Bad Nieuweschans

Bad Nieuweschans
Village
Bad Nieuweschans in 2005
Bad Nieuweschans Location of Bad Nieuweschans in the province of Groningen
Coordinates: 53°10′50″N 7°12′26″E / 53.18056°N 7.20722°E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Groningen
Municipality	Oldambt
Population (1 January 2004)	1,510

Bad Nieuweschans (Dutch pronunciation: [bɑt niuʋəsxɑns]; English: Bath New Sconce) is a fortified village with a population of 1,510 in the municipality of Oldambt in the Netherlands. In 2009, the name of the village was changed from Nieuweschans, to promote the town as a spa.

History

Map of the fortification

The fortification of Nieuweschans was built during the Eighty Years' War (1628).

Nieuweschans was a separate municipality until 1990, when it became a part of the municipality of Reiderland.^[1] In April 2009, the municipality of Reiderland changed the name from Nieuweschans to Bad Nieuweschans, to promote the town as a spa. On 1 January 2010, Reiderland in turn became a part of the municipality of Oldambt.

Geography

Bad Nieuweschans is located at 53°10′50″N 7°12′26″E / 53.18056°N 7.20722°E in the municipality of Oldambt in the east of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands.

Close to the village is the easternmost point of the Netherlands on the border with Germany.

It is located about 12 km east of Winschoten.

Transportation

The Bad Nieuweschans railway station is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans and Ihrhove–Nieuweschans railways in the northeast of the village.

Georges Simenon's novel Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets starts in the railway station.

References

1. Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2006.

External links

• J. Kuyper, Gemeente Atlas van Nederland, 1865-1870, "Nieuweschans". Map of the former municipality, around 1868.
• Media related to Bad Nieuweschans at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 53°11′N 7°12′E / 53.183°N 7.200°E