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45-495: Vriezenveen ( Lower Saxon : 't Vjenne, Venne, Vjenne, Vreeznven or Vreeinvenne ) is a town in the municipality of Twenterand in the Dutch province of Overijssel . The population was 13,800 on January 1, 2020. Until July 1, 2002, Vriezenveen formed an independent municipality together with the villages of De Pollen , Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk , Aadorp and the hamlets Bruinehaar , Weitemanslanden and Westerhoeven . In 2001,

90-556: A schout prosecuted suspected criminals and presided over the sessions of the magistrates ( schepenen ) when they sat as a court. The schout was not the judge, but directed the court proceedings. In this function, he was somewhat like a modern-day prosecutor . The office was brought with the Dutch to the American colony of New Netherland . The first schout (sometimes called the schout-fiscal ) in New Amsterdam after it

135-474: A "twisted" ieje , oewe and uje . "Weten" became " wiëten ", "Koken" became " koëken " and "Lui/Leu" became " luje ". This rotation can also be heard clearly in the spoken Low Saxon variants of Rijssens and Enters . However, Vjeans seems to have gone even a step further in this, so that "Wiëten" now sounds like " wjetn/wjet'n " and "Koëken" like " kwakn/kwak'n ". (English: Weten – Knowing / Koken – Cooking / Lui|Leu – Folk ) In 2014, four stories from

180-543: A charter for the free Frisians, their heirs and all the people who lived on the moor, from the Wierdense Weuste to the Bawesbeek . The people who lived on the moor were obliged to pay one bucket of butter a year, measured according to the standard of Zwolle, on St. Martin's Day at Huis Almelo. This concerned a lease of butter and was paid in kind; the lease could not be bought off. The lord of Almelo had allowed

225-404: A criminal and presenting the criminal to the court of magistrates ( schepenen ) for judgment. He or his men checked the drinking houses, carried out conscription orders, made sure taxes were paid and enforced the law. After a criminal verdict was given, the schout was responsible for carrying out the sentence. In these functions, he was somewhat like a modern-day chief of police . Third,

270-460: A decreasing degree; aptly named Vriezenveens (Lower Saxon: Vjeans ). In terms of pronunciation, this is less like the surrounding Twents, although grammatically and lexically it draws from the same source. Some sources claim that Frisian influences can be heard in Vjeans. This seems plausible, because Vriezenveen was founded by Frisians . Other sources claim that the unique Vjeanse pronunciation

315-622: A farmhouse kitchen and a school class from long ago are on display, which allows people to get a glimpse of life in the past. During the Second World War , Vriezenveen became the temporary home of many children from Rotterdam . Contact was made through the Roman Catholic pastor of Vriezenveen, dhr. Van Rhijn – originally from Rotterdam – and the children were taken care of in Vriezenveen's foster families. On May 1, 2004,

360-586: Is Line 83 from Almelo to the bus station "Nieuwe Daarlerveenseweg", in Vriezenveen. This route is driven by Syntus , in Twents -style. In addition, Line 81 runs through Vriezenveen via the bus station in Westerhaar to Ommen and towards Almelo. Since April 1, 2007, residents can also use the regional taxi. A unique dialectical variant of the Lower Saxon language group is spoken in Vriezenveen, albeit to

405-623: Is a Low Franconian language , the Dutch Low Saxon varieties form a dialect continuum with Westphalian . They consist of: A 2005 study found that there were approximately 1.8 million "daily speakers" of Low Saxon in the Netherlands. 53% spoke Low Saxon or Low Saxon and Dutch at home and 71% could speak it. According to another study the percentage of speakers among parents dropped from 34% in 1995 to 15% in 2011. The percentage of speakers among their children dropped from 8% to 2% in

450-447: Is a semi-professional running race, described as the "Van Dam tot Dam run" – the biggest yearly running race of Amsterdam and the surrounding regions – of the east. In 2002 the running competition was organized for the first time and in 2007 the first lustrum was celebrated with a performance by singer Jannes . Up to and including 2006, a cycling tour was held every year under the name Ronde van Vriezenveen . Due to limited interest and

495-496: Is also the korfball/netball club Amicitia , basketball club Peatminers , volleyball club Vrivo , swimming and water polo club VZPC , athletics association AV Twenterand , shooting association SV Vriezenveen , tennis club TCV , ice skating club Centrale Schaatstraining Vriezenveen and skating club De Eendracht Vriezenveen , chess association Vrimot, gym association KEV ( K racht E n V riendschap), judo association Judokwai Vriezenveen , tug-of-war club TTV Vriezenveen , and

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540-539: Is due to the Rusluie. These tradesmen from Vriezenveen settled in Saint Petersburg, Russia, but usually returned to Vriezenveen years later. In Saint Petersburg they formed a tight-knit community of several hundred people, who most likely spoke to each other in Vjeans. A strong Russian influence on the Vjeans of those who stayed behind therefore seems less plausible. Because Twente was more or less cut off from

585-458: Is not actually a word in English). In Dutch, the plural of schout is schouten . The Dutch word schout comes from Middle Dutch scouthete , in turn from Old Low Franconian skolthēti , and is cognate with Old English scyldhǣta , sculthēta "reeve, (medieval) bailiff", German Schultheiß , (Swiss) Schulze "bailie (magistrate)", from PGmc * skuldi-haitijō "debt-orderer". The office

630-489: Is the Herman Jansen-Park . Once a year there is a fair . There is also a market every Wednesday morning. The last Wednesday of the summer holiday, a farmers market is organized which always attracts thousands of visitors. In recent years, local entrepreneurs (mainly catering establishments) have been trying to attract more and more people to Vriezenveen by organizing various activities. The best example of this

675-609: Is the yearly festival, Randrock , which attracts thousands of visitors and is a huge boon to local entrepreneurs. Vriezenveen is located on the National Road 36 ( N36 ) from Hardenberg to Almelo and Wierden . The train station on the route Almelo – Mariënberg is located in the west of the village. It is served twice an hour by Arriva with trains of the LINT type in the Blauwnet /Vechtdallijnen style. The main bus line

720-527: The Nevsky Prospekt and in the adjacent " Gostiny Dvor ". Hendrik Kruys was the owner of trading house 'Java' at Grosse Morskaya 38 in Saint Petersburg. Although they managed to acquire a permanent place in the grand city at the mouth of the Neva , many Vriezenveners eventually returned to their hometown. On May 16, 1905, there was a great fire in Vriezenveen that almost destroyed the entire town. After

765-638: The 1960s, the village did not have elder care, because of a "strong general regional sense of commitment and duty towards helping each other", also known as noaberschap (English: neighbour-ship ).On December 23, 1960, the Protestant-Christian Foundation De Vriezenhof was founded. The construction of the retirement home then took five years, on the site where a rectory stood before. Vriezenveen has two football clubs , DOS '37 ( D oor O evening S terk) and DETO ( D oor E endracht T ot O verwinning). There

810-462: The Napoleonic period, including the civil registration of marriages. Depending on the context and in what capacity they were acting, this phrase could mean something like the "mayor and aldermen" (i.e. the town council) or it could mean "the sheriff and magistrates". Second, the schout was responsible for public order and policing . He was responsible for investigating a crime , apprehending

855-520: The association Oud Vriezenveen organized a reunion where about a hundred so-called oorlogskinderen (English: war children ) – mostly from Rotterdam – gathered. The war children, at the time referred to as bleekneusjes (English: pale noses ), were asked to put their stories on paper, which resulted in the book Bleekneusjes oorlogskinderen . In April 2006, the first copy of this book was presented to deputy Gert Ranter by initiator José Bosch-Höfte , with great interest from many war children. Up until

900-576: The building was sold. The building is still intact and has been listed as a municipal monument since 1996. The former synagogue has been a warehouse of a private company since 1973, but the building is scheduled to be demolished. The inhabitants of Vriezenveen ( Rusluie ) had a lively trade with the Russian city of Saint Petersburg in the period from 1720 to 1917. Over the course of time, various companies from Vriezenveen founded trading houses and shops on notable streets and in notable buildings, such as on

945-436: The children's book series Jip en Janneke were translated into Vjeans and included in " Jipke en Jannöaken ", the translation of this children's book series into Twents . Other than that though, other attempts to preserve the "real" Vjeans seem to be limited to the attempts of local linguists or local historical societies. In 1969, the " Woordenboek van het Vriezenveens, deel 1" (English: Dictionary of Vriezenveens, part 1 ),

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990-458: The fire and still stand to this day. The most famous of these still-standing farms, is the Peddemors farm. The Historical Museum deals with the history of the municipality of Vriezenveen, and of the town itself. There is, among other things, a historical department about the textile history of Vriezenveen and extensive documentation about the great fire of 1905. In addition, an old living room,

1035-420: The fire, Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry – her prince-consort – formally known as Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , personally came to support the residents of Vriezenveen. They made a personal donation of no less than a thousand guilders, intended for the reconstruction of Vriezenveen. The fire was commemorated in 2005, with a parade of historic fire-fighting vehicles. The Jansen & Tilanus company

1080-484: The free Frisians to colonize the moor above his land. Almelervene , as Vriezenveen was called before the 15th century, was created from forty farms, roughly stretching from the current Schipsloot to the later excavated canal of Overijssel . Each farm had a width of sixteen fields (16 × 7 is 112 metres). To the east of the settlement, up to the Bawesbeek, an area remained, the so-called Oosterhoeven . This area

1125-422: The houses. The special Engbertsdijksvenen , a partly still living biodiverse raised bog complex with its rare flora and fauna, is a reminder of what the area looked like, before the intensive colonisation of the area by the lord of Almelo and his subjects was set in motion. Quite a lot is known about the last magistrate (Dutch: Schout ) and first Mayor of Vriezenveen, Jan Kruys , because his detailed diaries from

1170-422: The meetings of the schepenen . Together, the schout and schepenen made up what we would call the "town council" today. He ensured decrees were published. He sometimes represented the town or heerlijkheid in business matters or in negotiations with other towns. In these functions, a schout was somewhat like a modern-day mayor . The phrase schout en schepenen appears in many legal documents from before

1215-456: The most common alternative name for this office in Dutch was baljuw . Baljuw is usually translated into English as " bailiff ". The word schout , depending on its context, can be translated variously into English, usually as sheriff , bailiff , or reeve , but strictly in their respective medieval senses. As a result, the Dutch word is sometimes used in English (even though schout

1260-511: The municipality of Vriezenveen was merged with the municipality of Den Ham, which included the villages of Den Ham , Vroomshoop , and Geerdijk . The new municipality was called Vriezenveen and renamed Twenterand in 2003. The town hall of Twenterand is located in Vriezenveen. The dependence of the town hall in Den Ham was closed on May 30, 2008. The oldest mention of Vriezenveen dates from 1364, when Evert van Hekeren, lord of Almelo , wrote

1305-663: The northeast of the Netherlands (i.e. Dutch Low Saxon , spoken in Groningen , Drenthe , Overijssel and northern Gelderland ) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark. In the south the Benrath line and Uerdingen line isoglosses form the border with the area, where West Central German variants of High German are spoken. While Dutch

1350-729: The period 1817-1830 have been preserved. During the Reformation , which also permeated Twente, most of the Vriezenveners "switched" to Protestantism . In the 19th century the conservative orthodox Calvinist Protestants became the majority. A Vriezenvener, Jan Machiel Krijger, (1874–1951) took part as a party leader in the 1946 Dutch parliamentary elections on behalf of the Protestant Union . The former CHU member obtained 32,020 votes. To this day most Vriezenveners are either Dutch Reformed or Reformed ; to be seen in

1395-568: The rest of the Netherlands by the moorland for centuries, links were created with Westphalia and the adjacent Münsterland . The large city of Münster was looked at for the latest fashion and customs. The language in Münster ( Westphalian ) was also seen as the standard and the whole of Twente (including Vriezenveen) went along with this. A characteristic feature of Westphalian is the Vowel breaking , which makes an open ee , oo and eu sound like

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1440-398: The same period. Schout In Dutch -speaking areas, a schout was a local official appointed to carry out administrative, law enforcement and prosecutorial tasks. The office was abolished with the introduction of administrative reforms during the Napoleonic period. The exact nature of the office varied from place to place and changed over the course of time. In general, a schout

1485-591: The scouting association Admiraal Kruys . Vriezenveen has two natural ice rinks. One of them is located on the Geesterenseweg and owned by IJsclub de Eendracht . The other ice rink is located at the sports park in Vriezenveen and is owned by IJsclub Vooruit . The foundation Sportpromotie Twenterand organizes the Twenterandrun once a year and the Nacht van Twenterand once a year. The Twenterandrun

1530-657: The support of the SGP and the predecessors of the ChristenUnie ; the RPF and the GPV . However, a strong Catholic minority remained on the eastern side of the village. This Roman Catholic community was able to inaugurate its own parish church in the early 20th century. The church and parish are dedicated to the Roman Catholic saint Anthony the Great . Until the Second World War , there

1575-402: The various farms were no longer sixteen fields wide, but were reduced to ten, or even eight fields wide. The German bishop from Münster , Bernhard von Galen , aptly nicknamed Bommen Berend (English: Bombing Bernard) , plundered and robbed Twente around the year 1665. Vriezenveen was spared until 1665, because it was surrounded by swamp and bog. There was only one road to Vriezenveen and it

1620-493: The very unfavorable location of the course, this Ronde van Vriezenveen has been changed into an ATB couple race through the centre of Vriezenveen and continued under the name "Nacht van Twenterand". This race is also organized by the foundation Sportpromotie Twenterand There is also a harmony orchestra that has won the national championship several times, the Vriezenveense Harmonie . For further relaxation there

1665-587: Was William Knyff, who held the office in 1674 when the colony was returned to the English. The origins of the American public prosecutor ( attorney general ) have been traced to the schout in New Amsterdam . Schout is the word usually used in Dutch, but there were a number of other terms used for this or similar offices in Dutch-speaking lands. The terms used included schout , baljuw , drost , drossaard , amman and meier . Perhaps

1710-552: Was a Jewish community in Vriezenveen. In 1878, the Vriezenveen synagogue, Mikdash Me'at (small shrine), was built, after the King's commissioner P.C. Nahuijs , by Royal Decree of December 2, 1876, granted a government subsidy of 850 guilders to the local Israelite Congregation for its construction. The synagogue was completed in 1879. The community then numbered 27 people. In 1906, the Jewish community became part of Almelo, and in 1923,

1755-418: Was appointed by the lord ( heer ) of a domain ( heerlijkheid ) and acted in the lord's name in the local day-to-day administration of the domain, especially the administration of justice. A schout had three main functions: administration, law enforcement and criminal prosecution. First, the schout was responsible for many local administrative matters in the town or heerlijkheid . The schout presided in

1800-601: Was granted the authority to form its own local government in 1652 was Cornelis van Tienhoven , although officers were appointed to the post from at least 1626 when Jan Lampo was appointed. The schout had a seat on the Executive Council, but no vote, and would step down from the bench when acting as prosecutor, at which time the remaining members of the Council would function as the Court of Justice. The final schout

1845-550: Was guarded by troops of the Dutch States Army . However, there was a harsh winter in the year 1666, which froze the moors and the surrounding swamp. The road to Vriezenveen lay open and in January 1666, 1500 riders of the bishop's army rode into Vriezenveen. The village was looted and the houses and the church were set on fire. A large number of people were killed and the rest were taken as prisoners. The new Vriezenveen

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1890-582: Was not divided and it is rumored that it was possibly the joint property of the residents. To the west of the settlement, there too was a similar area of undivided ground from the Boerstege to the Stouwe. These were the Westerhoeven and Woesten . It is rumored that these lands were also joint property. The Almelervene settlement grew; By the mid-15th century , the village had already changed so much that

1935-584: Was not rebuilt on the Buterweg, along which it had previously lain. It was instead rebuilt on a sandy road to the north, the present village street. This rebuilding took place at a rapid pace and at the beginning of the 18th century the old Vriezenveen on the Buterweg was a thing of the past. Only the old cemetery of this old Vriezenveen has been preserved. The village is now characterised by a 6.2-kilometer long built-up village street (from west to east: Hammerweg, Westeinde and Oosteinde) with characteristic facades on

1980-560: Was spared during the great fire. The textile factory was the largest employer in the town at the time and the fire ended just before the factory on the Westeinde street. Due to the dryness of the commonly used thatched roofs and the strong winds from the east, there was no stopping the fire. 228 houses, mostly built in the aforementioned style, went up in flames. The richer farms and Rusluie houses made of brick and with greater garden distance from other houses, turned out to be more resistant to

2025-572: Was written by Dr. Hendrik Entjes . Additional parts have since not appeared further. 52°25′N 6°37′E  /  52.417°N 6.617°E  / 52.417; 6.617 West Low German The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia (the Westphalian part), Bremen , Hamburg , Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt (the northwestern areas around Magdeburg ) as well as

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