Winschoten

Winschoten is a city and previous municipality within the province of Groningen within the Netherlands. Because it acquired more or much less symbolic town rights in 1825, it is regularly known as a city. Winschoten is the capital of Oldambt and fulfills a vital characteristic inside the municipality and the east of the province of Groningen. It is the second marketplace metropolis of the province with top notch enchantment for the German border area and had a complete of 18,160 inhabitants in 2017, making it the 5th biggest metropolis in phrases of population within the province of Groningen.

According to the chronicle of Mariëngaarde, the monastery of Heiligerlee was founded in 1231 in the village of Asterle, which was situated among Westerlee and Winsewida. With Winsewida reputedly Winschoten or Sint-Vitusholt became supposed, so that this place together with Onstwedde, Vlagtwedde, Ulsda, Bunde and possibly also Holtgaste may be counted the various oldest locations in the location. All those places have the go out or root widu in their call. This is in evaluation to the more youthful peat extraction villages with the -wolde go out. The namesake Wobbe de Vries, but, assumes that that is Kloosterholt.