Weiteveen is a village in the

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and 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 ...

History

Weiteveen started in the 1850s by

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ian settlers who settled in the Amsterdamscheveld. They built

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s, started excavating 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 ...

, and planting

buckwheat Buckwheat (''Fagopyrum esculentum''), or common buckwheat, is a flowering plant in the knotweed family Polygonaceae cultivated for its grain-like seeds and as a cover crop. The name "buckwheat" is used for several other species, such as '' Fago ...

on the burnt fields. In 1919, the Mary Queen of Peace Church was built in the village. In 1924, a protestant settlement appeared. Up to 1954, the area was known as Nieuw-Schoonebekerveld. 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. In 1925, the

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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

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. A chapel has been constructed at the site where the tabernacle was found.

Gallery

File:Weiteveen Tabernakel.JPG, The lost and found tabernacle of Weiteveen File:Kerk met-veenloopcentrum in Weiteveen.jpg, Church and bog excursion centre File:RK Kerkhof Weiteveen Ambachtsweg 02.JPG, Cemetery of Weiteveen File:ISM lok 4 + rijtuig GV II.JPG, Industrial narrow gauge railway museum

References

Populated places in Drenthe Emmen, Netherlands {{Drenthe-geo-stub