Gieten is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze , and lies about 14 km east of Assen .
6-619: The village was first mentioned in 1223 as Geten. The etymology is unclear. Gieten is an esdorp which developed in the Early Middle Ages on the Hondsrug as a satellite of Anloo . The village started to developed where the road from Groningen to Coevorden intersected with a road to Assen . The former village Bonnen was located to the east and contained the havezate Entinge from 1648 until its demolition in 1768. The Dutch Reformed Church dates from at least 1302. In 1626, it
12-777: A smithy . Angerdörfer occur in Central Europe, especially on ground moraine plates and in loess -covered terrain. In Germany they are common in East Germany and east Central Germany. They were often established during the period of German Ostkolonisation in the Middle Ages and in many western Hungarian villages (for example in Burgenland's Loretto , formerly in Hungary, with the largest anger in Europe)
18-599: Is an October cyclo-cross race held in Gieten, Netherlands , which is part of the Superprestige . Esdorp An Angerdorf (plural: Angerdörfer ) is a type of village that is characterised by the houses and farmsteads being laid out around a central grassed area, the anger (from the Old High German angar =pasture or grassy place), a village green which was common land , owned jointly by
24-399: Is often a village pond on the anger and sometimes a stream flows through it which may not be easy to recognise today where the groundwater level has changed. The waterbody may well be the reason the anger was chosen. Originally there were no buildings on the anger , but in the course of time other community facilities were often built on it, such as the village church, village school or
30-526: The village community. The anger is usually in the shape of a lens or an eye, but may also take other forms: a rectangle, triangle, circle or semi-circle (illustrated). The buildings are oriented with their eaves facing the road. Livestock stalls and barns are at the rear of the plot (in Austria called the Hintaus ) and may be linked by a farm track that runs around the village forming an outer ring. There
36-559: Was heavily damaged during the Dutch Revolt , and rebuilt. The tower was built in 1804 as a replacement of a 17th century tower. Gieten was home to 464 people 1840. Between 1905 and 1947, a railway station on the Gasselternijveen to Assen railway line was located in Gieten. The building was demolished in 1969. Gieten was a separate municipality until 1998, when it became a part of Aa en Hunze. The Superprestige Gieten
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