- Zweeloo
Zweeloo is a village in the municipality of
Coevorden , located in the province ofDrenthe ,The Netherlands .Zweeloo was a separate municipality from 1819 to 1998, when it was merged with
Coevorden . [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]Monuments
The rural church of Zweeloo was erected in 1252. On a one day trip from
Veenoord , in November 1883,Vincent van Gogh brushed a well-known sketch of this church, a sheppard with his flock in the foreground.References
External links
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/dr/zweeloo.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
* [http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/int/dyn/controller/mapPerformPage?strCountry=285&strAddress=&strCP=&strLocation=zweeloo&x=8&y=10 Zweeloo on the ViaMichelin map]
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