Raalte

Raalte is a municipality and a town in the coronary heart of the place of Salland inside the Dutch province of Overijssel. The municipality includes the following towns and villages. Raalte is the main location of the municipality, with over 20,000 broadly speaking Roman Catholic inhabitants. It is a nearby marketplace, training and purchasing centre. Raalte railway station and Heino railway stations are positioned along the minor railroad Zwolle - Enschede. Frequency: frequently two times consistent with hour.

An crucial road for motorists is the N348 Deventer - Wesepe. In Raalte it crosses a street from Zwolle going south-east over Heino, Raalte, Mariënheem and Nijverdal to Wierden, in which it keeps as a toll road to Almelo and Enschede. Raalte has lots of small business corporations, lots of them processing agricultural products. For the nearby economic system, exchange, agriculture and tourism are more crucial. Once a year there's a harvest pageant known as Stöppelhaene. Its name in local dialect way: a chicken constructed from straw. It is held in Raalte in the ultimate week of August. The occasion was established in 1950.