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Hoogeveen is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands.

1 Population centres

Elim, Fluitenberg, Hoogeveen and Noordscheschut, which still have the canals which used to be throughout the town. Other villages of the town are Hollandscheveld, Nieuw Moscou, Nieuweroord, Nieuwlande, Pesse, Stuifzand and Tiendeveen.

2 Hoogeveen

It dates its history to December 20, 1625, when Roelof van Echten bought a large tract of peat land from farmers of the district with the plan to harvest its peat. One old map of the area called it Locus Deserta Atque ob Multos Paludes Invia, a deserted and impenetrable place of many swamps.

Its coat of arms, granted November 10, 1819, is white, with a pile of peat covered in straw in the center and beehives on each side, representing the town's first two major industries.

In the second half of the 1960s, Hoogeveen was the fastest growing town in the Netherlands. Its rapid growth during that period led its city council to fill most of the town's canals, canals dug in the area's early days when it was a prime source of peat.

Access to the town is provided by the A28 ( Utrecht - GroningenGroningen is the northeast province of the Netherlands with a typical dialect Gronings with regional nuances. In the east it borders the German region Niedersachsen, in the south with Drenthe, in the west with Fryslan and in the north the Wadden Sea.) highway, the N/A37 (Hoogeveen - GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east), and the Western Cities - Groningen railwayTrain routes by timetable number Train routes in the Netherlands are identified by numbers. The routes are listed here using abbreviations for the station names and in the order corresponding to direction "a" in the official timetable. Reading each list b.

3 External link

• Official website