Aadorp is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

on the northern side of

Almelo Almelo () is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, and Bornerbroek. Almelo has about 72,000 inhabitants in the middle of the rolling countryside of Twente, ...

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with a population of about 1500; it has been part of the Almelo municipality since 2001. The villagers of Aadorp are very close, since there are so few of them. The central meeting point in Aadorp is the Aahoes, which consists of a meeting hall, and a small

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shop. Also, Aadorp has

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areas including

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fields and more. For anything else Aadorp villagers must go to one of the neighbouring towns.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1867 as Aabrug, and means "settlement on the river Aa". The river Aa is nowadays part of the

Twentekanaal The Twentekanaal () is a canal running through the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel, connecting the three largest cities of the Twente region, Almelo, Hengelo and Enschede to the national network of rivers and canals. Because the canal ...

. It formally exists since 3 November 1930 when the hamlets of Woesten and Buitenwonen were merged into the village of Aadorp. In the early 20th century, it was a

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excavation settlement. There was a railway station of the Mariënberg to

railway line between 1920 and 1938. In 1925, a Dutch Reformed church was built in the village. It was replaced in 1992.

Geography

Aadorp is situated around the small

canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow un ...

Almelo-De Haandrik, which connects it to Vriezenveen on the northern side and to Almelo on the southern side. A train track leads right next to this canal and also heads from Almelo to Vriezenveen. Aadorp's neighbours are: *

Vriezenveen Vriezenveen ( Lower Saxon: t Vjenne, Venne, Vjenne, Vreeznven or Vreeinvenne'') is a town in the municipality of Twenterand in the Dutch province of Overijssel. The population was 13,800 on January 1, 2020. Until July 1, 2002, Vriezenveen for ...

to the north side *

on the southeast side * Wierden on the west side

Gallery

File:Social sofa Aadorp 04.jpg, Social sofa File:2013 Spoorbrug Almelo — Aadorp Vriezenveen.jpg, Railway bridge

References

{{Authority control Twente Populated places in Overijssel Almelo