Weerdinge is a neighbourhood and former village of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe .
6-467: Weerdinge is an esdorp which developed in the 10th century, on the road from Emmen naar Exloo . It was first mentioned in 1327 as Weerdighen. The name means "the people of Wardo". In 1905, a railway line between Emmen and Stadskanaal was laid and a train station was built in Weerdinge. The line closed in 1963. In 1932, it was home to 977 people. The gristmill De Hondsrug was built in 1910 and
12-527: The Drents Museum . This Drenthe location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Angerdorf 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
18-733: The village church, village school or 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
24-402: The village forming an outer ring. There 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
30-519: Was common land , owned jointly by 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
36-411: Was restored in 1988. In 1978, Weerdinge was annexed by neighbouring Emmen, and has become a neighbourhood. On 29 June 1904, a pair of bog bodies were discovered by Hilbrand Gringhuis. Initially, it was thought that it was a man and a woman, but it has been established that they are two unrelated men. They have been dated 92 BC to 70 AD . Both have probably been killed. Both bodies are on display at
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