Economics at the University of Amsterdam
Gallery
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Zuiderdiep123 gereformeerde kerk Tweede Exloermond
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Boerderij Zuiderdiep309 Valthermond
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Valthermond spoor
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Trafohuisje Hoofdstraat Buinen
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Odoorn
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Megalith at Hunebedcentrum Borger
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Reconstruction of a Funnelbeaker house
References
[edit]- ↑ "Gemeentelijke indeling op 1 januari 1998" [Municipal divisions on 1 January 1998]. cbs.nl (in Dutch). CBS. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Burgemeester en wethouders" [Mayor and aldermen] (in Dutch). Gemeente Borger-Odoorn. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality total area
- ↑ "Postcodetool for 7875AD". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality population