Nieuw-Dordrecht is a village in the

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and it is part of the Emmen municipality in

Drenthe Drenthe () is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and the German state of Lower Saxony to the east. As of Nov ...

. The village is home to Museum Collectie Brands, a museum which houses the extensive collection of items collected and gathered by Jans Brands.

History

Nieuw-Dordrecht was established in 1856 to excavate 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 ...

east of the by Drentsche Veen en Middenkanaal Maatschappij, a company based in

Dordrecht Dordrecht (), historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch, ) or Dort, is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the province's fifth-largest city after R ...

. In 1932, it was home to 832 people. In the 1950s, the economy became based on the textile industry. In 2011, Museum Collectie Brands opened in Nieuw-Dordrecht. It contains the collection of Jan Brands who collected over 20,000 object and more than 50,000 books which covered his entire farm.

Gallery

File:Tussen Nieuw-Dordrecht en Klazienaveen, sloot in veenlandschap foto8 2016-09-25 16.20.jpg, Between Nieuw-Dordrecht and Klazienaveen, the ditch in the peat landscape File:Collectie Brands, Nieuw-Dordrecht (2019) 01.jpg, Museum Collectie Brands File:Nieuw-Dordrecht (gem. Emmen) city limit sign, Nieuw-Dordrecht (2019) 01.jpg, Town limits sign

References

Populated places in Drenthe Emmen, Netherlands 1856 establishments in the Netherlands {{Drenthe-geo-stub