Weiteveen
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Weiteveen is a village in the Netherlands and is part of the Emmen municipality in Drenthe.
History
Weiteveen started in the 1850s by Hannoverian settlers who settled in the Amsterdamscheveld.[1] They built sod houses, started excavating the peat, and planting buckwheat on the burnt fields.[2] In 1919, the Mary Queen of Peace Church was built in the village.[1] In 1924, a protestant settlement appeared.[3] Up to 1954, the area was known as Nieuw-Schoonebekerveld.[2] In 1954, the border between Emmen and Schoonebeek was redrawn, and the two settlements merged as Weiteveen. The name is a combination of buckwheat and bog.[2][3]
In 1925, the tabernacle of the Mary Queen of Peace Church was stolen. Money was raised among the Catholics in the Netherlands to buy a new tabernacle. A week later, the stolen item was discovered in the moorland.[4][5] A chapel has been constructed at the site where the tabernacle was found.[1]
Gallery
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The lost and found tabernacle of Weiteveen
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Church and bog excursion centre
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Cemetery of Weiteveen
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Industrial narrow gauge railway museum
References
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