Overdinkel

Overdinkel is a village in the Twente region of the eastern Netherlands, in the municipality of Losser. It is named for the nearby river Dinkel. Its population in 2012 was 4,255.[1] The territories of the Netherlands and the German Länder of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony meet at a point to the east of Overdinkel.[2]

Overdinkel
village
Gerardus Majella church
Overdinkel
Location within the Netherlands
Coordinates: 52°14′10″N 7°02′15″E
CountryNetherlands
ProvinceOverijssel
MunicipalityLosser
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Semi-detached workers' house at the Kerkhofweg in 1982

History

Overdinkel, previously a small farming community in a "solitary plain of heather and sand drifts", was developed in the early 20th century to house workers in the textile factories of Gronau. People from all over the Netherlands and from Germany came to live there.[3] Since the Second World War the textile industry in the region has been in decline, and the village population is forecast also to decline, even though the hospitality industry has grown owing to the proximity of the German border.[4] Overdinkel houses a community of Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, founded in 1919.[5]

Local facilities

The village is reached by bus from Almelo and Oldenzaal railway stations. There are Roman Catholic and Dutch Reformed churches. Its cultural venue and community centre is known as 't Trefhuus (before 2016, Kulturhus).[6]

  • Protestantse Kerk
  • Crucifix at the cemetery
  • Farmhouse near a stream

References
  1. "Losser - Inwoneraantal en Cijfers Losser". www.stadindex.nl (in Dutch). Obedo. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  2. Enno de Witt (2013). De grens: langs de randen van Nederland [The border: along the edges of the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Singel Uitgeverijen. p. 369. ISBN 978-90-253-7033-6.
  3. Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, land- en volkenkunde [Journal of history, country life and ethnology] (in Dutch). Delsman en Nolthenius. 1911. p. 75.
  4. "Ook in Overdinkel dreigt krimp" [Overdinkel also in danger of shrinkage]. Tubantia (in Dutch). de Persgroep Nederland B.V. 23 April 2013.
  5. José Eijt; Suzanne Hautvast (2002). Een missie in de marge: Dochters van Onze Lieve Vrouw van het Heilig Hart in Nederland en Indonesië, 1911-2000 [A Mission at the Margin: Daughters of Our Lady...] (in Dutch). Uitgeverij Verloren. p. 108. ISBN 90-6550-690-X.
  6. "Home". www.trefhuus.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 March 2018.
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