Stadskanaal () is a town and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

with a population of 32,715 in the province of

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

in the northeast of the

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. It was named after the canal Stadskanaal. From 1800 until 1900 this area was ideal for its peat mining, and so the canal came to ship all the peat to

, the capital of the province. In the

Gronings dialect Gronings (; gos, Grunnegs or Grönnegs), is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. Gronings and the strongly related varieties in East Fri ...

the town is called "Knoal" and the locals are called "Knoalsters".

Geography

The population centres in the municipality are: * Alteveer * Barlage * Blekslage * Braamberg * Ceresdorp * Höchte * Holte * Horsten * Kopstukken * Mussel * Musselkanaal *

Onstwedde Onstwedde () is a village in the region of Westerwolde and part of Groningen in the Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Stadskanaal. Onstwedde was also the former name of the municipality of Stadskanaal, until 1969. History Ons ...

* Oomsberg * Smeerling * Stadskanaal * Sterenborg * Ter Maarsch * Ter Wupping * Veenhuizen * Vledderhuizen * Vledderveen * Vosseberg * Wessinghuizen

International relations

Stadskanaal is twinned with *

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Gallery

File:Stadskanaal, Poststraatkerk foto4 2011-05-09 14.47.JPG, Stadskanaal, church: de Poststraatkerk File:Stadskanaal, rooms katholieke kerk foto5 2011-05-09 14.44.JPG, Stadskanaal, catholic church File:Musselkanaal, kerk3 foto2 2011-05-09 14.05.JPG, Musselkanaal, church File:Musselkanaal, ophaalbrug foto1 2011-05-09 13.39.JPG, Musselkanaal, drawbridge

Notable people

Cornelis Dopper Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper (7 February 1870, Stadskanaal – 19 September 1939, Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer, Conductor (music), conductor and teacher. Life Born in the northern Dutch town of Stadskanaal, he came to study at the Leipzig con ...

(1870 in Stadskanaal – 1939) a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher *

Charles de Wolff Charles de Wolff (19 June 1932 – 23 November 2011) was a Dutch organist and conductor. He conducted the Netherlands Bach Society The Netherlands Bach Society ( nl, Nederlandse Bachvereniging) is the oldest ensemble for Baroque music in the Ne ...

(1932 in Mussel – 2011) a Dutch organist and conductor * Henk Wijngaard (born 1946 in Stadskanaal) a Dutch country singer *

Henk Bleker Hinderk "Henk" Bleker (born 26 July 1953) is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation in the First Rutte cabinet from 14 October 2010 to 5 November 2012. A member of ...

(born 1953 in Onstwedde) a retired Dutch politician and jurist

Sport

* Jannes Munneke (born 1949 in Musselkanaal) a retired Dutch rower, competed at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

* Sylvia Smit (born 1986 in Stadskanaal) a Dutch female footballer

References

External links

* Municipalities of Groningen (province) Populated places in Groningen (province) {{Groningen-geo-stub