200 years municipality Vlagtwedde - Sellingen NL
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N 52° 56.807 E 007° 08.770
32U E 375441 N 5867958
Big rock with bronze plaque 200 years municipality Vlagtwedde at the town hall in the center of Sellingen, The Netherlands.
Waymark Code: WMP8AB
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Date Posted: 07/18/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
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The bronze plaque reads:
200 years municipality Vlagtwedde 1812 - 2012
Also the coat of arms is pictured in it.

Vlagtwedde (inhabitants per March 31, 2015: 16,117, source: CBS) is a municipality in the southeast of the Dutch province of Groningen in the region Westerwolde. The municipality covers an area of 170.30 km² (of which 1.24 km² water). The town hall is in Sellingen.

In 1822 the then municipality Bourtange was (in the villages of Ter Apel and Bourtange Sellingen) lifted and attached to the municipality Vlagtwedde. In 1968 Hebrecht of the former municipality of Bellingwolde - which since then with Wedde was forming the new municipality Bellingwedde - added to the municipality Vlagtwedde.

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Subject: City

Commemoration: 200 years municipality Vlagtwedde,

Date of Founding: 1812

Date of Commemoration: 2012

Address:
Dorpsstraat 1 Sellingen, The Netherlands

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