Bourtange
Sign in to saveBourtange (; Gronings: Boertang) is a village with a population of 430 in the municipality of Westerwolde in the Netherlands. It is situated in the region Westerwolde in the east of the province of Groningen near the German border. Fort Bourtange was built in 1593 during the Dutch Revolt and was used until 1851. Between 1967 and 1992 the star fort was gradually restored to its mid-18th-century state and it is currently an open-air museum.
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- Bourtange
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- Village
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- Bourtange vesting 9.JPG
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- Brick houses and trees around an empty market square
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- Market square in the center of Fort Bourtange
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- Netherlands Groningen#Netherlands
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- left
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- Maps of the Netherlands and Groningen with the location of Bourtange
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- Location in the province of Groningen
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- Country
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- Netherlands
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- Province
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- Groningen
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- Municipality
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- Westerwolde
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- Metric
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- (2012)
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- 159
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Bourtange (; Gronings: Boertang) is a village with a population of 430 in the municipality of Westerwolde in the Netherlands. It is situated in the region Westerwolde in the east of the province of Groningen near the German border. Fort Bourtange was built in 1593 during the Dutch Revolt and was used until 1851. Between 1967 and 1992 the star fort was gradually restored to its mid-18th-century state and it is currently an open-air museum.
== Etymology == The name Bourtange comes from the Dutch word tange (sand ridge), because the settlement is situated on a strategically important sand ridge in the marshes of the Bourtange Moor.