Pekela
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Pekela (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a municipality in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. It was created in 1990 when Oude Pekela and Nieuwe Pekela were merged.
Geography
Pekela is located at Template:Coords in the southeast of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. It is bordered by the municipalities of: Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The river Pekel Aa crosses the municipality from north to south. The main population centres in the municipality are the villages of Template:Ill (Upper Pekela), Nieuwe Pekela (New Pekela), and Oude Pekela (Old Pekela). Part of the village of Alteveer and the hamlets of Bronsveen and Template:Ill are also in the municipality.
The municipality has a total area of Script error: No such module "convert"., of which Script error: No such module "convert". is land and Script error: No such module "convert". is water.[1]
Governance
The mayor (burgemeester) of Pekela is Jaap Kuin of the Labour Party.[2] The municipal council consists of 15 seats, which are divided as follows:
| Municipality seats | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018[3] | 2022[4] | ||||||||||
| SP | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Samen Voor Pekela | - | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| PvdA | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| CDA | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| GroenLinks | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| PVV | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| VVD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| ChristenUnie | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | ||||||||||
| VCP | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||||||||||
| Total | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | ||||||||||
Demographics
In Template:Dutch municipality population, the municipality had a total population of Template:Dutch municipality population, a population density of Script error: No such module "convert"..[5]
Notable people
- Jan de Boer (1859 in Nieuwe Pekela – 1941) a Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics[6]
- Fré Meis (1921–1992), communist politician[7]
- Janneke Snijder-Hazelhoff (born 1952 in Nieuwe Pekela) a Dutch farmer and politician[8]
- Gerard Wiekens (born 1973 in Oude Pekela) a Dutch former footballer with 518 club caps who played for SC Veendam and Manchester City F.C.[9]
Gallery
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Villa Elsa, Clockstraat, Oude Pekela
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Art project "Geveltjes viadukt" in Nieuwe Pekela
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Het Dokhuis, a retirement home in Oude Pekela
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Pekelder Windmill "De Onrust" in Oude Pekela
References
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External links
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