Havelte ( Drèents : Haovelte or Haovelt ) is a village in the Northeastern Netherlands . It is located in the municipality of Westerveld , Drenthe , about 60 km (37.2 mi) south-southwest of Groningen and 120 km (74.5 mi) northeast of Amsterdam . As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 3,825.
8-633: The village was first mentioned in 1342 as "to Hovelde". The etymology is unclear. Havelte is an esdorp on a sandy ridge. It developed in the Late Middle Ages into a little village with four triangular village squares. The hunebed ( dolmen ) D53 [ nl ] is located in Havelterberg near Havelte and is the second largest of the Netherlands. It spans nearly 18 metres (59 ft), and contains 9 capstones and 21 side stones. It used to have
16-412: A beautiful ring of 40 stones. There were still 24 left in 1918 when Albert Egges van Giffen researched the dolmen. Nowadays, there are only 10 left. All the stones have been put back in there place in 1918. The Dutch Reformed is located somewhat off-centre, because the villages of Darp and Uffelte had decided to build a joint church halfway between their villages. It was built in 1310 and enlarged in
24-510: Is characterised by the houses and farmsteads being laid out around a central grassed area, the anger (from the Old High German angar =pasture or grassy place), a village green which was common land , owned jointly by the village community. The anger is usually in the shape of a lens or an eye, but may also take other forms: a rectangle, triangle, circle or semi-circle (illustrated). The buildings are oriented with their eaves facing
32-503: The 15th century. The tower dates from 1410. The estate Overcinge was first mentioned in 1313. The current building was built between 1630 and 1642. Between 1968 and 1969, it was altered into school building. In 1984, it became vacant and was restored to its pre-1870 design. Havelte was home to 636 people in 1840. In October 1942, an airport was built near Havelte by the Luftwaffe . 5,600 forced labourers were transported to Havelte to construct
40-503: The airport. It was hardly ever used, and attacked several times. On 24 March 1945, the Americans dropped 271 tons of bombs on the airport. The location is nowadays a nature area and some of the German buildings have remained. Havelte was a separate municipality until 1998, when it became a part of Westerveld. Esdorp An Angerdorf (plural: Angerdörfer ) is a type of village that
48-891: The period of German Ostkolonisation in the Middle Ages and in many western Hungarian villages (for example in Burgenland's Loretto , formerly in Hungary, with the largest anger in Europe) the original layout has survived. In Austria this type of village occurs predominantly in the Waldviertel and Weinviertel provinces of Lower Austria , in the Vienna Basin , in Burgenland and in east and south Styria . There are also Angerdörfer in Lorraine in
56-503: The road. Livestock stalls and barns are at the rear of the plot (in Austria called the Hintaus ) and may be linked by a farm track that runs around the village forming an outer ring. There is often a village pond on the anger and sometimes a stream flows through it which may not be easy to recognise today where the groundwater level has changed. The waterbody may well be the reason the anger
64-528: Was chosen. Originally there were no buildings on the anger , but in the course of time other community facilities were often built on it, such as the village church, village school or a smithy . Angerdörfer occur in Central Europe, especially on ground moraine plates and in loess -covered terrain. In Germany they are common in East Germany and east Central Germany. They were often established during
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