Wildervank
Sign in to saveWildervank is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Veendam, about 3 km south of the centre of Veendam itself. It was founded in 1647 by Adriaan Geerts Wildervanck as a peat colony in the Wildervankster bog. Wildervank was a separate municipality until 1969, when the area was divided between Veendam and Stadskanaal.
Weather now
cached 138h ago16°light rain
63% 6.2 m/s OpenWeatherMap
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Wildervank
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Nederlands hervormde Kerk Wildervank.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Protestant Church in 2005
- Settlement.image_flag
- Wildervank vlag.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Wildervank wapen.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Netherlands Groningen#Netherlands
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Veendam
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Nederlands hervormde Kerk Wildervank.jpg
Show 1 more fact
- P8168
- Erdgas Arena
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Wildervank is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Veendam, about 3 km south of the centre of Veendam itself. It was founded in 1647 by Adriaan Geerts Wildervanck as a peat colony in the Wildervankster bog. Wildervank was a separate municipality until 1969, when the area was divided between Veendam and Stadskanaal.
== History == The Wildervankster bog was a raised bog located to the west of Oude Pekela. Adriaan Geerts settled in Oude Pekela to study the exploitation of peat by the city of Groningen. The Wildevankster bog was still untouched, and Geerts wanted to purchase it. He bought the bog in 1647 in order to establish his own peat colony, but needed to procure a ƒ250,000 mortgage from an Amsterdam merchant. Geerts would later use the surname Wildervanck. The colony was moderately successful, however the heavy mortgage payments forced Wildervanck to sell large parts of the colony.