Nijverdal

Nijverdal is a town of about 30.000 population in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is the industrial centre of the municipality Hellendoorn. Nijverdal became based in 1836 at the territory of the hamlet Noetsele. It become here that the commercial revolution in the Netherlands took root. Thomas Ainsworth became certainly one of its founding fathers. Textile production was the focal point of industrial hobby in Nijverdal, because it became for the relaxation of the Twente location. Some of the traditional manufacturing facility buildings within the Art Deco or Jugendstil style still continue to be.

A river referred to as the Regge runs thru the metropolis, and is the authentic border among the two areas Twente and Salland, and the border of languages, which might be Tweants and Sallaands, respectively. Of route Dutch is likewise spoken, however practically every local inhabitant of Nijverdal speaks either one or both nearby languages. Before World War II, Nijverdal had a small Jewish community. The municipal seat of the place, Hellendoorn, had a small synagogue and Jewish cemetery. The synagogue nevertheless exists as a garage shed at the back of one of the houses inside the village, and the cemetery is no longer in use.