Daarle (

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: ''Doarle'') is a village in the

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province of

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in the

Salland Salland (Low Saxon: ''Sallaand'') is a historical dominion in the west and north of the present Dutch province of Overijssel. Nowadays Salland is usually used to indicate a region corresponding to the part of the former dominion more or less to th ...

region. It is part of the municipality of

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History

The village was first mentioned the late-10th century as "in Darloe", and probably means "hidden open forest". Daarle is an ''

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'' which was established in the

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along the Daarlerbeek which is a tributary of the Regge River. The village used to be surrounded by endless

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. It started to develop after the Overijssels Kanaal was dug in 1850, and the

peat Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficien ...

in the region was excavated. Daarle was home to 386 people in 1840. The first

Dutch Reformed church The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the original denomination of the Dutch Royal Family and ...

was constructed in 1855. It had become too small by the 1930s, and a new church was built in 1955 on the village square which has an unarticulated tower. The

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was built first in 1933. The water tower was built in 1934 and served the whole region. By 1995, it became obsolete as a new extraction area between

Den Ham Den Ham ɛn ɦɑmis a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Twenterand, about 15 km northwest of Almelo. Den Ham was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became a part of Vriezenveen. It ...

and

Vroomshoop Vroomshoop is a town located at the center of the municipality Twenterand in the Dutch province of Overijssel and was founded around 1859. The earliest inhabitants lived from the peat that was found in the nearby area. Farmers from the Groningen ...

was put into use. Additionally, the technical facilities for pumping through had progressed to such an extent that water towers were no longer needed to maintain a constant pressure on the water supply. In 2004, it was sold to a new owner which intends to make it a residential building whilst still preserving the image-defining function in the landscape.

Gallery

File:Daarle Watertoren 3320.JPG, Water tower File:Pastorie Ned. herv. kerk, Groeneweg 1, Daarle, WtC, 2019.jpg, Clergy house File:Tussen Hellendoorn en Daarle, de Regge foto5 2014-10-04 13.10.jpg, The Regge near Daarle

References

Populated places in Overijssel Salland Hellendoorn {{Overijssel-geo-stub