Hollandscheveld

Hollandscheveld () is a village in the municipality of Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. It was founded in the 17th century after the Hollandsche Compagnie (Company from Holland) bought the land to harvest its peat. It was initially named Hollandsche Veld (Field of the Hollandsche Compagnie) which was later combined into just Hollandscheveld.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Hollandscheveld
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: File:Hervormde kerk van Hollandscheveld.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Church in Hollandscheveld
Settlement.image_flag: Hollandscheveld_vlag.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Hollandscheveld wapen.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Netherlands Drenthe#Netherlands
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in province of Drenthe in the Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Drenthe
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Hoogeveen
Settlement.elevation_m: 13
Settlement.area_total_km2: 21.84
Settlement.population_total: 4,560
Settlement.population_as_of: 2021

via Wikipedia infobox

~2 min read

Encyclopedic overview

2 sections

Contents

Notable people
References

During the Second World War, three notorious war criminals lived in Hollandscheveld: Auke Pattist, Dirk Hoogendam and Martinus Johannes van Oort. These men tortured and arrested resistance warriors and Jews in a local school. Dirk Hoogendam was sentenced to death after the war, but managed to escape to Germany where he died in 2003.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hollandscheveld” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.