Hof van Twente

Hof van Twente is a municipality in the jap Netherlands, province Overijssel. The municipality changed into hooked up 1 January 2001 as the result of the merger of the municipalities of Diepenheim, Goor, Markelo, Ambt Delden, and Stad Delden. Goor executed metropolis rights in 1263. An essential town, however, it in no way became. The "Drost" of the Twente location, who dominated this place in behalf of the bishop of Utrecht, had within the late Middle Ages his residence in Goor. In its environment some castles were constructed, among them the house of the crucial Heeckeren circle of relatives in 1412.

Goor had a small harbour along the river Regge, however whilst the Twente canal turned into opened in 1936, a brand new business port turned into constructed there. The manufacturing facility Eternit, that produces building materials containing asbestos, introduced Goor unwillingly into hassle. For a long time, every person in Goor was permitted to use production refuse containing asbestos so as to pave their own paths and roads. Not earlier than approximately 1990, it changed into regarded in Goor that specifically small particles of this fabric can purpose most cancers.