Ommen

Ommen is a municipality and a Hanseatic town within the Vecht valley of the Salland region, that is on the coronary heart of the province of Overijssel within the japanese Netherlands. Historical facts first name Ommen in the early twelfth century and it become formally based as a town in 1248. The municipality had a population of 17,642 in 2017 and covers an area of 182.01 km2. The first inhabitants of the vicinity round Ommen had been likely semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers. Flint from the Mesolithic length determined in among Ommen and Mariënberg indicates the presence of humans round 99,000 BCE, however there seems to had been hardly ever any cultivation or everlasting agreement during this era.

The Vecht and Regge rivers determined the primary settlements within the area that is now the municipality of Ommen. Most of the Salland vicinity changed into marshy however the higher banks along the Vecht and Regge supplied fertile soil for agriculture. Moreover, excellent roads had been rare, so for trade, shipping and tour the rivers provided a important infrastructure.