Lonneker ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlɔnəkər] ) is a village in Twente , in the province of Overijssel . It is located in the municipality of Enschede , about 3 km north of the city centre.
6-575: The village was first mentioned in the late 10th century as "in Loningheri", and means "settlement on a sandy ridge of the people of Lono (person)". Lonneker is an esdorp which developed in the Early Middle Ages. The Catholic St. Jacobus de Meerdere was built between 1911 and 1912 as a replacement for the 1820 church. Lonneker was home to 1,546 people in 1840. In 1811, five marke [ nl ] (predecessor of municipality) were split into
12-503: 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 the road. Livestock stalls and barns are at the rear of the plot (in Austria called the Hintaus ) and may be linked by
18-432: 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 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
24-467: The municipalities of Lonneker and Enschede. Lonneker used to encircle Enschede. In 1884, a part of the municipality was given to the city. It remained an independent municipality until 1934, when it became part of Enschede. In 1927, the 4th Anarchist Pinksterlanddagen or "pinkster-mobilisatie" where held in Lonneker. Amongst the speakers where T.Wessels, H. Schuurman and Albert de Jong. On the last day there
30-703: 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 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
36-469: Was a demonstration that got stopped by police violence. This Overijssel location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Esdorp An Angerdorf (plural: Angerdörfer ) is a type of village that 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),
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